Catalog 125, T-Z
388. -. Same title, the true first edition (De Kleine Vriend), published in Holland prior to its release in the U.S. Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2002. Reportedly, the book sold more copies in its first week of release in Europe than were in the entire American first printing (reported at 350,000 copies). The decision to release a Dutch edition prior to an English-language one was based on the fact that most Dutch readers would have purchased and read an English edition had it been released first, thus ultimately hurting sales of the Dutch-language edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
389. -. Same title. (London): Bloomsbury (2002). The British limited edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author, her only limited edition to date. Fine in slipcase.
390. TAYLOR, Elizabeth. A Game of Hide-and-Seek. NY: Knopf, 1951. The first American edition of her fifth book. Fine in a very near fine, slightly spine-tanned dust jacket.
391. TAYLOR, Peter. The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor. NY: FSG (1969). A review copy of this important collection by an author whose reputation has been built largely on the strength of his stories and who won, in the last years of his life, both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN Faulkner Award. Inscribed by the author in 1990: "For ___ ___/ with all good wishes/ and with much appreciation/ for the cordial and the kind/ words of your letter./ Peter Taylor." Spotting to top stain; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
392. TAYLOR, Peter. The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court. NY: Knopf, 1993. The advance reading copy of this collection of stories. One of 650 numbered copies. Fine in wrappers, in near fine publisher's cardstock slipcase.
393. TEVIS, Walter. The Hustler. (NY): Harper & Brothers (1959). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's scarce first book, in the form of tall ringbound galley sheets, printed on rectos only; basis for the Paul Newman/Jackie Gleason movie that became a cultural milestone in the early Sixties. Modest foxing throughout; near fine. Remarkably scarce: ringbound galleys of this sort were not routinely done in the late 1950s, and when they were they were issued in tiny quantities. The first trade edition of Tevis's book is itself extremely scarce; the proof is immeasurably more so: we have never seen, nor heard of, another copy.
394. THEROUX, Alexander. The Great Wheadle Tragedy. (Boston): Godine (1975). A tale illustrated by Stan Washburn. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
395. THEROUX, Alexander. Watergraphs. Boston: Base Canard (1994). A short story about an autograph expert who makes the find of a lifetime at an obscure auction. With a hilarious "note on the type" appended. Of a total edition of 116 copies, this is one of 100 numbered copies, printed by Bruce Chandler at the Heron Press and signed by the author. With a Fritz Eichenberg woodcut title vignette, representing Theroux's personal bookplate, created for him as a gift by Eichenberg and never before published. Bound in linen at the Harcourt Bindery. The first book published by Base Canard, "the fledgling publishing wing" of Lame Duck Books. Fine, without jacket, as issued.
396. THOMAS, D.M. The Flute-Player. London: Gollancz, 1979. A review copy of the first novel by the author of The White Hotel, among others. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's review slip laid in.
397. THOMPSON, Jim. Now and On Earth. NY: Modern Age (1942). The exceedingly uncommon first book by the author of such hard-boiled noir classics as The Killer Inside Me and The Grifters. Thompson's first published piece was in a Federal Writers' Project anthology in 1937, American Stuff, and apparently reaction to that piece led to his novel finding a publisher. Modern Age Books, which published the novel, was a short-lived Depression-era publisher that, among other things, specialized in low-cost paperbacks prior to the advent of mass market paperback publishing, and also took on serious writers and artists who had some, but not great, commercial potential. Mary McCarthy, Margaret Bourke-White, and William Saroyan were among the authors whose early work was published by the house, often in simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions. This novel is a mainstream literary effort, only published in hardcover -- a family saga of the type Steinbeck undertook with The Grapes of Wrath, but with elements of the fast-paced plot and potential for violence that later characterized Thompson's hard-boiled fiction. Bookplate front pastedown; small corner chip on rear free endpaper; a very near fine copy in a beautifully restored dust jacket with the folds strengthened and chips replaced at the corners and spine ends. A very scarce first book.
398. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954-55. Unbound page proofs of the first American editions. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954-55 [1956]. Working copies, from British sheets. Complete for Volume 1, The Fellowship of the Ring, with two extra copies of the first signature, showing corrections and including the holograph correction of the book's most famous line: "One Ring to bring them all and in the shadow bind them," with "shadow" crossed out and "darkness" written in by the editor, in accordance with Tolkien's hand-correction of that line in the British proof copy. Also included are typescript pages (nonauthorial) for the prelims. Volume 2, The Two Towers, is represented by proofs of the prelims only, with editorial changes, and including both a galley proof of the synopsis and the slug of the U.S. publisher's name to replace the U.K. publisher's name. There is also a (chipped) handwritten exchange between the publisher and the printer as to whether corrections will require new blocks to be made. Lastly from Volume 2, there is a galley sheet of the copyright page. From Volume 3, The Return of the King, there are approximately 40 proof pages (pp. 257-272 and Appendices pp. 389-416). Volume 1 is fine; the assorted pages of the latter two volumes are near fine. The bibliography of Tolkien's most famous work is enormously complex, and the textual changes that were introduced at various times are legion. This set of proofs is notable for several reasons: first, the hand-correction of the book's most famous line, which both serves as the epigraph for the entire work and is also the line that was inscribed, in ancient runes, on the Ring that is at the center of the story. Second, Tolkien was very precise about the runes that he created, which appear at various points in the text and, most importantly, provide the decorations for the title pages of all three volumes. In the British first printing of the first volume of the trilogy, there were "typos" in two of the runes on the title page, and those runes are here hand-corrected, as they appeared (in type) in all later editions. Finally, and perhaps most importantly for the subsequent history of the book, the copyright page of the third volume is included here, which lists the publication and copyright dates as 1955, which is what they were in England. However, the U.S. edition did not come out until 1956, and these dates were removed from the copyright page. Presumably the intention would have been to replace them with the right date, but what happened in fact was that copyright notice was left off the American edition of the third volume altogether. This lack of copyright protection was what allowed an American paperback publisher to issue an unauthorized edition of the trilogy in paperback in the U.S. in the early 1960s -- the first time the trilogy had been published in paperback, and the first time it was available at low cost to a wide readership. The unauthorized edition sold millions of copies, eventually resulting in an authorized paperback edition, which sold millions more and made Tolkien, much to his chagrin, a household name. A rare state of a fantasy classic and Waterstone's #1 book of the last century. Housed in custom folding chemises and slipcase.
399. UNSWORTH, Barry. Morality Play. London: Hamish Hamilton (1995). A historical novel of the fourteenth century, by the author of Sacred Hunger, which co-won the Booker Prize with Ondaatje's The English Patient. This title was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
400. UPDIKE, John. The Magic Flute. NY: Knopf (1962). One of Updike's scarcest books, a book ostensibly for children, adapted by Updike from the Mozart opera and illustrated by Warren Chappell. This is the trade edition in dust jacket, which appears to be far scarcer than the library editions that were issued in an illustrated binding without dust jacket. Oblong quarto, fine in a very near fine dust jacket that has one tiny internally repaired tear on the lower edge of the rear panel. A beautiful copy of a scarce, early Updike -- Roberts A6a.
401. UPDIKE, John. The Ring. NY: Knopf (1964). The second of Updike's collaborations with Warren Chappell, adapting an opera -- in this case, Wagner's -- for young people, with Updike providing the text and Chappell the illustrations. Oblong quarto, this is the trade edition in dust jacket -- Roberts A10a -- and in our experience more difficult to find than the library binding in illustrated boards, which was issued without dust jacket. Again, one of the scarcer of the early Updike books. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
402. UPDIKE, John. Roger's Version. NY: Knopf, 1986. The publisher's limited edition of this novel. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase.
403. UPDIKE, John. S. NY: Knopf, 1988. The limited edition of this epistolary novel based on an ashram similar to that operated by the popular guru Rajneesh during the 70's and 80's. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase.
