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486. SACKS, Oliver. The Island of the Colorblind. NY: Knopf, 1997. The advance reading copy. A nonfiction book recounting two trips he took to South Pacific islands in the course of his work as a neurologist. Fine in wrappers and signed by the author. In publisher's cardstock slipcase.
487. SALTER, James. Burning the Days. NY: Random House (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of Salter's memoir, published to extraordinary critical praise. Salter has been praised as a "writer's writer;" various authors have credited him with being the single most accomplished prose stylist in contemporary American literature. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
488. -. Same title, an advance issue consisting of 8 1/2" x 11" tapebound sheets. Signed by the author. Fine. Uncommon.
489. SALZMAN, Mark. Iron & Silk. NY: Random House (1986). The uncorrected proof copy of his highly acclaimed first book, a personal account of a trip to China to study with a martial arts master, one of the more perceptive accounts by a Westerner both of contemporary China and of the traditions that underlie it. Made into an improbably well-received movie, for which Salzman wrote the screenplay and played himself. Light, partial coffee cup ring front cover, and some minor creasing; very good in wrappers.
490. SARRIS, Andrew. Confessions of a Cultist: On the Cinema, 1955/1969. NY: Simon & Schuster (1970). The uncorrected proof copy of this volume of criticism by one of the most important film critics of his era, the developer and popularizer of the "auteur theory" of film criticism. Inscribed by Sarris. A fragile, padbound proof; the cover is detached, the title page is following. Good, in tall wrappers. Extremely scarce.
491. SAYLES, John. Pride of the Bimbos. Boston: Little Brown (1975). The uncorrected proof copy of the scarce first book, a baseball novel, by this author who is more well-known as a filmmaker than as a writer, although his books have received substantial critical praise. Sayles directed the film, Eight Men Out, about the Chicago "Black Sox" scandal. Spine-faded, with some modest corner creasing to covers and several pages; about near fine in wrappers.
492. SAYLES, John. Union Dues. Boston: Little Brown (1977). The uncorrected proof copy of his second novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Signed by the author. Very near fine in wrappers.
493. SCHAEFFER, Susan Fromberg. Falling. NY: Macmillan (1973). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's well-received first book, which was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 10 best novels of the year. Inscribed by the author. Covers dust-soiled; else fine in wrappers.
494. SCHELL, Jonathan. The Fate of the Earth. NY: Knopf, 1982. The uncorrected proof copy. An important essay that generated an enormous amount of coverage and some controversy when first published in The New Yorker. It is an extended reflection on, and study of, the fate of the earth in the wake of a nuclear war; its publication was the first time since John Hersey's famous account of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing in 1946 that The New Yorker devoted an entire issue to a single essay. Spine-sunned; near fine.
495. SCOTT, Joanna. The Closest Possible Union. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. The uncorrected proof copy of the second book by this author who has won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" as well as a Lannan Foundation award, and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Fine in wrappers.
496. SHAMES, Laurence. Tropical Depression. NY: Hyperion (1996). The advance reading copy of this Florida mystery by a writer who writes in the comic vein of Carl Hiaasen, Charles Willeford and Elmore Leonard. Fine in wrappers, and signed by the author.
497. SHEPARD, Lucius. Green Eyes. NY: Ace Science Fiction Books (1984). The uncorrected proof copy of the first book by this science fiction writer, a paperback original. Shepard won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer as a result of this book, and has since won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, science fiction's highest honors, and been nominated for the awards literally dozens of times. Inscribed by the author in 1986. Fine in wrappers.
498. SIGAL, Clancy. Zone of the Interior. NY: Crowell (1976). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel of psychological exploration an attempt to view the Sixties through the prism of the protagonist's interior landscape in the way that his earlier novel, Going Away, was an exploration of the outer, political landscape of the Fifties. Inscribed by the author with the suggestive comment, "Can we give this an assisted take-off?" Fine in tapebound wrappers.
499. SIMPSON, Mona. Anywhere But Here. NY: Knopf, 1987. The uncorrected proof copy of the first novel by this Granta 20 author, which was made into a well-received movie with Susan Sarandon. Shallow corner crease to rear panel; else fine in wrappers.
500. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and publisher's folding cardboard box.
501. SINCLAIR, Iain. Downriver. London: Paladin Grafton (1991). The uncorrected proof copy of this surreal novel exploring the hidden life surrounding the Thames River as it flows through, and out of, London. Sinclair is one of the most distinctive, and highly regarded, of the new generation of British writers, as well as being, by all accounts, a legendary book scout in his day. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Award, for best second novel. Fine in wrappers and proof dust jacket, which is near fine. Signed by the author.
502. SMILEY, Jane. Barn Blind. NY: Harper & Row (1980). The uncorrected proof copy of the first book by the highly-regarded author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres. Fine in wrappers with very slight spine fading. An unusual, square format proof, and a scarce state of an important first book.
