Catalog 176

NY, Harper & Row, (1982). Zwinger, winner of the John Burroughs Medal, and Teale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, collaborated on this book about the two rivers that join to form the Concord River, beloved by Thoreau. This copy is signed by Zwinger. A landmark collaboration by two of the most respected naturalists writing at the time. Zwinger, whose writings had generally been about the West, was president of the Thoreau Society at the time this book was published. Foredge foxing and shallow loss of color to boards; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear at the crown and a small sticker removal abrasion on the front panel. [#036489] $300

NY, Harper & Row, (1972). First printing (full number line at rear of book) of Zwinger's second book, following Beyond the Aspen Grove, and preceding her John Burroughs Medal winning book Run, River, Run. This title is a guide to alpine tundra in the U.S. and features 24 color plates and 230 of Zwinger's line drawings. Inscribed by Zwinger and signed by Willard in 1978. Multiple instances of faint highlighting in text, thus very good in a very good, lightly edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket. [#036442] $275

NY, Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, 1933-1937. 39 programs for performances of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1933-1937. 24 are for performances at Carnegie Hall; 15 are for summer performances at Lewisohn Stadium. The 24 Carnegie Hall programs date from 1933-1936: 22 of them are from the 94th Season, and half of these feature Toscanini conducting (the other two are from the 92nd and 95th seasons). The 15 Lewisohn Stadium programs ("Stadium Concerts Reviews") date mostly from 1935-1937 (with one from 1933). Some of these bear notations, but are near fine or better in stapled wrappers. The condition of the Carnegie Hall programs is more mixed: about half are near fine; one has insect damage; one is missing half of the first page; a few are dirty; and several have notations, including the March 5-6, 1936 program with a cover that bears the words "Performance Cancelled; Requiem Not Performed." [#036002] $400

(NY), Aperture, (1979). A volume in Aperture's History of Photography series. This copy is inscribed by the screenwriter Lloyd Fonvielle, who provides the introduction, to film critic Pauline Kael, in 1981. The introduction comprises the entire text of the volume, other than the appendices; the rest of the book reproduces Evans's photographs, without caption. Light foxing to prelims; near fine in boards, without dust jacket, as issued. [#035974] $350

Albuquerque/Reno, I Think I Hear Camels Coming, 1965-1966. The first six issues of this little poetry magazine edited by Richard Morris, which ran at least nine issues: a second series was started in 1972. Contributors include d.a. levy, Paul Blackburn, Clarence Major, John Sinclair, Fielding Dawson, Theodore Enslin, Margaret Randall, Clayton Eshleman, Judson Crews, and Larry Eigner, among others. All but #4 have mailing information on the rear cover (and #3 also has an address stamped on the front cover). The lot is otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. [#036444] $250

(Oxford), Privately Printed, 1929. The second volume of poetry by the Rev. George Bird. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, with an autograph note from the author to the recipient tipped to the front flyleaf. Laid in is a retained copy of a thank you note from the recipient to Bird, which elaborates on their friendship. Foxing to pages, thus only a very good copy. Hardbound, without dust jacket, presumably as issued. Six copies in OCLC. [#036003] $125

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1961. Dugan's first book, a volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. This copy is signed by Dugan on the title page. In addition, although Dugan dedicated all of his books to his wife Judith [Shahn], on this copy Dugan has amended the dedication page to read "[For Judy] and my mother and in memory of my father". As this was not an indication of a future textual change (the second printing continues to say only "For Judy,") it appears this was Dugan's mother's copy and reverted to him, as it was with Dugan's own archive after he died. Fine in a fair dust jacket, which is not only inexpertly taped back together after a full length split at the rear spine fold, but re-taped inside-out such that the author photo and rear jacket flap are now on the verso. A noteworthy copy of a highly praised first book. [#036445] $450

NY, Dial Pres, (1969). Poetry by the musical artist, her first book, published when she was only 18 years old but already a major star as a result of her controversial hit single, "Society's Child," about an interracial love affair, written and first recorded when she was 14 years old. Near fine in a very good, mildly rubbed dust jacket with one closed edge tear and a shallow water stain at the lower edge of the rear panel. [#036488] $300

Highlands, Jonathan Williams, 1958. The "Author's Edition" of this early collection of poetry, her fourth book, printed as Jargon 19. One of 50 copies, of a total edition of 500. While the remains of this edition were later, in 1964, signed by Levertov on the front flap of the dust jacket and sold as a signed limited edition, this copy is without jacket, probably as issued in 1958, and is instead inscribed by Levertov: "Love to Don from Denise" on the first blank -- an actual "author's copy," as the colophon states. Fine in plain white wrappers. A Levertov, and Jargon, rarity. [#023539] $300

(Sydney), (Thinking Fisherman Publications), (1993). The first separate publication of this poem by the Australian writer, originally included in his first book in 1970. Issued here as Number 1 in the Paperback Poets series: one of a limited edition of only 100 copies. Illustrated by and signed by noted Australian artist Noel McKenna. Creasing to pages; near fine in wrappers, in a fine dustwrapper. [#022988] $375

