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185. "MACDONALD, Ross" as MILLAR, Kenneth. Blue City. NY: Knopf, 1947. His third novel. Written under his own name, before he established the "Macdonald" pseudonym under which his later books were published. Dampstaining to the corners of the boards; very good, with a jacket that has been supplied in facsimile.
186. "MACDONALD, Ross" as MACDONALD, John. The Moving Target. NY: Knopf, 1949. His fifth book, the first to be written under a pseudonym, and the first Lew Archer mystery, which was made into the movie "Harper" a number of years later, with Paul Newman. Owner name in pencil on front flyleaf; foxing to foredge and endpages; otherwise near fine in a good, edgeworn dust jacket.
187. "MACDONALD, Ross" as MACDONALD, John Ross. The Drowning Pool. NY: Knopf, 1950. His sixth book, the second Lew Archer novel, and the first book he wrote under this pseudonym. A quarter century later, Paul Newman -- who has now made several cameo appearances in this catalog -- starred in the movie version of this title. Bookstore stamp front flyleaf; near fine in a good dust jacket with a 1" x 2" chip at the upper front flap fold.
188. "MACDONALD, Ross" as MACDONALD, John Ross. The Way Some People Die. NY: Knopf, 1951. The third Lew Archer novel. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, slightly spine-faded and price-clipped, with one small edge chip. A very attractive copy of this early Archer novel.
189. "MACDONALD, Ross" as MACDONALD, John Ross. The Ivory Grin. NY: Knopf, 1952. Another early Lew Archer novel. Owner name and date front flyleaf; foxing to endpages; near fine in a very good dust jacket, with slight rubbing and minor edge wear.
190. "MACDONALD, Ross" as MACDONALD, John Ross. Find a Victim. NY: Knopf, 1954. The fourth, and last, book written under the "John Ross Macdonald" pseudonym, which he dropped to avoid confusion with John D. MacDonald, the writer who later became well known as the author of the Travis McGee mystery series but who had started publishing in 1950. A little rubbing to board edges and foxing to endpages; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple light spots to the cover and a chip at the spine crown.
191. MACDONALD, Ross. The Barbarous Coast. NY: Knopf, 1956. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of faint surface staining. A crisp and attractive copy.
192. MACDONALD, Ross. The Doomsters. NY: Knopf, 1958. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with blended spotting to the front panel and foxing to the flaps, probably from an earlier, acidic jacket protector. A very nice copy.
193. MACDONALD, Ross. The Galton Case. NY: Knopf, 1959. A Lew Archer mystery. Spine slightly cocked; a near fine copy in a very good, foxed dust jacket splitting along the spine folds.
194. MACDONALD, Ross. The Ferguson Affair. NY: Knopf, 1960. Cocked; edge sunning to boards; owner name front pastedown; very good in a fair dust jacket, splitting along the folds and internally and externally tape-strengthened. Essentially, a reading copy, albeit a first edition.
195. MACDONALD, Ross. The Wycherly Woman. NY: Knopf, 1961. A read copy: handling to text; tape residue to boards and to verso of dust jacket, from an earlier jacket protector apparently having been taped to the book; otherwise very good in a very good dust jacket with an edge tear on the rear flap fold and the edge shadows of the previous jacket protector.
196. MACDONALD, Ross. The Zebra-Striped Hearse. NY: Knopf, 1962. Fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear and the barest of spine fading. A very nice copy.
197. MACDONALD, Ross. The Chill. NY: Knopf, 1964. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small snagged tear at mid spine.
198. MACDONALD, Ross. The Far Side of the Dollar. NY: Knopf, 1965. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with a bit of rubbing at the spine extremities.
199. MACDONALD, Ross. Black Money. NY: Knopf, 1966. Erasure front flyleaf; page edges foxed; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some minor edge wear.
200. MACDONALD, Ross. The Instant Enemy. NY: Knopf, 1968. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with minute wear at the crown and a bookstore sticker on the rear panel.
