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194. HAMSUN, Knut. Under Høststjærnen En Vandrers Fortælling. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1906. The first book of Hamsun's "Wanderer" sequence, published in an edition of approximately 1500 copies. Attractively bound in gilt stamped three quarter vellum and paste paper boards. An important book by the Norwegian Nobel Prize winner, not translated into English until the 1970s. Bookplate removed from front pastedown; lower board edges rubbed; else fine.
195. HAMSUN, Knut. Benoni. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1933. The deluxe large paper edition of this novel originally published in 1908. One of 375 numbered copies. This was the basis for a Norwegian television series in the 1970s. Owner bookplate on front pastedown and owner name on title page; spine-sunned; near fine in wrappers.
196. HANSEN, Joseph. Fadeout. NY: Harper & Row (1970). The author's first book under his own name, and his first mystery to feature insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, the first gay protagonist of a mainstream mystery series and, as such, a landmark book in the field of gay literature. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket.
197. HANSEN, Joseph. Troublemaker. NY: Harper & Row (1975). A review copy of the third Dave Brandstetter mystery. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
198. HARRIS, Thomas. Red Dragon. NY: Putnam (1981). The author's second book, and the first to introduce the character Hannibal Lecter, who was featured in The Silence of the Lambs. Red Dragon was the basis for the movie "Manhunter" in 1986 and then for the 2002 film adaptation under the book's original title. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
199. HARRISON, Jim. Warlock. (NY): Delacorte/Lawrence (1981). The limited edition of this novel by the author of Legends of the Fall, among others. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Clothbound; all edges gilt. Fine in a fine slipcase.
200. HAWKES, John. The Cannibal. (NY): (New Directions) (1949). His first novel, a story of World War II published in the influential "Direction" series begun by James Laughlin of New Directions, which had published such writers as Nabokov, Pasternak and William Carlos Williams. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
201. -. Same title, the first revised clothbound edition. (NY): New Directions (1962). With a new introduction by Hawkes. Inscribed by the author in 1974. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of wrinkling and a couple short edge tears.
202. -. Same title, the first British edition. (London): Neville Spearman (1962). Signed by the author. An uncommon edition, issued in the U.K. 13 years after its original U.S. publication, on the heels of the success of Hawkes' novel The Lime Twig. Light lower corner bumping; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip at the crown.
203. HAWKES, John. The Beetle Leg. (NY): New Directions (1951). The author's second separately published book. This is the first issue, in light orange cloth. Signed by the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
204. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, yellow-tinged dust jacket.
205. HAWKES, John. The Goose on the Grave and The Owl. (NY): New Directions (1954). The first issue, in shiny black boards, in the first issue dust jacket with the original price ($3.00) neither overstamped nor clipped. One of 1034 copies. Mild foxing to top edge; still fine in a lightly spine-tanned jacket.
206. -. Another copy. A fine copy in the second issue (matte black) binding in a very good, second issue dust jacket with the $3.00 price stamped out and replaced with a $4.50 price.
207. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. A fine copy in the second issue binding and third issue (price-clipped) dust jacket, also near fine, with a small gutter tear.
208. HAWKES, John. The Lime Twig. (NY): New Directions (1961). An experimental novel with an introduction by critic Leslie Fiedler and highly appreciative blurb by Flannery O'Connor. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with an upper edge tear on the rear panel.
209. -. Same title, the limited edition. (NY): New Directions (1963). One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, edge-sunned slipcase.
210. -. Same title. Uncased, bound sheets of the limited edition. One of reportedly 13 overrun copies, unnumbered but signed by the author. Pages uncut; fine.
211. -. Same title, the first British edition. (London): Neville Spearman (1962). Light foxing to page edges and endpapers; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
212. HAWKES, John. Las Cruces. (Madrid): (Palma de Mallorca), 1962. A limited edition of this excerpt from The Cannibal, translated into Spanish. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Pages uncut; very near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. Scarce.
213. HAWKES, John. The Owl. (NY): New Directions (1971). First thus, the first separate appearance of this novella, with a critical interpretation by Robert Scholes. Signed by the author. Only issued in wrappers. Faintly sunned; else fine.
214. HAWKES, John. The Passion Artist. NY: Harper & Row (1979). The uncorrected proof copy. Square octavo; spine-sunned; rear cover abraded and front cover nicked at lower edge; very good in wrappers.
215. -. Same title. (NY): New Directions (1979). The limited edition, which followed the trade edition published by Harper & Row. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase with slight edge-sunning.
