Uncorrected Proofs/Advance Copies, S
545. SANCHEZ, Thomas. Mile Zero. NY: Knopf, 1989. Advance reading copy of the third novel by the author of Rabbit Boss. Laid into the publisher's folding cardboard box. Fine copy, signed by the author.
546. SANDERS, Dori. Clover. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books (1990). Exceptionally well-received first novel by this African-American writer. Uncorrected proof copy. Diagonal crease on front cover; near fine in printed wrappers.
547. SCHAEFFER, Susan Fromberg. Falling. NY: Macmillan (1973). Uncorrected proof copy of the author's well- received first book, which was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 10 best novels of the year. Inscribed by the author. Covers dust-soiled; else fine in wrappers.
548. SCHAEFFER, Susan Fromberg. Anya. NY: Macmillan (1974). Uncorrected proof copy of her second novel, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the Friends of Literature Award. Inscribed by the author. Fine in wraps.
549. SELBY, Hubert. Last Exit to Brooklyn. NY: Grove (1964). Uncorrected proof copy of one of the key novels of the 1960s. Tall ringbound galleys printed on both sides of proofing paper. Uncommon format of an important book.
550. SELF, Will. The Quantity Theory of Insanity. (NY): (Grove/Atlantic) (1995). Advance reading copy of the first American edition of his first book of prose, published here several years after the U.K. edition. Macabre and extravagant black humor. Fine in wrappers.
551. SETH, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. (NY): HarperCollins (1993). Advance reading copy of this massive novel that was critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and a bestseller in England. Fine in wrappers.
Winner of the National Book Award
552. SETTLE, Mary Lee. Blood Tie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Uncorrected proof copy of this novel, which was a surprise winner of the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers.
553. SETTLE, Mary Lee. Choices. NY: Doubleday/Talese (1995). Advance reading copy of this novel by the author of the highly praised Beulah Quintet, one of the most important accomplishments in American historical fiction of the postwar era. Fine in wrappers.
554. SEXTON, Anne. Selected Poems of Anne Sexton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
555. SHAARA, Michael. The Killer Angels. NY: McKay (1974). Advance reading copy in plain printed wrappers of the author's second novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and, according to many, the best novel about the Civil War battle of Gettysburg, and, with Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, one of the best Civil War novels ever written. A few spots on the bottom page edges; near fine in wrappers. This book formed the basis for the cable TV movie/minseries, Gettysburg. The first edition is exceptionally scarce for a book of this vintage; the advance copy perhaps even more so.
556. SHACOCHIS, Bob. The Next New World. NY: Crown (1989). Uncorrected proof copy of the author's second collection of stories, set in the Caribbean islands. Inscribed by the author in 1993: "To ______ and _____/See you in my next novel..." Fine in wrappers. Blurbs by Robert Stone, John Irving, others. His first collection, Easy in the Islands, won the American Book Award.
557. SHACOCHIS, Bob. Swimming in the Volcano. NY: Scribner (1993). Uncorrected proof copy of the author's first novel, nominated for the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers and signed by the author.
558. -. Another copy of the proof, unsigned. Also fine in wrappers.
559. -. Same title, an advance reading excerpt consisting of Chapter 9. Inscribed by the author. Fine in printed wrappers.
560. SHACOCHIS, Bob. Domesticity. NY: Scribner (1994). Uncorrected proof copy. A collection of Shacochis's columns from GQ, which can be roughly characterized as a cultural interpretation of food, although the book is subtitled "A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love." Fine in wrappers.
561. SHANGE, Ntozake. Nappy Edges. NY: St. Martin's (1978). A collection of poems by the African-American author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf. Uncorrected proof copy. This is a fine copy in wrappers.
562. SHARPE, Tom. Porterhouse Blue. London: Secker & Warburg (1974). Advance copy of the author's second novel consisting of typeset sheets bound into plain yellow wrappers, with publisher's label affixed to front cover. Near fine copy, and quite scarce.
563. SHAW, Irwin. Rich Man, Poor Man. NY: Delacorte Press (1970). Uncorrected proof copy of what is probably, after The Young Lions, his most famous work, due to the television miniseries that was derived from it. Two volumes, in tall, ringbound wrappers. Signed by Shaw on the front cover of Volume 1. Some darkening to the rear panel of Volume 2; else fine. Uncommon.
