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239. MARON, Margaret. Bootlegger's Daughter. NY: Mysterious Press (1992). The highly praised first Deborah Knott mystery, winner of the 1993 Agatha, Anthony, Edgar and Macavity Awards for best mystery novel of the year, an unprecedented sweep of the major mystery genre awards by a single book. Signed by the author. Remainder stripe; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
240. MARON, Margaret. Up Jumps the Devil. (NY): Mysterious Press (1996). A Deborah Knott mystery novel, which won the Agatha Award for best novel of the year. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
241. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. The Snow Leopard. NY: Viking (1978). The uncorrected proof copy of his National Book Award-winning volume, recounting a trip to the Himalayas with naturalist George Schaller in the hopes both of encountering a snow leopard in the wild and of coming to terms with his wife's death from cancer. An important state, bibliographically, as the first third of this book changed markedly between the proof and the published text as a result of Matthiessen's checking his writings with an expert in Buddhist philosophy; and there were smaller changes throughout. This copy is inscribed by the author. Also named Salon Magazine's top travel book of the century. Name on front cover; near fine in wrappers.
242. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Sand Rivers. NY: Viking (1981). Quarto, with text by Matthiessen and photographs by Hugo van Lawick. A recounting of a safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, with a portrait of the land and the people who have shaped it. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal. Fine in a near fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
243. -. Another copy, unsigned. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
244. McCANN, Colum. Fishing in the Sloe-Black River. London: Phoenix House (1994). The first book by this young Irish writer, winner of the 1994 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. This is the simultaneous hardcover issue and is exceedingly scarce: most copies were issued in paperback. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
245. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition (NY: Henry Holt, 1996). Fine in wrappers with publicity info stapled inside cover.
246. McCARTHY, Cormac. The Orchard Keeper. NY: Random House (1965). McCarthy's first book, which won a Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. Although the book was successful enough to go into a second printing, fewer than 3000 copies were sold in total, and it was a quarter century before McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and brought him recognition beyond the small, passionate circle of devotees who had been reading him and collecting his books all along. This book is notorious for several flaws: the front flap tends to detach at the fold, from slightly excessive scoring in the bindery, and the white jacket is susceptible to yellowing and soiling. This is a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with the typical flaws: the front flap is partially detached and the rear panel shows some minor soiling, with a small chip at the back corner of the spine crown. Still, overall, an attractive copy of a scarce and important first novel.
247. -. Same title, the first British edition. (London): Deutsch (1966). Page edges foxed and some fading to the spine cloth. Still at least very good in a bright, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, which has some slight rubbing at the spine extremities, tape shadows on the flaps, and a bit of strengthening on the verso.
248. McCARTHY, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. NY: Knopf, 1992. The first volume of the Border Trilogy, a landmark novel that won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and propelled its author to "instant" literary celebrity -- after nearly three decades of writing well-received literary novels in relative obscurity. The hardcover edition of this novel went into numerous printings, eventually selling nearly ten times as many copies as all of his previous books combined. Fine in a fine, purported "second issue," dust jacket, with a colored initial letter on the front flap and five blurbs on the rear panel; we are increasingly convinced, however, that the earlier jacket that has been reported was a trial, or proof, jacket of some sort that was never actually issued.
249. -. Same title. The advance reading copy, issued in wrappers and publisher's folding box, signed by the author and sent out in advance of publication to promote the book. Rumor has it that approximately 400 were to be done, but the author quit after about 200 and declined to do any more. McCarthy has a reputation as, if not exactly a recluse, one who prizes his independence and privacy, and books signed by him are uncommon. Fine in the folding box.
250. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. This is the second state of the proof, which consists of the first state with two changes made in pencil on the front cover: "A Border Trilogy" has been changed to "The Border Trilogy" and the publication day of "4" has been added to the month of May. A later state made these changes in print. Fine in wrappers.
251. -. Same title, the final state of the uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers.
252. McEWAN, Ian. First Love, Last Rites. London: Cape (1975). The uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of the author's first book, a collection of stories. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. McEwan's book Amsterdam won the 1998 Booker Prize. Slight creasing near the spine but still very near fine in wrappers. A very scarce proof.
253. McEWAN, Ian. The Child in Time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1987). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this book that won the Whitbread Award. Fine in wrappers.
254. McEWAN, Ian. Amsterdam. London: Jonathan Cape (1998). His most recent novel, winner of the Booker Prize, England's most prestigious literary award. Signed by the author in September, 1998. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
255. -. Same title, the first American edition. NY: Doubleday, 1999. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and signed by the author.
256. -. Same title, the advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers. Publisher's release laid in announcing the Booker Prize Award and a subsequent change of publication date from February 1999 to December 1998.
257. -. Another copy. Fine in wrappers.
258. McGUANE, Thomas. The Bushwhacked Piano. NY: Simon & Schuster (1971). The uncorrected proof copy of his second book, winner of the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for a novel of "considerable literary achievement." Very tall, pad-bound wrappers, with mesh spine. Again, a very fragile format and a fine copy. Rare.
259. McKENNA, Richard. The Sand Pebbles. NY: Harper & Row (1962)[1963]. The author's first and only novel, winner of the 1963 Harper Novel Prize, as judged by Philip Roth, Louis Auchincloss and Elizabeth Janeway; later made into one of the most acclaimed Hollywood movies of the time by Robert Wise. McKenna's book was semi-autobiographical, about the experiences of a group of U.S. sailors on a Navy gunboat, caught up in the turmoil of the 1926 Bolshevik revolution in China. Wise's film version, done in 1966, used the film's Southeast Asian setting to reflect on issues confronting American society at the height of the Vietnam War. This copy is inscribed by the author in February, 1963, the month after publication; McKenna died in 1964, less than two years after the book was published, at the age of 51 and, as a result, copies of the book signed by him are quite scarce. A couple small dings to the boards and some fading to the spine cloth; about near fine in a near fine dust jacket worn at the spine crown and with a few internally tape-mended edge tears.
