Catalog 93, S-U
358. SALTER, James. Burning the Days. NY: Random House (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of Salter's memoir, recently published to extraordinary critical praise. Fine in wrappers.
359. SAYLES, John. Pride of the Bimbos. Boston: Little Brown (1975). 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. His novel Union Dues was nominated for a National Book Award. This copy is very near fine in like dust jacket.
360. SAYLES, John. Thinking in Pictures. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. The uncorrected proof copy of this book of nonfiction, about the making of his film, Matewan. This book uniquely combines Sayles' talents as a filmmaker and as an author. Fine in wrappers.
361. SCHULTZ, Philip. Like Wings. NY: Viking (1978). Review copy of the author's first book, a collection of poetry that was nominated for the National Book Award. Inscribed by the author in 1996. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with two very small edge chips.
362. SCHWARTZ, Delmore. Shenandoah. Norfolk: New Directions (1941). A verse play in the "Poet of the Month" series, by a writer who was poet, short story writer, translator and critic. As a critic, he was associated with the movement against "academic" poetry, and much of his best work is semi-autobiographical and deals with being a Jew in New York. Stapled pages, in spine-sunned, near fine wrappers. There was also a hardcover issue.
363. SCHWARTZ, Delmore. Genesis. Book One. (NY): New Directions (1943). A review copy of his third book, with the publication date stamped on the front flyleaf. Near fine, without dust jacket.
364. SCHWARTZ, Delmore. Vaudeville for a Princess. (NY): New Directions (1950). His fifth collection of poems. Some minor edge sunning; else fine in a slightly dusty, near fine dust jacket. An attractive copy of this title.
365. SCHWARTZ, Delmore. Summer Knowledge. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. A relatively uncommon book of new and previously published poems. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
366. SCHWARTZ, Delmore. Successful Love. NY: Corinth, 1961. A collection of short fiction, featuring two previously unpublished novellas and six short stories. This is the uncommon hardcover edition; fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear.
367. SCOFIELD, Sandra. Plain Seeing. (NY): HarperCollins (1997). The advance reading copy of the author's seventh book. Her previous novel won the 1997 Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award, and her 1991 novel, Beyond Deserving, was a National Book Award nominee. Fine in wrappers.
368. SELF, Will. Great Apes. NY: Grove/Atlantic (1997). The advance reading copy of the first American edition of the new novel by the current enfant terrible of British letters. Fine in wrappers and in publisher's elaborate cardstock fold-out box with cardstock wraparound band. Fine.
369. SEXTON, Anne. Live or Die. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. The first British edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning third collection of poems by a woman whose intimate, autobiographical writing opened up new possibilities of self-examination and self-expression for a generation of women-both writers and readers-coming of age in the Sixties. First published in the U.S. in 1966. Sexton's suicide in 1974 came to be viewed in retrospect, like Sylvia Plath's, as both a political act and a reflection of the urgency and authenticity of her artistic impulse. Plath and Sexton had, in fact, been friends in the 1950s, when they met in Robert Lowell's poetry workshop, and they reportedly spent much time together discussing, among other things, both poetry and suicide. This is a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear but no tears or chips.
370. SEXTON, Anne. The Book of Folly. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Her sixth book of poems. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a 1" gutter tear.
371. SEXTON, Anne. The Death Notebooks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. The last book published in her lifetime. Sexton was divorced the year this book was published and later that year committed suicide. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with two short edge tears.
372. SEXTON, Anne. The Awful Rowing Toward God. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. A posthumous collection. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the crown.
373. SEXTON, Anne. Words for Dr. Y. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. A volume of uncollected poems and three horror stories, edited by Linda Gray Sexton, the author's daughter. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
374. SHAPIRO, Karl. Trial of a Poet. NY: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947). The limited edition of this collection of poems and a play. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. A near fine copy, lacking the original tissue dust jacket, in a somewhat worn slipcase that is split at one seam.
375. (Sherlockiana). Sherlock Holmes Theater, Nos. 23 & 25. (n.p: n.p., n.d.). Radio scripts of Basil Rathbone's speaking parts in "Sherlock Faces Death" and "The Scarlet Claw." Seven mimeographed pages, stapled. Very good.
376. SMILEY, Jane. Barn Blind. NY: Harper & Row (1980). The first book by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres. Literary agency stamp front flyleaf; very near fine in like dust jacket with light wear to the crown. This novel has become quite scarce in recent years.
377. SMITH, Janna Malamud. Private Matters. Reading: Addison-Wesley (1997). The advance reading copy of this collection of essays on the subject of privacy, by the daughter of Bernard Malamud. Fine in wrappers.
