Catalog 121, R-S
305. RANKIN, Ian. Resurrection Men. (London): Orion (2001). A John Rebus novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
306. RANKIN, Ian. The Falls. (London): Orion (2001). Signed by the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, the lower edge of the jacket having once adhered to the front board.
307. RICE, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. NY: Knopf, 1976. The advance reading copy. Interview with the Vampire was one of the unlikeliest success stories of the publishing season. Modest hardcover sales of the book would not have led one to imagine the long-term popularity and success of Rice's later books in the vampire Lestat series, nor did they predict the huge success this novel had in paperback, selling millions of copies. Even so, Rice's novels did not begin to approach such sales again until her next vampire novel -- published after two mainstream historical novels. Now, her vampire books routinely sell hundreds of thousands of copies in hardcover, putting her in a category with a mere handful of the most popular novelists writing today in America. Other than the very scarce uncorrected proof of this title, this is the first appearance in print of any of Rice's vampire writing. Small corner crease on front cover; overall near fine in dust jacket.
308. RICE, Anne. Pandora. Ny: Knopf, 1998. A collection of vampire tales. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
309. -. Same title, the limited edition. [New Orleans]: (B.E. Trice) [1998]. One of 250 clothbound numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase. A small limitation for a Rice title: some of her signed editions have had limitations in excess of 1000 copies.
310. ROBBINS, Tom. Another Roadside Attraction. London: W.H. Allen, 1973. The first British edition of Robbins' first book and only the second hardcover printing as the book was never reprinted in hardcover in the U.S., although it was never out of print in paperback. One of the few successful literary novels to feature counterculture characters, psychedelic drugs, and metaphysical speculations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
311. ROBINSON, Marilynne. Publishing Material for Housekeeping. NY: FSG (1980). Prepublication material for her first book and only fiction to date, which won an Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award and a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award. Including: the printer's proof, 12" x 9"; several pages have errors excised; the half title that serves as a cover has mild spotting and edge wear; else fine. Together with the uncorrected proof copy, which has a bit of tearing to covers on and near the spine; just about very good in wrappers. And also together with a trial dust jacket. The title and spine lettering on this jacket are in yellow rather than the black of the published version and the cover art is perhaps a shade lighter; the effect is a more optimistic tone than that of the jacket eventually used. Folded at the rear spine fold; else fine. A unique publisher's archive of a well-received and important first book.
312. -. Same title. Trial dust jacket only, with title and spine lettering in yellow. Again, folded at the rear spine fold; else fine.
313. ROTH, Philip. Prepublication Material for Zuckerman Unbound. NY: FSG (1981). Long galley sheets for this novel featuring Nathan Zuckerman, one of Roth's fictional alter egos. 24" x 7 1/2". Printed on rectos only; fine. Together with the proof dust jacket. Front cover and spine printed; rear cover and flaps blank. 19 3/8" x 8 1/4"; folded at the rear spine folded; else fine.
314. -. Same title. Proof dust jacket only. Again, folded at the rear spine folded; else fine.
315. ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. NY: Simon & Schuster (1993). A hardcover advance reading copy of this winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Time magazine's Book of the Year. Shot from proof sheets and bound in a quarter cloth binding with a paper label on the front cover and an unstamped spine. Lower corners bumped; near fine. A very unusual format for an advance copy.
316. ROTH, Philip. Sabbath's Theater. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. The advance reading copy of this novel, which won the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers.
317. (ROTH, Philip). Conversations with Philip Roth. Jackson: U. of Mississippi Press (1992). Interviews from 1960 to 1991. Interviewers include Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Ian Hamilton and Katharine Weber, among others. One of approximately 500 hardcover copies; there was a simultaneous issue in wrappers. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
318. SALTER, James. Dusk. Berkeley: North Point, 1988. His first collection of stories. Winner of the PEN Faulkner Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
319. SALTER, James. Sheridan Lord, 1926-1994. (NY): (Glenn Horowitz) (1995). A touching tribute to the artist Sheridan Lord, spoken at his memorial service in August, 1994, by his longtime friend, Salter. A limited edition, this being one of 200 copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
320. SALTER, James. Forgotten Kings. NY: Bookman Press, 1998. One of 200 numbered copies of this piece about the writer Irwin Shaw, an old friend of Salter's. Excerpted from Salter's memoir, Burning the Days. Only issued in wrappers. Fine.
321. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine.
322. SELDES, Marian. The Lovely Lion. (n.p.): (Gilbert Seldes) [c.1967]. A children's story written by Seldes for her daughter in 1956 and published by her father, legendary critic Gilbert Seldes, more than a decade later. Marian Seldes is a Tony Award winning actress, but she also has a long list of television and film credits to her name. This copy is inscribed by the author to film critic Pauline Kael. Seldes has also hand-corrected her father's introduction. Minor sunning or handling near spine; else fine in stapled wrappers.
323. SETH, Vikram. Riot at Misri Mandi. (London): (Phoenix) (1996). First thus, an excerpt from Seth's 1993 novel A Suitable Boy. Signed by the author. 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Fine in wrappers.
324. SHEPARD, Sam. True West. NY: New York Shakespeare Festival, 1980. Photocopied script, designated as "Version B/May 1980" and bearing the pencilled notes of an actor. An early version of one of Shepard's most well-known and successful plays, which was not published until the following year. This script is marked "Not for Publication." Claspbound binder; near fine.
325. 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.
326. SILKO, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead. NY: Simon & Schuster (1991). The uncorrected proof copy of her second novel, an ambitious attempt to retell 500 years of history from a Native American perspective, by viewing the damaged lives of a group of contemporary Indian drug dealers and misfits, and the anger and fervor of a group of revolutionaries. The central image of an "almanac of the dead" -- a pre-Columbian book of divination -- provides the historical link that unites her contemporary characters with their more glorious forebears. Fine in wrappers.
327. -. Another copy. Small coffee stain front cover; near fine in wrappers.
328. SMILEY, Jane. Duplicate Keys. NY: Knopf, 1984. A review copy of the third novel by the author of Barn Blind and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Thousand Acres, among others. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
329. SMILEY, Jane. The Greenlanders. NY: Knopf, 1988. The advance reading copy of this historical novel of 14th-century Greenland. Signed by the author. Fine in pictorial wrappers.
330. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. "PC" (Press Copy) markings to cover; first page creased; else fine in wrappers.
331. 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.
332. SONTAG, Susan. The Benefactor. NY: FS&C (1963). The first book, a novel, by this writer and intellectual who has become more noted, over the years, for her essays and criticism. Signed by the author. Pastedowns faded; else fine in a very good, spine-sunned jacket stained at the lower edge of the rear panel.
333. SONTAG, Susan. Death Kit. NY: FSG (1967). The uncorrected proof copy of her second novel. Copiously annotated -- sometimes quite critically, other times effusively -- by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Spiralbound; very good in wrappers. Scarce in an advance issue, and an interesting "association copy," as it were.
334. SONTAG, Susan. Duet for Cannibals. NY: FSG (1970). A screenplay, Sontag's first, for a film she wrote, directed and debuted at Cannes in 1969. Signed by the author. A hint of darkening to crown; still fine in a fine dust jacket. One of her least common titles.
335. SONTAG, Susan. Illness as Metaphor. NY: FSG (1978). Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
336. SONTAG, Susan. Under the Sign of Saturn. NY: FSG (1980). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of essays. Near fine in tall wrappers, with proof dust jacket laid in.
337. SONTAG, Susan. AIDS and Its Metaphors. NY: FSG (1989). An extended essay on the disease, updating her earlier volume Illness as Metaphor. This is the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
338. -. Another copy. Near fine in wrappers.
339. STAFFORD, Jean. The Catherine Wheel. NY: Harcourt Brace (1952). Her third novel. Inscribed by the author in 1974. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A very nice copy of this book which, because of its soft paper dust jacket, usually shows up frayed and well-worn. Stafford's Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970. Books signed or inscribed by her are relatively uncommon.
340. STEADMAN, Ralph. The Dogs Bodies Portfolio. [Lexington]: Petro III Graphics, 2000. One of 70 copies of this portfolio containing the book Dogs Bodies (London: Abelard-Schumann, 1970), fine in stapled wrappers; and an original two-color silkscreen, "Ink Hound," 8 1/2" x 9 7/8". Each is signed by Steadman. Fine.
