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200. IRVING, John. The Hotel New Hampshire. NY: Dutton (1981). An uncorrected proof copy of the author's fifth book. This is a later issue proof, with pages 1A and 1 tipped in, in that order. There is both an earlier typeset state of the proof and a rare, first issue proof shot from typescript. Near fine in wrappers.
201. IRVING, John. A Son of the Circus. NY: Random House (1994). The uncorrected proof copy of the trade edition. The first page, which contained the Random House catalog copy describing the book and the author, has been excised, reportedly at the author's request. Otherwise this is a fine, unread copy in wrappers and signed by the author for the Random House sales force, to whom these were given for promotional use. All signed copies that we have seen of this title have had the first page removed.
202. -. Same title, the signed limited edition. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1994. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in, and a special introduction for this edition by Irving about the ways the novel could have begun and the way it did begin. Signed by the author. Fine.
203. IRVING, John. A Widow for One Year. (London): Bloomsbury (1998). A limited edition and the true first edition of this novel, which was published in a trade edition in both Holland and the U.K. before being released in the U.S. This British advance issue, however, precedes all trade editions. One of 1000 numbered copies, in a different binding than that of the trade edition. Clothbound, with pictorial label on front cover. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
204. -. Same title, the advance reading copy of the first American edition. NY: Random House (1998). Fine in pictorial wrappers.
205. JARRELL, Randall. Proofs of the Dust Jacket for Goethe's Faust: Part I. [NY]: FSG [1976]. Color proofs of the dust jacket art (artwork only, no book). Seven 24" x 10 3/4" pages, folded in thirds and stapled at one end; each printing the front cover and spine. Three colors were used (black, yellow and green); three pages show each color individually; three show each combination of two colors; the seventh page shows all three colors together. Together with four copies of the final jacket printing front and back covers, spine and flaps. Folded flat; else fine. Extremely uncommon publishing ephemera; probably the only copies in existence.
206. JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer. Typed Note Signed. October, 1967. Written to her agent, and directing him to forward all future payment to her nephew's account. Signed three times as "Ruth," "Ruth Jhabvala" and "R. Prawer Jhabvala," either to cover all legal bases or to "initial" figures that appear to the left of her signatures. Also included is a typed note signed from Roger Angell, dated June 1967 and written on New Yorker stationery, forwarding payment to her agent. With three unendorsed checks from the agent to Jhabvala; a retained copy of the letter from the agent to the nephew forwarding the checks as instructed; and a letter from the nephew to the agent acknowledging receipt. There is accounting in the margins of both Jhabvala's and Angell's letters; the checks have the memo field torn off; the lot is about near fine. Together with a contract (unsigned) and three supporting letters (not from Jhabvala) from 1962, arranging for the reprinting of quotes from a 1957 New Yorker interview with Jhabvala in the book The Age of the Manager. Also together with Library of Congress Agreements, unsigned, from 1964, arranging for two of Jhabvala's works to be transcribed into Braille and tape-recorded; and also together with an undated, unsigned agreement from Harper's Bazaar to purchase "Light and Reason." Folded; else fine. For all:
207. JIN, Ha. The Bridegroom. NY: Pantheon (2000). A collection of stories by the author of the National Book Award-winning Waiting. Signed by the author in the month of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Together with an autograph postcard signed by the author laid in.
208. JOHNSON, Joyce. Bad Connections. NY: Putnam (1978). The second book by the author of Come and Join the Dance (which was published under her maiden name, Joyce Glassman). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Johnson is perhaps best known these days for having been Jack Kerouac's lover in the early days of the Beat generation, and having written incisively about that experience from a young woman's perspective in her memoir Minor Characters, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in other nonfiction.
209. KAYSEN, Susanna. Asa, as I Knew Him. NY: Vintage Contemporaries (1987). The advance reading copy of the first book by the author of Girl, Interrupted, published as a paperback original in the Vintage Contemporaries series. Fine in wrappers.
210. KAYSEN, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted. NY: Turtle Bay Books, 1993. The advance reading copy of her third book, a well-received memoir of her encounter with madness and institutionalization as an adolescent, which was made into an Oscar-winning film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Fine in wrappers.
