E-list # 181

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this collection of baseball stories. Fine in wrappers. [#029794] SOLD

NY, St. Martin's, (1979). The uncorrected proof copy of the seventh novel by the author of The Painted Bird, among others. This book was published just before the scandal broke wherein Kosinski was accused of letting his students or paramours ghost-write his own novels. Fine in tall wrappers. [#027642] SOLD

NY, St. Martin's, (1979). A special issue, number 466 of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. The signature is on the front flyleaf; the limitation is printed on the verso, giving the appearance of a somewhat impromptu limited edition. Fine in a near fine glassine dustwrapper with some chipping. [#010701] $30

(London), Faber and Faber, (2009). The advance reading copy of the first British edition, which was only published in paperback. Several tiny edge nicks; near fine in wrappers. An uncommon advance copy. [#028255] $30

NY, Rinehart, (1951). Mailer's second book. Like his first book, The Naked and the Dead, this title was published in black pseudo-cloth boards that rub remarkably easily, with a coarse paper dust jacket printed in black, which also tends to show wear. This is a near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, with fading to the title block on the spine, rubbing to the folds, and light edge chipping. The jacket is printed in black and red; there was also a black and green jacket, with no priority known. [#912641] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Third printing. Inscribed by Malamud to George Garrett and his wife, "with affection." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with slight fading and a couple tiny spots to the spine. [#027654] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1969). A novel in the form of six related short stories, three of which had appeared in earlier collections of his, two of which were uncollected, and one of which was previously unpublished. Inscribed by Malamud, "For Mike and Katharine/ With love/ Bern," presumably his long-time friends Michael Seide and his wife. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#032707] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1971). One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912646] SOLD

London, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth, (1985). The first British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913650] $30

London, London Limited Editions, (1993). The limited edition of this novel about the conflicting myths that underlie Australian history -- the Western and Aboriginal views of the land. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a near fine glassine dustwrapper with one small edge chip. [#913653] SOLD

London, Chatto & Windus, (1993). The first British edition of this novel about the conflicting myths that underlie Australian history -- the Western and Aboriginal views of the land. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913654] $35

London, Chatto & Windus, (1996). The first British edition of this novel set in Australia in 1827. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913655] $30

NY, Knopf, 1994. The uncorrected proof copy of the sequel to All the Pretty Horses, and the second novel in The Border Trilogy. Fine in wrappers. [#911683] SOLD

NY, Harper, (1961). McMurtry's first book, one of A.C. Greene's "50 best books on Texas," basis for the movie Hud, and winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for the best novel of the year. Horseman, Pass By, which takes its title from the closing lines of William Butler Yeats's poem "Under Ben Bulben" (as did Mary McCarthy's first novel, Cast a Cold Eye), was a breakthrough in Texas literature and in regional literature in general: by telling a raw, unadulterated story entirely fitting to its contemporary West Texas setting, McMurtry not only brought the regional novel out of its quaint gentility but gave it a universality it could not have had otherwise; it has been called a West Texas Catcher in the Rye, with the caveat that the lives of Texans in general were a little more crude than those of the Easterners in Salinger's novel. Faint foxing to foredge and endpages; still a very near fine copy in a very near fine, lightly rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. [#024130] SOLD

(NY), Simon & Schuster, 2002. An advance copy in the form of tapebound photocopied typescript, reproducing the author's corrections. 501 double-spaced pages, printed on both sides. Fine in cardstock covers. [#913323] SOLD

Greenwich, NY Graphic Society, (1965). A novel for young adults. Reportedly, this was ghostwritten by McMurtry for Ophelia Ray, although there has been some question raised about that. In any case, McMurtry worked on a version of this book before it was published. This is the second issue. Fine in a fine, white dust jacket. [#011553] SOLD