NY, Sunbury Press, (1975). Her first book, a self-illustrated poetry collection. One of the earlier volumes published by Virginia Scott's feminist press, which operated out of the Bronx from 1973-1986. One small coffee spot on the front cover, else fine in stapled wrappers. [#036004] $100

[Berkeley], Maidu Press, [c. 1973]. "A Maidu Free Poem" broadside of the title poem of Piercy's 1973 collection. This version has one small change from the book version published in 1973 (there were several more changes in later versions). The edition of this broadside is unstated, but the broadside is marked as "1/ ." The only other Maidu Free Poems we are aware of are a 1971 Gary Snyder broadside, "Swimming Naked in the Yuba River," and "I Saw the Green Yuba Flow" by Franco Beltrametti. The Snyder was done in an edition of 200 copies. Maidu Press was the creation of two of Snyder's neighbors and friends, Steve Sanfield and Dale Pendell, both of them poets living on the San Juan Ridge, as Snyder was. This broadside reproduces calligraphy by Snyder, according to the Snyder bibliography. The presence of a blacked out mistake in the last line of the first stanza and the backward limitation (the copy number specified but not the number of copies, rather than vice versa) combine to suggest this is a trial copy or an unused or proof copy. We have no evidence that the edition was ever done: the Piercy bibliography lists no Maidu Press publication and OCLC shows no copies held in institutional libraries. A scarce, virtually unknown collaboration between Piercy and Snyder, both of them major American poets of the postwar era, and both associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond. 8-1/2" x 11", on heavy orange paper. One tiny lower corner bend; still fine. [#036504] $350

London, Elkin Mathews, 1905. Volume 23 in the Vigo Cabinet Series. Inscribed by the author on the front cover, prior to publication. Additional pencil mark to cover; spine and edge-darkened wrappers; a very good copy. [#036005] $250

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1978). First thus: a collection of nature poetry first published in 1970 but re-issued here with illustrations by Kazue Mizumura. Inscribed by Zolotow: "For Rebecca/ Lucky wishes/ Charlotte Zolotow." Zolotow, a prolific author of children's books, also holds the distinction of being the person who first recognized the genius of Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy, while working at Harper & Brothers. Near fine in a very good, lightly foxed dust jacket. [#036496] $125

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1935. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize, after winning the Harper Prize for best first novel, as judged by Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Canfield, and Louis Bromfield. Foxing to the boards and edges of the text block; a very good copy in a good dust jacket, chipped along the upper edge and spine crown and splitting at the folds. One of the more uncommon Pulitzer Prize novels, with a fragile dust jacket. [#035973] $350

NY, Morrow, 1971. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this novel about "dicing" or "dice living" (living life according to the roll of the die). Rhinehart is Cockcroft's pen name, and also the name of the main character in the book, leading to ambiguity as to whether it was fiction or not when it was first published. Such ambiguity did not help its early sales, but over time the book has become a cult classic, selling over two million copies and positing the idea that substituting a throw of the dice for the normal criteria for decision-making contains a germ of wisdom about living life. Creasing to the faded spine from binder's glue; corner crease rear cover; near fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof. [#036239] $250

Berkeley, Last Gasp, 1970. The first issue (blue and purple background on cover) of the first comic produced entirely by women: Trina Robbins, Barbara "Willy" Mendes, "Hurricane" Nancy Kalish, Carole Kalish, Lisa Lyons, Meredith Kurtzman, and Michele Brand. This comic was a spin off from the first feminist newspaper, also called It Ain't Me Babe, which was started by Berkeley Women's Liberation earlier in 1970. After the comic had gone through several printings, Last Gasp began publishing Wimmen's Comix, which ran for 20 years. Some toning to the pages; a bit of rubbing to the front cover; near fine. [#036446] $350

Berkeley, Celestial Arts, (1990). A children's book about a girl in a faraway time raised by a talking cat. Written and illustrated by Robbins, who is best known as a ground-breaking feminist cartoonist. This copy is inscribed by Robbins to fellow cartoonist and science fiction writer Ray Nelson, "with love." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A nice association. [#036447] $175

NY, New York Times, 1988. Robinson's cover essay is a review of Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From, in which she proposes "to abduct Raymond Carver from the camp of the minimalists." Written in 1988, at which point Robinson's only published book was the novel Housekeeping. Some minor edge-toning; near fine. [#035968] $125

NY, FSG, (2015). The advance reading copy of this collection of essays. This was Robinson's ninth book after four books of fiction and four books of nonfiction, which together brought her a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Critic Circle Awards, and an Orange Prize. Robinson, who was interviewed by President Obama in the year this book was published, also received a National Humanities Medal from the President, in 2012. Fine in wrappers. [#036006] $125

