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191. SHEPARD, Sam. Operation Sidewinder. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1970). A review copy of this play in two acts, his third published book. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with the review slip laid in. Bobbs-Merrill library stamp to the top edge of text block. A beautiful copy, with review slip (giving publication date as September 30, 1970) and the stamp of the publisher's own library.
192. SIBERRY, Jane. Swan. (Toronto): (Sheeba) (1998). Three poems by the Canadian chanteuse and songwriter, best-known for "Calling All Angels." Noted on back cover as "Siberry Book Number One." Signed by the artist as Jane Siberry, before selling all her possessions except for one guitar and her Miles Davis collection and changing her name to Issa. Spiralbound, illustrated, fine in cardstock covers.
193. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Elijah the Slave. NY: FSG (1970). A children's book by the Nobel Prize-winning author, illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Inscribed by Singer: "To David and Joseph and to their charming parents and grandparents with love/ Isaac Bashevis Singer/ Nov 28 1970." An exceptionally warm inscription; the children to whom it is inscribed were grandchildren of the painter Raphael Soyer, a longtime friend and neighbor of Singer. Upper corner tapped; else fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a little rubbing to the folds and corners and two edge tears on the rear panel.
194. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Why Noah Chose the Dove. NY: FSG, 1974. A children's book, illustrated by Eric Carle. Inscribed by Singer: "To David, Joseph and Catherine, the grandchildren of my dear friends Raphael and Rebecca [Soyer] with my love/ Isaac B. Singer/ June 4 1974." A touch of sunning to the spine crown; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
195. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. A Young Man in Search of Love. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. The limited edition, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author and with a color print laid in signed by Raphael Soyer, the book's illustrator. This is copy number 8 and is from the library of Raphael Soyer, the artist. It would appear that he created a hybrid of sorts: the book is lacking the slipcase that the limited edition was issued with, and instead has a dust jacket from the trade edition around it. The spine is sunned, as is frequently the case with this limited edition, so it is easy to speculate that Soyer, to prevent further sunning to the cloth, discarded the slipcase and put the protective jacket on. In any event, it is a notable copy of this collaboration between the two friends. Singer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. This is the second of the three volumes of memoirs that comprise the closest thing he wrote to an autobiography.
196. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Power of Light. NY: FSG (1980). Eight stories for Hanukkah, illustrated by Irene Lieblich. Inscribed by both the author and the illustrator to Raphael Soyer and his wife Rebecca. Singer's inscription is particularly heartfelt: "To my great friend Raphael Soyer with admiration and love. Also to Rebecca with my wishes for health and happiness. Isaac B. Singer, Oct 10 1980." Further inscribed: "And from us to Katherine with lots and lots of love/ Rebecca and Raphael." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few edge tears. A wonderful set of associations and inscriptions.
197. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Lost in America. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. The limited edition of the third volume of his memoirs. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author and with a color print laid in signed by Raphael Soyer, the book's illustrator. From the library of Raphael Soyer and, like the limited edition of A Young Man in Search of Love, Soyer has discarded the slipcase and covered the book with a dust jacket from the trade edition. Apparently he did this sooner than he did for the earlier title, as the spine here is unfaded. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corners. A nice copy with excellent provenance.
198. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Love and Exile. Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. Collects A Little Boy in Search of God, A Young Man in Search of Love and Lost in America. With a new introduction, "The Beginning," by Singer. Inscribed by the author to the artist Raphael Soyer: "To Raphael with love and admiration for his great talent and his great character/ Isaac/ Nov 13 1984." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip at the upper edge.
199. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Stories for Children. NY: FSG (1984). Collects most of Singer's children's stories, many of which appear here for the first time in book form. With a new introduction and epilogue by Singer. Inscribed by the author: "To my great friend Raphael Soyer with love and gratitude for being himself. Isaac B. Singer/ Nov 29 1984." Front pastedown no longer fully pasted down; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
200. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Image and Other Stories. London: Cape (1986). The first British edition. Inscribed by the author: "To Raphael Soyer with admiration for his old and new masterpieces. Isaac B. Singer." Page edges darkening, else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear.
