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210. SATTERTHWAIT, Walter. Wall of Glass. NY: St. Martin's (1987). The author's first book, a mystery novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and published to substantial critical acclaim. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
211. SATTERTHWAIT, Walter. Miss Lizzie. NY: St. Martin's (1989). A review copy of his scarce second book, based on the story of Lizzie Borden. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's promotional material laid in.
212. SATTERTHWAIT, Walter. Wilde West. NY: St. Martin's (1991). His fourth book, a novel derived from Oscar Wilde's tour of the American West in the late 19th century. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
213. SHAW, Irwin. The Last Tycoon. (n.p.): MGM, 1966. Shaw's screenplay of Fitzgerald's novel, never produced or published. Labeled as a first draft and dated March 15, 1966, and with a rubber stamp date on the front cover of April 4, 1966. A film of The Last Tycoon was produced, in 1976, with a Harold Pinter screenplay. Claspbound in stained MGM wrappers with front cover detached, but present; notwithstanding the detached cover, a very good copy. The name "R. Thacher" is written on the front cover: Russell Thacher was the associate producer of "Travels with My Aunt" in 1972 and the producer of "Soylent Green" in 1973. A significant item: a major American writer -- author of The Young Lions, among many others -- adapting a book by one of the great American writers of the 20th century, an adaptation that, short of surviving copies of the script, would never be documented in either author's literary oeuvre.
214. SHEPARD, Sam. Transfixion: (motel chronicles). (n.p.): (n.p.), 1981. Bound photocopied typescript of the book published as Motel Chronicles in 1982. Inscribed by the author: "John [Lion], thanks for the steady support/ Sam/ 4/82/ S.F." John Lion is a legendary figure in American theater: he founded the influential Magic Theatre in San Francisco in 1967 and directed many of its early, and most important, productions, including Ionesco's The Rescue and Michael McClure's plays, The Beard and GORF. Shepard joined the Magic Theatre in 1975 as its playwright in residence, and his plays Buried Child, True West and Fool for Love had their world premieres there during Lion's tenure as Artistic Director. Shepard's play La Turista had also had its West Coast debut at the Magic in 1971. Cal State Los Angeles named a New Plays Festival for Lion after he died in 1999, in memory of his contributions to theater and education. In 1983, Lion had a role in the film version of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, in which he played a Bell Aircraft Executive. Two versos in this typescript have a proposed speech for Lion's character written in Lion's hand -- a speech that was ultimately not used in the film. Near fine in bradbound pictorial wrappers. An excellent association copy of one of Shepard's major works, here in a prepublication form and inscribed to an important figure in his life and career, with the added benefit of a two-page holograph manuscript in Lion's hand which is otherwise unpublished and unrecorded. Books signed by Shepard are fairly uncommon; important association copies are scarce.
215. SIMON, Neil. Three from the Stage. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1995. Three plays by the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. This is the first publication of "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," and republishes one of the Tony Award winners, "Lost in Yonkers." Also includes "Jake's Women," and a previously unpublished introduction by Simon about the plays and their background. Signed by the author. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine.
216. SMILEY, Jane. A Thousand Acres. NY: Knopf, 1991. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
217. SMITH, Alexander McCall. Morality for Beautiful Girls. NY: Anchor Books (2002). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of the third book in the author's highly acclaimed series featuring the Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, located in Botswana, Africa. Signed by the author. The book was published in the U.S. as a paperback original, before the series' popularity skyrocketed, and prepublication copies are uncommon, especially signed. Slightly dust soiled; near fine in wrappers.
218. SMITH, Alexander McCall. Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. (NY): (Canongate) (2003). The advance reading copy of the first American edition. Signed by the author. Publication information partially inked out on rear cover; still fine in wrappers.
219. SOUTHERN, Terry. Flash and Filigree. NY: Coward-McCann (1958). The first American edition of the author's first book, this being the correct first issue in gray cloth (later, after the success of Candy and Dr. Strangelove, the sheets of this novel were bound up in cloth and boards and reissued). Inscribed by the author: "To Maxine with love and best wishes/ Terry S." Southern has also crossed out the first paragraph of the flap copy, which reads "This is an outrageously funny and all too accurate satire on American life which makes Evelyn Waugh's THE LOVED ONE seem a most conservative understatement." It's interesting, and suggestive, that Southern, never known for understatement, would have objected to this characterization by the publisher. Several years after this book was published, Southern collaborated with Christopher Isherwood on the script for the film adaptation of Waugh's novel. A little foxing to endpages; near fine in a very good dust jacket with modest surface soiling and multiple, if small, edge chips. Books signed by Southern are quite uncommon.
