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167. HAMILL, Pete. A Drinking Life. Boston: Little Brown (1994). An association copy of his memoir, inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ with many/ thanks for so/ much help across/ the years - and/ for your critical/ role in giving birth/ to this book." A very nice copy, and a fine association. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
168. HARDWICK, Elizabeth. The Simple Truth. NY: Harcourt Brace (1955). The second novel by this writer who was a longtime contributor to The Partisan Review and The New York Review of Books. Inscribed by the author to a well known book collector "who finds everything." Watermark at spine base, visible only on verso of dust jacket; still near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
169. HARDWICK, Elizabeth. A View of My Own. NY: Farrar Straus Cudahy (1962). A review copy of this collection of essays, mostly from The Partisan Review. Inscribed by the author. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a tiny chip at upper front spine fold.
170. HARRISON, Jamie. The Edge of the Crazies. NY: Hyperion, 1995. A well-received first novel of the "new Montana," written by the daughter of novelist and poet Jim Harrison. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with blurbs by Peter Matthiessen, James Crumley, Rick Bass, and others.
171. HAWKES, John. The Passion Artist. NY: Harper & Row (1979). Inscribed by the author to author and critic Richard Gilman: "For Dick/ with affection/ and admiration/ Jack." A nice association. Near fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket, rubbed at the folds.
172. HAZZARD, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. NY: Knopf, 1963. The first American edition of her first book, a collection of stories. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very nice copy.
173. HAZZARD, Shirley. The Evening of the Holiday. NY: Knopf, 1966. Her second book, first novel. Hazzard's novel Transit of Venus won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1981. Fine in a bright, very near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny edge tears.
174. HEANEY, Seamus. Binding of Poems 1965-1975. NY: FSG [1980]. Publisher's mock-up of the covers for the first American edition of this collection by this Nobel Prize winning poet. Embossed front board and spine label on green paper over boards. One scratch; near fine. Scarce, possibly unique publishing ephemera.
175. HEARON, Shelby. The Second Dune. NY: Knopf, 1973. A review copy of her second novel, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award. Inscribed by the author "with love." Fine in a fine dust jacket with trace dust soiling, with review slip and photograph laid in.
176. HEARON, Shelby. Hannah's House. Garden City: Doubleday, 1975. A review copy of her third novel. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket, with review slip laid in.
177. HEARON, Shelby. A Prince of a Fellow. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. Warmly inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
178. HEDGES, Peter. An Ocean in Iowa. NY: Hyperion (1998). The second novel by the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
179. HEGLAND, Jean. Into the Forest. Corvallis: Calyx Books (1996). The true first edition of her second book, first novel, a coming-of-age story published by a small Pacific Northwest publisher, which gained word-of-mouth success and was republished by Bantam the following year. Fine in illustrated boards, without dust jacket, as issued.
180. HEINLEIN, Robert A. Beyond this Horizon. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. The first edition of Heinlein's second novel. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Heinlein went on to become one of the masters of the science fiction genre -- a four-time winner of the Hugo Award, SF's highest honor, as well as winner of a Grand Master Nebula Award. Various of his titles, including Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers, have become classics in the field. Faint sunning or spotting to cloth; else fine in a near fine, modestly sunned dust jacket with shallow edge-chipping.
181. HEINLEIN, Robert. Assignment in Eternity. Reading: Fantasy (1953). Unbound, uncut signatures of this collection of four long stories by this science fiction master, winner of virtually every major science fiction award, including a Lifetime Achievement award. An early book for him -- his first novel was in 1947. A fine set. Presumably rare.
182. HENDRIE, Don, Jr. Blount's Anvil. (Amherst): Lynx House Press, 1980. A novel of underground political activists styled after the Weather Underground, and with a plot line based on the incident in which several young radicals were killed in Greenwich Village when the bombs they were working on accidentally detonated and destroyed a building. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers and is signed by the author. A significant novel, similar in tone to Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers. Near fine. With a lengthy blurb by John Irving, who was a close friend of the author.
183. HERSEY, John. Into the Valley. NY: Knopf, 1943. A variant edition of his second book, marked "Presentation Copy." Knopf is listed as the publisher on the sheets and binding, but the cloth, top stain, and paper stock vary from those of the first edition, also there is no frontispiece illustration. The front flyleaf bears a label that reads "Presentation Copy for [not filled in] with the compliments of Time, the weekly newsmagazine." The simply typeset jacket bears the printed words "Presentation Copy" and the Time name on the spine. The jacket copy also differs from that of the first edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with shallow chipping at the spine extremities. An unusual variant.