201. (Sixties). Revolutionary Consciousness. (n.p.): (n.p.), c. 1966. An early counterculture publication, predating the Summer of Love and the height of the cultural and political upheavals of the late Sixties, this was one of the Rebel Worker pamphlets and in some measure predates the split between the cultural and political rebellions of the Sixties and beyond. Prints Jim Evrard's "Consciousness & Theory" and reprints Lawrence Decoster's "Return to Anarchy," Walter Caughery's "Reflections on Invisibility" and Gaston Bachelard's "Surrationalism." Also includes several excerpts from Paul Reps's Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. The cover is a drawing of Bugs Bunny (or a lookalike) with a tommygun. Among the other publications offered at the end of the text are Mods, Rockers & the Revolution, a 1965 collection of articles "on the youth revolt," and Surrealism & Revolution, a collection of "mostly otherwise-unobtainable-in-English theoretical texts and manifestoes..." A cheap production, but save for some rust to the staples, fine in stapled printed paper front cover.
202. SMITH, Alexander McCall. Blue Shoes and Happiness. NY: Pantheon (2006). The uncorrected proof copy, a novel in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series featuring Precious Ramotswe and set in Botswana -- an unlikely bestselling series that as of the publication of this volume had six million copies in print in the U.S. alone. Fine in wrappers.
203. SMITH, Ali. Like. NY: Harcourt Brace (1998). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of her first novel, second book. Fine in wrappers. Her following two novels, Hotel World and The Accidental, were each shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
204. SMITH, Tom Robb. Child 44. NY: Grand Central Publishing (2008). The advance reading copy of his debut novel, which caused considerable buzz beginning in April 2007 when it was optioned to Fox 2000 for a film to be directed by Ridley Scott. Set in Stalinist Russia, the plot involves a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague for treason and stumbles on a series of child murders which he attempts to solve despite being on the run for his life. Slight crease upper edge; still fine in wrappers.
205. SNYDER, Gary. Earth House Hold. (NY): New Directions (1969). Essays on spirituality and the natural world. A fine copy in a fine parchment dust jacket, an unusual production and the nicest copy of it we have seen. Their were only 2500 copies printed. An influential book: Snyder, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, here writes essays journals on spirituality and ecology -- "earth house hold" being a play on the roots words of ecology. A seminal text of the environmental movement and, in particular, the notion of Deep Ecology.
206. SNYDER, Gary. Regarding Wave. Iowa City: Windhover Press (1969). A collection of poetry, done as a fine press, limited edition, one of 280 numbered copies signed by the author. A trade edition was published by New Directions the following year with two additional sections, and visually produced as a companion volume to Earth House Hold. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. A beautiful copy and an important book in Snyder's oeuvre.
207. SPENCER, Scott. Men in Black. NY: Knopf, 1995. A novel by the author of Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball and Endless Love, among others. Blurbs by Richard Price and Robert Olen Butler. Inscribed by Spencer to another writer: "Your writing is my inspiration." Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association copy.
208. STEGNER, Wallace. The Spectator Bird. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. The first trade edition of his National Book Award-winning novel. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "For Harry and Carol Shlaudeman, remembered and missed. Wallace Stegner/ Atherton, May 2, 1976." Harry Shlaudeman was then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He was later Ambassador to Nicaragua and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tanning to boards; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A nice copy of a cheaply made book, and an excellent association copy.
209. 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. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with offsetting to the flaps.
210. STOPPARD, Tom. Night and Day. London: Faber and Faber (1978). The simultaneous wrappered edition of this play about two war correspondents in a fictional African country during a rebellion. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the year. Signed by the author. Fine.
211. STYRON, William. Lie Down in Darkness. Boston: Calliope, 1963. A 33 1/3 RPM long play record (albeit only 7", the size of a typical 45 RPM) of Styron reading from his first book, a well-received autobiographical novel that was nominated for the National Book Award. Fine in a wrinkled inner sleeve and a near fine, mildly rubbed outer sleeve with the $1.95 price lowered to $.35. The notes on the outer sleeve report that Styron's guest house, where this reading was recorded, was the place where James Baldwin, Philip Roth, and James Jones had all completed recent books.
212. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Kingdom of Fear. NY: Simon & Schuster (2003). Subtitled "Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century." Nonfiction; essays and memoirs. Signed by the author, with an added heart and arrow. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very uncommon book to find signed; Thompson was volatile at best, seldom made himself available for large-scale signings, and signed copies rarely appear on the market. $1000
213. (THOMPSON, Hunter). STEADMAN, Ralph and VONNEGUT, Kurt. The Joke's Over. Memories of Hunter S. Thompson. London: Heinemann and Orlando: Harcourt (2006). Two volumes: the first British edition and the first American edition of this memoir of the nearly four-decade Thompson/Steadman collaboration. Each volume is signed by Steadman and dated 2006 and signed by Vonnegut with a self-caricature. Vonnegut provides the foreword. Fine copies in fine dust jackets, housed together in a custom clamshell case made by the artist Joe Petro, who makes several appearances in the text.
214. TICE, George A. Photographs 1953-1973. New Brunswick: Rutgers (1975). The hardcover issue. Signed by Tice. A little sunning to edges of endpages; very near fine in a slightly age-toned dust jacket. Announcement of a 1984 show laid in, with a 1982 review. A very nice copy of this retrospective work.
215. TILGHMAN, Christopher. In a Father's Place. NY: FSG (1990). His first book, a well-received collection of stories. Signed by the author on the title page and also inscribed by Tilghman to another writer, and with the recipient's signature as well. Small foredge stain, else fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association copy.
216. TUROW, Scott. Limitations. NY: Picador (2006). The advance reading copy of this legal mystery, issued as a paperback original and first serialized in the New York Times Magazine, a throwback to the kind of publishing that took place in the 19th century when new books by popular writers such as Charles Dickens appeared in serial form over several months. Fine in wrappers.
217. TWAIN, Mark. The Oxford Mark Twain. NY/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. The signed limited edition of this 29 volume set; one of 300 sets printed. These volumes were created as facsimiles of the first editions, at least in their pages, presenting Twain to the contemporary world with the same look that he first appeared in his own time. The publisher did not try to reproduce the elaborately decorated covers, however, reportedly because of the cost involved in doing so. Signed by series editor Shelley Fisher Fishkin and also signed by the 58 people who provided introductions and afterwords to each volume, including Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Gore Vidal, Cynthia Ozick, George Plimpton, Ward Just, Erica Jong, Ursula LeGuin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Russell Banks, Frederick Busch, Walter Mosley, Erica Jong, and many others, both literary figures (who provided the introductions) and Twain scholars (who provided the afterwords). The set is fine in fine jackets. A massive production, and beautifully executed, with original contributions by some of the best writers of our time; very scarce now.
218. TYLER, Anne. The Clock Winder. NY: Knopf, 1972. The uncorrected proof copy of her fourth book. Scarce: only the second copy we've ever seen, and we've never seen any earlier proofs of hers on the market. Literary agency stamp to half title and final page of text. Spine slanted and creased; some foxing to covers and page edges; still at least very good in wrappers and protected by a custom clamshell case.
219. (Ubu Gallery). An Art of Wondering. The King Ubu Gallery 1952-1953. Davis: Natsoulas Noveloz, 1989. Catalog of a retrospective exhibition, with an introduction by the curator, Christopher Wagstaff. Featuring work by Jess Collins, Elmer Bischoff, Brock Brockway and Lyn Brown Brockway, Edward Corbett, Roy De Forest, Robert Duncan, Norris Embry, Lilly Fenichel, Sonia Gechtoff, Miriam Hoffman, Harry Jacobus, Adelie Landis, Seymour Locks, Clair Mahl, Madeleine Dimond Martin, David Moore, Philip Roeber and Hassel Smith. The gallery was co-founded by Jess Collins and was later renamed the Six Gallery and was the site of Allen Ginsberg's first reading of "Howl." Near fine in stapled wrappers.
220. UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. NY: Knopf, 1959. His third book and first collection of stories. A fine copy in a near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket. A very nice copy of one of his early books, and possibly his hardest book to find in fine condition.
