Catalog 120, R-T
254. ROTH, Philip. Dust Jacket Art for The Professor of Desire. [NY]: [FSG] [1977]. Original dust jacket art. Matted photo with acetate overlay of title and author. Together with two proof dust jackets, identical except in background color. One of the jackets has several tack holes, as though displayed; all items near fine. Unique.
255. ROTH, Philip. Patrimony. NY: Simon & Schuster (1991). Nonfiction, a memoir. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with evidence of dampening to the rear panel.
256. ROTH, Philip. The Human Stain. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. The advance reading copy of this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction in 2001, continuing a run of award-winning novels by Roth that is unprecedented in American literature. Fine in wrappers.
257. (ROTH, Philip). "Whacking Off" in Too Darn Hot. Sex, Culture, and the Kinsey Report. NY: Persea Books (1998). Advance copy, printing thirteen of the approximately 44 pieces included in the finished book. Roth's work is excerpted from Portnoy's Complaint. Fine in wrappers.
258. RUSSO, Richard. Empire Falls. NY: Knopf, 2001. His fifth book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
259. SALINGER, J.D. Nine Stories. Boston: Little Brown (1953). Salinger's second book and first collection of short fiction, which some consider even more accomplished than his landmark novel, The Catcher in the Rye, and which was issued in an edition only half as large (5000 copies vs. 10,000 for Catcher). These stories helped establish Salinger permanently in the pantheon of American postwar writers, and his continued publication of short stories in The New Yorker over the next decade cemented his reputation. This copy has virtually none of the typical edge-darkening to the page signatures that occurs as a result of the different paper stocks used for different signatures, but the endpages are foxed and the upper front joint is bumped; a very good copy in a very good, rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket.
260. SALINGER, J.D. Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown (1961). The third book by the author of The Catcher in the Rye, two novellas that originally appeared in The New Yorker. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a creased tear at the upper rear spine fold and a nick at the crown. A very nice copy of a book that is not especially uncommon but seldom turns up in fine condition.
261. -. Another copy. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with mild rubbing, very slight spine-fading and trace wear at the spine extremities.
262. SEBALD, W.G. The Rings of Saturn. London: Harvill Press (1998). The uncorrected proof copy of the first English language edition of his scarcest book. Fine in wrappers.
263. SHAARA, Michael. "Wainer." (n.p.):(n.p.)(n.d.)[1952]. Fifteen page typescript of a story submitted to the science fiction magazine Galaxy, with a sixteenth page that consists of a story blurb by Shaara: "Certainly, life has a meaning -- though sometimes it takes a lifetime to learn what it is." The first page is dated in pencil "9/23/52" and the text has been copy-edited; the story appeared in the April, 1954 issue, by our count his fourth appearance in Galaxy (after "Orphans of the Void" in June, 1952; "Soldier Boy," in July, 1953; and "The Book" in November, 1953). The pages have been folded in fourths and bear a small puncture in the upper right quadrant, partially affecting about a dozen letters throughout. Near fine. Shaara won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his novel Killer Angels. Early in his career he wrote science fiction, and we have seen very few examples of manuscript material by him appear on the market.
264. 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. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a tiny nick on the front flap fold. A beautiful copy of a book that, because of its cheap perfectbound construction, is seldom found in fine condition.
265. SMILEY, Jane. Barn Blind. NY: Harper & Row (1980). The first book by the highly-regarded author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres. Ownership signature of author Robb Forman Dew, who provided dust jacket blurbs for Smiley's next two books. A little dampstaining to lower spine and foxing to top edge; near fine in a very good, dampstained dust jacket with light chipping at the crown. Still, a nice association copy (albeit not a presentation copy).
266. SMILEY, Jane. At Paradise Gate. NY: Simon & Schuster (1981). Her second novel. Signed by the author in 1991. Fine in a fine, slightly edge-toned dust jacket.
267. SMILEY, Jane. Catskill Crafts. NY: Crown (1988). Her first book of nonfiction. Profiles of a number of craftspeople, heavily illustrated with examples of their work. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a nick at mid-spine.
268. SMILEY, Jane. Can Mothers Think? St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1993. The text of a talk given by Smiley at the Aspen Writers' Conference, later collected in the anthology The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft. Fine in stapled wrappers. A little-known Smiley "A" item.