564. SHAW, Irwin. God Was Here But He Left Early. NY: Arbor (1973). Proof copy of the collection of short fiction by the author of The Young Lions, and others. Extremely tall, pad-bound proofs, a very fragile format, as evidenced by the fact that the rear panel is missing from this copy; thus only good. Scarce.
565. SHAW, Irwin. The Top of the Hill. NY: Delacorte (1979). Uncorrected proof copy. Minor spine creasing; else fine in wrappers.
566. SHEARER, Cynthia. The Wonder Book of the Air. NY: Pantheon (1996). Uncorrected proof copy of this first novel, published in February to excellent reviews. The author is curator of Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's former home. Fine in wrappers.
567. SHIELDS, Carol. The Republic of Love. (n.p.): Viking (1992). Uncorrected proof copy of the American edition of this novel by the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for The Stone Diaries. Fine in wrappers.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
568. SHIELDS, Carol. The Stone Diaries. (NY): Viking (1994). Advance review copy of the first American edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which was also, in a rare literary "double," shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket, with publisher's promotional sheet laid in, and signed by the author on the title page. Together with the advance reading copy in pictorial wrappers, identified as "advance uncorrected proofs." For the two:
569. SHIELDS, David. Remote. NY: Knopf, 1995. Uncorrected proof copy of this collection of short pieces revolving around the subjects of fame, celebrity and the media. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in wrappers.
570. SIGAL, Clancy. Zone of the Interior. NY: Crowell (1976). Uncorrected proof copy of this novel of psychological exploration--an attempt to view the Sixties through the prism of the protagonist's interior landscape in the way that Going Away was an exploration of the outer, political landscape of the Fifties. Inscribed by the author with the suggestive comment, "Can we give this an assisted take-off?" Fine in tape-bound wrappers.
571. SIMPSON, Mona. The Lost Father. NY: Knopf, 1992. Advance reading copy of her second novel, signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and publisher's folding cardboard box.
572. SINCLAIR, Iain. Downriver. London: Paladin Grafton (1991). A surreal novel exploring the hidden life surrounding the Thames River as it flows through, and out of, London. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Award, for best second novel. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers and proof dust jacket, which is near fine. Signed by the author.
573. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Reaches of Heaven. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1980). Uncorrected proof copy. Small stain to spine base; near fine in wrappers.
574. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Lost in America. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Uncorrected proof copy. An autobiographical account by the Nobel Prize winner. Fine in tall wrappers.
575. KVORECK , Josef. The Bride of Texas. NY: Knopf, 1996. Uncorrected proof copy. A novel of Czech soldiers in the American Civil War, by a leading Czech writer. Bumped at spine crown; near fine in wrappers.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
576. SMILEY, Jane. A Thousand Acres. NY: Knopf, 1991. Advance reading excerpt from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Fine in wrappers and signed by the author. Slipcased together with an excerpt from Mating by Norman Rush, which won the National Book Award; also fine in wrappers, but not signed. A remarkable package of prepublication excerpts from the two major award-winning novels of the year.
577. SMILEY, Jane. Moo. NY: Knopf, 1995. Uncorrected proof copy of her latest, highly acclaimed novel, which had an announced first printing of 100,000 copies. Fine in wrappers.
578. SMITH, April. North of Montana. NY: Knopf, 1994. Uncorrected proof copy of this highly praised first mystery novel. With blurbs by Scott Turow, James Ellroy and Robert Parker stapled inside front cover. Fine in wrappers.
579. SMITH, Scott. A Simple Plan. NY: Knopf, 1993. Advance reading copy of the author's first novel which was highly praised. Near fine in wrappers.
580. SNYDER, Gary. No Nature. NY: Pantheon (1992). Uncorrected proof copy. New and selected poems. According to the publisher, this proof was never formally distributed, as copies did not return from the printer until after the finished book was ready. Fine in wrappers.
581. SONTAG, Susan. Death Kit. NY: FSG (1967). Uncorrected proof copy of Sontag's second novel. Copiously annotated by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Spiralbound; very good in wrappers.
Two States, w/ Textual Differences From the Published Book
582. SONTAG, Susan. The Volcano Lover. NY: FSG (1992). Advance
reading copy. A novel of ideas couched in the form of an historical romance.
Fine in pictorial wrappers and signed by the author. Reportedly,
there were significant changes made to the book after this advance reading
copy was done.
583. -. Same title, but the earlier and much scarcer
uncorrected proof. Fine.
