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180. SERLING, Rod. "I am the Night - Color Me Black." Colorado Springs: Gauntlet, 2005. A chapbook designed as a promotional piece for Gauntlet's As Timeless as Infinity, but with material "exclusive to this publication." This is the second chapbook in the series and shows two drafts of three scenes of the above Twilight Zone episode. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Fine in stapled wrappers.
181. (Sixties). HUNTER, Robert. The Storming of the Mind. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. A collection of essays on the "Consciousness Revolution" created by psychedelic drug use and fostered by rock music and other aspects of the 1960s counterculture. This is a complimentary copy, with Doubleday stamp on pastedown and a Compliments of Doubleday slip laid in, with the handwritten name of Dick McCullough, possibly of John Wiley & Sons. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at the crown.
182. (Sixties). LEITCH, Donovan. The Autobiography of Donovan, the Hurdy Gurdy Man. NY: St. Martin's (2005). The autobiography of the folk singer who, in the 1960s, was said to be the British answer to Bob Dylan. Signed by the author. Donovan -- he was known by the one name -- wrote some of the most popular and memorable songs of the 1960s, and was friends with the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Dylan, and others, including Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. Donovan wrote some of the lyrics for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"; he is credited with originating "Celtic rock"; and he was the first Western musician to play a sitar in a rock concert. After becoming a world-famous celebrity, he turned his back on the music industry and essentially disappeared from public view for nearly four decades. The publication of this book coincided with the issuing, on CD, of a career retrospective box set of music and videos. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
183. (Sixties) VONNEGUT, Kurt and BIJOU, Bob. Consider It Among Friends. Vancouver: Poppin Publications, 1970. A small press production in which Bijou's black-and-white photographs are accompanied by text from Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, for an upbeat late 60's/early 70's feel. A bit of sunning, small chip threatening at base of spine; near fine in wrappers. By all appearances, quite scarce.
184. (Sixties). Outlaws of Amerika. Communiques from the Weather Underground. (NY): (Liberated Guardian)(1971). Pamphlet printing numerous articles about actions taken by the Weather Underground during their first year of existence, including a number of the most famous acts of political violence from the Sixties era-the bombing of the Marin Country courthouse; the burning of the Bank of America at Isla Vista; and more-including the escape of Timothy Leary from jail, which was aided by members of the Weather Underground. Pages darkening, a couple small stains to covers; still near fine in stapled wrappers.
185. SNYDER, Gary; WELCH, Lew; WHALEN, Philip. Broadside Set. (San Francisco): (Four Seasons Foundation)(1963-1964). Three broadsides: Gary Snyder's Nanao Knows, Lew Welch's Step Out Onto the Planet, and Philip Whalen's Three Mornings. [McNeil A7.] Each reproduced by photo-offset from the author's own calligraphy and printed in an edition of 300 copies on the occasion of a reading by the three poets at Longshoreman's Hall, San Francisco, June 12, 1964. Each broadside is signed by its author. Snyder, Welch and Whalen first met when they attended Reed College, a progressive school in Oregon; the friends later became three of the most influential poets of the Beat generation. Don Carpenter, a friend of Richard Brautigan and an important figure in the Bay Area literary scene, organized the Free Way Reading with the three poets; Don Allen, another key figure in the Bay Area literary scene -- his nascent publishing company, the Four Seasons Foundation, would later publish both Snyder and Brautigan -- printed the broadsides to commemorate the reading. An important occasion, linking three key poets of their time. Welch disappeared in the Santa Cruz mountains in 1971; Snyder found a suicide note at his camp, but no body was ever found and his fate remains one of the mysteries of that time. Each broadside is 9 1/2" x 12 1/2", and mildly sunned as though previously framed; near fine. A nice set.
186. SNYDER, Gary. Turtle Island. (NY): New Directions (1974). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Inscribed by Snyder to Peter Matthiessen: "For Peter Matthiessen/ I almost feel this book is part of your work (with deep respects)/ Gary." Moderate rubbing and staining to covers; very good in wrappers. A wonderful inscription and an excellent association copy.
187. SNYDER, Gary. A Place in Space. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds. Washington, DC: Counterpoint (1995). The hardcover edition of this collection of prose -- essays, articles and talks. Inscribed by Snyder to poet Clayton Eshleman in 1996. Snyder has also written, "when you find your place practice begins." Eshleman's annotations to the text in a number of places. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice inscription and a nice association: Eshleman and Snyder are two of the contemporary poets who have shared an interest in archaic arts and ethnopoetics.
188. SNYDER, Gary. Mountains and Rivers Without End. Washington, DC: Counterpoint (1996). The first publication of the complete sequence of poems under this title, which Snyder began in 1956 and of which sections had been published over the years in literary magazines and a chapbook in the early 1960s. Inscribed by Snyder to poet Clayton Eshleman and his wife in the year of publication: "For Caryl and Clayton '...the foolish loving spaces full of heart.' 17.XI.96. To be together feasting in Ypsilanti... Gary Snyder." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
189. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. From the library of Clayton Eshleman, and with Eshleman's notes in the text. A hint of spine sunning, else fine in wrappers.
190. -. Same title, a French-language edition, Montagnes et Rivières sans fin. (Monaco): Êditions du Rocher (2002). Inscribed by Snyder to Clayton [Eshleman] in Kitkitdizze, Snyder's home, in 2002. Fine in wrappers, with a snapshot of Snyder -- outdoors, with backpack, smiling -- laid in.
191. SNYDER, Gary. Danger on Peaks. Washington, DC: Shoemaker Hoard (2004). A collection of poems. Inscribed by Snyder to Peter Matthiessen in the year of publication, with "gracias," and the quote: "If you ask for help it comes/ but not in any way you'd ever know." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
192. (SNYDER, Gary). SCOTT, Peter Dale. Coming to Jakarta. A Poem about Terror. (NY): New Directions (1989). A single long poem by Scott, 150 pages, heavy with political and historical material revolving around the uprisings and massacre in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, and extensively footnoted to that effect. No Snyder contribution, but this copy has a gift inscription by Snyder [as Gary] to Clayton E. [Eshleman] in Oakland in 1993. Fine in wrappers.
193. (SNYDER, Gary). Two Announcements for Readings. 1992 and 1996. The first announcement is for a poetry reading by Snyder at Eastern Michigan University (where Clayton Eshleman taught for many years). Includes a brief Snyder bio. One sheet folded to make four pages, then folded again; near fine. The second piece is an invitation (in French) for a reading/lecture (in English) by Snyder and Eshleman in Paris in 1996 at La Librairie a tire-d'ailes. 8 1/4" x 4. Fine. Nice documentation of a small part of the history these two poets have shared. For both:
194. SORRENTINO, Gilbert. Steelwork. (NY): Pantheon (1970). The uncorrected proof copy of his second novel, which chronicles the changes, and breakdown, of a Brooklyn neighborhood from the 1930s to the 1950s, the period of the author's own childhood in Brooklyn. Inscribed by the author to a well known bookseller and book collector. The text reproduces corrections, or intended corrections, to layout. A padbound proof: the front cover is detached but present, thus only a good copy. A scarce proof and especially scarce signed.
195. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. 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. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in a very good, lightly foxed dust jacket with a creased tear to the lower rear panel. Basis for the film WUSA (the call letters of the right-wing radio station that figures prominently in the book), starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins.
196. STONE, Robert. Death of the Black-Haired Girl. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. A novel that uses the form of a police procedural -- the inquiry into a college student's accidental death -- to inquire about larger issues of faith, love and accountability, as well as madness and the ability to deceive oneself. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with one scratch on the front panel. Stone did not sign many copies of this book.
197. STOPPARD, Tom. Rough Crossing. London: Faber and Faber (1985). The hardcover edition of Stoppard's adaptation of Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle. Mild age toning to pages, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce in the hardcover edition.
198. STOPPARD, Tom. "Galileo" in Areté. (Oxford): Areté (2003). The full text of Stoppard's previously unpublished 1970 screenplay, published here as the entire Issue 11 of Areté, with a contemporary introduction by Stoppard. Fine in self-wrappers. Although known primarily as a playwright, Stoppard was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brazil in 1985, and he won the Academy Award for the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love, in 1998.
199. STRAUB, Peter. Open Air. Shannon: Irish University Press (1972). A chapbook, the author's second book, after another chapbook earlier the same year. Inscribed by the author: "For ______ - Here's a rare item for your collection. All best, Peter Straub," with the bookplate of another author on the half title. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Scarce.
200. STRAYED, Cheryl. "Fear...," Wild Broadside. (n.p.): [Knopf], [2012]. A broadside excerpt from her acclaimed and bestselling memoir, Wild, which was made into a well-received film. "Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story... Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid." No publication information, but reportedly issued by Knopf, and illustrated with the one hiking boot from the cover of the book. This copy is signed by Strayed. 8 1/2" x 11". Framed; fine.
201. (STYRON, William). DU PLESSIX GRAY, Francine. Lovers & Tyrants. NY: Simon & Schuster (1976). William Styron's copy of the uncorrected proof. Signed by Styron on the title page. Styron provided a blurb for the novel, calling it, "A novel of extraordinary richness and power. Sensual, witty, vividly evocative in every sentence. A fine book which achieves the real texture of life so often absent from fiction, and as such is not only entirely satisfying but resonantly memorable." Heavily foxed covers and fragile, tall padbound wrappers, with the cover detaching. A good copy.