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152. HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Bestselling autobiography and history of one black man's family roots, going all the way back to Africa. An important book, made into a powerful, critically-acclaimed television miniseries. Belatedly controversial, as several lawsuits were filed claiming that parts of the author's reconstructed family history were plagiarized from others' books, including at least one novel, but still one of the most succinct and cohesive looks at the African-American experience in popular literature. A cheaply made Doubleday book, uncommon in the first edition. Near fine in a dust jacket with modest rubbing and edgewear, about near fine, with the yellow around the spine lettering still present.
153. -. Another copy. Also near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with slightly less edgewear than the above but with the spine uniformly faded to two colors.
154. HAMILL, Pete. Doc. NY: Paperback Library (1971). The text of the screenplay, written by Hamill, for a movie about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, which starred Stacy Keach and Faye Dunaway. Only issued in paperback, and illustrated with shots from the movie. Inscribed by the author in 1975. Fine.
155. HAMILL, Pete. The Gift. NY: Random House (1973). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's third book, a short Christmas novel, made into a movie for television, with an early performance by Kevin Bacon. Inscribed by the author in 1975. The final page has amended text taped over the printed page, revealing underneath an earlier, unpublished version of the book's ending. A few spots to cover; else fine in tall wrappers.
156. HAMILL, Pete. Flesh & Blood. NY: Random House (1977). A boxing novel, which is also in part autobiographical, describing details of the author's upbringing as a tough street kid in Brooklyn. Another television movie. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
157. HANLEY, James. A Man in the Customs House. (London): (n.p.) (n.d.). A 22-page filmscript, subtitled "An Experiment in Imagination," and taking as its subject Melville and Melville's writings. Inscribed by the author and with a couple of ink corrections to the text, presumably in the author's hand. Claspbound in cardstock covers. The front cover is waterstained and has bled through the window slightly, on to the title page. A homemade production, presumably very scarce. Very good.
158. HARR, Jonathan. A Civil Action. NY: Random House (1995). The advance reading copy of his acclaimed National Book Award winner, a nonfiction account of a legal case against a corporate polluter brought by the families of the victims of the alleged pollution. The book went into numerous printings, being re-released after an initial slow response, and then was made into a well-received movie starring John Travolta. One corner crease; near fine in wrappers. The first edition itself is quite scarce these days; the advance issue even more so.
159. HARRIS, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs. NY: St. Martin's (1988). His highly acclaimed third novel, and the first to feature Hannibal Lecter as a main character, introducing one of the archetypal villains in contemporary literature and film. Basis for the Jonathan Demme film with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. Winner of five Academy Awards and one of the American Film Institute's top 100 Films of the Century. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
160. -. Another copy. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
161. HARRISON, Jim. Farmer. NY: Viking (1976). A review copy of Harrison's third novel, made into the movie Carried Away with Dennis Hopper and Amy Irving. Spine slanted; else a fine copy of the first issue, in a dust jacket bumped and crimped at the spine crown, still about near fine. Because of binding problems, the first printing of this book was withdrawn and reprinted.
162. HARRISON, Jim. Legends of the Fall, Revenge, The Man Who Gave Up His Name. (NY): Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1979). The three-volume trade edition of this collection of novellas, two of which have been made into movies: Revenge with Anthony Quinn and Kevin Costner; and the title novella, Legends of the Fall, with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. Remainder spray bottom edges of covers and pages, otherwise fine in a dusty, else fine slipcase. The book was released in three editions -- a three-volume signed limited, a three-volume trade edition (this one) and a one-volume trade edition. This one is a quite uncommon edition these days.
163. -. Same title, the one-volume trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author.
164. -. Same title, Legends of the Fall. (NY): Delta (1994). A later printing of a later edition, issued after the release of the movie. This copy is inscribed by Harrison "to my fellow poet" to a fellow poet. A nice literary association copy. Near fine in wrappers.
165. HASFORD, Gustav. The Short-Timers. NY: Harper & Row (1979). The author's first book, a novel that was made into the landmark movie Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick. A short, grim book, it has been called one of the most powerful to come out of the war, and the movie was equally stunning in its portrayal of the brutalization of the recruits who were being sent to war, both before they went and after they arrived. Hasford died of complications from an illness contracted during his stay in prison after his conviction on charges of book theft. His avid love of books led him to become not only a writer but also a hoarder of books, many of which had apparently been wrongfully removed from libraries. In the space of a couple of years, Hasford went from being a celebrity Vietnam vet novelist, with the screenplay of a major Hollywood production of his own novel to his credit, to a convicted thief serving time in jail and shunned by many of his former associates -- all of which seems to have been attributable in some fashion to post-traumatic stress. Remainder stripe, one page corner creased; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
166. -. Another copy. Stamped on the title page "Dec 15, 1978" (a pre-publication date); fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and sticker residue on the front panel.
