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347. SALTER, James. Dusk. Berkeley: North Point, 1988. A collection of stories, his first; winner of the PEN Faulkner Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and signed by the author. Salter's memoir, Burning the Days, was published to great critical acclaim a couple of years ago. He has the reputation of being a "writer's writer" -- one who is admired even more by his peers than by the public at large or even the critics. This title bears a short, glowing blurb from John Irving.
348. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. One tiny corner crease; else fine in wrappers. Signed by the author.
349. SCARBOROUGH, Elizabeth Ann. The Healer's War. NY: Doubleday (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of a novel of a nurse in Vietnam who receives from a Vietnamese holy man an amulet that has supernatural powers. Winner of the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of the year. The author served in Vietnam as a nurse, and this is her first book. Shot from double-spaced typescript. Slight spine indentation; else fine in wrappers.
350. SEALE, Doris. Blood Salt. Little Rock: American Native Press Archives (1989). The author's first solo publication, and the first prize winner in the American Native Archives Poetry contest. One of 500 copies. Fine in stapled wrappers and signed by the author in 1998.
351. -. Another copy. Also signed by the author in 1998 and with a few corrections to the text (and many titles or stanzas marked in the margins with small x's).
352. SETTLE, Mary Lee. Blood Tie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Her National Book Award winner which, unlike her many historical novels, is a contemporary story set on a remote Turkish island. Two pages apparently cancels; fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.
353. 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. A tiny bit of foxing to the endpapers and page edges but still fine in a fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of a book that, because of its cheap perfectbound construction, is seldom found in fine condition.
354. SHAW, G. Bernard. An Unsocial Socialist. NY: Brentano's, 1900. A review copy from the library of Horace Traubel, who reviewed the book for The Conservator in 1900, facts attested to in the hand on Gertrude Traubel on the front flyleaf. Stamp of the Library of Congress there as well. Front hinge cracked; cloth worn at spine extremities. Marginal pencil markings throughout; very good, without the dust jacket. Traubel was an important reviewer and editor, friend and later literary executor of Walt Whitman, and a prominent Socialist (as was Shaw). A significant copy of this title. Shaw won the Nobel Prize in 1925.
355. SHEEHAN, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie. John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. NY: Random House (1988). His landmark volume, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Sheehan, author of The Arnheiter Affair and one of The New York Times reporters who worked on the publication of The Pentagon Papers, found in American officer/advisor John Paul Vann a cipher: through the convoluted turns of Vann's biography we can decipher the maze of American policy during the Vietnam era. One of the essential volumes on the war. Inscribed by the author to Bob Packwood in the month of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
356. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in wrappers.
357. SHIELDS, Carol. The Stone Diaries. (NY): Viking (1994). The first American edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which also won Canada's Governor General's Award -- the highest literary prize given in that country -- as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orange Prize. Also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Signed by the author on the title page in 1995. Shields has also proudly added the words "the Pulitzer Prize." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
358. -. Another copy. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
359. SINCLAIR, Iain. Downriver. London: Paladin Grafton (1991). A surreal novel exploring the hidden life surrounding the Thames River as it flows through, and out of, London. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Award, for best second novel. Glowing blurbs by Peter Ackroyd and Angela Carter, among others. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
360. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers and proof dust jacket, which is near fine. Signed by the author.
361. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Shosha. NY: FSG (1978). A review copy of this novel by the Nobel Prize winner. A faint strip of edge-sunning to the cloth; else fine in a fine dust jacket with one small edge nick at the upper front panel. Review slip, promotional sheet and photo laid in.
362. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Image and Other Stories. NY: FSG (1985). The uncorrected proof copy. A collection of stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Fine in wrappers.
363. SMILEY, Jane. A Thousand Acres. NY: Knopf, 1991. An advance reading excerpt from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers.
364. SMITH, Zadie. White Teeth. NY: Random House (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for first novel; shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Fine in wrappers.