269. SMILEY, Jane. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. NY: Knopf, 1998. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
270. SNYDER, Gary. Nanao Knows. [San Francisco]: [Four Seasons], 1964. A broadside poem, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2", reproducing Snyder's calligraphy. One of 300 copies sold on the occasion of a reading by Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen at Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco on June 12, 1964. McNeil A7. Signed by the author. A fine copy of this early Snyder piece.
271. SNYDER, Gary. Mountains and Rivers Without End. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint (1996). The uncorrected proof copy of this epic poem, on which Snyder had been working for four decades -- the first excerpts from it having appeared in print in the Fifties. Small stains, one corner crease; very good in wrappers.
272. SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. Dust Jacket Art for Warning to the West. [NY]: [FSG] (1976). Original dust jacket art for the first American edition of the text of the Nobel Prize winner's speeches given in the U.S. in 1975. Matted image with acetate overlay of author and title. Artwork fine; matte near fine.
273. SONTAG, Susan. Typescript of "Proust Our Contemporary." Undated. An essay on Proust. Six pages, ribbon-copy, with corrections in two hands, one of them Sontag's. Numerous changes to the text visible, both additions and deletions. Fine. Sontag's literary archive was recently sold, and manuscript material by her seldom appears on the market.
274. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. NY: Viking, 1952. Perhaps his most famous novel after The Grapes of Wrath, an ambitious family saga that was the basis for a Hollywood movie starring James Dean. Fine in a near fine, mildly spine-tanned dust jacket. A very attractive copy of this book.
275. STRALEY, John. The Woman Who Married a Bear. (NY): Soho (1992). The author's well-received first mystery, set in Alaska, winner of the 1993 Shamus Award for best first novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
276. STYRON, William. Set This House on Fire. NY: Random House (1960). Styron's third book, his second full-length novel. Signed by the author. Near fine in a very good dust jacket foxed on the edges and folds of the rear panel.
277. STYRON, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. NY: Random House (1967). His controversial third novel, about a black slave uprising in the nineteenth century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Signed by the author. Cloth nicked at rear foredge; still fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at the spine extremities and a crease to the front flap.
278. SWIFT, Graham. Last Orders. NY: Knopf, 1996. The advance reading copy of the first American edition. Winner of the Booker Prize. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and publisher's cardstock slipcase.
279. (THEROUX, Paul). "The Amazing Wife of Edwin Yeti" in Caesura, Winter 1963. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1963. An early appearance in print by Theroux, an eight-page story preceding his first novel by four years. Spine and edge-sunned; else near fine in stapled wrappers.
280. (THOMPSON, Hunter S.). STEADMAN, Ralph. The Sheriff. [Lexington]: [Petro III Graphics] [1995]. A silkscreen, 30 1/2" x 44", by Ralph Steadman, one of the most notable of contemporary artists, whose work is perhaps most familiar to the general reading public -- or at least most readily identifiable -- in the illustrations he did for some of Hunter Thompson's books, in particular Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This is one of 77 numbered and signed by Steadman and initialed by Thompson. Steadman and Thompson collaborated on this piece, derived from a photograph of Thompson from the time he ran for Sheriff in Aspen, CO; a huge splash of red, resembling blood, covers Thompson's head. Again, a striking, almost shocking, image. Rolled, fine.
281. (THOMPSON, Hunter S.). STEADMAN, Ralph. Lono's Marlin Mask. [Lexington]: [Petro III Graphics] [2000]. Steadman takes the Hunter Thompson character he portrayed so effectively in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and gives him a marlin mask based on Thompson and Steadman's trip to Hawaii, where Lono found fear and loathing every bit as strange and intense as he had found in Las Vegas. One of 77 copies. Signed by the artist. 30" x 22". Rolled, else fine.
282. TYLER, Anne. Typescript for "Miss Cone, Miss Cone, Thank You, Thank You." Undated. [1985]. Original ribbon-copy typescript, 4 pages, on the sisters Dr. Claribel Cone and Etta Cone who, with the influence of Gertrude Stein, amassed an impressive art collection in the early part of the century. Together with a typed note signed transmitting the piece to an editor. Both the typescript and the letter are folded in thirds for mailing; the first page of the typescript has a faint fingerprint in the lower margin; else fine. Tyler manuscript material seldom appears on the market.