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131. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Chatto & Windus, 1973). Inscribed by the author in 1976. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
132. GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera. (Bogotá): Editorial La Oveja Negra (1985). Special limited edition of this title, done as a charitable effort to benefit the victims of Colombian mudslides. Apparently bound from the sheets of the deluxe trade edition. One of 1000 unnumbered copies with a tipped-in leaf signed by the author and notarized. The film was a 1988 Cuban production released as Letters from the Park. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
133. -. Another copy. One microdot to foredge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
134. -. Same title. The "rustic" issue of the Colombian trade edition, in a smaller format than the deluxe issue. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
135. -. Same title: Love in the Time of Cholera. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition (NY: Knopf, 1988). Inscribed by the author in 1992 on the dedication page, where he has amended the page so that the dedication appears to include the recipient. Fine in yellow wrappers. Very scarce.
136. GOLDING, William. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber & Faber (1954). The uncorrected proof copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's landmark first book, which exerted a powerful influence on a generation's ideas about the fundamental characteristics of human nature. Variations from the published version include the page numbering in the table of contents and the publisher's address. It was believed by Golding's editor, Charles Monteith, that the book had never been bound in proof form at all, as the title was rushed into production for entry into the Cheltenham First Novel Competition. One of four copies known. Made into two different movies, the first by Peter Brook in 1963. Foxing to page edges; spine faded; a very good copy of a scarce and fragile state of this important first novel. In custom clamshell box.
137. GOLDMAN, William. The Princess Bride. NY: HBJ (1973). The novel that formed the basis for the much-loved and successful Rob Reiner movie, and a very scarce book in the hardcover edition. One suspects that this book was difficult for its publisher to "position" -- i.e., envision the market for such a tale -- resulting in a smaller-than-usual first printing for a Goldman book. Goldman wrote the screenplay for the film. Some spotting to half title; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
138. GRAY, Spalding. Impossible Vacation. NY: Knopf, 1992. The uncorrected proof copy of the monologuist's and film star's (Swimming to Cambodia, The Killing Fields) first novel, which was not filmed, but Gray did film a monologue about writing, or not writing, this novel, entitled Monster in a Box. Fine in wrappers.
139. "GREEN, Hannah." GREENBURG, Joanne. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. NY: HRW (1964). A pseudonymously published novel of a young woman battling schizophrenia that became a huge bestseller in paperback later in the Sixties. One of the key books of the decade which, by the time the film came out in 1977, had sold five million copies and, in one survey, was the fourth most widely-read title from the Sixties, following only The Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, and The Prophet. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Quite scarce in the first edition.
140. GREENE, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. London: Heinemann (1942). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel of wartime espionage, which was published in May, 1943, despite the proof's indicating the publication year as 1942. Greene wrote this book in a few months in 1942 while serving as an intelligence officer in North Africa. He called it his favorite "among what I then called my ‘entertainments'" and in a letter to his agent suggested that it might make a good movie. In fact, Fritz Lang, the renowned director of the silent-film classic Metropolis, directed the film version in 1944, starring Ray Milland. This was the first of Greene's books to be produced under the wartime restrictions in effect in England, and the production shows it: the covers are printed on the verso of a previously used sheet; one signature is heavily browned as a result of the acidic paper used. The bibliographer points out numerous errors in the book's production (two Chapter 3's in Part One, etc.), all of which are in evidence here. Owner name (1943) on the half title; cocked and spine-tanned; very good in wrappers. Although it is not known how many copies of the proof were done, wartime economy would have dictated that it be very few; we have not seen another offered for sale in recent years. The remarkable Clinton Ives Smullyan, Jr. Graham Greene collection offered at Sotheby's two years ago -- which contained numerous proofs, including several much earlier than this one -- did not have a copy, suggestive of its extreme scarcity.
141. GREENE, Graham. England Made Me. London: Heinemann (1951). Reprint, this being the third printing of the Uniform Edition of Greene. Inscribed by the author in 1954: "For _____/ in memory of her first opium/ den, in Bangkok,/ with love/ from Graham" and dated March 5, 1954, in Singapore. Slight rubbing to spine cloth; near fine, lacking the dust jacket. The second volume of Greene's autobiography, Ways of Escape, recounts the author's first experiences with opium, which he dates to October, 1951. A rather lengthy section is devoted to his time in Southeast Asia in January and February of 1954, smoking opium in Haiphong, Saigon, Vientiane and elsewhere. An exceptional inscription, suggestive of both Greene's travels and worldliness, and also of the closeness of his relationship with the recipient. England Made Me was filmed in Yugoslavia in 1973 with a cast that included Peter Finch and Michael York.
142. GREENE, Graham. Travels with my Aunt. London: Bodley Head (1969). A novel by Greene that was made into an award-winning film by George Cukor. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
143. GREENE, Graham. Graham Greene on Film, 1935-1939. NY: Simon & Schuster (1972). The first American edition of this extensive collection of Greene's film reviews, including a summary of a libel action brought against him, as a result of one of his reviews, by representatives of the child actress Shirley Temple, and a copy of the judgement in that case. Greene reviewed films for Night and Day, a short-lived British magazine in the 1930s that also featured Elizabeth Bowen and Evelyn Waugh as theater critic and chief book reviewer, respectively. Fine in a fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author. An important volume, retitled from the English edition, which was published as Pleasure Dome.
144. GREENE, Graham. The Honorary Consul. NY: Simon & Schuster (1973). The uncorrected proof copy of the American edition of this novel of skullduggery in a South American country beset by revolution. With photocopied holograph corrections throughout. Even surface-soiling; else fine in wrappers. A scarce proof. Released under the title Beyond the Limit and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere and Bob Hoskins.
145. GREENE, Graham. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party. London: Bodley Head (1980). A short "entertainment," as Greene called his lighter novels, although this is also, according to the publisher, "a profound study in human greed." Inscribed by the author to a onetime lover. Filmed for British television. Fine in dust jacket with a touch of peeling lamination at the spine crown. A nice personal association copy.
146. GROOM, Winston. Forrest Gump. Garden City: Doubleday, 1986. A "complimentary copy" of the author's fifth book, a comic novel of a Vietnam vet whose simple-minded perspective provides fertile ground for satirical social commentary: a Jim Harrison blurb calls it "a line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace rubbing to the corners. A minor contemporary classic made into one of the top-grossing films of all time, winner of six Academy Awards, and one of the American Film Institute's top 100 Films of the Century.
147. -. Same title, the advance reading copy. Near fine in illustrated wrappers, which reproduce in a single color the artwork that was later incorporated onto the dust jacket of the finished book.
148. -. Same title, the unbound proof pages. Stamped "Preliminary (Proofread) Pages" with an indication that remaining errors and alterations will be corrected in succeeding readings. Fine. Extremely scarce.
149. GUTHRIE, Arlo. Alice's Restaurant. NY: Grove (1968). The "novelization" of Guthrie's famous song, an antiwar and counterculture anthem, illustrated with cartoon drawings by Marvin Glass. Precedes the Arthur Penn film, which starred Guthrie, by a year. Near fine in wrappers.
150. -. Same title (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970), the screenplay from the film based on the song, with introductions by Venable Herndon and Arthur Penn. Herndon co-wrote the screenplay with Penn, and Penn also directed the film. Near fine in wrappers and signed by Guthrie on the front cover.