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429. -. Same title. NY: Viking (1968). Later edition. This book was reprinted in hardcover by Viking nearly a decade after its original publication by Doubleday-a rare phenomenon in American publishing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author.
430. PALEY, Grace. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. NY: FSG (1973). The second collection of stories by one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary masters of the short story. Nominated for the National Book Award. Fine in fine dust jacket with moderate fading to the letters on the spine. Inscribed by the author.
431. -. Another copy. A review copy, unsigned. Fine in fine dust jacket.
432. -. Same title, first British edition (London: Deutsch, 1975). Slight bump to crown; else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket and inscribed by the author.
433. -. Another copy of the British edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
434. PALEY, Grace. Later the Same Day. NY: FSG (1985). Her third collection of stories. Fine in fine dust jacket.
435. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Virago, 1985). Fine in fine dust jacket.
436. PALEY, Grace. Leaning Forward. Penobscot: Granite Press (1985). A collection of poetry, limited to 125 numbered copies signed by the author, the entire hardcover edition. Fine in illustrated boards, bound by Sarah Creighton with pastepaper covers by Carol Blinn. At the list price:
437. -. Same title, the trade paperback edition. "Review Copy" written in ink on first blank. Near fine in wrappers and inscribed by the author.
438. PARETSKY, Sara. Killing Orders. NY: Morrow (1985). The third V.I. Warshawski mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket.
439. PARKER, Dorothy. After Such Pleasures. NY: Viking, 1933. Fifth book, a collection of short stories and sketches, by the acerbic critic and lone female member of the Algonquin Round Table. Owner name front flyleaf, spine-cocked; about very good in good dust jacket, missing a thumbnail-size chip at the base of the spine.
440. PESETSKY, Bette. Stories Up to a Point. NY: Knopf, 1981. Her first book, a collection of minimalist short stories. Fine in dust jacket and inscribed by the author.
441. PETRY, Ann. The Narrows. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Second novel by this African-American writer whose first, The Street, won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Very good in very good dust jacket, with some spine fading and some edgewear, particularly at the corners of the spine.
442. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. Sweethearts. Carrboro: Truck Press, 1976. Her first book, a collection of poems. This is one of 400 copies in wrappers, of a total edition of 410. Nicked at base of spine, otherwise a near fine copy of a book that is an unusual size and usually turns up well-worn as a result.
443. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. Counting. NY: Vehicle Editions (1978). Second printing of this collection of poems; inscribed by the author to another writer. Some dampstaining to a couple of pages. Rubbed; near fine in wrappers. Still, a good literary association.
444. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. Black Tickets. (NY): (Dell) (1979). Her well-received first collection of stories. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to another writer and his wife, in 1987. Very good.
445. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. How Mickey Made It. St. Paul: Bookslinger Editions, 1981. An attractive limited edition of this story, 1/150 numbered copies signed by the author. Clothbound without dust jacket, as issued. Fine.
446. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. Machine Dreams. NY: Dutton/Lawrence (1984). Her first novel, a well-received book about the effect on a family of the Vietnam war and its aftermath. Inscribed by the author in 1987 to another writer and his wife. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
447. -. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
448. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. Fast Lanes. NY: Dutton (1987). A collection of stories, with dust jacket blurbs (about her earlier books) by Robert Stone and Raymond Carver, among others. Inscribed by the author to another writer and his wife, with a "Compliments of the Author" card laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. A nice literary association.
449. PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. Shelter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Advance reading copy of her well-received recent novel. Fine in wrappers and signed by the author.
450. PIERCY, Marge. Dance the Eagle to Sleep. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. Advance review copy of the author's second novel. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author in 1976. A very nice copy of an early book by one of the most important writers to emerge from the activist political movements of the 1960s. This book was named one of the ten best novels of the year by Time magazine.
451. PIERCY, Marge. Small Changes. Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. Her third novel and considered by some her best. With a glowing Thomas Pynchon blurb. This is one of the notoriously cheaply produced Doubleday books of the early Seventies, and shows a certain small amount of wear: corners and spine bumped but still near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edge wear and dust-soiling to rear panel. Inscribed by the author in 1976.
452. PIERCY, Marge. To Be of Use. Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. Her third collection of poetry, which attempts to articulate an alternative vision of possibility while describing the crushing limitations and oppressiveness of contemporary society. Inscribed by the author in 1976. Fine in fine dust jacket.
453. -. Same title, the simultaneous issue in wraps. Inscribed by the author in 1976. Fine.
454. (PLATH, Sylvia). "LUCAS, Victoria." The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann (1962). Her pseudonymously published first novel. Plath committed suicide barely a month after the publication of this novel in England and it was not published in the U.S. for nearly a decade. The Bell Jar is largely autobiographical: Plath published pseudonymously in hopes of avoiding the consequences of being recognized by her friends and neighbors, and their recognizing themselves in her book. The book's clearcut exposition of its heroine's pain and her attempted suicide was reinforced by its author's actual suicide, lending a mythic dimension to the book. This is a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the spine extremities and the flap folds. A nice copy of an important book, which is very elusive in the first edition.
455. PORTER, Katherine Anne. Flowering Judas. NY: Harcourt Brace (1935). The first trade edition of the author's first (acknowledged) book, a collection of stories. This is a review copy, stamped as such on the front flyleaf. Near fine in very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear.