341. STEGNER, Wallace. The Women on the Wall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. His first collection of short stories, which had a first printing of only 4500 copies. Owner initials front flyleaf; a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with trace edge wear, mostly at the spine extremities. A very nice copy.
342. STEIG, William. Male/Female. NY: FSG (1971). Inscribed by Steig. Oblong quarto; fine in a fine dust jacket with a couple tiny edge nicks. Cartoons by the noted New Yorker artist.
343. 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: Sixties noir, with an edge of black comedy. Inscribed by the author. Faint foredge foxing, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with one gutter nick and offsetting to the flaps. Small flaws notwithstanding, a beautiful copy, with a nice inscription.
344. STONE, Robert. Children of Light. London: Deutsch (1986). The true first edition of his fourth novel, preceding the American edition by one week, and printed in an edition of only 4500 copies, vs. 40,000 (announced) for the American edition. A dark Hollywood novel, with themes from Kate Chopin's The Awakening and King Lear and one of the best, and most hard-hitting, Hollywood novels since Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust. Large owner stamp front free endpaper and bump at spine crown; about near fine in similar dust jacket.
345. STONE, Robert. Outerbridge Reach. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1992. The true first edition of Stone's first bestseller. Chosen by the New York Times as one of the dozen best books of the year, covering all categories, and nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Leatherbound; page edges gilt; with an introduction by Stone about the genesis of this book, which does not appear elsewhere. Signed by the author. Fine.
346. -. Same title, the first trade edition. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
347. -. Same title. The limited edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Stone's first limited edition. Fine, in slipcase.
348. STONE, Robert. Bear and His Daughter. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. His first collection of stories, spanning the years 1969 to 1997. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
349. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
350. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a razor slice on the front flap fold.
351. -. Same title. Bound galley sheets; 8 1/2" x 11"; tapebound in cardstock covers. Presumably produced for in-house use only; we have not seen another copy offered elsewhere on the market. Fine.
352. STONE, Robert. Damascus Gate. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. A densely plotted political and metaphysical thriller set in contemporary Jerusalem, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Stone tackles the religious hatreds, political intrigues and spiritual aspirations and malaise that intersect in one of the most historically significant, and volatile, places on earth. In a recent New York Times Book Review column, a writer commented that nothing she had read prior to going to Jerusalem, with the exception of Stone's Damascus Gate, had prepared her for "the country's unlikely mixture of contemporary folly and biblical mystery." Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
353. (STONE, Robert). "Walk, Don't Run" and "Geraldine" in Stanford Short Stories 1964. Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1964. Stone's first book appearance, two excerpts from his first novel, in progress at the time. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Other contributors include Ed McClanahan and Merrill Joan Gerber.
354. -. Another copy. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
355. (STONE, Robert). "We Are Not Excused" in Paths of Resistance. The Art and Craft of the Political Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1989). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of original essays by Stone, Isabel Allende, Charles McCarry, Marge Piercy and Gore Vidal. Lightly spine sunning; else fine in wrappers.
356. -. Another copy. Spine and edge-sunned, and a bit of spotting to the spine; near fine in wrappers.
357. (STONE, Robert). LOPEZ, Ken and CHANEY, Bev. Robert Stone. A Bibliography 1960-1992. Hadley: Numinous Press, 1992. A first bibliography of Robert Stone, describing in detail the American and British editions of his "A" items, along with an extensive listing of his appearances in others' books, in periodicals, in translation, etc. Illustrated with photographs and including a critical introduction as well as a previously unpublished piece by Robert Stone. Stone, who won the National Book Award for his novel Dog Soldiers, is widely considered one of the most important American novelists to emerge from the era of the Vietnam war and the Sixties counterculture, and the short list of his published novels so far does not give an accurate indication of his pervasive influence on contemporary American literature. By tracing the secondary appearances -- and there are many: the bibliography includes over 240 entries -- one begins to appreciate the scope of his writing and the points at which his voice has been one of those that defines our current situation and gives us the terms with which to understand it. We're biased, of course, but we think every library should have a copy of this book, and any collector who cares about contemporary literature could benefit from it. This is the limited edition. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by Robert Stone. With a marbled paper dust jacket created expressly for this edition by Light of Day Bindery in Northampton, Mass., and printed letterpress by Wild Carrot Press.
358. -. Same title, the trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.