Norfolk, New Directions, (1939). Miller's first book to be published in the U.S., after the acclaim that his earlier books -- Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring -- had achieved in Paris. One of 2000 copies printed, this copy is a review copy (so stamped on the front flyleaf, with a publication date). Inscribed by Miller to Roger Richards, a legendary New York bookseller whose store, Greenwich Books, was a hangout for many of the Beat writers including Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Ginsberg and Burroughs, and even Carl Solomon. Richards also published one of the last things Miller wrote, a 1978 chapbook called Love Between the Sexes, issued in an edition of 276 copies. This was one of the early books published by New Directions, which had been founded in 1936. Darkening to endpages and spine cloth, a very good copy of the first issue in a very good, first issue dust jacket with several small edge chips and two small contemporary reviews taped to the front flap. Very uncommon as an advance copy, and an excellent association copy. [#032894] SOLD

Paris, Obelisk Press, 1939. Miller's fourth book to be printed by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in Paris, which had also published Tropic of Cancer as well as work by such writers as Anais Nin, James Joyce, Cyril Connolly, Lawrence Durrell, and others. This is a variant unrecorded by Miller's bibliographers, with the sheets of the variant first edition (Shifreen & Jackson A21b) and the binding conforming to such on all points but for a "175 00" price stamped on the back wrapper and no price on the spine. Small edge and corner tears, crease on the rear cover; near fine in wrappers. Tropic of Capricorn, like Tropic of Cancer, could not be published in the U.S. until nearly three decades after this edition because of its frank depiction of sexual matters, but it wielded an enormous influence from afar, and helped usher in a new era of literature, in which traditional barriers to the artist's self-expression were abandoned. [#029263] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Signed by Moody at his contribution. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911778] SOLD

(London), Faber and Faber, (2000). The British edition, which preceded the American edition. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and dust jacket. [#911775] $35

(n.p.), Little Brown, (n.d.). An advance excerpt of the American edition. Prints only the title story. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#911761] $80

Boston, Little Brown, (2002). The bound typescript of this memoir by the novelist, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Velobound photocopy; nearly 500 pages; double-spaced, printed on rectos only, with several corrections evident. Velobinding beginning to pull away from the large text block; thus near fine. Scarce state of a well-received memoir. [#031465] $150

Boston, Little Brown, (2002). A memoir by the novelist, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Inscribed by Moody in 2003 to the author Nicholas Delbanco: "For Nick D/ All admiration and gratitude for your work and for having me to Ann Arbor." Thomas Pynchon provides a dust jacket blurb on the front flap. Upper corners tapped, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029688] SOLD

Garden City, Doubleday, 1957. The second printing of this short comic novel, signed by Nabokov and dated "21 Jan. 1959 Cornell Univ." With a letter of provenance laid in. Nabokov was notoriously reluctant to sign books, and the letter of provenance tells an interesting story: the purchaser of this book originally bought two copies of Lolita to have Nabokov sign, and Nabokov told him that he had an agreement with his publisher not to sign copies of the book. As a result, he went back to the bookstore and bought two copies of Pnin (one for himself and one for his sister), and Nabokov signed and dated those instead. The commercial success of Lolita -- it had been a bestseller since its publication the previous summer -- allowed Nabokov to leave his job at Cornell. He gave his last two lectures there on January 19, two days before signing this book. Boards somewhat rubbed; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of small stains at the folds, some fading to the spine lettering, and modest edge chipping. The dust jacket is Juliar's variant a, with the code above the price on the front flap. Uncommon signed, and this copy with a small footnote to literary history. [#033207] SOLD

NY, Phaedra, 1965. The first English-language edition of this short novel originally published in Russian (in Paris) in 1930. This is Juliar's Variant "a," with publisher's address line. Foxing to top edge, else fine in a slightly dusty dust jacket. [#027434] SOLD

Paris, Plon, (1992). A later French edition -- 1993, the year the title won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the French award for the best foreign book of the year. Fine in wrappers and signed by the author. [#019580] SOLD

The first Japanese edition, issued in two volumes, each fine in fine dust jacket with publisher's wraparound band torn and laid in to Volume II. Signed by the author. [#019570] SOLD

(London), Flamingo, (2002). The uncorrected proof copy of the British edition. Fine in wrappers. [#911820] $35

(NY), Dell, (1976). First printing of the Dell paperback edition. Signed by the author. Tiny corner chip to rear cover; slight wear; near fine in wrappers. [#911794] $35

(Milan), A Vallardi, (1987). The first Italian edition of The Nuclear Age. Signed by the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with outwardly imperceptible dampstaining. [#019572] $60

NY, Knopf, 1985. O'Brien's fourth novel, about a man compelled to dig a bomb shelter in his back yard to protect his family even if it means losing them in the process. Signed by the author with the added phrase from the book, in quotes: "It's love I want. Worship." Remainder stripe; else fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket. [#025152] SOLD

The first Japanese edition. Fine in wrappers, with publisher's wraparound band. Signed by the author. [#019574] $60

NY, Knopf, 1985. The uncorrected proof copy of his fourth novel, about a man compelled to dig a bomb shelter in his back yard to protect his family even if it means losing them in the process. Paperclip mark inside front cover; publicity material laid in that was previously stapled to front cover; near fine in wrappers. [#020469] SOLD

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1998. The Franklin Library edition. A leatherbound limited edition, with an introduction written especially for this edition that keeps us from calling this title a departure for O'Brien: "Though I am known as a 'Vietnam writer' -- whatever that may be -- I have always pegged myself more as a 'love writer,' and in that regard Tomcat in Love is no departure at all." Signed by the author. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. [#911811] SOLD

NY, Broadway Books, (1998). The uncorrected proof copy, in white wrappers. Much scarcer than the advance reading copy in pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in wrappers. [#911810] $150

NY, Henry Holt, (1999). The advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers. [#911832] $30

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, (1993). His first book, a collection of short stories that won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which was selected that year by Tobias Wolff. Three years later Wolff was one of the judges for Granta magazine in selecting the "20 Best Young American Authors" and O'Nan was among those selected. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911821] $60

NY, Doubleday, (1994). The advance reading copy of his second book, first novel. Winner of the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. Inscribed by the author: "For ___, this cold, cold book. Stay warm!" Fine in wrappers. [#030018] $85

NY, Doubleday, (1994). His second book, first novel. Winner of the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911822] SOLD

NY, Doubleday, (1997). The advance reading copy. A novel, originally to have been called "Dear Stephen King." Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#911827] $35

NY, Doubleday, (1997). The limited edition. A novel, originally to have been called "Dear Stephen King." One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911826] $35

(Toronto), McClelland & Stewart, (2000). First edition, with single copyright page. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Together with photocopies of reviews of the novel in Globe and Mail and Quill and Quire, also a conversation printed in Globe and Mail between Ondaatje and filmmaker Atom Egoyan. [#911860] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 2000. The uncorrected proof copy of the American edition. Signed by the author. This is the second state, which is smaller than the first state, approximately 5-5/8" x 8-3/8" and, among other format changes, has the cover art bound in. Fine in wrappers. [#911859] $50

(Toronto), McClelland & Stewart, (1987). A highly praised novel set in the aftermath of World War I. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a vertical crease to the rear panel. [#911847] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 1992. The uncorrected proof copy of the American edition of his Booker Prize-winning novel, the basis for an award winning film. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#911852] SOLD

NY, Doubleday, (2001). The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#911872] SOLD

NY, Norton, (1996). The advance reading copy of his highly praised first book, made into a well-received movie, both of which have become cult classics. Touch of lift to the front cover, else fine in wrappers. Laid in is a signed Palahniuk trading card, (#445), issued by The Booksmith in conjunction with the release of the author's 2001 novel Choke. On the card, Palahniuk has given himself a mustache, a forehead scar, a black eye, and two missing teeth. Uncommon in the advance issue, and unique with the author's customized trading card. [#034470] SOLD

London, Jonathan Cape, (2002). The first British edition. Signed by the author. Published in paperback; fine in wrappers. [#911874] $50

(London), Orion Books, (2003). The advance reading copy of the British edition of the third of his Derek Strange and Terry Quinn books. Inscribed by Pelecanos three months prior to publication: "To ___, from one Greek-American to another, with respect." Fine in wrappers. [#023035] SOLD

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987). The first trade edition of Percy's last novel. Boards slightly splayed; near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024164] $30

London, Heinemann, (2000). The first British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911896] $35

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1998). The advance reading copy, in white glossy wrappers with black type. Fine. [#911894] $30