456. PORTER, Katherine Anne. Hacienda. NY: Harrison of Paris (1935). One of 895 copies. Fine in slipacase.
457. PORTER, Katherine Anne. A Christmas Story. NY: Delacorte (1967). A Christmas recollection and tribute to Porter's niece, who died at the age of five. With illustrations by Ben Shahn. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Uncommon.
458. PROSE, Francine. The Glorious Ones. NY: Atheneum, 1974. Her second book. Fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket, with a gutter nick on the front spine fold and a nearly invisible crease on the front flap.
459. PROSE, Francine. Animal Magnetism. NY: Putnam (1978). Review copy of her fourth book. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
460. PROULX, E. Annie. Postcards. London: Fourth Estate (1992). First British edition of the author's second book, first novel, winner of the PEN Faulkner Award. Fine in fine dust jacket.
461. PROULX, E. Annie. The Shipping News. NY: Scribner's (1993). The uncorrected proof copy of her second novel, a dark horse candidate and surprise winner of the National Book Award which then doubly surprised the literary world by also winning the Pulitzer Prize. Fine in wrappers.
462. -. Same title, the first British edition (London: Fourth Estate, 1994). This book also won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket, which differs in design from that of the American edition. With wraparound band announcing the winning of the Irish Times award. Signed by the author.
463. -. Another copy of the British edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket, without the added wraparound band.
464. PYM, Barbara. Less than Angels. NY: Vanguard (n.d.) (c. 1957). Her fourth book, but the first to be published in the U.S. Light wear to bottom edges of boards but still a near fine copy in very good, mildly spine-faded dust jacket with some scratches on the front panel and a chip at the lower edge. A nice copy of an elusive title.
465. RASCOE, Judith. Yours, and Mine. Boston: LB (1973). The author's first book, a collection of stories and a novella. Inscribed by the author in the month prior to publication. Rascoe is perhaps best known for her screen writing, having collaborated on the film adaptations of two of Robert Stone's novels, A Hall of Mirrors (filmed as WUSA) and Dog Soldiers (filmed as Who'll Stop the Rain?). Fine in near fine dust jacket.
466. RHYS, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. London: Constable (1934). Her fourth book, the story of eighteen months in the life of a chorus girl who, like the author, grew up in the West Indies. After an early and productive writing career, during which she received much critical praise, Rhys went for nearly three decades without publishing a new work until Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966. At that time, her frank sensuality was embraced by the women's movement and her earlier works were rediscovered and republished, including this one. The correct first edition of this uncommon novel by a writer of Caribbean ancestry, whose works revolved around the portrayal of the isolation of women in the modern world and came to be regarded as "undiscovered" feminist classics by a later generation of readers. Very good in about very good dust jacket with several small chips and splitting at the bottom front spine fold. Very scarce in dust jacket; this is the nicest copy we have seen or heard of.
-. Same title, first American edition (NY: Morrow, 1935.) Offsetting to endpapers; very good in dust jacket with several small edge chips and wear along the folds. Scarce in jacket.
467. RHYS, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. (London): Deutsch (1966). Her first novel in nearly thirty years and widely considered her best-a reinvention of the life of Mr. Rochester's first wife, in Jane Eyre, the "madwoman in the attic"-and something of a contemporary feminist classic. Owner name and offsetting to front endpaper; else fine in fine dust jacket.
468. RICE, Ann. Interview with the Vampire. (London): MacDonald/Raven (1976). First British edition of her acclaimed first book, the first in the Vampire Lestat series, and the basis for the recent film. Fine in a fine dust jacket that differs in design from that of the American edition.
469. RICE, Anne. The Queen of the Damned. NY: Knopf, 1988. The third book in the Vampire Lestat sequence. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author. A very nice copy.
470. RICE, Anne. The Tale of the Body Thief. NY: Knopf, 1992. The fourth book in the Lestat series. Fine in dust jacket and signed by the author.
471. RICE, Anne. Taltos. (New Orleans): (B.E. Trice) (1994). The limited edition of the sequel to The Witching Hour and Lasher, a continuation of her novelistic history of the Mayfair witches. The trade edition had a first printing in the hundreds of thousands of copies; this edition was limited to 526, of which this is one of 501 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
472. RICE, Anne. Memnoch the Devil. (New Orleans): (B.E. Trice) (1995). The fifth book in her acclaimed Vampire Chronicles, which began with Interview With the Vampire. The trade edition had a first printing announced as 1,000,000 copies; this edition was limited to 501 copies, of which this is one of 50 deluxe numbered copies bound in quarter leather and signed by the author and the illustrator, George Dureau. Fine in the publisher's cloth slipcase.
473. ROBINSON, Marilynne. Housekeeping. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1980). Uncorrected proof copy of her first and, to date, only novel. A subtle story of keeping what matters and escaping from the weight of the rest, made into a moving film with Christine Lahti. Fine in wrappers.
474. ROBINSON, Marilynne. Mother Country. NY: FSG (1980). Review copy of her second book, nonfiction about the nuclear industry. Fine in fine dust jacket, with review slip, photo and promotional material laid in.
475. ROSSNER, Judith. Attachments. NY: S&S (1977). Her first novel after the huge success of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Fine in fine dust jacket with trace wear to spine crown. Signed by the author.
476. RULE, Jane. This is Not For You. NY: McCall (1970). Second novel by the author of The Desert of the Heart, a contemporary classic of lesbian fiction. Fine in fine dust jacket. A virtually perfect copy.