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288. -. Same title. City Lights No. 4. 1953. With work by David Riesman, Marjorie Farber, Barbara Deming and Robert Duncan, among others. Edge-sunning; near fine in stapled wrappers.
289. -. Same title. City Lights No. 5. 1955. With work by Lawrence Ferling [i.e., Lawerence Ferlinghetti], Jack Spicer, Leslie Farber and Barbara Deming, among others. One title has been excised from the contents page; edge-sunned; very good in stapled wrappers.
290. -. Another copy of No. 5. Spots and coffee rings to covers; very good in stapled wrappers.
291. (San Francisco Magazines). Inferno 5. (San Francisco): (Inferno) (n.d.). Includes poems by Carroll Arnett, John Haines and Gil Orlovitz, among others, and two hand-printed engravings by David Ruff. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
292. (San Francisco Magazines). J Magazine 4. (n.p.): (n.p.) (n.d.)[c. 1959]. Small literary magazine from San Francisco, with contributions by Robert Duncan, Richard Brautigan, Jack Spicer, and others. Seventeen stapled mimeographed yellow pages, with a water-colored cover. 8 1/2" x 11" pages, folded once; light crease near the double staple; else fine. An important and ephemeral production; rare.
293. (San Francisco Magazines). The Underhound, Vol. 1, No. 3. (San Francisco): (Underhound) (1959). Humorous underground magazine, with satriric commentary on the arts, politics, etc., a Fifties precursor to such magazines of the Sixties as The Realist. Owner name in pencil on front cover; folded once; splitting at spine; very good in stapled wrappers.
294. (San Francisco Magazines). The Underhound, Vol. 1, No. 4. (San Francisco): (Underhound) (1959). An issue focused on police brutality in North Beach and satiric commentary on Beatniks and the Beatnik ethos. Pencilled notes in text; slight spine sunning; near fine in stapled wrappers.
295. SCHWARTZ, Delmore. The World is a Wedding. Norfolk: New Directions (1948). A book of prose: two novellas and five short stories. With blurbs by Wallace Stevens, William Carols Williams, Mark Van Doren, Hannah Arendt, and others. Fine in a near fine dust jacket sunned along the folds. A very attractive copy of this collection by a writer most well-known for his poetry.
296. SEELYE, John. The Kid. NY: Viking (1972). A historical novel by a writer who has focused on the history of the West, as well as reinterpreting classics by Mark Twain and Owen Wister, among others. Inscribed by the author on a typed note tipped to the front pastedown spoofing advance copies. Small bump to lower board; else fine in a fine dust jacket with one tiny edge tear.
297. SELDES, Gilbert. E. & O.E. (n.p.): Privately Printed, 1968. A collection of short pieces by the influential cultural critic and author of The Seven Lively Arts. Inscribed by the author to film critic Pauline Kael, with an additional note in the author's hand on the colophon page. Near fine in wrappers.
298. SENDAK, Maurice and CORSARO, Frank. The Love for Three Oranges. London: The Bodley Head (1984). The text of Prokofiev's opera by Corsaro, with storyboard, costumes and stage design by Sendak. Fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket. An attractively produced volume, with numerous color illustrations.
299. SHAARA, Michael. The Killer Angels. NY: David McKay (1974). His second novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and, according to many, the best novel about the Civil War battle of Gettysburg, and, with Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, one of the best Civil War novels ever written. Later the basis for a well-received television produiction. Fine in a very good dust jacket with two edge tears to the upper front panel and some shallow scratches to the rear. A nice copy of a book that, because of its cheap "perfectbound" construction, tends to age poorly.
300. SIMON, Neil. Promises, Promises. NY: Random House (1969). The play by Simon based on the Wilder and Diamond screenplay "The Apartment." Another in the string of highly successful plays in the Sixties by Simon, who also wrote Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite and The Odd Couple, for which he won a Tony Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
301. SONTAG, Susan. The Benefactor. NY: Farrar Straus (1963). The first book, a novel, by this writer and intellectual who, despite her National Book Award-winning In America, is still more noted for her essays and criticism. This copy is inscribed by the author to film critic Pauline Kael, "from an admirer of her film criticism." "Compliments of the author" card laid in; fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket. A wonderful literary association.