184. HIAASEN, Carl. Stormy Weather. Blakeney: Scorpion (1995). The limited UK edition, bound from the sheets of the Macmillan edition but including a two-page appreciation of Hiaasen by award-winning mystery writer and editor Maxim Jacubowski that is not in the trade edition. Of a total edition of 100 copies, this is one of 15 deluxe copies quarterbound in leather and marbled paper boards and signed by the Hiaasen and Jacubowski. The scarcest issue of any Hiaasen limited edition. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
185. HIAASEN, Carl. Lucky You. NY: Knopf, 1997. The uncorrected proof copy of this comic mystery set in South Florida. Tiny abrasions at the crown and one corner; else fine in wrappers with promotional material stapled inside the front cover.
186. -. Same title. (New Orleans): B.E. Trice (1997). The limited edition, consisting of the sheets of the publisher's trade edition with an added colophon and a different binding. Of a total edition of 176 copies, this is one 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
187. HIGGINS, Aidan. Images of Africa. London: Calder & Boyars (1971). A collection of diary notes from the author's travels through South Africa in 1956 with John Wright's Marionette Company. Higgins' best-known novel, Langrishe Go Down, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award. This is the hardcover issue of this small volume, Number 11 in the Signature series. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
188. HIGGINS, George V. A City on a Hill. NY: Knopf, 1975. The uncorrected proof copy of the fourth novel by the author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which was selected as one of the 100 best mystery and crime novels by H.R.F. Keating. Higgins was known for his sympathetic portraits of small-time criminals and hoodlums and has been cited as an influence by such writers as Elmore Leonard, David Mamet and Ward Just. He was also a criminal defense lawyer. Inscribed by the author: "____/ Where the/ hell did you/ get this?" Fine in wrappers. Apparently -- in the author's eyes, at least -- uncommon.
189. HIGGINS, George V. The Judgement of Deke Hunter. Boston: Little Brown (1976). The uncorrected proof copy. Inscribed by the author: "For ____/ _______ -/ Goddamned if I/ know why, let alone/ how, you cop these/ things." Inscription is written over (agency?) stamp. Fine in wrappers. A scarce proof, dating from a period when these were not as widely collected or preserved as they are now, and especially uncommon inscribed.
190. HILLERMAN, Tony. Listening Woman. NY: Harper & Row (1978). His fourth Navajo mystery, featuring tribal detective Joe Leaphorn, and preceding the point at which Hillerman's novels became bestsellers. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket creased on the front flap.
191. HOAGLAND, Edward. Cat Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. A review copy of his first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Fine in an about near fine dust jacket with several short edge tears. An attractive copy of a book that because of its dark, unlaminated dust jacket shows wear easily.
192. HOAGLAND, Edward. Notes from the Century Before. NY: Random House (1969). His first book of nonfiction, subtitled "A Journal from British Columbia." A personal recollection of the author's travels, which also touches on the history, both natural and cultural, of the region. Inscribed by the author to poet Edwin Honig in the month preceding publication. Honig is a much-decorated poet who founded the Brown University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Light spotting and fading to the top edges of the pages, otherwise fine in jacket with mild surface soiling and slight wear at the spine crown, otherwise also fine. A nice association and an early signature on this important volume. Hoagland, whose fiction has won literary awards, is most highly acclaimed as an essayist, one of the finest of our time, and his first book of nonfiction is thus a landmark in his writing career.
193. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Courage of Turtles. NY: Random House (1970). A review copy of his first collection of essays, many of which deal with the natural world. Inscribed by the author. The most elusive of his essay collections, in our experience. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket; with review slip laid in giving the publication date as January 1971.
194. HOAGLAND, Edward. Red Wolves and Black Bears. NY: Random House (1976). The uncorrected proof copy of his third collection of essays. Crown bumped and light creasing on the front cover; about near fine in tall wrappers. An uncommon proof, presumably done in small quantities and shot from galley sheets (the page numbers are reproduced in holograph).
195. HOBAN, Russell. The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz. London: Cape (1973). The uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of the first novel by the author of Riddley Walker. A modern fantasy classic about makers of maps and seekers of lions. One of the handful of modern fantasies that lives up to the inevitable comparisons with Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, at least in terms of the metaphorical, and metaphysical, dimensions of the story, if not the subject matter per se. Near fine in wrappers.
196. -. Same title, the first American edition. NY: Stein & Day (1973). One page margin stained; otherwise near fine in a rubbed and edge-torn dust jacket; about very good.
197. HOWARD, Richard. Two Poems. NY: Glenn Horowitz, 2001. One of 150 copies, this copy signed and additionally inscribed by the author "with all my love." Corner crease to the front flap; else fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
198. HUGO, Richard. Death and the Good Life. NY: St. Martin's (1981). The award-winning poet's first and only novel, a murder mystery that received surprisingly good reviews and was reportedly written in response to the mystery novels of his good friend James Crumley. Inscribed by the author. Books signed by Hugo are fairly uncommon and this title in particular is seldom found signed, as the author died a year later. Mild foxing to top edge of pages; near fine in a mildly spine-faded, price-clipped dust jacket.