201. MACDONALD, Ross. The Goodbye Look. NY: Knopf, 1969. Printed in an edition of 12,500 copies. By the time The Goodbye Look was published, Macdonald's books were making regular appearances on the bestseller list of The New York Times Book Review, which, in a review of this title by novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, called the Lew Archer series "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American." Fine in a near fine jacket.
202. MACDONALD, Ross. Archer at Large. NY: Knopf, 1970. The first edition combining The Galton Case, The Chill and Black Money. With an introduction by Macdonald for this edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some spine fading and some irregular fading to the front panel.
203. MACDONALD, Ross. The Underground Man. NY: Knopf, 1971. This title had a first printing of 20,000 copies, and earned a front page review in The New York Times Book Review, which was written by Eudora Welty, the noted Southern novelist, and a writer of impeccable literary credentials. Welty was the first serious literary figure to treat Macdonald's novels as literature, and she went out of her way to recognize the fact that he was an accomplished writer, by any standard, not just an accomplished mystery writer. The two became lifelong friends after that, and Macdonald dedicated his next novel, Sleeping Beauty, to Welty. Ink date on front flyleaf (the month after publication); near fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
204. MACDONALD, Ross. Sleeping Beauty. NY: Knopf, 1973. A review copy of this Lew Archer novel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at the spine base. Author photo but not review slip laid in.
205. MACDONALD, Ross. The Blue Hammer. NY: Knopf, 1976. The last of the Lew Archer private eye novels, which had a first printing of 35,000 copies. Trace edge-sunning to boards; else fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
206. MACDONALD, Ross. Lew Archer Private Investigator. NY: Mysterious Press, 1977. The first complete collection of Lew Archer short stories, with an introduction by the author. This is the trade edition, one of 2000 copies; there was also a signed limited edition of this title. Fine in a printed acetate dust jacket with some rubbing.
207. MACDONALD, Ross. A Collection of Reviews. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. A limited edition, with a foreword by Macdonald. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, of a total edition of 350. Fine.
208. MACDONALD, Ross. Archer in Jeopardy. NY: Knopf, 1979. Collects The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse and The Instant Enemy. With an introduction by Macdonald. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
209. MACDONALD, Ross. Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly Into The Past. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1981. Autobiographical essays by the author of the Lew Archer series of detective novels. Foreword by Eudora Welty, and edited and with an afterword by Ralph Sipper. This is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Macdonald and Welty, with an original photograph of the two laid into a pocket inside the front cover. In addition, this copy bears a presentation inscription on the colophon from the editor. A fine copy, in the publisher's marbled paper slipcase.
210. -. Same title, the trade edition, one of 2841 copies. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the top edge.
211. (MACDONALD, Ross). SCHOPEN, Bernard A. Ross Macdonald. Boston: Twayne (1990). A critical overview of Macdonald's writings, focusing on the Lew Archer novels. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket with a gutter nick.
212. (MACDONALD, Ross). SPIER, Jerry. Ross Macdonald. NY: Frederick Ungar (1978). The hardcover issue. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear, a thin abrasion on the spine, and a sticker removal scar on the front panel.
213. MAILER, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam? NY: Putnam's (1967). A novel that comments on the war with only three mentions of it, including the title. Signed by the author. A shallow bit of fading to the cloth at the spine crown; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a chip threatening at the upper rear flap fold. This copy lacks a printed dedication page, a somewhat disputed issue point, it would seem.
214. MASON, Bobbie Ann. Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail. NY: Random House (2001). An advance issue of this new collection of stories, consisting of 8 1/2" x 11" bound sheets. Fine. This format is usually scarcer than, and precedes, the bound proofs or advance reading copies.
215. McBAIN, Ed. Money, Money, Money. NY: Simon & Schuster (2001). The uncorrected proof copy of this new 87th Precinct novel. Fine in wrappers.
216. McBAIN, Ed and HUNTER, Evan. Candyland. NY: Simon & Schuster (2001). The uncorrected proof copy of this collaboration between Hunter and his pseudonymous self. Fine in wrappers.
217. McCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian. NY: Random House (1985). His fifth book, a powerful novel of the Old West, based on an actual series of events in 1849-1950 in Texas and Mexico, and rendered with an eye to bringing to life the surreal violence of the time and place. Inscribed by the author to Cynthia [Farah], the director of Film Studies at the University of Texas El Paso and the photographer behind the award-winning book Literature and Landscape: Writers of the Southwest. Remainder stripe at top edge; small abrasion to rear board; else fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed books by McCarthy are scarce; association copies are rare.
218. 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. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Signed first editions of this, the author's breakthrough book, are notably uncommon.
219. McCRACKEN, Elizabeth. Niagra Falls All Over Again. (NY): Dial Press (2001). The advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs of the third book, second novel, by the author of The Giant's House, which was nominated for the National Book Award. McCracken was also one of the Granta 20. Fine in wrappers.
220. McCULLERS, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye. (Boston): Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1941. The second book by the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Small black stain at top page edges; otherwise near fine in a good, first issue dust jacket, with the cellophane window absent and two of the borders torn. Because the cellophane tended to shrink and pull free from the surrounding paper, as happened here, later jackets on this book were made entirely of paper.
221. McCULLERS, Carson. Collected Short Stories and the novel The Ballad of the Sad Café. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1955)[actually 1961]. The first printing of the fourth American edition (Shapiro, Bryer & Field A5.6). This is a remarkable association copy, inscribed by the author to playwright Tennessee Williams: "For my heart child Tom/ on the occasion of/ one of your greatest triumphs/ Carson/ December 29, 1961/ [drawing of two hearts pierced by an arrow]." A fine copy in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with spots of rubbing at the edges and folds. McCullers met Williams in 1946, after reading her novel The Member of the Wedding, and it was at his suggestion that she began the dramatization of the novel which, with his help at rewriting and at having his agent locate producers for the play, was ultimately a great critical success. Their friendship grew over the years, and this book was presented by McCullers to Williams after the opening of his play The Night of the Iguana, which was a critical and commercial success and which won the New York Drama Critics' Prize as the best play of the year. McCullers' inscriptions are uncommon and association copies are rare. We are not aware of any other presentation copies from McCullers to Williams ever having been offered on the market. A superb association copy between two of the giants of 20th century American literature.
222. McGUANE, Thomas. Live Water. (Stone Harbor): Meadow Run Press (1996). Essays and tales of angling, by one of the most respected American novelists. This is the deluxe limited edition, one of only 67 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist, John Swan. Quarterbound in blue leather and linen boards; fine in a fine clamshell box. An attractive, elegantly printed and bound volume.
223. McMURTRY, Larry. Leaving Cheyenne. NY: Harper & Row (1963). His second novel, one of the "50 best books on Texas," according to A.C. Greene. McMurtry's first two books are quite scarce and of the two this is likely the scarcer. Inscribed by the author. A decade after this book came out, and in the wake of the successful movie adaptation of McMurtry's third novel, The Last Picture Show, this was made into the film "Lovin' Molly." Very mild foxing, else fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with faint sunning to the spine.
224. McMURTRY, Larry. The Last Picture Show. NY: Dial, 1966. His third novel and the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie. Inscribed by the author: "For ____/ signed on the/ scene of the crime/ Larry McMurtry." A fine copy with just a hint of the dust soiling that usually appears on the coarse, unlaminated dust jacket.
225. McMURTRY, Larry. It's Always We Rambled. An Essay on Rodeo. NY: Frank Hallman, 1974. A limited edition of this essay, one of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
226. McMURTRY, Larry. Paradise. NY: Simon & Schuster (2001). Uncorrected proof of this recently published autobiographical essay. Fine in wrappers.
227. (McMURTRY, Larry and KESEY, Ken). The Ten-Year Reunion. Irving: North Lake College [c. 1976]. Broadside poster announcing a reading and dialogue between McMurtry and Kesey. Signed by McMurtry: "I believe the occasion was/ neither better or worse/ than the art work -- Larry." The illustration represents the two authors by way of one cowboy boot and one winged sneaker. Kesey and McMurtry had been friends since their time together in Wallace Stegner's writing workshop at Stanford University in the early 1960s. McMurtry captured some of the spirit of that time and place in his novel All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers. 11 1/4" x 16 3/4"; creased from rolling, sunned, with tack holes at the edges; very good.