404. -. Same title. Promotional pin: a simple "S." following the design of the book's cover art and with the author's name printed within the curve. 3" high; heavy cardstock; fine. An uncommon ephemeral item; we've never seen another one.
405. UPDIKE, John. Just Looking. NY: Knopf, 1989. The limited edition of this collection of essays on art and artists. One of 350 copies signed by the author. Quarto, heavily illustrated in color and black and white; fine, bound in quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, in a fine cloth slipcase.
406. UPDIKE, John. Self-Consciousness. NY: Knopf, 1989. The limited edition of Updike's first volume of memoirs. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase.
407. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit at Rest. NY: Knopf, 1990. The concluding volume in the Rabbit series. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the first trade edition; the true first was issued by the Franklin Library. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
408. -. Same title, the limited edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase.
409. -. Another copy of the limited edition. Fine in a near fine slipcase rubbed on the bottom panel.
410. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and publisher's folding cardboard box.
411. UPDIKE, John. The Alligators. (Mankato): Creative Education (1990). The first separate appearance of a story that first appeared in The New Yorker and was collected in The Same Door. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
412. UPDIKE, John. Brazil. NY: Knopf, 1994. The uncorrected proof copy of this novel that was something of a departure for Updike, being far removed from the familiar suburban milieu of most of his fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
413. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels. NY: Everyman's Library/Knopf (1995). The first combined edition of the four Rabbit novels. With a special 15-page introduction by Updike for this edition and a chronology of Rabbit Angstrom's life printed alongside a historical chronology spanning the character's lifetime. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with ribbon marker bound in. A massive book (1500+ pages) and surprisingly uncommon, especially in fine condition and signed.
414. UPDIKE, John. In the Beauty of the Lilies. NY: Knopf, 1996. The uncorrected proof copy of the first trade edition. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
415. UPDIKE, John. Golf Dreams. NY: Knopf, 1996. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short pieces about golf, some of them taken from his novels, the rest from magazines. Fine in wrappers.
416. UPDIKE, John. Toward the End of Time. NY: Knopf, 1997. The uncorrected proof copy of this novel that was published to quite mixed reviews: Margaret Atwood, in The New York Times Book Review, loved it; David Foster Wallace, a self-proclaimed Updike fan, wrote a scathing review of it in The New York Observer. Very near fine in wrappers.
417. UPDIKE, John. Bech at Bay. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of his 49th book, subtitled "A Quasi-Novel," and a sequel to Bech: A Book and Bech is Back. Fine in wrappers.
418. (UPDIKE, John). "Television Golf" in U.S. Open 1988. (Far Hills): (USGA), 1988. The magazine/program of the 1988 U.S. Open held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Updike's piece was later collected in Golf Dreams. Fine. Uncommon.
419. (UPDIKE, John). CALDERONE, Mary Steichen and STEICHEN, Edward. The First Picture Book. Everyday Things for Babies. NY: Fotofolio/Whitney Museum (1991). First thus, a reissue of the 1930 text with a new ten-page afterword by Updike. This is the trade edition; there was a deluxe limited edition done by the Whitney Museum as well. Quarto; fine in a fine dust jacket. Unusually scarce for such a recent book.
420. (UPDIKE, John). Exhibition Catalog. (n.p.): University of South Carolina, 1998. A catalog of the exhibition of the Don Greiner collection, with a cover illustration by Updike. Of a total edition of 1250 copies, this is one of 1200 unnumbered copies in stapled wrappers. Faint creasing around the spine; else fine.
421. (UPDIKE, John). "The American Face" in Americans. (London): (National Portrait Gallery) (2002). Updike provides the foreword to this collection of the more than 150 paintings and photographs in a travelling exhibit from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Fine in self-wrappers.
422. WALLACE, David Foster. The Broom of the System. (NY): Penguin (1987). A review copy of the simultaneous wrappered issue of the highly praised first book by a writer who received enormous critical praise as the legitimate inheritor of the postmodern tradition of Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis, and the only writer of the younger generation to have their range. This was the first novel to be published simultaneously in the Penguin Contemporary American Fiction series and as a Viking hardcover. Fine, with publicity sheet laid in.