211. KENEALLY, Thomas. The Place at Whitton. London: Cassell (1964). The first edition of the first novel by the Australian author of Schindler's List. Very mild foxing to front endpapers and top edge; faint stain to heel of spine, reflected on verso of jacket; else fine in near fine dust jacket with one strip of rubbing along the front spine fold.
212. -. Same title, the first American edition. NY: Walker and Co. (1964). Signed by the author in 1995. Acidic pages darkening somewhat; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at the spine extremities.
213. KENEALLY, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. (NY): Viking (1972). The first American edition of a novel based on a historical incident in Australia at the turn of the century involving an Aboriginal uprising against racist oppression. Winner of a Heinemann Award from the Royal Society of Literature in Great Britain, and basis for a powerful film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
214. KENEALLY, Thomas. Schindler's Ark. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1982). The true first edition of the book that became Schindler's List when published in the U.S. and which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning Spielberg film. Winner of the Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Great Britain. Keneally is Australian and his books are usually published there first; in this case, however, the U.K. edition precedes even the Australian edition. This title had more than a decade to disappear before the film came out and renewed interest in it. Although we don't have any figures for the print run of the first edition, it came at a point in Keneally's career when he would likely have been considered by his publisher a "mid-list" author -- one whose books would be well-received and reach a small, cultured audience, but had little commercial potential. Normally publishers cut back both the print runs and the advertising budgets for authors who seem to have proven to have limited commercial appeal, a self-reinforcing process that often ends up creating the situation that an author's scarcest books are those from the middle or latter part of his or her career. Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some scratches to the lamination.
215. -. Same title, the first Australian edition. Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton (1982). Small bookstore label front flyleaf; else fine in a fine dust jacket. The U.K. edition reportedly precedes the Australian but "following the flag" would make this the more desirable edition, and it is a better-bound edition than the U.K.
216. KENNEDY, William. Ironweed. (NY): Viking (1983). The uncorrected proof copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the third book in his acclaimed "Albany sequence." Fine in wrappers.
217. KEROUAC, Jack. The Dharma Bums. NY: Viking, 1958. A classic of Beat literature and by consensus Kerouac's best-loved book after On the Road. This novel introduced Beat poet Gary Snyder to the world as "Japhy Ryder;" its characters became counterculture heroes with their distinctly American blend of Zen and fun. Fine in a very good, rubbed dust jacket with light chipping at the crown.
218. KEROUAC, Jack. Big Sur. NY: Farrar Straus Cudahy (1962). One of the many books in Kerouac's semi-autobiographical series, which he called "The Dulouz Legend." An author's note at the beginning of this volume explains that his intent was to populate his entire series of novels with the same characters, a plan that was vetoed by his early publishers. Kerouac writes: "In my old age I intend to collect all my work and re-insert my pantheon of uniform names, leave the long shelf full of books there, and die happy" -- a plan he never brought to fruition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip and a larger open tear at the crown.
219. KINCAID, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. NY: FSG (1996). The third novel, fifth book, by this West Indian writer. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
220. KINSELLA, W.P. Five Stories. (Vancouver): (Hoffer/Tanks) (1986). The trade edition of this collection, published by William Hoffer and with illustrations by Carel Moiseiwitsch. Signed by the author. Bumped at base of spine, otherwise fine in wrappers.
221. KITTREDGE, William. Owning It All. (St. Paul): Graywolf Press, 1987. The uncorrected proof copy of the second book by one of the preeminent writers of the contemporary American West, which was only published in softcover. Fine in wrappers, and reproducing several holograph corrections to the text. With a letter of transmittal, dated almost three months prior to publication.
222. KITTREDGE, William. Hole in the Sky. NY: Knopf, 1992. The uncorrected proof copy of his highly praised memoir, which traces his family's history as wealthy landowners in southeastern Oregon, a mixed blessing for the author, as he describes it. Kittredge's memoir is in part an elegy for the Great Basin and the large ranch that was his family legacy and, as such, it reflects on the myths of the Old West and was a key work in defining the literature of the "New West." Fine in wrappers.
223. KNOWLES, John. A Separate Peace. NY: Macmillan (1974). A later printing of the author's classic first novel, but an association copy, inscribed by the author in 1978: "To ____/ At the outset/ of what I hope will/ be a long and rewarding/ relationship -/ Affectionately,/ Jack." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with wear at the spine extremities and scratches to the lamination.