365. SOYINKA, Wole. Art, Dialogue and Outrage. NY: Pantheon Books (1994). The first American edition of the 1986 Nobel Prize winner's essays on literature and culture. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
366. SPIEGELMAN, Art. The Complete Maus. NY: Pantheon (1997). First thus, a single hardcover volume comprising the two Maus books, the first of which won the Pulitzer Prize when originally published, an unprecedented accomplishment for a "graphic novel," i.e., one written in comic book format. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
367. ST. AUBIN DE TERAN, Lisa. Keepers of the House. London: Cape (1982). Her highly praised first novel, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
368. STEGNER, Wallace. Angle of Repose. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the author who redefined the literature of the American West. Inscribed by Stegner. Mild concavity to spine, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and rubbing to the folds. A very nice copy of a poorly made book, which seldom turns up in attractive condition, and an important title. A Modern Library book of the century.
369. -. Another copy, this being a review copy: "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.
370. STEGNER, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. The first trade edition of this novel. Winner of the National Book Award. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear. An attractive copy of a not-particularly-well-made book.
371. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY: Viking (1939). The greatest novel by this Nobel Prize winner, one of the greatest American novels ever, and the great American novel of the Depression era. Inscribed by the author. Steinbeck fused social consciousness with literary artistry in a particularly American and individualistic way, refusing to allow his writing to become doctrinaire the way a number of the proletarian novelists of the Thirties did; the body of Steinbeck's work has stood the test of time considerably better than that of most of his contemporaries, especially those who tackled the same social issues that he did. Foxing to top edge; mild darkening to spine and endpapers; a very near fine copy in a fair dust jacket, splitting along all folds and at mid-spine, and internally tape-repaired back to presentability.
372. -. Another copy. Pencilled owner name on pastedown under flap; slight foxing to cloth and foredge; very near fine in a near fine, mildly spine-tanned jacket.
373. STEINBECK, John. The Wayward Bus. NY: Bantam Books (1950). A review copy of the first Bantam paperback edition. Lightly bowed, with a slant and some creasing to spine; about near fine in wrappers. Very scarce as a review copy; we have never seen another.
374. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. His first book, a novel of drifters in New Orleans in the early Sixties caught up in the web of a quasi-religious political machine. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel of the year as well as a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Signed by the author. Owner name and date on front endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
375. STONE, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1974). His second novel, winner of the National Book Award and one of the best novels to link the impact of the Vietnam war on American society in the Sixties to the dark side of that era -- the official corruption and the underside of the drug experiences of a generation. Signed by the author. Light mottling to cloth; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
376. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. This is the second issue proof, in gold-brown wrappers with a publisher's letter to booksellers reproduced on the front cover. Ink notes on rear cover; spine lean; near fine.
377. STONE, Robert. A Flag for Sunrise. NY: Knopf, 1981. His third novel, which many consider his best book, a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award and winner of the L.A. Times Award for best novel of the year. A dark tale of a small Central American country in upheaval, and the lives of a group of Americans whose different backgrounds and connections to the action intersect alarmingly and tragically. Erasure front flyleaf, else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with two tiny edge nicks. Signed by the author.
378. -. Another copy. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
379. STYRON, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. NY: Random House (1967). The limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies of his Pulitzer Prize-winning third novel. Signed by the author. A controversial book because of its white author's presumption of writing from the perspective of the black slave, Nat Turner. A fine copy in a slipcase with a small nick at the base.
380. STYRON, William. Sophie's Choice. NY: Random House (1979). The uncorrected proof copy of his fifth novel, winner of the National Book Award. Spine-faded, and with it the author's name, which had been written in marker there; publisher's label front cover bears several markings; very good in wrappers.
381. SWIFT, Graham. Last Orders. (London): Picador (1996). Winner of the Booker Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author in the year of publication. A very nice copy of this book by the author of Waterland and Learning to Swim, among others.
382. -. Same title, the first American edition. NY: Knopf, 1996. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
383. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers and publisher's cardstock slipcase. Signed by the author.