216. HAWKES, John. Virginie, Her Two Lives. (NY): New Directions (1982). One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Spine very slightly faded, otherwise fine in acetate dustwrapper.
217. HAZZARD, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. NY: Knopf, 1963. The first American edition of her first book, a collection of stories. Ownership signature of author Maeve Brennan on flyleaf. Pages edges foxed; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
218. 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 near fine, spine-dulled dust jacket.
219. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. NY: Scribner, 1926. The first edition, first issue, with "stoppped" on page 181, line 26. The total first printing of this novel was 5090 copies, and by all appearances the first issue was much smaller than the corrected second issue. Hemingway's breakthrough book -- which established him as a major author -- conveyed the disillusionment of the American and British expatriates in Europe after the First World War, and the Gertrude Stein comment that he used as an epigraph -- "You are all a lost generation" -- stuck: his book came to be viewed as the one that defined and embodied the Lost Generation. A very good copy in a very good first issue dust jacket, supplied, which has had professional restoration, mostly in strengthening the paper and with a small bit of paper replacement at the upper front flap fold. A very scarce book in any dust jacket, and especially so in the first issue jacket.
220. - . Same title, the second issue. A very good copy in a very good, second issue dust jacket with professional restoration, including some paper replacement at the extremities of the spine. An attractive copy.
221. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. NY: Scribner, 1929. Hemingway's second great novel, after The Sun Also Rises. A Connolly 100 title and a book that has been called the greatest war novel of all time, although only a small part of it has to do directly with the war. After the critical acclaim and commercial success of The Sun Also Rises, which went through 10 printings by 1929, Hemingway, together with F. Scott Fitzgerald, was widely seen as the leading spokesman for the "Lost Generation" of American expatriate writers in the years following World War I. His novels and stories captured and defined that experience in a way that has helped shape all views of it since. A Farewell to Arms was, by far, his most commercially successful book to date, and its success overshadowed everything he was to write for the next decade or more. With this novel Hemingway, in effect, created a legacy that he himself was unable to live up to until much later, with the publication of The Old Man and the Sea, the book that is generally credited with his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Offsetting to endpages, minor mottling to boards; a near fine copy in a good, spine-tanned, first issue dust jacket with faint dampstaining and some abrasions to the rear panel and chipping to the spine extremities.
222. -. Same title, the limited edition. One of 510 numbered copies signed by the author. A little foxing to the spine base; else fine in the publisher's fragile slipcase, which has been internally repaired along one seam. Hemingway's only signed limited edition, an attractive production, and an especially well-preserved copy.
223. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. NY: Scribner, 1933. Hemingway's third collection of stories, published at the height of his acclaim, and including the first book appearance of the classic, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place." A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with two unobtrusive edge tears and a hint of wear to the crown of a faintly tanned spine. One of the nicer copies we've seen of this book which, because of its black, unlaminated dust jacket, usually shows a great deal of rubbing and wear. A very crisp copy.
224. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. NY: Scribner, 1952. The last of Hemingway's books published in his lifetime, a novella that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and earned him, two years later, the Nobel Prize for literature. A short novel that has been characterized as a fable, it deals with a Cuban fisherman's struggles to land a giant marlin that he has hooked, and reflects Hemingway's concern for life as a struggle of man against nature, including his own nature. Cloth a bit dusty; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the lower spine. The dust jacket is the so-called "second state" with the Hemingway photo in olive, not blue, although we're not entirely convinced of the accuracy of the priority asserted in Hanneman. That being said, this is an extraordinarily attractive copy, far nicer than most that appear on the market.
225. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Islands in the Stream. NY: Scribner (1970). A posthumously published novel. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with just a hint of spine-fading. A nice, fresh copy of a bulky book that shows wear easily.
226. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Hemingway on Hunting. (Guilford): Lyons Press (2001). The advance reading copy of this collection of published and unpublished hunting tales. Edited by Seán Hemingway and introduced by Patrick Hemingway, Hemingway's grandson and son, respectively. Quarto. Front cover crease; else fine in wrappers. Not to be confused with Hunting with Hemingway, Hilary Hemingway's collection of her father's, Hemingway's brother's, tales.
227. HIASSEN, Carl. Basket Case. NY: Knopf, 2002. The uncorrected proof copy. Small edge crease rear spine fold; still fine in wrappers. The first printing of the trade edition is announced as 300,000 copies; by contrast there were probably a couple of hundred copies of the proof, if that.
228. HILLERMAN, Tony. Indian Country. America's Sacred Land. Flagstaff: Northland Press (1987). Quarto. Text by Hillerman; color photographs by Béla Kalman. The hardcover issue of this title. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a tiny nick at the crown. Uncommon.
229. HILLERMAN, Tony. Typescript of Canyon de Chelly. 1987, 1998. The manuscript of this essay as it was submitted to the publisher for production of a limited edition. Photocopied typescript, 26 pages, with the author's holograph corrections. The text is copyright 1987. Together with a typed letter signed by Hillerman from July of 1998, detailing errors found in the proofs; with envelope. Also together with a signature page signed by the illustrator, Ernest Franklin. All elements fine. Manuscript material by Hillerman, one of the most collected of contemporary mystery writers and Southwest writers, is very uncommon and seldom offered on the market.
230. HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey. A Rough Shoot. London: Michael Joseph (1951). A short novel by the author of Rogue Male. Spine slanted; thus near fine in a near fine dust jacket with an edge tear at the upper rear spine fold, formerly internally tape-mended.
231. -. Same title, the first American edition. Boston: Atlantic/Little Brown, 1951. Signed by the author. Discoloration from binder's glue at the hinges; sunning to board edges; about near fine in a near fine, edge-rubbed dust jacket.
232. HUNTER, Stephen. Pale Horse Coming. NY: Simon & Schuster (2001). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel by the bestselling thriller writer. Fine in wrappers.
233. IBSEN, Henrik. En Folkefiende. Copenhagen: Glydendal, 1882. The true first edition of An Enemy of the People, one of Ibsen's best and most important plays. Stamp to title page; cloth spine-faded; near fine.
234. IRVING, John. The World According to Garp. NY: Dutton (1978). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's fourth novel, his breakthrough book and one of the best-loved novels of recent times, winner of the National Book Award when it was reprinted in paperback the following year. This is the second issue proof, in tall green wrappers. Because there was a widely distributed advance reading copy (reported to have been printed in an edition of 1500 copies -- a huge number, in those days, for a literary novel), copies of the proof are scarce. Spine-sunned, one spine fold crease, and some spotting to covers; very good.
235. IRVING, John. The Cider House Rules. NY: Morrow (1985). The publisher's limited edition of this title, issued in beige and brown cloth, in a brown slipcase, in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. There was also a Book-of-the-Month Club limited edition of this title, in a similar format but with a different binding and a larger stated limitation. Small spot to pastedown; still fine in a very near fine slipcase with one corner of the cloth turned.
236. -. Same title, the limited edition issued by Book of the Month Club, in green and beige cloth, in a green slipcase. One of 795 numbered copies signed by the author. An attractive edition, part of the Club's apparently ill-fated attempt to offer finely bound signed, limited editions to its membership. Our guess is that far fewer than 795 of these were finally issued, although we have no definite numbers: it seems to appear on the market less often these days than the publisher's limited edition, despite the latter's smaller limitation. Fine in acetate jacket and slipcase.
237. IRVING, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. NY: Morrow (1989). The first trade edition of what may be Irving's best-loved book (a substantial claim for a book by the author of The World According to Garp); basis for the movie Simon Birch. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
238. IRVING, John. The Fourth Hand. NY: Random House (2001). His most recent novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Irving,who has been reluctant to sign books in recent years, did a very small number of readings from this book at which he signed copies. Perhaps his scarcest trade edition signed.
239. (IRVING, John). Last Night's Stranger. NY: A&W (1982). Stories of one night stands and other transient acts. Contains "Other People's Dreams," one of the few Irving short stories not to have later been incorporated into a novel. With additional stories by Richard Ford, Joy Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Doris Betts, Robert Coover and others. An important anthology, which provides the first book appearances for a number of stories by important contemporary writers. Fine in a heavily spine-faded, near fine dust jacket.
240. ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. London: Faber & Faber (1989). His third book, winner of the Booker Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
241. JACKSON, Jon A. The Diehard. NY: Random House (1977). His first book, introducing Detective Sergeant Mulheisen. Mild edge-toning to pages; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with one tiny edge tear.
242. JACKSON, Jon A. The Blind Pig. NY: Random House (1978). Faint staining to lower board edges; near fine in a fine dust jacket.
243. JACKSON, Jon A. Grootka. Woodstock: Foul Play Press/Countryman (1990). The third Mulheisen novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
244. JACKSON, Jon A. Dead Folks. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (1996). Another Mulheisen mystery. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a scratch on the rear panel.