423. WALLACE, David Foster. Girl with Curious Hair. NY: Norton (1989). His second book, a collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
424. WALLACE, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Boston: Little Brown (1996). The advance reading copy of this huge book (nearly 1100 pages), which impressed many critics and readers with its scope and its satirical critique of popular culture as well as with the author's erudition. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. There were reportedly 1000 copies of this issue sent out for promotional purposes.
425. WALLACE, David Foster. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Boston: Little Brown (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of essays and other short pieces. Textual changes exist between this and the published version. Signed by the author. Author and title written on top page edges; faint corner crease front cover; otherwise fine in wrappers.
426. WATTS, Alan W. The Joyous Cosmology. Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness. (NY): Pantheon (1962). A long essay on psychedelics by the foremost exponent in the West of Zen and other eastern philosophies. Foreword by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, while they were both still at Harvard, conducting LSD studies under the auspices of the University. Illustrated with photographs of natural objects, whose structures reveal remarkable patterns and order within their supposed randomness and uniqueness. An important book for its influence on the counterculture: this was the main volume in which Watt's thoughts on eastern philosophies were explicitly connected, at length, with his descriptions of, and understanding of, the psychedelic experience. It became an underground bestseller, years later, in paperback. Near fine in a very good, edge-rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket.
427. WHITE, E.B. as "Lee Strout White." Farewell to Model T. NY: Putnam, 1936. The first separate appearance of a nostalgic tribute that first appeared in The New Yorker. Illustrated by "Alain" (Daniel Brustlein), who later became a painter of considerable renown. An early book by White, whose essays in The New Yorker redefined the form, and whose children's books, including Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, have become timeless classics. Very near fine in a very good dust jacket with small corner chips and a bit of fading to the spine.
428. WHITEHEAD, Colson. The Intuitionist. NY: Anchor Books (1999). The advance reading copy of this well-received first novel. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
429. WILLIAMS, Joy. Breaking and Entering. NY: Vintage Contemporaries (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel that was published as a paperback original in the Vintage Contemporaries series of literary fiction, one of the small number of original novels in the series, among them Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and Richard Ford's The Sportswriter. Williams' first novel, State of Grace, was nominated for the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers.
430. WOLFF, Tobias. In Pharaoh's Army. NY: Knopf, 1994. The second volume of the author's memoirs, picking up where This Boy's Life left off and following the author to Vietnam, and chronicling his experiences there. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
431. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Tiny corner crease front cover; else fine in wrappers and card-stock slipcase.
432. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
433. WOLFF, Tobias. The Night in Question. NY: Knopf, 1996. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. Wolff's novella, The Barracks Thief, won the PEN/Faulkner Award. His memoir, This Boy's Life, was made into an award-winning movie.
434. YATES, Richard. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. NY: Vintage Contemporaries (1989). The first printing of the Vintage Contemporaries reissue of Yates's second book, a collection of stories originally published in 1962. A good example of the impact that a literary paperback publisher can have: Yates was widely admired among writers, and critically acclaimed, but his books never sold particularly well and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was out of print for many years before this edition. Fine in wrappers. Oddly scarce.
435. YOUNG, Marguerite. Angel in the Forest. NY: Reynal & Hitchcock (1945). The third printing of the first book by the author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, a "fairy tale of two utopias" -- two 19th century utopian communities in Indiana: Harmonie on the Wabash and New Harmony, which were dramatically different in their approaches to the question of human, and social, perfectibility. Inscribed by the author: "Marguerite Young for/ Marian Herzog, who has been/ an inspiring student of/ poetry and whose/ interest, I hope, will/ continue and develop -- / since great readers beget/ great writers -- and/ vice versa!" Foxing to page edges and sunning to cloth; very good in a very good dust jacket with several small edge and gutter tears. An uncommon book, especially so signed.