
E-list # 147
Year-End Clearance
FASANARO, Charles

FASANARO, Charles

(Art)
FEDER, Norman
NY, Harrison House/Harry N. Abrams Inc., (1982). A reissue of a volume that first appeared in the late 1960s. A massive quarto, with 300 illustrations, including 60 full color plates. Text block sagging slightly, which seems inevitable; else fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a light crimp at the crown.
[#016498]
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FELD, Ross
NY, Jargon Society, 1972. Fine in self-wraps and inscribed by the author in 1976.
[#001441]
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FELD, Ross

FERRINI, Vincent

FINCH, Robert

FINCH, Robert

FISHER, Steve

FITCH, Janet
(n.p.), Little Brown, 1999. Advance copy, in the form of 8-1/2" x 11" bound typescript, with pages 15-28 laid in. A well-received first novel, which was selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club. Acetate front cover creased; else fine.
[#019475]
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(FLANNER, Janet). DORVAL, Marcelle and CARLU, Jean

FLOKOS, Nicholas
Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Tapebound advance copy, consisting of 8 1/2" x 11" sheets reproducing word-processed typescript; a very early state of the book. Fine. Laid in is a typed letter signed by the author.
[#008119]
$20
FORD, Charles Henri
Kathmandu, Bardo Matrix, 1974. Starstreams Poetry Series No. 3. One of 500 numbered copies printed on rice paper and signed by the author. Lower corner of last page torn, and spine bumped there, otherwise fine in stapled wrappers.
[#001465]
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FORD, Richard
NY, Knopf, 1997. The first trade edition of this collection of three novellas. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#014468]
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FORSTER, E.M.
NY, Knopf, 1923. The first American edition of this series of short essays derived from Forster's stay in Alexandria and first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press at Leonard's invitation. Owner name in pencil on verso of flyleaf; cloth spine-sunned and surface soiled with dampening apparent on the rear panel. Still a tight copy with clean text; about very good, lacking the dust jacket.
[#019831]
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FOWLER, Connie Mae
NY, Doubleday, (2000). The advance reading copy of this novel by a writer who won the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Fine in wrappers.
[#019477]
$20
FOWLES, John

FOWLES, John
Helsinki, Eurographica, (1987). The first separate edition, copy number 172 of 350 copies, of a story first published in The Ebony Tower. Signed by the author. An attractive limited edition printed in Italy at Tipografia Nobili, on special Michelangelo paper made in Pescia, Italy. Part of the Eurographica series of Contemporary Authors in Signed Limited Editions. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket.
[#010580]
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FOWLES, John

FOWLES, John

FOWLES, John

FRASER, George MacDonald
NY, Knopf, 2000. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition. An installment in the popular and critically well-received Flashman series of comic historical novels. Crease to mid-spine; near fine in wrappers.
[#017432]
$20
(French Language Editions)

FRIEDMAN, Paul
Urbana, U. of Illinois, (1971). The author's first book, a collection of stories from the 1960s, touching on various issues of the time. Fine in a near fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
[#012146]
$20
(Film)
GAINES, Charles
London, Chatto & Windus, 1973. The first British edition of his first book, a novel of bodybuilding in the New South that became Arnold Schwarzenegger's first major film release. The film also starred Jeff Bridges and Sally Field. Inscribed by Gaines in 1976. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#007396]
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GALLANT, Mavis
Toronto, Macmillan, 1985. The uncorrected proof copy of the true first edition of this collection of stories. Although exact numbers are hard to come by, it is increasingly clear that most Canadian proofs are printed in tiny quantities -- often as few as a couple of dozen copies. Fine in wrappers.
[#005753]
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GARDNER, John

(GARDNER, John)
Dallas, Press Works Publishing, (1981). A literary magazine edited by Gardner and L.M. Rosenberg, with an introduction by Gardner. Issued in a hardcover edition of 250 supposedly numbered copies and 26 lettered copies reserved for the use of the editors and publisher. This copy is not lettered but has "Compliments of the Publisher" written on the colophon and is signed by Gardner and Rosenberg. Minor foxing; very good in a very good, chipped, original acetate dustwrapper.
[#010589]
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GARDNER, John

GARDNER, John

GARDNER, John
Carbondale, Southern Illinois U. Press, (1978). First thus, a softcover edition of his scholarly study of Chaucer, published to complement his biography The Life and Times of Chaucer. Done by a university press, this title had a very small hardcover first printing -- 1819 copies in 1977, which was followed by a second hardcover printing prior to this edition. Signed by the author. One light corner bump, else fine in wrappers.
[#019681]
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GARLAND, Alex

GARLAND, Alex

(DILLARD, Annie)
GARRETT, George

GASS, William H.

GELBER, Jack
NY, Hill and Wang, (1972). The uncorrected proof copy of this play by the author of The Connection, who is also known for his association with The Living Theater, an experimental theater group. Notes in text and name of Richard M. Buck on cover. Very good in tall wrappers. Uncommon.
[#018598]
$50
GERNER, Ken
(Port Townsend), Copper Canyon Press, (1978). A collection of poems, one of 1000 copies in wrappers of a total edition of 1100 copies. Inscribed by the author to poet Linda Gregg. Fine.
[#001482]
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GERSHE, Leonard

GESSNER, Robert
NY, Scribner's, 1944. Inscribed by the author. Very good copy, lacking the dust jacket.
[#010598]
$20
GILCHRIST, Ellen
Boston, Little Brown, (1983). Her second book, first novel. Signed by the author. Remainder dot bottom page edges and some associated smudging there; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#017098]
$30
GILMAN, Richard

(Anthology)
(GINSBERG, Allen)

GLANVILLE, Brian

GOGARTY, Oliver St. John

On Sale: $163
GOLDING, William

GOLD, Ivan

GOODMAN, Mitchell

GORDIMER, Nadine
NY, Viking, (1980). Uncorrected proof copy. A collection of stories. Mildly spine-sunned; else fine in wrappers.
[#000929]
$20
GORDIMER, Nadine
NY, Knopf, 1987. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this novel by the South African Nobel Prize winner, this being the issue in white wrappers. Fine.
[#012300]
$20
GORDIMER, Nadine
London, Cape, (1987). A novel set in southern Africa by the Nobel Prize winner. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#013213]
$20
GORDIMER, Nadine
NY, Viking, 1960. First American edition. A collection of stories and a novella. Foxing to endpages; near fine in a very good, spine- and edge-faded dust jacket with a few edge tears.
[#000925]
$20
GORDIMER, Nadine
NY, Viking, (1963). One of her least common books in this country--"a novel of love and hate in the shadow of racial conflict." Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and edgewear, particularly at the spine crown.
[#005774]
$20
GORDIMER, Nadine
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998). The uncorrected proof copy. Paper clip imprint front cover; else fine in wrappers.
[#009307]
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GORDIMER, Nadine

GORDON, Mary
(n.p.), Penguin/Lipper, (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of a volume in the Penguin Lives biography series. Several page corners inadvertently turned; else fine in wrappers, with a note from the series editor James Atlas laid in, requesting a review.
[#017440]
$20
GOULD, Stephen Jay

GOYEN, William
NY, Clarkson Potter, (1983). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel by the author of The House of Breath, The Fair Sister, and others. Fine in wrappers.
[#017823]
$20
GOYEN, William

GOYEN, William
NY, Clarkson Potter, (1984). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of new and selected stories, published shortly after the author's death. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. Fine in wrappers.
[#017824]
$20
GOYEN, William
Garden City, Doubleday, 1963. A short novel, inscribed by the author and additionally signed by him. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
[#010617]
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GOYEN, William
Garden City, Doubleday, 1963. Inscribed to his bibliographer, Stuart Wright, on the front endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
[#008878]
$80
GRAVER, Elizabeth

GRAVES, Robert

GROOM, Winston
NY, Summit, (1978). The advance reading copy of the author's first book, one of the self-consciously "big" novels of the war -- an ambitious book that explores the important issues of the time from various angles through different characters. Near fine in wrappers.
[#009990]
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GROSSINGER, Richard
San Francisco, Sierra Club, (1981). The uncorrected proof copy of this book on astronomy and the sky in science and myth, written by a well-known poet and literary scholar, who established Io magazine and the North Atlantic Press, both of them well-respected, serious literary undertakings. Spine-sunned; else fine in wrappers.
[#015187]
$20
GRUMBACH, Doris
NY, Dutton, (1979). The advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers and inscribed by the author "with... gratitude" in the month of publication.
[#010631]
$20
GUTHRIE, A.B., Jr
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1982. The uncorrected proof copy of the sixth novel in his series about the settling of the West, which began with the classic The Big Sky and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Way West. Vertical cover crease; near fine in wrappers.
[#018918]
$20
HALL, Jim
Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon, 1986. Fourth book of poetry. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
[#001538]
$20
HALPERN, Daniel