245. JOYCE, James. Introducing James Joyce. London: Faber & Faber (1942). A selection of Joyce's prose, introduced by T.S. Eliot. Near fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket with shallow chipping at the crown. A nice copy of a fragile wartime book, printed on paper so thin as to be nearly transparent.
246. JOYCE, James. Stephen Hero. (NY): New Directions (1944). A posthumously published short novel, written when the author was in his early twenties, and being an early version of what became Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Boards mildly bumped and edge-sunned; a near fine copy in a very good, sunned dust jacket rubbed and fragile at the folds.
247. JOYCE, James. The Portable James Joyce. NY: Viking, 1947. Four complete books, plus sections of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip at the spine base and another at the upper rear spine fold which is externally tape-repaired.
248. KENNEDY, William. Legs. NY: Coward McCann Geoghegan (1975). His second novel, and the first in his acclaimed "Albany Cycle," which included the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at the crown and a small sticker shadow and light stain on the front panel.
249. KENNEDY, William. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. NY: Viking (1978). The second book in his Albany sequence. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with slight rubbing and one tiny edge tear.
250. KENNEDY, William. Quinn's Book. (NY): Viking (1988). Another novel of Albany, this one set in the mid-19th century. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
251. -. Same title, the limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, edge-sunned slipcase.
252. (KESEY, Ken). "McMurphy and the Machine" in Stanford Short Stories 1962. Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1962. A collection edited by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft. Kesey's excerpt is from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Larry McMurtry contributes "Leaving Cheyenne," an excerpt from his second novel, then in progress. Stray ink mark front flyleaf; still fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with one short, closed edge tear. A very nice copy of an early book appearance for both Kesey and McMurtry, who were students at Stegner's writing workshop at Stanford. McMurtry's novel All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers tells a fictionalized version of the story of their lives there during the early years of the 1960s, as experiments with psychedelic drugs were commonplace and Kesey's crowd was growing into the Merry Pranksters, who would become counterculture icons.
253. KING, Stephen. Misery. (NY): Viking (1987). King's classic horror novel about an author who is stalked and threatened by his "Number 1 fan," made into an Oscar-winning movie starring James Caan and Kathy Bates. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "For Bob -/ Best wishes from your #1 fan -/ Stephen King/ 12/21/87." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a shallow crease on the front flap. Uncommon signed: perhaps by the time this was published, King himself was feeling the pressure of his enormous popularity, and did not make himself readily available for signing books, as he had earlier (and has since, in fact).
254. KING, Stephen. Everything's Eventual. NY: Scribner (2002). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of stories, one of which is previously unpublished and three others of which were only available via the internet. One light corner turn to cover; else fine in wrappers.
255. KING, Stephen. From a Buick 8. NY: Scribner (2002). The uncorrected proof copy. Heavily creased cover and summary page; else near fine in wrappers.
256. KINGSOLVER, Barbara. Small Wonder. (NY): HarperCollins (2002). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of essays, her first since High Tide in Tucson. Many of the essays had been published previously but were revised for inclusion here. Fine in wrappers.
257. LAGERKVIST, Pär. Ordkonst och Bildkonst. Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerströms, 1913. The second book by the Swedish Nobel Prize winner, author of such classics as The Dwarf, The Sybil and Barabbas. This small book is an essay in which Lagerkvist argues against literary realism in favor of the starker, more elevated style of storytelling embodied in the Greek myths, the Bible, and the Icelandic sagas -- the style he adopted when he began writing fiction. Faint edge-sunning; still fine in wrappers. A very nice copy of this early, fragile book by one of the important writers of the 20th century.
258. LE GUIN, Ursula K. In the Red Zone. Northridge: Lord John Press (1983). Poetry and prose on the theme of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Of a total edition of 200 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and by the artist, Henk Pander. Fine.
259. -. Same title. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author and by the artist. Fine.
260. LEONARD, Elmore. Notebooks. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1991. A limited edition excerpting portions of Leonard's notebooks, and reproducing samples in facsimile on the endpapers. Of a total edition of 350 copies, this is one of 300 numbered copies quarterbound in cloth and illustrated paper boards, signed by the author. Fine.
261. -. Same title. The deluxe edition, quarterbound in leather and illustrated boards. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine.
262. LEONARD, Elmore. Tishomingo Blues. (NY): Morrow (2002). The advance reading copy. Covers slightly splayed from publicity material laid in; else fine in wrappers.