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153. MASEFIELD, John. Chaucer. NY: Macmillan, 1931. The former Poet Laureate's Leslie Stephen Lecture on Chaucer, who influenced his writing and to whom Masefield has been compared. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
154. MATHESON, Richard. I Am Legend. NY: Walker (1970). The first hardcover edition of this classic vampire/science fiction novel, originally published in paperback in 1954 and the basis for the 1964 Vincent Price movie, The Last Man on Earth. It was also reportedly an influence and inspiration for George Romero's horror classic, Night of the Living Dead. Widely considered one of the best horror novels of all time. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed by Matheson on the flyleaf, "from one legend to another." Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of an uncommon book, with a great inscription.
155. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Wildlife in America. NY: Viking, 1959. Matthiessen's first book of nonfiction, a survey of the effect of the Europeans on the fauna of North America and a classic in the field of conservation literature. Shortly after publication, the publisher reported that President John F. Kennedy had added the book to the White House's permanent library. Matthiessen was one of the first primarily "literary" authors to devote his energy to writing about ecological issues, eventually incorporating them and the political questions that they raise into his fiction in a way that set the stage for the generation of socially conscious writers to come. His interest in non-Western ways of perception and knowing -- drawn from tribal traditions as well as from the mystical heritage of the East -- combined with his social concerns to raise the standard for serious, environmentally conscious writers of fiction and other literature. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of an uncommon and important book.
156. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Obras Completas [Complete Works]. Barcelona: José Janés, 1950-1952. Three volumes. Inscribed by Maugham to Hamlet Vittino in the first volume: "To my distinguished friend/ H Vittino - Rio de Janeiro - Nov. 1950/ W. Somerset Maugham." Vittino was an Argentine friend of Maugham's and this is the first Spanish language edition of Maugham's works. All three volumes bear Vittino's ownership stamps; page edges foxed; soft boards spine-faded; wormholes to hinges. A very good set.
157. McCARTHY, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of the third volume in The Border Trilogy. Rumor has it that at the author's request, fewer proofs (less than 100) were produced for this volume than for the earlier books in the series. Fine in wrappers.
158. MICHAELS, Anne. Fugitive Pieces. NY: Knopf, 1997. The first American edition of this poet's highly acclaimed first novel, a bestseller in Canada, winner of the Trillium Book Award, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction, and a number of other awards. Signed by Michaels. A line of pink ink on the verso of the flyleaf; still fine in a fine dust jacket.
159. MICHENER, James. Recessional. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1994. The true first edition of this novel, a limited edition with a special introduction by the author. At the time this novel was published, Michener had enjoyed commercial success with his novels beyond any author's wildest dreams; when Recessional was published, he pledged $5,000,000 apiece to two art museums -- one in his native hometown of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and one in Texas, where his papers are stored and where he endowed a chair in literature at the University of Texas. Signed by the author. Leatherbound, page edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine.
160. MILLER, Sue. While I Was Gone. NY: Knopf, 1999. A novel by the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel The Good Mother, which was made into a well-received movie. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
161. MINOT, Susan. Evening. NY: Knopf, 1998. The fourth book, a novel, by the author of the highly acclaimed Monkeys. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
162. (MITCHELL, Margaret). HOWARD, Sidney. Gone with the Wind. (NY): (Alert) [c. 1964]. The 25th anniversary reissue of the Final Shooting Script for David O. Selznick's production of the Academy Award-winning film based on Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. 273 pages; bradbound in mildly edgeworn cardstock covers. This copy is rubber-stamped # 00136 and presumably each copy was so numbered. A limited issue reproduction of the complete screenplay in the format of the original, possibly done using the original stencils. Near fine and very uncommon.
163. MOODY, Rick. The Ice Storm. Boston: Little Brown (1994). The advance reading copy of his second book, made into a film by Ang Lee that won an award at Cannes, for best screenplay adaptation from a novel. Fine in wrappers.
164. MOORE, Lorrie. Birds of America. NY: Knopf, 1998. Short fiction by the author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help, among others. One of these stories was the O. Henry Award winner, and Moore is a Granta 20 author. Signed by Moore. Fine in a fine dust jacket, this being the issue with the bluebird.
165. MUNRO, Alice. Selected Stories. NY: Knopf, 1996. A hardcover advance edition of this collection of stories, spanning a quarter century. These copies were prepared by her U.S. publisher as promotional giveaways and were not offered for sale. Signed by the author. Limitation not stated, although it has been widely reported to have been around 200. Fine in slipcase.
166. NAIPAUL, V.S. A Turn in the South. NY: Knopf, 1989. The uncorrected proof copy of the first U.S. trade edition of Naipaul's account of his travels through the American South. "P.C." (Press Copy) writ large on front cover and some press notations on the first blank; else fine in wrappers.