503. SMILEY, Jane. At Paradise Gate. NY: Simon & Schuster (1981). The uncorrected proof copy of her second novel. Near fine in tall wrappers. Scarce.
504. SMILEY, Jane. Moo. NY: Knopf, 1995. The uncorrected proof copy of her highly acclaimed novel, which had an announced first printing of 100,000 copies. A trifle creased on the rear cover; still fine in wrappers.
505. SMITH, Dave. Onliness. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. The uncorrected proof copy of the only novel by this poet who has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has won awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among many others. Fragile padbound proof with front cover detaching; still near fine and signed by the author.
506. SMITH, Martin Cruz. Gorky Park. NY: Random House (1981). A bestselling thriller that was made into a well-received film; his breakthrough book. This is the extremely scarce uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. This title had a widely distributed advance reading copy, which went into two separate printings totaling 2500 copies. As a result, the proof is extremely uncommon: we've never seen another copy. Spine faded with tiny edge tears at the corners; still near fine in wrappers.
507. SMITH, Zadie. The Autograph Man. NY: Random House (2002). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of the second novel by the acclaimed and award-winning author of White Teeth. Fine in wrappers.
508. 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.
509. SONTAG, Susan. Brother Carl. NY: FSG (1974). The uncorrected proof copy of the screenplay for her second film, which premiered at Cannes in 1971. With an introduction by Sontag about the genesis of the film. Near fine in tall wrappers. Scarce.
510. SPEICHER, John. Looking for Baby Paradise. NY: Harcourt Brace (1967). The uncorrected proof copy of Speicher's first novel, with a long Thomas Pynchon blurb on the front cover and a Joseph Heller blurb on the rear cover. Spine-faded; near fine in wrappers.
511. STOKES, Terry. Crimes of Passion. NY: Knopf, 1973. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of poems. Fine in wrappers, and inscribed by the author in 1974.
512. 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. Uncorrected proof copy, this being the second issue proof, in gold-brown wrappers with a publisher's letter to booksellers reproduced on the front cover. Ink notes on rear cover; spine lean; near fine.
513. STONE, Robert. Children of Light. NY: Knopf, 1986. The uncorrected proof copy of the American edition of his fourth novel. 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. Signed by the author. Staple holes front cover from sheet of review quotes (now laid in); fine in wrappers.
514. STONE, Robert. Bear and His Daughter. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. His first collection of stories, spanning the years 1969 to 1997. 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.
515. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
516. (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. Light spine sunning; else fine in wrappers.
517. STOUT, Rex. Forest Fire. London: Faber & Faber (1934). The uncorrected proof copy of the first U.K. edition of Stout's fourth novel, and his last novel published before he introduced Nero Wolfe, the character for whom he is best known and has achieved something approaching literary immortality. This proof copy, of which no other example is known as best we can tell, was retrieved from the attic of Stout's home in Brewster, N.Y., after his death, and was presumably his own copy. Pages uncut. Darkening and edge-chipping to plain tan wrappers; one corner stain on rear cover. A tight, very good copy of this fragile and exceedingly scarce item.
518. STRETE, Craig Kee. Burn Down the Night. (n.p.): Warner Books (1982). The uncorrected proof copy of this autobiographical novel based on the author's relationship with Jim Morrison of The Doors. A near fine copy in wrappers of a book that came out only in softcover. Also, a significant volume on the Sixties by a Native American writer, like the two paperback originals by Jamake Highwater under the "J Marks" pseudonym. Strete has since become well-known, and collected, as a writer of science fiction and fantasy imbued with motifs taken from Native American legends, an interesting cross-cultural amalgam.
519. STYRON, William. Sophie's Choice. NY: Random House (1979). The uncorrected proof copy of his fifth novel, winner of the National Book Award. Made into a well-received film by Alan Pakula; Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the title character. One of the Modern Library's 100 best novels of the 20th century. Fine in wrappers. A scarce proof and because of its bulk one that seldom turns up in fine condition.
520. STYRON, William. A Tidewater Morning. NY: Random House (1993). The uncorrected proof copy. Three tales derived from his youth, and his first published fiction in a decade. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
521. SUKENICK, Ronald. Up. NY: Dial Press (1968). The advance reading copy of the first novel by this critically respected, innovative writer, publisher and educator, bound from untrimmed sheets of the first printing. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in self-wrappers.
522. SWIFT, Graham. Ever After. London: Picador/Pan (1992). The advance reading copy of this novel (called by the publisher "uncorrected book proof"), one of 30 numbered copies signed by the author. Winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book). Rubbed; near fine in wrappers. Scarce.
523. SWIFT, Graham. Last Orders. NY: Knopf, 1996. The advance reading copy of the first American edition. Winner of the Booker Prize. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and publisher's cardstock slipcase.