302. SONTAG, Susan. Typescript of "Proust Our Contemporary." Undated. An essay on Proust. Six pages, ribbon-copy, with corrections in two hands, one of them Sontag's. Numerous changes to the text visible, both additions and deletions. Fine.
303. (SONTAG, Susan). MUDRICK, Marvin. "Susie Creamcheese Makes Love Not War." Undated. A scathing review of A Susan Sontag Reader and of Sontag herself by Mudrick, founder of the College of Creative Studies. Seven-page, ribbon-copy typescript, with holograph corrections, apparently in the author's hand, and also marked by a copyeditor. Small corner tear, not affecting text; near fine.
304. STABENOW, Dana. Play with Fire. NY: Berkley Prime Crime (1995). A mystery in the author's Edgar Award-winning series featuring Aleut detective Kate Shugak. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Laid in is an autograph note signed by the author.
305. STEADMAN, Ralph and VONNEGUT, Kurt. Vonnegut-Steadman Portfolio. Lexington: Petro III Graphics, 2001. Two original color silkscreens, "Messenger" by Kurt Vonnegut and "Red Shark" by Ralph Steadman, each hand printed by Joe Petro III in an edition of 50 numbered copies; 12" x 16 3/4"; signed by Vonnegut and Steadman, respectively. Together with a signed limited edition of the catalog Modern Fiction and Art: Prints by Contemporary Authors (Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1999), which contains an original piece by each of the artists. The prints are fine; the catalog is fine in stapled wrappers; all are enclosed in a string-tied portfolio.
306. STEGNER, Wallace. The Potter's House. Muscatine: Prairie Press, 1938. Stegner's second regularly published book, a novella, and the scarcest of his trade publications -- one of 490 copies designed and printed at the Prairie Press. Fine, without the original unprinted glassine dust jacket, but a bright, pristine copy nonetheless. Over the course of a writing career lasting five decades, Stegner helped move the literature of the West out of the ghetto of "regionalism" and into the mainstream of American literature, both through his own work -- fiction, essays and historical works -- and through his role as a teacher of creative writing at the famed Stanford Creative Writing Center, which graduated such writers as Wendell Berry, Evan S. Connell, Tillie Olsen, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, and Robert Stone, among many others.
307. STEGNER, Wallace. Angle of Repose. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. A review copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the author who redefined the literature of the American West. "With compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc." stamped on front pastedown. A fine copy in a very good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with an edge tear at the lower front spine fold. A very nice copy of a poorly made book (Doubleday was earning a reputation at that time for breaking new ground in the cheapness of its book production), and an important title. A Modern Library book of the century.
308. STEINBECK, John. Cannery Row. NY: Bantam Books (1947). The first paperback edition of Steinbeck's homage to the people of Monterey county, where he was born and where he spent much of his life. Near fine in wrappers. Together with the fifth printing (also 1947), which was issued in a Ben Stahl dust jacket, moving the men to the background and the woman to the foreground and spicing up the jacket text. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, and extremely uncommon: the Bantam experiment in dust jacketed paperbacks was short-lived, and few have survived. For both:
309. STRETE, Craig Kee. Burn Down the Night. (n.p.): Warner Books (1982). The uncorrected proof copy of this autobiographical novel based on the author's relationship with Jim Morrison of The Doors. A fine copy in wrappers of a book that came out only in softcover. Also, a significant volume on the Sixties by a Native American writer, like the two paperback originals by Jamake Highwater under the "J Marks" pseudonym. Strete has since become well-known, and collected, as a writer of science fiction and fantasy imbued with motifs taken from Native American legends, an interesting cross-cultural amalgam.