167. NIN, Anaïs. The Four-Chambered Heart. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1950). Inscribed by the author to her psychoanalyst: "For Doctor Bogner -/ with gratitude and admiration for a clear and warm insight./ Anaïs Nin." After her celebrated relationship, and dramatic breakup, with the psychiatrist Otto Rank, Nin began seeing Inge Bogner, a New York City psychiatrist whom she continued to see over the next three decades, up until her death. At the time of her death, in 1977, Nin and her husband, Ian Hugo, an artist who illustrated several of her books and an experimental filmmaker who is credited with being the "grandfather" of the underground film in the U.S., were both patients of Dr. Bogner. Nin wrote at one point that of all the therapists she had seen, Dr. Bogner was the one who gave her the most insight and help in understanding her own psyche. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with very shallow chipping at the spine extremities.
168. NIN, Anaïs. Cities of the Interior. Denver: Swallow (1961). The first edition of this massive volume, which collects five of her novels and is illustrated with line engravings by her husband, Ian Hugo. Inscribed by the author on behalf of herself and three of the characters in the first novel in the collection, Ladders to Fire: "For John Lewis/ from Lillian, Djuna/ and Sabina/ and Anaïs Nin." This is the issue in white wrappers; spine-darkened and creased; near fine.
169. NIN, Anaïs. Winter of Artifice. Denver: Swallow [c. 1961]. The first Swallow paperback edition of this collection of three novellas, which shares a name but only two stories with her collection of 1939. Inscribed by the author to her psychoanalyst, Dr. Inge Bogner. Spine-tanned; near fine in wrappers. Illustrated by Ian Hugo.
170. NIN, Anaïs. Autograph Letter Signed. February 19, 1966. A full page on airpost stationery, written to Dr. Bogner and regarding reconciliation with Hugo: "Everything allright with Hugo. Talking to you helped me out of the tension created by my own guilt... More reconciliations as a result of analysis, with Edmund Wilson and Maxwell Geismar. I have learned to avoid controversy! It is mysterious but I owe the change in atmosphere around the Diary as much to the change in me as to the fact that my kind of writing came too soon as [sic] is more accepted today. You were of such immeasurable help. I always marvel at your clarity. I know you helped me to get well in every way." Signed "With my love, Anaïs." A heartfelt and revealing letter: in 1966, the first volume of Nin's diary was published, an event that, coinciding with the first stirrings of the Women's Movement, thrust Nin into the public eye more dramatically than she had ever been before. At the same time, Nin was suffering from serious health problems: three weeks before she wrote this letter she had undergone abdominal surgery for a suspected cancer, and had had her uterus removed. Typically, her relationship with Hugo was stormy and stressful, and in this context her comment about Dr. Bogner helping her "to get well in every way" takes on additional weight. Folded in fourths for mailing; else fine.
171. NIN, Anaïs. Typed Letter Signed. May 20, 1966. A brief letter informing her psychiatrist that she has found a lawyer, "a woman with insight, who is solving the situation... The only thing I need is proof that Hugo is alive in 1955 (date of second commitment) to help annulment... I am glad I was able to face this problem and solve it. It will not be easy with R. but I found a way." Nin's relationships with Ian Hugo (aka Hugo Guiler, an international banker and later an avant garde filmmaker) and Rupert Pole were complex, to say the least. Both were her husbands, Pole living with her on the West Coast and Hugo in New York; this letter appears to involve untangling the legal implications of her marriages. A second paragraph comments on reviews of The Diary. Folded in sixths; else fine.
172. NIN, Anaïs. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vols. 1-3. NY: Harcourt, Brace, World, 1966-1969. The first three volumes of Nin's diaries, inscribed by the author to Robert Cromie, a Chicago-area talk show host in the 1960s, whose interview show, Book Beat, won television's highest honor, a George Foster Peabody Award, in 1969. Nin's diaries, which were published over the course of nearly a decade, were an enormously influential sequence of books which, despite some retrospective questioning of their factuality, nonetheless became a benchmark for women's autobiographical writings just as the feminist movement was coming into being and old definitions of femininity were being called into question. Nin, or at least the persona Nin presented in these somewhat carefully rendered diary excerpts, became a new paradigm for women's sexuality, creativity and independence. Well after her death, Nin's surviving husband, Rupert Pole, dedicated himself to having the unexpurgated diaries published, a process that is ongoing. Still, these volumes represent a watershed in women's writing. Volume 1 is near fine in a near fine dust jacket; the latter two volumes are fine in near fine jackets. For the three:
173. NIN, Anaïs. A Woman Speaks. The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin. Chicago: Swallow Press (1975). Inscribed by the author to her psychoanalyst, "For Doctor Inge Bogner/ who may remember when/ I came saying: I could/ not talk. I could not/ even read my prepared/ lecture without frozen/ terror and holding my/ throat. So this is/ another one of your miracles!/ With deep love and/ gratitude/ Anaïs." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with retained hand-addressed mailing label laid in.