378. SMITH, Lee. The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed. NY: Harper & Row (1968). The uncommon first book by this Southern writer, written while she was attending Hollins College, which is famous for its writing program. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
379. SMITH, Lee. Oral History. NY: Putnam (1983). Her sixth book, a novel. Mild spine bumps; else fine in like dust jacket.
380. SMITH, Mary Burnett. Miss Ophelia. NY: Morrow (1997). The advance reading copy of this first novel, written by a retired African American school teacher at the age of 66. Fine in wrappers.
381. STONE, Oliver. JFK. (n.p.): (Warner Brothers) (1991). Press kit for the Oliver Stone film JFK, directed by and with a screenplay co-written by Stone. Including 36 pages of production notes; a 15 page interview with Stone; a press release; a film credits list; brief overviews of the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations; five photo stills from the film set; Gallup poll results on the conspiracy theory; two photocopies of Oliver Stone interviews with the press. All items fine, in a 9" x 12" cardstock folder with bumped corners; else near fine. Signed by Oliver Stone on the front cover.
382. STONE, Robert. Children of Light. London: Deutsch (1986). The true first edition of his fourth novel, preceding the American edition by one week, and printed in an edition of only 4500 copies, vs. 40,000 (announced) for the American edition. Light flaking to the gilt of the spine lettering; else fine in a fine dust jacket with a small production flaw: a tiny red dot hovering just over the shoulder of the woman pictured on the front of the dust jacket.
383. SWENSON, May. "The Secret in the Cat." (n.p.: n.p., n.d.) Fair copy of this poem, signed by Swenson. One typed sheet, folded in thirds; else fine.
384. SWIFT, Graham. Out of This World. (London): Viking (1988). The advance reading copy of the fifth book by the author of Waterland and Last Orders, winner of last year's Booker Prize. Signed by the author. A bit of light rubbing; else fine in wrappers.
385. -. Same title, the trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author. A virtually perfect copy.
386. SWIFT, Graham. Last Orders. (London): Picador (1996). Winner of the Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author in January, 1996. A beautiful copy.
387. TARTT, Donna. The Secret History. NY: Knopf, 1992. Her well-received first novel, which went on to become both a bestseller and something of a literary sensation-the first female voice to be associated with the twentysomething "brat pack" writers of the Eighties and early Nineties. Dedication and acknowledgement pages bumped at foredge; else fine in rubbed, printed acetate dust jacket.
388. TATE, James. Viper Jazz. Middletown: Wesleyan U. Press (1976). The hardcover issue of his sixth collection of poems. Tate's Selected Poems won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
389. TATE, James. Riven Doggeries. NY: Ecco Press (1979). Volume 18 in the American Poetry Series. Fine in a lightly spine-sunned, near fine dust jacket with one small gutter nick.
390. THEROUX, Alexander. Three Wogs. Boston: Gambit, 1972. The uncorrected proof copy of the author's uncommon first novel. Inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ time permitting, you correct/ these galleys, shotgunned as/ they are with errors, OK?/ I've been in the Southern part/ of the U.S.A. [*] to feel I/ can do it with confidence./ God bless/ Alexander Theroux." The asterisk corresponds to an added note in another pen: "* insert: `too long'/(P.G.: Theroux's/ editor)." Near fine in wrappers.
391. THEROUX, Paul. The Collected Stories. (n.p.): Viking (1997). The advance reading copy of this just-published collection. One small corner crease; else fine in wrappers.
392. THEROUX, Paul. Kowloon Tong. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. The uncorrected proof copy of his most recent novel, set in Hong Kong at the time of its reunification with China. A book whose publication created controversy when some asserted that the Chinese protagonist of the novel was portrayed unsympathetically and in racist stereotypes. Fine in wrappers.
393. THOMPSON, Hunter S. The Proud Highway. NY: Villard (1997). The advance reading copy of Volume One of "The Fear and Loathing Letters," printing Thompson letters from 1955-1967. A few corners turned from where the publicity material is laid in; else fine in wrappers.
394. TROUPE, Quincy. Embryo. (NY): Barlenmir House (1972). First collection of poems by this African American writer. Warmly inscribed by the author in 1976. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Very scarce, especially in dust jacket.
395. TUROW, Scott. Presumed Innocent. NY: FSG (1987). Advance reading copy of his second book, first novel, a bestseller and probably the most talked about thriller of that year, later the basis for a film. Rubbed; near fine in wrappers.
