Catalog 115, T-Z
244. THOMPSON, Hunter S. The Proud Highway. NY: Villard (1997). The advance reading copy of Volume One of "The Fear and Loathing Letters," printing Thompson's letters from 1955-1967. One of a reported 150 copies signed (initialed) by the author. Fine in wrappers.
245. -. Another copy, unsigned. Fine in wrappers.
246. TYLER, Anne. The Tin Can Tree. NY: Knopf, 1965. Her second novel, a powerful and moving story of a young boy coming to terms with his little sister's death. Like her first book, this title is scarce, having received good critical reviews but not much in the way of commercial success. Glue residue front flyleaf; tape shadows to boards; likely ex-lending library; very good in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
247. TYLER, Anne. A Slipping-Down Life. NY: Knopf, 1970. Her third book. Foredge smudge; else fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Without the "R" remainder mark that is most often found on this title.
248. -. Same title, the first British hardcover edition. (London): Severn House (1983). Tiny sticker shadow front flyleaf; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
249. TYLER, Anne. The Clock Winder. NY: Knopf, 1972. Her fourth book. Although this had a larger printing than her first, it seems equally difficult to find, if not more so, especially in nice condition. This is a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket, with a few tiny spots on the rear panel and a small bit of dampstaining on the verso at the spine base. A beautiful copy.
250. TYLER, Anne. Celestial Navigation. NY: Knopf, 1974. Her fifth book. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with one small internally-repaired edge tear at the upper rear flap fold.
251. TYLER, Anne. Searching for Caleb. NY: Knopf, 1976. Foxing to top edge and a bit to foredge; else fine in a spine-tanned dust jacket. A very nice copy of this title, which dates from the period when she was critically acclaimed but had not yet had commercial success; the first printing was 10,000 copies whereas her first printings these days run to several hundred thousand copies.
252. TYLER, Anne. Earthly Possessions. NY: Knopf, 1977. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
253. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1977. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket with slight rubbing to the rear, black panel and a new sticker price on the front flap.
254. TYLER, Anne. Morgan's Passing. NY: Knopf, 1980. A quirky novel that was the first of her books to be reprinted numerous times right after publication, although not quite a bestseller as her later books have become. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a crease on the front flap.
255. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Spine- and edge-sunned; near fine in tall wrappers, with promotional sheets stapled inside front cover. Scarce.
256. TYLER, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. NY: Knopf, 1982. Small, faint spot lower page edges; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
257. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Several underlinings to text; creasing to front cover; very good in wrappers.
258. TYLER, Anne. The Accidental Tourist. NY: Knopf, 1985. A novel made into an award-winning movie that solidified Tyler's place as one of the foremost writers of her generation. One of an unspecified number of copies with a leaf tipped in signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small abrasion on the front cover.
259. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. This is the first issue, in cream wrappers. Fine.
260. -. Same title, the second issue proof, in red wrappers. A little surplus glue on the spine; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
261. TYLER, Anne. Breathing Lessons. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1988. The true first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Bound in leather, stamped in gold and silver, with gilt page edges and a silk ribbon marker bound in. Signed by the author. With a special introduction by Tyler for this edition in which she draws parallels between disaster movies and family life. Fine.
262. -. Same title, the trade edition. NY: Knopf, 1988. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
263. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. This is the second issue proof, with the first leaf corrected so that Tyler's previous publications are listed on the verso rather than the recto. Spine lightly sunned; else fine in wrappers.
264. TYLER, Anne. Saint Maybe. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1991. The true first edition, leatherbound, gilt stamped, with silk marker and gilt page edges. Signed by the author, with a special introduction by her for this edition on the role playing involved in the writing process. By comparison with the trade edition, which had a first printing that numbered in the six figures, this is a scarce edition: the Franklin Library prospectus assures that no book will have a printing larger than 7500 copies, and several more recent ones for which we have obtained figures came in at half that number. Fine.
265. -. Same title, the trade edition. NY: Knopf, 1991. One of an unspecified number of copies with a leaf tipped in signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
266. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. One word in ink in the margin of the front cover; else fine in wrappers.
