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57. DANIELS, Kate. The White Wave. (Pittsburgh): U. of Pittsburgh Press (1984). A collection of poetry that won the 1983 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Signed by the author and additionally inscribed to the poet Ai in the year of publication. Ai's second book won a Lamont Poetry Award and her most recent won the National Book Award. Fine.
58. DEANE, Seamus. Reading in the Dark. NY: Knopf, 1997. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this highly praised novel of coming of age in Ireland in the 1940's and 1950's. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize. Bulging where Knopf's Winter publication list has been laid in; else fine in wrappers with cover art stapled inside front cover. Much scarcer than the advance reading copy issued in pictorial wrappers.
59. DELANY, Samuel R. The Motion of Light in Water. (n.p.): Ultramarine, 1988. The limited edition of Delany's Nebula Award-winning autobiography, subtitled "Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965." Delany lived in New York's East Village during the 1960s and was closely associated with the counterculture during that time. Many of his novels from that period can be taken as social criticism and commentary of a decidedly utopian, and countercultural, bent; several of them explore the kinds of consciousness changes that are associated with psychedelic drugs, which were widely being used and experimented with at that time and place. An interesting memoir, which places its author in a specific cultural context that sheds light on much of his writing. Of a total edition of 50 copies, this is one of only 10 lettered copies in full leather. Signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
60. DELILLO, Don. White Noise. (NY): Viking (1985). His National Book Award winner, and the first of his three nominations for that award. Remainder stamping lower page edges and small sticker abrasion front pastedown; near fine in jacket with a tiny chip at the spine base.
61. DELILLO, Don. Underworld. (NY): Scribner (1997). His masterwork, and his third National Book Award nomination. Winner of the William Dean Howells Award for the best work of fiction published in the U.S. in the previous five years. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
62. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. There were reportedly 300 copies done of this advance issue, a small number for such a major book. Fine in wrappers.
63. -. Another copy of the advance reading copy. Slight crease to rear panel and tiny bump to spine base; near fine in wrappers.
64. -. Same title. (n.p.): Picador (1998). The advance reading copy of the first British edition. Very slight corner crease to rear cover; else fine in wrappers.
65. -. Same title, an advance excerpt of the British edition, running 60 pages. Fine in wrappers.
66. -. Another copy. Near fine in in wrappers.
67. DEXTER, Pete. Paris Trout. NY: Random House (1988). His third book, winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
68. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
69. -. Another copy of the proof. Sticker removal mark on front cover, otherwise near fine in wrappers.
70. DICK, Philip K. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Garden City: Doubleday, 1974. Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for 1975 and also nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This is a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with trace rubbing at the spine extremities. Additionally, laid in is the back panel and rear flap of a second copy of the dust jacket, which is signed by Dick under his photo and dated 4/9/74. On the rear flap, Dick has written his address and phone number, and the book's title and publisher. This second, partial jacket is folded in twelfths. The timing of this signature and notation is interesting: the book was actually released in late December, 1973, although it has a 1974 date on the title page; in February and March, 1974, Dick had what he described as mystical or visionary experiences in which he believed he was in touch with the divine forces that guide the Universe, which he named "VALIS," for "Vast Active Living Intelligence System." He spent the rest of his life trying to understand what had happened to him during those months, and in an interview given in 1981, shortly before he died, he concluded that he had been being used by the Intelligence and said "in essence, I had served my purpose in Flow My Tears," which is one of the books in which Dick has a "cipher" which gives coded messages to particular people able to receive and understand them. With this book, and the experiences of "2-3-74," as he called them, Dick felt he had joined a secret, ongoing cosmic battle between good and evil, and had been granted insight into the nature of the gods and reality.
71. DOCTOROW, E.L. World's Fair. NY: Random House (1985). Winner of the National Book Award. A title in his New York City sequence, this one focusing on the World's Fair of 1939. Signed by the author. Light splaying to boards; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
72. DOIG, Ivan. This House of Sky. NY: HBJ (1978). His first publication for the general book trade, voted one of the five best books ever written on Montana; winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Short tear in the cloth at hinge, with a tear in the dust jacket there, and light bump to top board edge; still, near fine in a very good, modestly edgeworn and spine-spotted dust jacket.
73. DORRIS, Michael. The Broken Cord. NY: Harper & Row, 1989. Dorris' account of adopting and raising an Indian boy whom he later discovered suffered from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a debilitating illness about which virtually nothing was known at the time of the adoption. Thus the book is both a personal memoir and a small but important piece of social history, tracking the medical profession's developing knowledge of this disease over the years. This book later became the basis for a television miniseries, dramatizing the story. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heartland Prize and the Christopher Award. Inscribed by the author. Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
74. -. Another copy. Light corner bumping; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
75. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers.
76. ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. NY: Harcourt Brace (1950). A play in verse, considered by many his best, and his first to be published after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Fine in a dust jacket that is minutely spine-faded but still fine. A very nice copy.
77. ELIOT, T.S. The Three Voices of Poetry. London: Cambridge University Press, 1953. A pamphlet printing the text of Eliot's lecture at the National Book League, delivered on November 19, 1953 and published barely three weeks later in an edition of 7000 copies. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
78. ELIOT, T.S. The Confidential Clerk. London: Faber & Faber (1954). A play in verse. A very near fine copy of the first issue, in first issue dust jacket.
79. ELIOT, T.S. The Literature of Politics. (London): Conservative Political Centre (1955). Prose. A lecture by Eliot delivered at the C.P.C. Literary Luncheon, with an Introduction by Sir Anthony Eden, later the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Fine in stapled wrappers.
80. ELIOT, T.S. The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. London: Faber & Faber (n.d.). A single poem, printed on a single sheet bound into cardstock covers, with an illustration by David Jones. Very near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers and original mailing envelope.
81. ELIOT, T.S. The Elder Statesman. London: Faber & Faber (1959). A short play. Slightly edge-sunned cloth; else fine in like jacket.
82. ELMSLIE, Kenward. Motor Disturbance. NY: Columbia University Press, 1971. A collection of poems that was "A Frank O'Hara Award Book." This is a review copy of the issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author with the quote "Terror makes us soft." Fine.
83. ERDRICH, Louise. Love Medicine. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1984). Her first novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Award for Best Novel of the Year. Critical acclaim for this novel was instantaneous and unanimous, and it was reprinted several times quickly. Love Medicine was the first in an ongoing sequence of novels. Her success with this series, each volume of which has had a larger first printing than the previous one, has helped pave the way for the publication of other Native American woman writers, such as Linda Hogan and Susan Power. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
84. -. Another copy. Slight foxing to page edges; very near fine in a fine dust jacket.
85. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication. Trace wear to the cloth at the spine base; fine in a fine dust jacket.
86. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the crown and a crease on the front flap.
87. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. A scarce proof; we have only seen a handful in the years since it was published -- one suspects very few were done. Title written on bottom page edges; fine in wrappers.