220. SOUTHERN, Terry. The Magic Christian. NY: Random House (1960). Southern's second novel to be published in this country, and the basis for the 1969 movie starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. Inscribed by the author to his longtime friend Nelson Lyon: "To the unspeakable great Nelson 'Big Nels' Lyon!! He has always been (perhaps) my best and truest friend, and God (certainly) knows the most powerful influence on my work and thinking to this darn point in time! May the Great Force protect the one I love./ Terry S." A remarkable inscription from a writer who was one of the key figures in American popular culture in the 1960s, creating or contributing to such iconic works as Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Barbarella and, of course, his novel with Mason Hoffenberg, Candy. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with staining to the rear flap fold and fading to the spine lettering. A remarkable inscription and an excellent association copy.
221. SOUTHERN, Terry and HOFFENBERG, Mason. "KENTON, Maxwell." Lollipop. Paris: Olympia Press (1962). The reissue of the pseudonymously published and banned Candy. Inscribed by Southern to Nelson Lyon: "To my dear grand Nels, this copy, which Bartel and others have dubbed 'fraud and double-fraud,' although it is not -- repeat not true) of my Lollipop for, as I say, a certain dear grand Nels Lyon, with unbounded warmth (OVERLEAF) and admiration/ Terry Southern." Candy -- under its own title and, for a time, under this title -- was called "the first comic pornographic novel" and, at one time, "the most talked about novel in America." Legal issues, including the attempt to ban the book as obscenity, made it perhaps the most frequently bootlegged title in 20th century American literature, with numerous unauthorized editions coming out during the period that the book was in legal limbo. It eventually sold millions of copies in America alone, in various editions. This French edition, in Maurice Girodias's Traveller's Companion series, predates all editions in the U.S. Faint spine creasing; near fine in wrappers. An excellent association copy of Southern's most famous book.
222. SOUTHERN, Terry. Autograph Letter Signed. Undated. Written to Nelson Lyon, transmitting copies (not present) of a reading Southern gave in Texas and describing in extravagant, hilarious, and scatalogical detail Southern's perceptions of his Texas audience's perceptions of him. A full page, written on Columbia University stationery, and signed, "Ter." Folded in fourths; else fine. A good letter, typifying Southern's over-the-top satiric sensibilities.
223. STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. NY: Covici Friede (1937). Steinbeck's classic short novel of a couple of hobos drifting during the Depression, which has twice been translated to the screen. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. This is the first issue, with "pendula" on page 9 and a bullet between the "8's" on page 88. Edge darkening to cloth; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped and spine-tanned dust jacket with shelf wear at the heel. A very nice copy of one of Steinbeck's key books.
224. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. NY: Viking (1939). The greatest novel by this Nobel Prize winner, one of the greatest American novels ever, and the great American novel of the Depression era. Steinbeck fused social consciousness with literary artistry in a particularly American and individualistic way, refusing to allow his writing to become doctrinaire the way a number of the proletarian novelists of the Thirties did; the body of Steinbeck's work has stood the test of time considerably better than that of most of his contemporaries, especially those who tackled the same social issues that he did. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the basis for an Oscar-winning film in 1940. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a little loss of crispness to the top edge. An exceptionally nice copy of a book that shows wear readily, usually in the form of fraying to the jacket and/or sunning to the spine. This copy has neither of those flaws and is crisp and bright and is exceedingly scarce thus. One of the nicest copies we've ever seen of this book. In custom folding chemise and slipcase.
225. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. A review copy of his first book, a novel of drifters in New Orleans in the early Sixties caught up in the web of a quasi-religious political machine. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel of the year as well as a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket -- completely lacking the rubbing that typically afflicts this title, or the fading to the spine lettering -- with review slip laid in. A beautiful copy of an important first book, unmemorably filmed as WUSA in 1970, with a cast that included Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins.
226. STONE, Robert. Outerbridge Reach. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. The first trade edition of Stone's first bestseller. Chosen by the New York Times as one of the dozen best books of the year, covering all categories, and nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket.