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ABBEY, Edward; MCGUANE, Tom; SILKO, Leslie Marmon; ZWINGER, Ann; POWELL, Lawrence Clark; STEGNER, Wallace; LOPEZ, Barry; WATERS, Frank; EASTLAKE, William; NICHOLS, John; et al.

ABE, Kobo
NY, Knopf, 1974. The uncorrected proof copy of this novel by the Japanese author of Woman in the Dunes, among others. Near fine in tall wrappers.
[#019402]
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ACKERMAN, Diane

ACKROYD, Peter

AIKEN, Conrad

AIKEN, Conrad

ALLEN, Paula Gunn

ALLISON, Dorothy

(Anthology)
Brooklyn, Long Island Review, 1973. Includes poetry by vets as well as an essay on "American Poetry From the Indochina Experience" by Stephen Sossaman, himself an accomplished poet and later a public speaker on the Vietnam experience. Most of Sossaman's essay is a review of Winning Hearts and Minds. Near fine in wrappers.
[#010320]
$20
(Anthology)
Garden City, Doubleday, 1986. The uncorrected proof copy of the year's O. Henry Award winners, with first prize awarded to Alice Walker. Other contributors include Bobbie Ann Mason, Alice Adams, Gordon Lish, Peter Cameron, Deborah Eisenberg, Stuart Dybek, Ward Just, and Joyce Carol Oates, who earned a "special award for continuing achievement," even then. Near fine in wrappers.
[#014350]
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(Anthology)

(Anthology)

(Anthology)
NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1989. The uncorrected proof copy. Contributions by Joan Didion, Robert Stone, Richard Ford, Julian Barnes, Annie Dillard, William Kittredge, Edward Hoagland, David Quammen and others. Fine in wrappers.
[#009164]
$20
(Anthology)
NY, Morrow, 1982. The uncorrected proof copy of twenty-five years of writing from The Village Voice. With pieces by Donald Barthelme, June Jordan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, Edward Hoagland, Pete Hamill, Greil Marcus, and many others. Fine in wrappers.
[#013083]
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(Anthology)
Fullerton, Union of Vietnamese in the U, [c.1973]. Bilingual edition of poetry by Vietnamese, mostly about the war but also some folk poetry, etc., with a number of illustrations. Spine heavily faded; otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers.
[#010322]
$20
(Anthology)
(Washington), (Indochina Mobile Ed. Proj.), (1971). Vietnamese poems, translated into English, with poetry by classic and well-known Vietnamese authors intermingled with poems by students, soldiers and contemporary folk singers. Illustrated with drawings and other artwork by Vietnamese artists. Co-compiled by Don Luce. Obvious sticker removal abrasion; about near fine in wrappers.
[#010309]
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(Anthology)
NY, McGraw Hill, 1972. The wrappered reissue of one of the early, important collections of poetry by Vietnam vets, published by a small press that was started by vets. Later this title was picked up by a major New York publisher and reissued. An important volume, which introduced such writers as W.D. Ehrhart, Michael Casey and Gustav Hasford, among others. Inscribed by Michael Uhl. Very good in wrappers.
[#010317]
$20
ANTRIM, Donald

ARNETT, Carroll
New Rochelle, Elizabeth Press, (1969). His third book, poetry. Near fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket.
[#002177]
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(Art)

ASTURIAS, Miguel Angel

ASTURIAS, Miguel Angel

ATKINSON, Kate

ATWOOD, Margaret

(AUDEN, W.H.)

AUDEN, W.H.
NY, Random House, (1960). Several page corners turned; else fine in a lightly spine-faded dust jacket with trace wear at the spine extremities and a bit of creasing to the rear panel.
[#019411]
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AUSTER, Paul

AUSTER, Paul
NY, Henry Holt, (1998). The uncorrected proof copy of the script for Auster's film. Also includes an interview with Auster. Fine in wrappers.
[#012166]
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(Anthology)
BACARISSE, Salvadore (ed.)

BAINBRIDGE, Beryl

BANKS, Russell
NY, Harper & Row, 1989. The advance reading copy. Inscribed by the author. Bumped at spine crown; near fine in wrappers.
[#013922]
$20
BARNES, Kim

BARR, John
(n.p.), Ives Street, (1989). A short poem about the Vietnam Memorial, bound in a handsome pamphlet that resembles the monument. The author is a Vietnam vet, a poet for 40 years, a longtime banker and financial analyst, and in recent years the president of the Poetry Foundation, a position he took after the foundation received a $100 million bequest. 6" x 4". Fine.
[#010333]
$20
BARTH, R.L.
(Van Nuys), Perivale, (1983). A chapbook collecting this former Marine's poems about the war. Near fine. Barth is one of the most accomplished of the poets to have written about the war.
[#010335]
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BASS, Milton R
BAXTER, Charles

BAXTER, Charles
(n.p.), Viking, (1985). The uncorrected proof copy. A well-received collection of stories, which was the author's first book from a major trade publisher, after a couple of poetry chapbooks and a story collection from a university press. Fine in wrappers. In our experience, quite an uncommon proof.
[#004980]
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BELL, Madison Smartt

BENCHLEY, Nathaniel

BERGE, Carol
June 22, 1988. Two pages promising to send an article which will apparently deal with the parallels between American Indian and Japanese ways of living, the life of Maria Sanchez, and "life lived as an entity, all of a piece. The artist as not a soul divided..." Folded in thirds for mailing; holograph corrections. A nice letter, with good content. Signed by the author. Fine. With envelope.
[#015471]
$95
BERGE, Carol
[March 1988]. Berge, a longtime poet and novelist who was associated with the New York poetry avant-garde of the 1960s, introduces herself to the recipient, the editor of Art & Antiques magazine, as both a writer and an antiques dealer. The letter is a sales pitch for a scarab ring in her possession and includes a drawing: "To me, it looks like either a Scarab beetle (stylized in form), or/and some sort of old inkwell with plumes extending from it. That suits the idea that I'm into Scarabs and I'm also a novelist and writer." Signed by the author. Folded in thirds for mailing, with a resume and mailing envelope included. Fine.
[#015470]
$40
BERGE, Carol
[October 1988]. Berge proposes an article on "a renowned Santera." Composed on a typewriter that makes periods look like commas; folded in thirds for mailing; else fine, with envelope. Signed by the author.
[#015472]
$20
BERGER, Thomas

BERNAYS, Anne
NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1989). Warmly inscribed by the author to another writer in the year of publication "with much love, much admiration and infinite thanks." Near fine, lacking the dust jacket. An excellent association copy.
[#016976]
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BERRIAULT, Gina
San Francisco, North Point, 1984. The uncorrected proof copy of this novel by the author of The Stone Boy (made into a well-received film with Robert Duvall) and The Infinite Passion of Expectation, among others. Her story collection, Women in Their Beds, published in 1997, won the PEN Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Near fine in wrappers. This title was reissued in 1997.
[#015473]
$20
BERRIAULT, Gina
San Francisco, North Point, 1984. The uncorrected proof copy of a novel by this award-winning San Francisco Bay Area writer whose critical accolades, especially from her fellow writers, far outstripped her public recognition, at least until her winning of the National Book Critics Circle Award. This title was reissued in 1997. "P.C" (Press Copy) markings on cover and title page; else fine in wrappers.
[#013526]
$20
BERRIAULT, Gina

BERRIAULT, Gina
(NY), New American Library, (1966). Her fourth book, third novel. Berriault, long considered a "writer's writer," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for her story collection, Women in Their Beds, in 1997, shortly before she died. Top stain faded, spine slant; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[#016131]
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BERRYMAN, John
London, Faber, (1959). First British edition and first edition thus, printing the title poem plus selections from his other publications. Published in an edition of 1000 copies. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
[#004527]
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BERRYMAN, John
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Review copy of this collection of new poems, many of which are autobiographical and deal directly with his life and work. Fine in a very mildly-sunned, near fine dust jacket.
[#014758]
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BISHOP, Elizabeth

BLACKBURN, Paul
London, Cape Goliard, 1968. Of a total edition of 7750, 2750 were for sale in the U.S., of which this is one of 750 hardcover copies. Fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket.
[#001273]
$20
BLAISE, Clark
Garden City, Doubleday, 1973. His first book, a collection of short fiction, by this writer who is married to author Bharati Mukherjee. Inscribed by Blaise. One light corner bump; else fine in a very good dust jacket.
[#006265]
$20
BLECHMAN, Burt
NY, Obolensky, (1961). The first novel by this erstwhile enfant terrible of the literary scene in the early 1960s. This received good critical reviews and was adapted for Broadway by Lillian Hellman under the title, My Mother, My Father and Me. Inscribed by the author in 1976, in part "Novel #2/ finally on the road." Fine in a very good dust jacket.
[#007294]
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BLISS, Corinne Demas
NY, Atheneum, 1982. The author's first novel. Signed. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#012124]
$20
BLUE CLOUD, Peter