267. TYLER, Anne. Tumble Tower. NY: Orchard (1993). A children's book with text by Tyler and illustrations by Mitra Modarressi, her daughter. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
268. TYLER, Anne. Ladder of Years. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1995. The true first edition, a leatherbound limited edition with a special introduction by Tyler relating the genesis of the book. Page edges gilt, silk ribbon marker bound in. Signed by the author. Fine.
269. -. Same title, the trade edition. NY: Knopf, 1995. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
270. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers. Because of the wide distribution given to the more elaborately produced advance reading copy, this proof appears to be considerably scarcer than other recent Tyler proofs.
271. -. Same title, the advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers.
272. TYLER, Anne. A Patchwork Planet. NY: Knopf, 1998. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in jacket.
273. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers. The proof indicates that the first printing of this title was 250,000 copies.
274. (TYLER, Anne). "Dry Water" in The Southern Review. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1965. An early appearance by Tyler, whose first book was published in 1964. Also includes Reynolds Price, N. Scott Momaday, Richard Eberhart and William Stafford, among others. Tyler's bio announces her intention to settle in Iran with her husband. Near fine in wrappers.
275. (TYLER, Anne). "The Feather Behind the Rock" in A Duke Miscellany. Durham: Duke U. Press, 1970. An anthology of Duke "narrative and verse of the sixties," and an uncommon and relatively early Tyler appearance. Also includes Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, Josephine Humphreys, black activist Angela Davis, and others. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
276. (TYLER, Anne). The Fiction of Anne Tyler. Jackson: U. Press of Mississippi (1990). A collection of pieces about Tyler, most selected from papers given in 1989 at the Anne Tyler Symposium at Essex Community College in Baltimore. Includes Doris Betts's "Tyler's Marriage of Opposites." Edited by C. Ralph Stephens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
277. (TYLER, Anne). EVANS, Elizabeth. Anne Tyler. NY: Twayne (1993). A critical study of Anne Tyler, who was a PEN Faulkner Award finalist in 1982 (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 (The Accidental Tourist), and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for Breathing Lessons. This title was turned into a limited edition with the addition of a tipped-in colophon, indicating that this is one of 100 numbered copies signed by both Tyler and Evans. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
278. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run. NY: Knopf, 1960. Updike's second novel, which introduced Rabbit Angstrom and began the sequence of novels that will likely stand as his major work, a four-volume series spanning 30+ years. The chronicle of Rabbit Angstrom is a chronicle of America in the postwar era, and Updike has become without question -- in large part on the basis of this series -- the most collected living American author. This copy has some very slight sunning to the top edge and top stain; otherwise fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket with light edge wear and a small closed tear at the front flap fold.
279. UPDIKE, John. Brazil. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1994. The limited edition of this novel that is something of a departure for Updike, being far removed from the familiar suburban milieu of most of his fiction. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. With a special introduction by Updike for this edition. Signed by the author. Fine.
280. UPDIKE, John. Gertrude and Claudius. NY: Knopf, 2000. The uncorrected proof copy of Updike's venture into the realm of the historical novel, set in Denmark in the years before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Fine in wrappers.
281. UPDIKE, John. Licks of Love. NY: Knopf, 2000. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short stories and a novella, "Rabbit Remembered," a sequel to the Rabbit Angstrom sequence. Faint spotting and creasing to rear cover; near fine in wrappers with the cover art bound in.
282. -. Same title, the Easton Press limited edition. Norwalk: Easton Press (2000). One of 1650 numbered copies signed by the author. With a foreword by Updike not in the trade edition. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a ribbon marker bound in. Fine.
283. UPDIKE, John. The Complete Henry Bech. NY: Knopf, 2001. The uncorrected proof copy of this volume in Knopf's "Everyman Library," collecting Bech: A Book, Bech is Back, Bech at Bay, and adding "His Oeuvre." One slightly abraded corner; else fine in wrappers.
284. -. Same title, the trade edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
285. -. Another copy of the trade edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
286. VACHSS, Andrew. Safe House. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of his tenth hardboiled Burke novel. Fine in wrappers with publicity information stapled inside the front cover.
287. VACHSS, Andrew. Flood. NY: Vintage (1998). The uncorrected proof copy of the reissue of the first of his mysteries. Fine in wrappers.