584. SOYINKA, Wole. Art, Dialogue and Outrage. NY: Pantheon (1994). Uncorrected proof copy of this collection of essays by the Nigerian Nobel Prize winner. Fine in wrappers.
585. SPENCER, Elizabeth. The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. Foreword by Eudora Welty. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in tall wrappers and signed by the author and by Welty. Uncommon thus.
Two Advance Issues of a John Steinbeck Classic
586. STEINBECK, John and RICKETTS, E.F. Sea of Cortez. NY: Viking, 1941. Uncorrected proof copy of this lengthy account of an expedition to the Gulf of California by Steinbeck and Ricketts, a marine biologist. A fine copy in plain brown self-wrappers; a very scarce edition. Although Goldstone & Payne identified this as "first edition, the issue in wrappers," Bradford Morrow's landmark Steinbeck catalogue in 1980 pointed out that this was in fact an advance issue, which prints Steinbeck's text but not the scientific Appendix that appears in the trade edition. In custom folding chemise and slipcase.
587. -. Same title, this being a salesman's promotional dummy copy. The top edge is stained green rather than the orange of the published book. The dust jacket is blank on the flaps and rear panel. Prints two pages from the Introduction, 4 pages from Chapter Two (later incorporated into Chapter 4 in the finished book), and minor extracts from the Appendix, which were altered prior to publication. All the other pages are blank. Near fine in darkened dust jacket. Salesman's dummies were done in very small quantities, and dummies of books by major 20th Century authors very seldom turn up on the market. In a custom quarter leather slipcase and chemise.
588. STEINBECK, John. Working Days. NY: Viking (1988). Uncorrected proof copy of this posthumous publication of Steinbeck's journals from the period when he was writing The Grapes of Wrath. Fine in wrappers.
589. STOKES, Terry. Crimes of Passion. NY: Knopf, 1973. Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers, and inscribed by the author in 1974.
Two Issues of National Book Award Winner
590. STONE, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Uncorrected proof copy of the author's second book, co-winner of the National Book Award and basis for the movie Who'll Stop the Rain? A powerful, darkly comic novel that is one of the best explorations of the dark side of American culture in the aftermath of the 1960s and the Vietnam war. This is the first issue proof, in plain orange printed wrappers. A near fine copy, signed by the author.
591. -. Same title, second issue proof, in brown wrappers with a publisher's letter to booksellers reproduced on the front cover. Stone's first book won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award; this, his second, won the National Book Award; his third, A Flag for Sunrise, won the PEN/Faulkner Award. This copy has a detached first blank, otherwise is near fine in wrappers and has the publisher's original reply postcard laid in. Signed by the author.
592. STONE, Robert. Children of Light. NY: Knopf, 1986. His fourth book, a Hollywood novel with resonances of King Lear and Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Proof copy. Very good in wrappers, signed by the author.
593. (STONE, Robert). "Helping" in The Best American Short Stories 1988. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Uncorrected proof copy. One of his few short stories that has not been incorporated into a novel. Other contributors include Erdrich, Bass, Carver and Tobias Wolff. Fine in wrappers, and signed by Stone.
594. (STONE, Robert). "Keeping the Future at Bay" in The Best American Essays 1989. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. Uncorrected proof copy. The first book appearance of this essay by Stone on the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans. Other contributors include Julian Barnes, Annie Dillard, Stanley Elkin, Richard Ford, William Kittredge, Edward Hoagland, Joan Didion, etc. Fine in wrappers.
595. STRAIGHT, Susan. Blacker than a Thousand Midnights. NY: Hyperion (1994). Advance reading copy of the second novel by the author of the highly praised I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots. Fine in wrappers.
596. STRALEY, John. The Curious Eat Themselves. (NY): Soho (1993). Advance reading copy of his second Alaska mystery. Fine in wrappers.
597. STRAND, Mark. Hopper. (Hopewell): Ecco (1993). Uncorrected proof copy of this short book on the painter Edward Hopper. In the Ecco Press Writers on Art series. Fine in wrappers.
598. STYRON, William. Admiral Robert Penn Warren and the Snows of Winter. Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press (1978). Uncorrected proof copy in the form of loose sheets, printed on rectos only. "1st proof" written in red marker on title page; fine. Scarce.
599. STYRON, William. A Tidewater Morning. NY: Random House (1993). Uncorrected proof copy of this book by the author of Lie Down in Darkness, the National Book Award-winning Sophie's Choice, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner. Three tales derived from his youth, and his first published fiction in a decade. Fine in wrappers.