260. McMURTRY, Larry. Lonesome Dove. Los Angeles: Motown Productions (n.d.). 28-page treatment for a film version of McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Identifies and describes each of the major characters and many of the minor ones, and synopsizes the action of the novel/film. Photocopied sheets. On the front cover sheet is written in ink "Offer Sean Connery," in an unknown hand. One ink notation in the text, adjacent to the description of one of the characters. Lonesome Dove was ultimately made into an award-winning mini-series for television. This treatment was never formally published nor, presumably, offered for public consumption. Rare; we have never seen, nor heard of, another one being offered.
261. McPHERSON, James Alan. Elbow Room. Boston: Atlantic-Little Brown (1977). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's acclaimed second book, a collection of stories that won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize. Publisher's rubber stamp on front cover, otherwise fine in wrappers.
262. -. Another copy of the proof. Publication date written on front cover; label removal mark at bottom edges. Still fine.
263. -. Same title. A third printing. Inscribed by the author, a reserved, if not reclusive, writer whose signature is quite scarce. A cheaply made book that is most often found well-worn, this is a fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
264. 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.
265. MILLER, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. NY: Viking, 1949. By consensus the most important play by one of the leading American playwrights of the postwar era. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Signed by the author. Faintly edge-sunned cloth; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the spine extremities. A very attractive copy of a modern classic.
266. MILLHAUSER, Steven. Martin Dressler. NY: Crown (1996). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Fine in wrappers.
267. MILOSZ, Czeslaw. Visions from San Francisco Bay. NY: FSG (1982). The first American edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize winner. Signed by the author under the chapter heading "The Dance of Death and Human Inequality." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the base of the spine.
268. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in tall wrappers.
269. MILOSZ, Czeslaw. Unattainable Earth. NY: Ecco Press (1986). A collection of poetry and other pieces, of his own and of others, that attempt to "approach the inexpressible sense of being." Translated by Milosz and Robert Hass, who was at the time Poet Laureate of the U.S., and signed by Milosz. This is the hardcover issue, and is fine in a fine dust jacket.
270. (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.
271. MOMADAY, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. NY: Harper & Row (1968). One of the most acclaimed American Indian novels ever written, and the first modern Indian novel to attempt to fuse a fully conscious political awareness with an appreciation of the transcendent value, the "order and beauty," as Momaday writes, of the Native American culture and worldview. Momaday is one of the most renowned of contemporary American Indian writers, and House Made of Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize -- arguably the most "American" literary award given in this country -- an accomplishment that has not been duplicated by any other Native American writer. A landmark novel, which initiated the renaissance in Native American literature that has occurred in the past thirty years. Slight spotting to top edge; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
272. -. Another copy. Faint glue residue front flyleaf and small tape removal abrasions to boards; still near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
273. -. Same title. Galley sheets. Loose sheets printed on rectos only; a near fine set, and extraordinarily scarce.
274. MORGAN, Berry. Pursuit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Her first book, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Warmly inscribed by the author to "one of the few great men of medicine of the Twentieth Century..." A Southern novel, compared by the publisher to Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Long Walker Percy blurb on rear dust jacket flap. An uncommon book signed or inscribed. Slight foxing to cloth; near fine in a heavily foxed, very good jacket with a couple of closed edge tears.
275. MORRIS, Mary. Vanishing Animals & Other Stories. Boston: Godine (1979). Her first book, a collection of stories that won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title, and additionally signed by her in 1991 on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket bumped at spine crown. Tim O'Brien and Joyce Carol Oates blurbs, among others.
276. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Spine and lower rear panel abraded from label removal; still about near fine in wrappers. Signed by the author.
277. MORRIS, Wright. The Field of Vision. NY: Harcourt Brace (1956). A review copy; winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1957. A couple page corners creased, otherwise a fine copy in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with a creased tear at the upper front panel.
278. MORRISON, Toni. Tar Baby. NY: Knopf, 1981. The first trade edition of the fourth novel by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Inscribed by the author, "To ____ ____/ warm best wishes." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
279. -. Another copy. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket.
280. MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. NY: Knopf, 1987. The uncorrected proof copy of her fifth novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Fine in wrappers.
281. MORRISON, Toni. Jazz. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1992. The true first edition of this novel, preceding its trade publication. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Signed by the author. With an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which does not appear in the trade edition. Fine.
282. -. Same title. NY: Knopf, 1992. A review copy of the first trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
283. MORRISON, Toni. Playing in the Dark. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1992. A book of literary criticism on the subject of race, subtitled "Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." Fine in a fine dust jacket. This book had a considerably smaller first printing than her recent novels have had.
284. MORRISON, Toni. Paradise. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
285. MUNRO, Alice. Who Do You Think You Are? Toronto: Macmillan of Canada (1978). The first edition of the second of her books to win Canada's Governor General's Award; published in the U.S. a year later under the title The Beggar Maid. A collection of stories. Near fine in a near fine, moderately edgeworn dust jacket.
286. MUNRO, Alice. The Progress of Love. (Toronto): McClelland & Stewart (1986). The first edition of this collection of stories, the third of her books to win the Governor General's Award. Trace shelf wear to spine base; else fine in a price-clipped, first state dust jacket, without the award emblem on the front cover.
287. -. Another copy. Very lightly shelfworn at spine extremities; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.