167. -. Another copy. Fine in a very good dust jacket, with short edge tears that have been internally tape-mended.
168. -. Same movie. Full Metal Jacket. NY: Knopf, 1987. The published screenplay of Kubrick's film based on Hasford's The Short-Timers. Introduction by Michael Herr. Kubrick, Herr and Hasford were given joint credit for the screenplay. Fine in wrappers. Together with the publicity brochure for the film. Near fine. For the two:
169. HASKELL, Molly. From Reverence to Rape. The Treatment of Women in the Movies. NY: HRW (1974). A classic in the literature of both film studies and women's studies by a longtime film reviewer for The Village Voice, as was her husband, Andrew Sarris, the book's dedicatee. Inscribed by the author in 1975. Fine in a mildly edge-sunned, else fine dust jacket. An important volume, seldom seen in fine condition and inscribed.
170. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Inscribed by the author: "From the pre-Sarris Molly!" Haskell and Andrew Sarris were married; this title is dedicated "To Andrew." Tall wrappers; very near fine.
171. HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. NY: Bantam (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of this popular bestseller, which presents contemporary scientific understanding of the universe in accessible form for lay readers. The documentary by Errol Morris, of The Thin Blue Line fame, was as much a portrait of Hawking as of his universe. Near fine in wrappers.
172. HAYES, Helen. Typed Letters Signed. July 7, 1989 and September 16, 1989. Two letters written to the editor of Art and Antiques magazine, each expressing interest in being a contributor and offering her telephone number by way of contact. The need for the second letter is perhaps explained by a third party letter of August 8, also to the editor, and included here: "Have you touched base with Helen Hayes? She wrote to me that she was exhausted, so she was going off to Ireland..." In September, Hayes writes: "I think, after the middle of October, I have freedom ahead... I'd like very much to be in your magazine. I think it is beautiful." No direct cinematic content except to the extent that Hayes is cinematic content: her movie career ranged from Arrowsmith and A Farewell to Arms in the 30's to Airport and Herbie Rides Again in the 70's. She was one of the most honored actresses of her time, with her awards ranging from an Academy Award, an Emmy and a Grammy to being voted Woman of the Year on multiple occasions by various organizations. Both of her letters folded in half for mailing; else fine. Mailing envelopes included.
173. HEDGES, Peter. What's Eating Gilbert Grape. NY: Poseidon Press (1991). A well-received first novel that was made into a moving film featuring Johnny Depp and a young Leonardo DiCaprio as a severely retarded adolescent. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
174. HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Heller's first book, a humorous novel of World War II and military life whose title has become a part of the language, signifying a contradictory set of instructions or constraints. This book was both the basis for the well-received 1970 Mike Nichols movie and also one of the novels that helped define the ethos of the 1960s -- funny, irreverent, and critical of established authority and bureaucracy. Mottling to cloth, thus very good in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket with a tear at the upper front panel.
175. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. NY: Scribner, 1929. Hemingway's second great novel, after The Sun Also Rises. A Connolly 100 title and a book that has been called the greatest war novel of all time, although only a small part of it has to do directly with the war. After the critical acclaim and commercial success of The Sun Also Rises, which had gone through ten printings by 1929, Hemingway, together with F. Scott Fitzgerald, was widely seen as the leading spokesman for the "Lost Generation" of American expatriate writers in the years following World War I. His novels and stories captured and defined that experience in a way that has helped shape all views of it since. A Farewell to Arms was, by far, his most commercially successful book to date, and its success overshadowed everything he was to write for the next decade or more. With this novel Hemingway, in effect, created a legacy that he himself was unable to live up to until much later, with the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. This title was first filmed in 1932 and then remade in 1957 in what was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. A light bump to a lower board edge; fine in a bright, very near fine, first issue dust jacket with only faint traces of the fading and rubbing endemic to this title. A beautiful, unrestored copy of one of the high spots of 20th century American literature.
176. -. Same title, a later printing. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To ____ __ ____/ with admiration and affection/ Ernest Hemingway/ Sun Valley/ 1939." Offsetting to pastedowns; rubbing at edges of spine label; handled boards; a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. In custom folding chemise and quarter leather slipcase.
177. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Contract for A Farewell to Arms. December 13, 1929. A contractual agreement for the dramatization of Hemingway's novel. The contract is between the writer Lawrence Stallings and the producer A.H. Woods. Written in the top margin, in the hand of Pauline Hemingway, is the statement: "The terms of the following contract are hereby approved." This statement is initialed by Hemingway in pencil. Stallings' dramatization of the novel was a failure, closing just three weeks after it opened in New York in September, 1930. The demise of the play, however, opened the way for a movie sale to Hollywood which netted Hemingway (who received only $750 as an advance against royalties for the play) $24,000 -- a huge sum in those days. The movie was directed by Frank Borzage, who had won an Academy Award for Best Director a year earlier for Bad Girl, and starred Helen Hayes, who had also won an Academy Award a year earlier for her role in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, the hero of the novel, was played by Gary Cooper, one of the hottest male stars in Hollywood at the time. Although the film got reasonably good reviews, reviewers were quick to note that it did "not reflect the real and gripping quality of the author's work" and "does not capture the spirit of the book." Indeed, Hemingway refused to see the movie when a print of it was rushed to Arkansas, where he was visiting, for its world premiere. Eight stapled legal sheets, printed on both sides, folded into wrappers. Near fine. A unique document in the post-publication history of one of the important American novels of the 20th century.
178. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. NY: Scribner, 1952. A short novel that was the last major work published during his lifetime and is widely considered one of Hemingway's two or three enduring classics. A Pulitzer Prize winner and a contributing factor in Hemingway's winning the Nobel Prize the following year. Filmed by John Sturges in 1958 with Spencer Tracy; remade much later for television with Anthony Quinn. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
179. HENLEY, Beth. Crimes of the Heart. NY: Viking (1982). Uncorrected proof copy of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Henley wrote the screenplay for the Bruce Beresford film that starred Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard. Fine in wrappers. Uncommon.
180. HEPBURN, Katharine. Typed Note Signed. September 15, 1987. Written (or dictated?) to the editor of Art and Antiques magazine: "I am sorry but I am so busy with the book and a T.V. movie that I can't do anything extra -- Perhaps later --" On "Katharine Houghton Hepburn" stationery; folded in thirds for mailing (envelope included); and signed "Katharine Hepburn." Hepburn, whose film career began in the 30's and whose work includes Little Women, Stage Door, The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib, The African Queen, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and On Golden Pond, began making television movies in the 70's. By the date on this letter, the movie she refers to would probably be Laura Lansing Slept Here and the book would be The Making of the African Queen [see below].
181. HEPBURN, Katharine. The Making of the African Queen or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind. NY: Knopf, 1987. The uncorrected proof copy. Reminiscences by Hepburn about being on location in the Belgian Congo during the filming of The African Queen, which was scripted by James Agee from the C.S. Forester novel. Bogart won an Oscar for his performance in the film, and the movie was selected as one of the top 100 Films of the Century by the American Film Institute (#17). Slight bump at spine base; near fine in wrappers.
182. HERLIHY, James Leo. Midnight Cowboy. NY: Simon & Schuster (1965). The author's second novel, about a small-time urban hustler, and the basis for one of the landmark films of the Sixties, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture and one of the American Film Institute's top 100 Films of the Century. Light wear at spine extremities; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
183. HERSEY, John. A Bell for Adano. NY: Knopf, 1944. His third book and first novel, a war story of American soldiers occupying a small Italian town during World War Two, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for both a play and a well-received 1945 film. Inscribed by the author in 1965 with a six-line inscription from the text of the book. Owner signature front flyleaf and bookplate front pastedown; else a near fine copy in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with a piece of tape on the verso of the crown and modest vertical creasing to the front panel. An uncommon book, especially so signed.
184. HERSEY, John. The Wall. NY: Knopf, 1950. His second work of fiction, a novel of the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. Inscribed by the author in 1965: "For ____ ____/ It makes me very happy to think of the whole family of my books being together on your shelves. I hope they will keep you good company./ John Hersey." Uneven fading to top stain, mild offsetting to pastedowns; otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket with minimal edgewear. Laid in is a flyer written by John P. Marquand about Hersey and The Wall for the Book of the Month Club. Adapted for the stage in 1960 and made into a TV movie based on the stage production in 1982.
185. -. Same title, a dramatization by Millard Lampell. (NY: Knopf, 1961). Illustrated with photos from the play. Lampell also wrote the screenplay. Tape shadows on the rear free endpaper; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the crown.