174. NIN, Anaïs. Autograph Note Signed. [July, 1976]. A brief note to Dr. Bogner, written across the bottom of a lengthier typed note by Rupert Pole, filling Dr. Bogner in on Anaïs' medical report. Nin was being treated for cancer at this time, and would die from it the following year. Folded in sixths for mailing; near fine, with very good mailing envelope with Nin's letterhead.
175. NIN, Anaïs. Autograph Note Signed. Undated. A brief note on an Anaïs Nin card: "I have worn your scarf night and day!/ love/ Anaïs." Although not specified explicitly, this note was to Inge Bogner, her psychiatrist. 3-1/2" x 6". Fine.
176. NIN, Anaïs. Linotte. The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920. NY: HBJ (1978). Two copies of this posthumously published early diary, beginning when Nin was 11 years old. The first copy is a review copy and is inscribed by Nin's first husband, Hugh Guiler ("Ian Hugo") to Dr. Bogner: "For Inge/ who did so much/ to help me and Anaïs/ with love from/ Hugo." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The second copy is inscribed by Nin's second husband, Rupert Pole, to Dr. Bogner: "For Inge/ who more than anyone/ knows Anaïs as artist,/ woman and child./ Anaïs' first diary/ and her first (published)/ work in French/ With love/ Rupert/ Sept. '78." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
177. (NIN, Anaïs). Medical Records. 1966, 1975. From February 21, 1966, a carbon copy of a letter from Dr. Timothy Parks to Dr. Raymond Weston reporting on Nin's surgery of January 27th of that year. One page folded in sixths; else fine. Together with a photocopy of Nin's insurance claim form from April 1975 detailing her surgery from January of that year. Four pages folded in thirds, else fine.
178. (NIN, Anaïs). HUGO, Ian. Association Copies. Three titles, two of which are inscribed by Hugo to Dr. Inge Bogner, as follows: Anaïs Nin, Ladders to Fire (NY: Dutton, 1946), inscribed "gratefully," general handling, about near fine, lacking the dust jacket; Ian Hugo, New Eyes on the Art of Engraving (Yonkers: Alicat, 1946), not inscribed but from the library of Dr. Bogner, creasing and tanning to cover, about near fine in stapled wrappers; and Evelyn J. Hinz, The Mirror and the Garden: Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anaïs Nin, (NY: Harvest, 1973), inscribed "For Inge/ who needs no/ explanation./ Just for vacation/ reading/ Love/ from/ Hugo." Spine-tanned; near fine in wrappers.
179. (NIN, Anaïs). POLE, Rupert. Association Copies. Four titles inscribed by Pole to Dr. Inge Bogner, as follows: Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (San Diego: HBJ, 1986), inscribed: "For Inge/ Finally the real story/ the story you already know/ the missing Anaïs -- / the passionate woman/ with love/ Rupert." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Anaïs Nin, Das Delta der Venus (Munich: Scherz, 1978), inscribed, "For Inge/ who knew Anaïs'/ language of love -- / Rupert." Fine in a rubbed, very good dust jacket. Anaïs Nin, Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories (Weston: Magic Circle Press, 1977), inscribed, "For Inge/ who will appreciate/ the humor and irony/ of the early stories./ With love/ Rupert." Finally, Robert Snyder's Anaïs Nin Observed (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1976), inscribed, "For Inge,/ who more than any other/ gave Anaïs peace of mind/ In Memoriam: Jan 14, 1977/ Rupert." Quarto; crown bumped; near fine in wrappers. For the lot:
180. (NIN, Anaïs). SPENCER, Sharon. Association Copies. Four titles, three of which are inscribed by Spencer to Dr. Inge Bogner, as follows: the dedication copy of Sharon Spencer's Collage of Dreams: The Writings of Anaïs Nin, expanded edition (NY: Harvest, 1981), inscribed, "For Inge/ with enduring/ love and admiration,/ Sharon." The printed dedication page reads "Dedicated in loving admiration to Anna Balakian and to Inge Bogner and to all the sons and daughters of Anaïs." Near fine in wrappers. Anaïs: An International Journal, Volume 4 (Los Angeles: Anaïs Nin Foundation, 1986). Not inscribed but from the library of Dr. Bogner and featuring Spencer's article "The Voice of Otto Rank." An offprint of Spencer's "Timelessness and Change: Some Concepts of Otto Rank Interpreted as a Dance of Thought" (n.p.: Journal of the Otto Rank Association, 1975), inscribed to Dr. Bogner; vertical fold, stapled, near fine. And, lastly, an offprint of Spencer's article "Femininity and the Woman Writer: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and the Diary of Anaïs Nin," (Great Britain: Women's Studies, 1973), again inscribed to Dr. Bogner; edge-tanned wrappers, stapled, near fine.