228. McPHEE, John. La Place de la Concorde Suisse. NY: FSG (1984). The limited edition of this book which started out to be a study of the Swiss Army knife and ended up a study of the Swiss Army. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase.
229. McPHERSON, James Alan. Hue and Cry. Boston: Little Brown (1969). The uncorrected proof copy of this African-American author's first book, a collection of stories that defied the mold of late 1960s black writing by refusing to yield to the easy temptation to substitute political diatribe for literary accomplishment and postured anger for real, human feelings. A lengthy blurb on the dust jacket from Ralph Ellison -- author of Invisible Man, perhaps the most acclaimed African-American novel of the 20th century -- lionizes McPherson for precisely his literary accomplishment, on its own terms, unaided by the winds of political correctness. McPherson's second collection, Elbow Room, won the Pulitzer Prize and together these two volumes stand as high spots of African-American writing of the postwar era. Label residue to lower wrappers; else a fine copy. An extremely scarce proof: the only copy we've ever seen.
230. MILLER, Henry. The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. (NY): New Directions (1958). First thus, reprinting a work that originally appeared in 1948, and in a binding not described by Shifreen and Jackson -- unprinted cream-colored paper boards. Inscribed by Miller to his second wife, and muse, June in 1960. A spectacular association copy. Spine and edge-sunned; near fine, without dust jacket. An anomalous edition -- perhaps an author's copy.
231. MILLER, Henry. Signed Photograph. 1969. An 8" x 10" black and white photo taken by Bill Webb. Titled "H.M. at Pacific Palisades," this is one of five numbered prints, initialed and dated by Webb and signed by Miller. Miller, in profile, is smiling and smoking. A very attractive image of Miller in his later years. Matted and framed to 14 3/4" x 18". Fine.
232. MISHIMA, Yukio. The Sound of Waves. NY: Knopf, 1956. The first book published in the U.S. by the preeminent postwar Japanese novelist. Owner name under front flap, upper board edges bumped; about near fine in a very good, edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket.
233. MISHIMA, Yukio. Confessions of a Mask. (Norfolk): New Directions (1958). The first American edition. Water spots to front board; near fine in a very good, dampstained dust jacket, with most of the damage visible only on the verso.
234. MISHIMA, Yukio. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. NY: Knopf, 1965. The first American edition of perhaps his most famous book, at least in this country. A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with several short edge tears. A nice copy of a book that, because of its unlaminated dust jacket, is generally found showing much more wear.
235. MISHIMA, Yukio. Forbidden Colors. NY: Knopf, 1968. The first American edition. Fine in a very near fine, lightly foxed dust jacket.
236. MISHIMA, Yukio. The "Sea of Fertility" Tetralogy. NY: Knopf, 1972-1974. Four volumes (Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn and The Decay of the Angel) comprising Mishima's masterwork, after the completion of which, in 1970, he committed suicide. All but the final volume are review copies, and each book is fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptionally nice set, and uncommon thus these days.
237. MISHIMA, Yukio. The Way of the Samurai. NY: Basic Books (1977). The first American edition of this posthumously published book of Mishima's interpretation of the ancient code of the samurai warriors. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
238. MOORE, Lorrie. Birds of America. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of a collection of 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; the author was selected as one of Granta's 20 best young American authors. Fine in wrappers with the number "9" written on the spine and publicity information and cover art stapled inside front cover.
239. MOSLEY, Walter. Fearless Jones. Boston: Little Brown (2001). The advance reading copy of his new mystery. Fine in wrappers.
240. MUNRO, Alice. Friend of My Youth. (Toronto): McClelland and Stewart (1990). The true first edition of this story collection by a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award, the most prestigious literary award in that country. Small crown bump; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
241. MURDOCH, Iris. Sartre. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes (1953). Her first book, a critical essay published in the Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series. Signed by the author. Owner name in pencil above Murdoch's signature, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine, lightly spine-tanned dust jacket with one edge tear at the front flap fold. Uncommon, especially signed.