186. HERSEY, John. The War Lover. NY: Knopf, 1959. Inscribed by the author in 1965 with a line from the text. Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner play the two World War II pilots in love with the same woman. Tape shadows to the free endpapers; a small ink date on the front flyleaf; a few tiny spackles to cloth; very good in a very near fine dust jacket.
187. HESSE, Hermann. Siddhartha. (NY): (New Directions) (1951). The first American edition of Hesse's novelization of the young life of the Buddha, an edition in the New Directions' New Classics series. Inscribed by Henry Miller to his former wife, June in 1956: "...to read in moments of despair." June was hospitalized in 1956 at Pilgrim State Hospital, where she received shock treatments for psychological disorders. Henry's gift reflects his awareness of June's predicament and, presumably, his hope that literature could ease a such a troubled mind. Near fine in a good dust jacket, missing a sizable chip from the bottom of the rear panel. An excellent association copy. Siddhartha was filmed in India in 1973, with the cinematography by Sven Nyquist, Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer.
188. HIAASEN, Carl. Strip Tease. NY: Knopf, 1993. The advance reading copy of the fifth of the author's comic mysteries set in South Florida. Made into a film with Demi Moore which lost a lot of the novel's over-the-top humor in the translation to the screen. Fine in wrappers.
189. -. Same title, the trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
190. HIGGINS, Colin. Harold and Maude. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. The first novel by this author who graduated from Wallace Stegner's Stanford Writing Workshop. Basis for the cult classic directed by Hal Ashby and starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, with a soundtrack by Cat Stevens. Owner address label front free endpaper; near fine in a fine dust jacket.
191. HIJUELOS, Oscar. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. (n.p.): FSG (1989). The uncorrected proof copy of his second novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The film starred Antonio Banderas and featured Desi Arnaz, Jr. playing his father. A very scarce proof, as most advance copies were issued in a more polished format with pictorial wrappers. Near fine in plain green wrappers.
192. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990). Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author "with songs of love."
193. HILLERMAN, Tony. The Dark Wind. NY: Harper & Row (1982). The second mystery featuring Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, and part of a series that has been highly praised for its authentic depiction of Navajo culture and has helped instigate a host of other mystery series that explore far flung places and cultures that would normally not be the settings for popular fiction. Fine in a fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author. Filmed by Errol Morris, renowned for such documentaries as The Thin Blue Line and Gates of Heaven.
194. HIMES, Chester. The Heat's On. NY: Putnam (1966). A Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones novel by this important expatriate African-American novelist, author of Cotton Comes to Harlem, among others. Filmed in 1972 as Come Back, Charleston Blue, with much of the same cast that had starred in the film adaptation of Cotton Comes to Harlem in 1970. This is a near fine copy in a lightly rubbed, very good, spine-sunned dust jacket, and is signed by the author. Books signed by Himes, who lived in France for the last three decades of his life -- encompassing most of his writing career -- are quite scarce.
195. -. Another copy, unsigned. Mild bowing to front board, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with one closed triangular edge tear on the front panel and a few stress lines on the spine.
196. HINTON, S.E. The Outsiders. NY: Viking (1967). Her first book, a novel of alienated teenagers in the Midwest that became a minor classic and a bestseller and was filmed by Francis Coppola in 1983 with a cast that included Matt Dillon and Tom Cruise. Minor foxing and spine-fading; a near fine copy in the pictorial library binding, without dust jacket, as issued.
197. (HITCHCOCK, Alfred). SPOTO, Donald. The Dark Side of Genius: the Life of Alfred Hitchcock. Boston: Little Brown (1983). A biography of the filmmaker whose suspense thrillers set the standard for all who followed him, the director of at least a dozen movies that are now considered classics, four of which were chosen for the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films of the Century, even though the director never once won an Academy Award. Fine in a very good dust jacket torn at the spine base. Signed by Spoto.
198. HJORTSBERG, William. Falling Angel. NY: HBJ (1978). Review copy of the author's well-received fourth novel, which was made into the critically acclaimed movie Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert DeNiro. Slight bowing to rear board; else fine in a near fine, unrubbed, gold foil dust jacket, with just a hint of wear at the crown. An very nice copy of a book that had developed a cult following even before the movie was made, and which, because of the fragility of the foil jacket, seldom appears in fine condition.
199. HOEG, Peter. Smilla's Sense of Snow. NY: FSG (1993). The first American edition of this Danish writer's first novel to be published in English, a surprise bestseller, and the basis for the recent film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
200. HOFFMAN, Alice. Practical Magic. NY: Putnam (1995). The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. The glossy, coated stock is peeling on the front cover; near fine in wrappers.