288. VACHSS, Andrew. Choice of Evil. NY: Knopf, 1999. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
289. VIDAL, Gore. At Home. (NY): (Random House) (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of essays from the years 1982-1988. With the original title ("Time For a Change: Essays 1983-1988") crossed out on both covers and the title page replaced with a publisher's sheet with the new title laid in. Several pencil markings in text; near fine in wrappers.
290. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Bluebeard. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1987. A limited edition of this novel, signed by the author and with a special introduction by him for this edition, in which he decries the broken bond between the artist and the universe that occurs when commerce intervenes. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine.
291. WAUGH, Evelyn. A Little Learning. Boston: Little Brown (1964). The first American edition of this volume of Waugh's autobiography, subtitled "The Early Years." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
292. WEESNER, Theodore. Winning the City. NY: Summit (1990). The uncorrected proof copy of this coming-of-age novel, the fourth book by the author of The Car Thief. Slight spine roll, else fine in wrappers.
293. WELTY, Eudora. The Key. Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1941. Her first book, a pamphlet printing one story from her then-forthcoming volume A Curtain of Green, along with an appreciation of Welty written by Katherine Anne Porter. Polk A1. Issued as a promotional piece for reviewers and booksellers, in an edition estimated between 1000 and 1500 copies. This copy is warmly inscribed by Welty to author Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar): "A very early example of jailbirding/ For Kenneth Millar/ (and Archer)/ from Eudora Welty/ Found April 12, 1971." In addition, Welty has annotated Katherine Anne Porter's introduction in three places. Together with a typed letter signed from Welty to Millar, dated May 11, 1971, in which she mentions finding The Key: "I was trying to find something in my mother's desk and found this, which I hadn't seen since its own day and I'd forgotten existed..." Welty then recounts a day on which she took a memorable train ride on a bridge over three merging rivers "where the Ohio and the Mississippi and (I believe) a little local river too all come together. It took a long time to cross it and the train went slowly, and while we were still on it I saw high up in the light a long ragged V of birds flying south with the river. I kept hearing in my head all the way that beautiful word 'confluence' -- 'the confluence of the waters' -- everything the eyes could see was like the word happening...It may not be so rare but I thought so then and I do now -- it's all so rarely the blessing falls." A wonderful letter from Welty to Millar, who had begun what would be a life-long friendship just weeks earlier: Welty had given a glowing review to Macdonald's The Underground Man earlier that month, which appeared on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, an unprecedented occurrence for a hard-boiled genre novelist. As a result, The Underground Man became Macdonald's best-selling book, and also earned him the reputation as a serious literary author that he had long desired. Welty was the dedicatee of Macdonald's next novel, Sleeping Beauty, published in 1973. Welty dedicated her volume of essays, The Eye of the Story, to Macdonald when it was published in 1978. A rare first book, and an exceptional association copy. Fine, in a custom full leather clamshell case.
294. WELTY, Eudora. In Black and White. Northridge: Lord John, 1985. Photographs by Welty, with an introduction by Anne Tyler. One of 400 numbered copies, of a total edition of 500 copies. Signed by Eudora Welty and Anne Tyler. Quarto; fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
295. WEST, Nathanael. Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings. (NY): Library of America (1997). Folded and gathered sheets of this compilation of West's novels, stories, poetry, essays, plays, film scripts and treatments, and letters, several of which are published here for the first time. A fine set, wrapped in one sheet of publicity information.
296. WHITE, E.B. Poems and Sketches of E.B. White. NY: Harper & Row (1981). The uncorrected proof of this compilation of pieces, many of them never collected before. White was a longtime writer for The New Yorker, and his intelligent, humane and understated essays helped define that magazine's literary style over more than three decades, setting it apart from the other mass-circulation journals of its time. Fine in wrappers.
297. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana. (NY): New Directions (1962). One of Williams' greatest plays, winner of a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award. The film version, which was co-written by John Huston, earned four Academy Award nominations. This is a fine copy in a very mildly edge-sunned dust jacket.
298. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London: Hogarth, 1937. Although Woolf is most well-known for her use of stream-of-consciousness technique, The Years is a more traditional and more accessible novel, and her longest book. Light wear to the cloth and lower board edges; near fine in an internally tape-mended, spine-tanned Vanessa Bell dust jacket threatening to split at the spine folds, thus only fair. An important book by the pre-eminent English woman of letters of the twentieth century, whose influence on contemporary literature continues to be felt to this day.