NY, Henry Holt, (1997). The advance reading copy of the suppressed first issue of the American edition of this compilation of 50 years of Indian writing, edited by Rushdie and Elizabeth West, and with an introduction and one piece by Rushdie. Other writers include Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Amit Chaudhuri and Satyajit Ray, among many others. Reportedly no more than two or three copies of the first issue of the published book are extant, the rest having been destroyed. This advance reading copy contains a number of small points of interest: V.S. Naipaul's name is crossed out from the list of contributors; the title of Vikram Seth's piece is changed from "An Unsuitable Boy" to "A Suitable Boy"; there are a handful of changes to Rushdie's introduction, as well as perhaps two dozen or so changes indicated throughout the text. This collection was intended to showcase a number of young Indian writers who had gained great critical praise, as well as their forebears. The publishers decided, however, on seeing the final book that it was unacceptable, in terms of design and production, and scrapped the edition, later redoing it entirely. This volume is one of the only survivors of the aborted first American edition of this collection. Fine in wrappers. [#036448] $350

NY, Norton, (1989). Inscribed by Sarton to Doris Grumbach in the year of publication: "For Doris/ with love always/ from M." Below this, Sarton has signed her name in full. Grumbach is not specifically named, but the book comes from a collection where similarly inscribed books confirmed the attribution. A wonderful association: in addition to their being friends; both authors explored lesbian themes in their novels before such a thing was fashionable, then ordinary, then cause for rage and banning. Slight lean (as though from gentle reading), else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036481] $250

Chicago, Henry Regnery, (1973). An unlikely bestseller and the basis for films in both 1976 and 2007, Sybil first brought attention to child abuse and dissociative identity disorder (then known as multiple personality disorder) and, later and inadvertently, to a much broader array of issues (a client potentially manipulating a therapist for attention; a therapist potentially using a case for notoriety or profit; clinical misdiagnoses in general, particularly of women; and, in this case at least, the harmful effects of media exposure on mental illness). This copy is inscribed by both the author and by Sybil's therapist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur in the year of publication. Both inscriptions express gratitude for the arrangement of what appears to have been a joint appearance. Together with a copy of the uncorrected proof, which lacks both the preface of the published text (called "My Extraordinary Friend" in the proof and titled "Sybil" in the text) as well as one paragraph of acknowledgments. The proof has notes and phone numbers on the front cover; very good in wrappers. The book has foxing to the edges of the text block and a bit of wear to the spine ends; very good in a very good dust jacket with wear at the ends and corners. Uncommon copies of a ground-breaking book. [#036493] $850

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1973). The uncorrected proof copy of the book published as The Truth About Kent State. Davies examines the questions Why did the Guardsmen fire? and Why did the Government do nothing? Obviously the book's title was softened prior to publication, as were the chapter headings (with the word "murder" removed or changed to "violence"). Many more changes were made to the text of the book: casual examination reveals another dozen textual changes over just the first two dozen pages, with the general impression being that Davies' first pass was dialed down in tone, and dialed in on facts. Near fine in tall wrappers. No copies in OCLC. [#036008] $250

Garden City, Doubleday, (1969). An illustrated book of advice and random thoughts, written at the peak of his popularity, around the time of his appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; his Billboard Chart release of "Tip Toe Through the Tulips"; his Grammy-nominated children's album; and his ukulele contribution of "Nowhere Man" on the Beatles' Christmas album. This copy is inscribed by Tiny Tim in the year of publication. Shallow insect damage to the front board; near fine in a good dust jacket with some faded water stains on the front panel. [#036485] $250

(NY), Pantheon, (1957). A standard text of the 1960s counterculture, which provided many with their first introduction to Oriental and mystical religions. Light foxing to the edges of the text block; offsetting to endpages; shallow corner creasing to the pages of the preface; a very good copy in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with minor edge wear and a small stain to the front panel. [#036486] $450

London, Thames and Hudson, (1958). The first British edition. Watts explores Man's alienation from nature and its parallel in sexual anxiety with women, positing that approaching sexuality and the sexual act as sacred provides an avenue for spiritually reintegrating with the natural world and our own nature. Foxing to endpages and page edges; very good in a very good, sunned and foxed dust jacket with modest edge wear. [#036487] $250

San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1972. The first and only printing of this comic, featuring the debut of Art Spiegelman's Maus. Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale would be published in 1986; the combined edition of Maus and Maus II won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, a first for a graphic novel. This comic also includes work by R. Crumb and others. Shallow corner crease to front cover; near fine in stapled wrappers. [#036412] $350

[London], Deutsch, [1986]. The uncorrected proof copy of the true first edition of his fourth novel, the British edition having preceded the American edition by one week. Inscribed by the author to author and critic David Lodge: "For David Lodge/ in happy recollection of New Zealand adventures -- until we meet again/ Robert Stone." The inscription is written inside the front cover as this copy, like all copies examined by Stone's bibliographer, Ken Lopez, has no preliminary pages prior to the text. A signed note from Lodge's son attesting to provenance is laid in. Small stains to covers; near fine in wrappers. A scarce proof of Stone's haunting Hollywood novel, and a nice association. [#036010] $375

Boston, Christopher Publishing House, (1949). An early warning from 75 years ago on the "mental bondage" and physical toll (including cancer) of tobacco addiction. One page corner turned (at the start of the chapter "How Can I Stop Smoking?"). Evidence, if such were needed, that information about the harmful effects of smoking was available long before the tobacco companies acknowledged it. Fine in a near fine, edge-sunned dust jacket with a closed tear mid spine. 7 copies in OCLC. [#036210] $300