221. -. Another copy. Fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. Again, a very nice copy, and very scarce thus.
222. UPDIKE, John. Pigeon Feathers. Boston: Calliope, 1963. A 33 1/3 RPM long play record (albeit only 7", the size of a typical 45 RPM) of Updike reading from Pigeon Feathers. 17:08 minutes, reading "Lifeguard," which Updike also recorded on his longer record Centaur. From the back sleeve: "'It's not really a voice at all,' he remarked upon hearing his first reading played back: 'it's just a gravelly whisper.'" Fine in a fine inner sleeve and a very near fine, mildly rubbed sleeve.
223. UPDIKE, John. Telephone Poles and Other Poems. NY: Knopf, 1963. Long galleys of his second collection of poems, measuring approx. 24" x 6". 45 galley sheets, folded once, with the publisher's label on the outer sheet with misprinted title ("Telephone Poles and Other Stories") corrected by hand. Price and publication date indicated with "?." The galleys differ from the published book in a number of significant, substantive ways: at least one poem was removed and at least two others added prior to publication. One poem was retitled. The order of the poems was changed. And, most notably, the galley has a section of "Notes" about the poems at the end, running to four pages long, with Updike's comments on a number of the poems, that was removed from the book prior to publication. A few nicks and tears at the edges of the sheets, particularly the top sheet; some sunning at the fold; remains of a rubber band on the rear of the top sheet; still at least very good. A ringbound proof was produced for this title, using galley sheets like these as its basis; this then is the earliest state of the book to have appeared in the market as far as we can tell, preceding the bound proofs that were derived from the galleys.
224. UPDIKE, John. Acceptance Speech for the National Book Award for The Centaur. [NY]: [National Book Awards], 1964. Two mimeographed pages, printing the text of Updike's speech of March 10, 1964, and issued together with an author photo, mimeographed reviews and a mimeographed bio, and a press release for the just published Fawcett paperback edition. All paperclipped together at the top; else fine. An interesting collection of materials; our understanding is that these were given to attendees of the award ceremony and the means of production -- mimeograph -- is a self-limiting one, the "masters" wearing out after a limited number of copies are produced. The Fawcett press release includes interesting figures for the sales of earlier Updike books in their paperback editions at that point in time. Among the novels that Updike's The Centaur beat out for the award that year was Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V. All paperclipped together at the top; else fine.
225. UPDIKE, John. Golf Dreams. NY: Knopf, 1996. A review copy of this collection of short pieces about golf, some of them taken from his novels, the rest from magazines. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with review slip laid in.
226. -. Same title, the large print edition. According to the publisher, this is one of 500 copies signed by the author, and thus the only signed, limited edition of this title. Fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket with the publisher's "Signed by the Author" label.
227. UPDIKE, John. Of Prizes and Print. NY: Knopf, 1998. "Remarks delivered on the occasion of his receiving the 1998 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters." One of 5000 copies printed for friends of the author and publisher and not offered for sale. Fine in stapled self-wrappers. This copy includes the card from Sonny Mehta, Knopf's President and Editor-in-Chief, presenting the booklet as a New Year's greeting. Knopf envelope also included. While not an uncommon item, it is moderately scarce with the publisher's card and envelope.
228. UPDIKE, John. Terrorist. NY: Knopf, 2006. Two versions of the advance reading copy. One copy is the more common state in pictorial wrappers. The other copy has additional prelims and black wrappers with white lettering. Each copy is fine in wrappers. For the two:
229. (UPDIKE, John). MASO, Carole. Ava. (Normal): Dalkey Archive Press (1993). Maso's third book, a novel constructed of memories in the mind of a dying woman. Inscribed by the author: "For John Updike, with great admiration - Carole Maso 1993." In the title essay of her collection Break Every Rule, Maso, in commenting on gay and lesbian portrayals of desire in literature, asks, "why when we write...does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing? Oh not in the specifics -- but in the formal assumptions...does form imply a value system?" A nice inscription to a writer at the cultural and publishing center from a writer at the edge. Fine in a fine dust jacket.