396. -. Same title, the advance reading copy of the first British edition (London: Bloomsbury, 1987). Very good in wrappers.
397. TUROW, Scott. The Laws of Our Fathers. NY: FSG (1996). The latest courtroom thriller by the author of Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof. This is one of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase.
398. UPDIKE, John. The Poorhouse Fair. NY: Knopf, 1959. Updike's second book, first novel, winner of the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, for a novel which, despite not being a commercial success, was nonetheless "a considerable literary achievement." Also nominated for the National Book Award. Signed by the author. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with (mostly internal) dampstaining across the lower edge of the front panel. A reasonably attractive copy of a book that, because of its thin paper dust jacket, most often turns up well-worn. $575
399. -. Another copy, unsigned. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a vertical wrinkle on the front panel, a small internal stain on the verso of the front panel, a tiny pinhole at the upper spine, and tape shadows on the flaps. Overall, a fairly attractive copy, most of the flaws of which are probabaly attributable to a dust jacket protector having been affixed at one time in the past, and having shrunk slightly over time.
400. UPDIKE, John. The Same Door. NY: Knopf, 1959. His third book and first collection of stories. Small stain and bump to crown; otherwise about near fine in a very good dust jacket chipped at the crown. A presentable copy of another of Updike's scarce, early books.
401. UPDIKE, John. The Centaur. NY: Knopf, 1963. His sixth book, and fifth work of fiction, a novel, and Updike's first National Book Award winner. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with one edge tear and moderate overall edgewear.
402. UPDIKE, John. Bottom's Dream. NY: Knopf (1969). An illustrated fantasy set to music, adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oblong quarto with text by Updike and illustrations by Warren Chappell. This is the issue in the library binding in illstrated boards. Glue residue front pastedown; near fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
403. UPDIKE, John. Rabbit Redux. [NY: Knopf, 1971]. The Taiwan piracy of the second of the Rabbit Angstrom books, and the fifth of Updike's books to be nominated for and/or win the National Book Award. This title was a runner-up in 1972. Strip of offsetting to rear endpages; else fine in a cheaply made but near fine dust jacket.
404. UPDIKE, John. Six Poems. (n.p.): Aloe, 1973. One of the earlier and scarcer of his limited editions, having had a small printing and been done at a time before he was especially widely collected. Of a total edition of 126 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Faint, thin strip of fading along top edge of front cover, otherwise fine in saddle-stitched self wraps.
405. UPDIKE, John. From the Journal of a Leper. Northridge: Lord John, 1978. An early Lord John limited edition. Of a total edition of 326, this is one of 300 numbered copies with a red cloth spine, signed by the author. Fine without dust wrapper, as issued.
406. UPDIKE, John. Problems and Other Stories. NY: Knopf, 1979. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
407. UPDIKE, John. People One Knows. Northridge: Lord John, 1980. Another Lord John limited edition, this one of the deluxe issue, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a near fine slip case with a few small spots of rust on the cloth, probably from a metal bookend.
408. UPDIKE, John. Ego and Art in Walt Whitman. NY: Targ, 1980. One of 350 copies signed by the author. Fine in a plain tan dust jacket with a few small spots on the rear panel; still at least near fine. An attractive production.
409. UPDIKE, John. Hawthorne's Creed. NY: Targ (1981). One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Quarter cloth and marbled paper boards. Fine in a fine, plain grey-green dust jacket.
410. UPDIKE, John. The Beloved. Northridge: Lord John, 1982. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
411. UPDIKE, John. Bech is Back. NY: Knopf, 1982. The limited edition of the second of his humorous books featuring writer Henry Bech, an Updike alter-ego. The first Bech book, published in 1970, was a National Book Award nominee. One of 500 copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, in a mildly bumped slipcase.
412. UPDIKE, John. Golf Dreams. NY: Knopf, 1996. A collection of short pieces pertaining to golf and golfing, some of them taken from his novels, the rest from magazines. With drawings by Paul Szep. Signed by both Updike and Szep. Fine in a fine dust jacket, although Szep's signature has offset onto the front flap fold causing, directly or indirectly, a few words of the text on the dust jacket flap to be missing.
413. UPDIKE, John. Toward the End of Time. NY: Knopf, 1997. The uncorrected proof copy of his most recent novel, just published to quite mixed reviews: Margaret Atwood, in The New York Times Book Review, loved it; David Foster Wallace, a self-proclaimed Updike fan, wrote a scathing review of it in The New York Observer. Front cover bumped at the bottom edge and wrinkled a bit there; near fine in wrappers.