HARDCASTLE, Paul
(London), Chrysalis, 1985. 7" record, with side one, "19," being a song about Vietnam: 19 was the average age of the combat soldiers in Vietnam. Fine in original sleeve, illustrated with photographs from the war. An unusual example of Vietnam war commentary in popular culture.
[#010006]
$20
(Anthology)
(HARDWICK, Elizabeth)

HARDWICK, Elizabeth

HARJO, Joy

HARPER, Michael
Urbana, U. of Illinois Press, (1971). His second collection of poems. This is the hardcover issue, signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with slight wear near the spine base.
[#000140]
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HARRIS, Mark

HARRIS, Mark

HARRIS, Mark
NY, Macmillan, (1957). Near fine in a spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket; about near fine.
[#016247]
$20
HARRIS, Mark

HARRISON, Jamie
NY, Hyperion, 1995. A well-received first novel of the "new Montana," written by the daughter of novelist and poet Jim Harrison. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with blurbs by Peter Matthiessen, James Crumley, Rick Bass, and others.
[#015595]
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HASFORD, Gustav

HAUPTMAN, Terry
(Tulsa), (Cardinal Press), (1982). A collection of poetry, illustrated by Hauptman and with an introduction by Meridel LeSueur. Inscribed by the author to the poet Jay Wright: "Listen to this hiss and roar -- undulating fury of the dance." Only issued in wrappers; fine.
[#014490]
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HAUTMAN, Pete

HAVIARAS, Stratis

HAVIARAS, Stratis
NY, Simon & Schuster, (1984). Second novel by the poet and author of When the Tree Sings, this novel taking place in the author's native Greece, in the years immediately following the Second World War. Warmly inscribed by the author to a well-known poet in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[#012845]
$20
HAVIARAS, Stratis

HEARON, Shelby

HEARON, Shelby

HEARON, Shelby
Garden City, Doubleday, 1976. Review copy. Warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, alluding to her appearing in the recipient's book -- a collection of authors' self-caricatures he published in 1976. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
[#000157]
$20
HEARON, Shelby

HEARON, Shelby

HEFLY, James and Marti
Harrisburg, Christian Publications, (1974). Nonfiction, about two American missionaries who were captured during the Tet offensive and died of malnutrition in captivity after months of forced marches through the jungle. Owner name on title page, foxing to boards; about very good in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with internal foxing and an external tape repair to a lower edge tear. Uncommon.
[#010020]
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HEGI, Ursula

HEINEMANN, Larry
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986). The author's second novel, about a badly maimed Vietnam vet who is the only survivor of a vicious firefight, and his life after returning from the war. Surprise winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[#010022]
$20
HEINRICH, Bernd

HELLER, Joseph
NY, Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of the well-received memoir of the author of Catch-22, Something Happened, and others. This is the first state, in plain wrappers. Fine.
[#009325]
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HELLER, Michael
Fremont, Sumac Press, (1972). The author's first book, a collection of poems. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author of a total hardcover edition of 126. Additionally inscribed by Heller to poet Cid Corman, whose accession notation is written at the bottom of the front endpaper: "For Cid/ I've tried to make the book/ justify its last three lines. I hope/ you enjoy, are moved, by some of this.../ with friendship, respect & love./ Mike." The last three lines of the book read: "for the otherness is beautiful/ and terror and delight/ in the same moment flood the heart." Cloth mottled; about very good in a near fine dust jacket, designed by Heller. A nice association.
[#001572]
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HEMON, Aleksandar
(London), Picador, (2000). The advance reading copy of this inventive and highly praised first book, a collection of stories by a writer from Sarajevo, for whom English is a second language. Fine in wrappers.
[#017460]
$20
HERBST, Josephine

HERLIHY, James Leo

HERSEY, John
NY, Knopf, 1991. The advance reading copy of a novel told from the point of view of a Stradivarius violin. One light corner bump; else fine in wrappers, in a slightly worn publisher's cardstock box. Signed by the author.
[#012309]
$20
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