(Pocket Poets Series)
BLY, Robert
(San Francisco), City Lights Books, (1970). The first book edition of this powerful anti-war poem, which was widely distributed in a number of formats at the height of the protests against the Vietnam War. Owner name. Near fine in wrappers.
[#017564]
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(Poetry)
(BOOTH, Philip; CONNELL, Marc; EBERHART, Richard; HOWES, Barbara; IGNATOW, David; JACOBSEN, Josephine; STAFFORD, William)

BORDEWICH, Fergus M.
NY, Doubleday, (1996). The advance reading copy of this updated look at myths and misconceptions about contemporary Indian tribes and tribal life, with an emphasis on changes that are taking place on reservations, largely beyond the view of white America. Fine in wrappers and signed by the author.
[#016528]
$20
BORGES, Jorge Luis

(BORGES, Jorge Luis). BURRI, Rene; LANUZA, Jose Luis
NY, Crown, (1968). Foreword by Borges to this book of photographs by Rene Burri, with text by Jose Luis Lanuza. Quarto; fine in a very good dust jacket missing some chips at the corners and the lower front panel at the spine fold.
[#017353]
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BOSSE, M.J.
Garden City, Doubleday, 1959. The author's first novel, about Vietnam just after the partition, and one former landowner's attempt to escape the North and reach freedom in the South. Front hinge starting, otherwise very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
[#009834]
$20
BOSSE, M.J.
Garden City, Doubleday, 1959. The author's first novel, about Vietnam just after the partition, and one former landowner's attempt to escape the North and reach freedom in the South. Very good in a very good dust jacket. An uncommon early novel.
[#009833]
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BOWEN, 'Asta
NY, Simon & Schuster, (1997). A first novel written from the point of view of a wolf, by a Montana author. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#016979]
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(Anthology)
(BOWLES, Paul)

BOWLES, Paul
London, Peter Owen, 1985. The second British edition of this title first published in 1963. Inscribed by Bowles: "For Mary Robbins/ with best/ Paul B./ 17/XII/92/ Tangier." Robbins was a friend and neighbor of Bowles's biographer, Virginia Spencer Carr; Robbins accompanied Carr on several trips to Tangier, and she housed Bowles when he traveled to the U.S. for surgery in 1994. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a small nick to the rear panel.
[#017000]
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BOYD, Blanche McCrary

BOYD, Blanche McCrary

BRILEY, John
NY, Putnam, (1969). A novel of a group of U.S. soldiers captured in Vietnam and indoctrinated by a defector. Fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket.
[#009837]
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BROSSARD, Chandler

BROWN, John Gregory
(NY), (Houghton Mifflin), (1994). The uncorrected proof copy. This is shot from manuscript, rather than having been typeset -- a format which typically suggests small distribution -- and is considerably scarcer than the glossy advance reading copy of this title that was issued. Fine in wrappers.
[#019422]
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BROWN, Rosellen

BROWN, Rosellen

BRUCHAC, Joseph
NY, Dial Books, (1997). A well-received autobiography that is also a memoir of the author's grandfather, in which the author traces the circuitous and often searing path to discovering his Native American heritage. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and signed by the author.
[#016562]
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(BRUCHAC, Joseph)

BRUCHAC, Joseph
Austin, Cold Mountain, 1975. One of 700 trade copies in wrappers, of a total edition of 1000. According to the colophon, these were distributed free to Patrons of the Cold Mountain Press. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the author at the end of the text. Fine.
[#002227]
$20
BRUCHAC, Joseph

BRUCHAC, Joseph

BRYAN, C.D.B.

BUECHNER, Frederick
(n.p.), HarperSanFrancisco, (1998). The advance reading copy of a novel by a writer who is respected as both a literary author and as a writer of religious and spiritual sensibility--a surprisingly uncommon combination in today's literary world, at least in the U.S. Fine in wrappers.
[#013548]
$20
BUECHNER, Frederick

BUECHNER, Frederick
NY, Atheneum, 1977. The uncorrected proof copy of a title in the sequence of novels by this writer/theologian about Leo Bebb and Antonio Parr, founders of the Church of Holy Love, Inc. Fine in wrappers.
[#015504]
$20
(Anthology)
(BULLINS, Ed)
NY, Winter House, (1972). Eight plays by, among others, Ed Bullins, Adrienne Kennedy, Megan Terry and LeRoi Jones. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with an edge tear at the upper front panel. Signed by Bullins, and inscribed by Kennedy.
[#013079]
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BURGESS, Anthony
NY, Norton, (1961). The first American edition of his fourth novel, and his first book to be published in the U.S., preceding his dystopian classic, A Clockwork Orange, by two years. Small bookplate front pastedown; else fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with slight fading to the red spine. An exceptionally nice copy of an early book by one of the most important authors of his time.
[#014764]
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BURROWAY, Janet

BUSCH, Frederick
(NY), New Directions, (1976). His fourth volume of fiction, but only his second to be published in this country. Inscribed by the author to a well-known author and critic: "To Richard Gilman/ with devoted admiration -/ Frederick Busch." Pages faintly acidified, else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[#019670]
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BUSH-BANKS, Olivia Ward
NY, Oxford University Press, 1991. A volume in the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers. With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reprints all of the writings of this Black-Indian author, whose writings consciously attacked the stereotypes of both African-Americans and Native Americans of the time. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
[#016575]
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BUTLER, Jack

BUTLER, Robert Olen
NY, Horizon, (1983). His third novel, set in New Mexico during the development of the atomic bomb. A fast-paced story and an intellectual adventure of high order. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#000849]
$20
BUTLER, Robert Olen
NY, Horizon, (1983). His third novel, set in New Mexico during the development of the atomic bomb. A fast-paced story and an intellectual adventure of high order. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, mildly rubbed dust jacket.
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BUTLER, Robert Olen
NY, Horizon, (1983). His third novel, set in New Mexico during the development of the atomic bomb. A fast-paced story and an intellectual adventure of high order. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing at the crown.
[#014398]
$40
CABELL, (James) Branch
NY, McBride, 1934. The limited edition, one of 153 numbered copies signed by the author as "Branch Cabell," during the time in his career when he was trying to distinguish his later works from the earlier works that comprise the Biography of Manuel. Front endpages splitting at hinge, light wear to cloth extremities; near fine without dust jacket, as issued.
[#010476]
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CALDWELL, Erskine

CALISHER, Hortense
Boston, Little Brown, (1951). Her first book, a collection of stories. Fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing on front cover and minor edgewear.
[#005666]
$20
CALVINO, Italo
NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a gutter nick at the front spine fold. Still, an exceptionally nice copy.
[#000850]
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CANTY, Kevin
NY, Doubleday, (1994). His first book, a highly praised collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with blurbs by Harry Crews, Ann Beattie, Padgett Powell and Joy Williams.
[#014408]
$20
CAREY, Peter
London, Faber and Faber, (1994). The first British edition of this novel by the two-time Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one short tear at the lower rear spine fold.
[#014409]
$20
CARTER, Angela

CARTER, Forrest
(n.p.), Delacorte, (1976). Carter's most famous book, which its publisher originally identified as "a true story" while it identified the author as a "part-blood Cherokee who is Storyteller in Council to the Cherokee Nations." A dozen years after its initial publication, The Education of Little Tree was chosen by independent booksellers as the book they most liked to sell and it became a word-of-mouth bestseller in a paperback edition published by the University of New Mexico Press. Later, Carter was discovered to be a white man from Alabama who had worked for right-wing politician George Wallace, writing racist propaganda. Carter may have written racist tracts for George Wallace, but in The Education of Little Tree he endorsed humanist values of a high order, which he ascribed to Native American traditions -- respect for the land and one's family, honoring one's elders, promoting generosity and good faith, abhorring hypocrisy and brutality. Even as fiction, The Education of Little Tree raises serious and difficult questions, but it has been taken by many as strongly promoting a healthy sensitivity to, and respect for, Native American traditions and perspectives. In some circles, the question of the book's authenticity is today less of an issue than that of its sentimentality. Bound in the cheap "perfectbound" style, with the pages glued to the spine rather than sewn in signatures. Such bindings have proven extremely fragile over the years, which helps explain the scarcity of relatively recent titles such as this one. Spine lean; spotting to page edges; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with modest edge wear.
[#013556]
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CARTER, Forrest

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