(London), Abacus, (1996). The first British edition of his fifth book which, like his first and third, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A moving novel about artificial intelligence and the nature of consciousness, Galatea 2.2 drew high praise from John Updike -- not normally a great fan of postmodern wordsmiths -- in a glowing review in The New Yorker. Only issued in wrappers; fine. [#911893] $35

NY, Morrow, (1993). The advance reading copy of his fourth novel, a technically brilliant and highly moving story of wounded children in an age that can barely recognize them, let alone heal them. A finalist for the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers. [#911888] SOLD

(London), Abacus, (1994). The British edition of his fourth novel, a technically brilliant and highly moving story of wounded children in an age that can barely recognize them, let alone heal them. A finalist for the National Book Award. Only issued in wrappers; fine. [#911890] $35

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2000). The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers. [#911897] SOLD

London, Heinemann, (2001). The uncorrected proof copy of the British edition. Fine in wrappers. [#911899] $80

London, Heinemann, (2003). The advance reading copy of the first British edition. Fine in wrappers, then wrapped in a flapless (by design) dust jacket of notably different design than the advance reading copy itself, and obscuring the faint praise that Powers is "the greatest author you've never heard of." [#911901] $35

NY, Beech Tree Books, (1985). The uncorrected proof copy of one of the most highly praised first novels of its time -- a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for a book of "considerable literary achievement." Publication date written on front cover; near fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof, and an important debut. [#911113] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. The uncorrected proof copy of the second book by the author of The Wanderers and Clockers. Like those books, this was the basis for a major Hollywood movie. Price has written a number of well-received screenplays himself, including The Color of Money and Sea of Love, and worked on the highly praised HBO series The Wire -- which are all characterized by a facility with dialogue that is also evident in his novels; the books also exhibit a sense of humor and compassion that is remarkable, particularly given their gritty, urban settings. Inscribed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#028012] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1974. The uncorrected proof copy of his well-received first book, the basis for the Philip Kaufman film. Inscribed by the author: "To ___/ may all your Xmases be white. Richard Price." Dated January 24, 1976. Fine in wrappers with a promotional sheet stapled to the first blank. [#028010] SOLD

(Westminster), (Mouldwarp), (1983). The first printing of this piracy, which reprints an article Pynchon originally wrote for The New York Times Magazine, shortly after the riots in Watts. Fine in red stapled wrappers. [#912701] SOLD

NY, Henry Holt, (1997). The uncorrected proof copy in plain blue wrappers (not to be confused with the more common advance reading copy in beige wrappers). This is the second issue uncorrected proof, distinguished from the first issue by virtue of a tipped-in title page that adds the ampersand between "Mason" and "Dixon" that was missing in the first issue. Small bookplate of Ray Roberts, Pynchon's editor, inside front cover. The critic Harold Bloom named Mason & Dixon as his choice for the "single work of sublime fiction from the last century." Fine in wrappers. [#028528] SOLD

London, Aloes, (1976). A piracy, the first separate appearance of an early story, originally published in 1959. One of the most complex bibliographically of the Pynchon piracies, Mead lists 4 variants, but more have been documented. This copy has no cross next to the man's hip and a double cross above the "P" in Pynchon, with the two crosses almost congruent. Mead C1a(2). Fine in stapled wrappers. [#915474] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, (1984). One of two leatherbound copies prepared by the publisher, one of which went to Pynchon; this one belonged to Pynchon's editor, Ray Roberts. Small bookplate of Ray Roberts on the pastedown, and a letterhead note card identifying the issue laid in. Fine. This collection of stories featured a new introduction by Pynchon. [#028516] SOLD

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1966). Pynchon's second novel, winner of the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the most overtly political, and paranoid, of Pynchon's novels. Chosen by David Pringle as one of the hundred best novels of Modern Fantasy. Edge-sunning to boards; near fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#915473] SOLD

NY, Vintage, (1998). The advance reading copy of the Vintage edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and one of the series of award-winning novels Roth published in the 1990s that, by general critical consensus, surpassed anything he had done before and elevated him to the front rank of American novelists, and a legitimate candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine in wrappers. [#911982] $50

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and one of the series of award-winning novels Roth published in the 1990s that, by general critical consensus, surpassed anything he had done before and elevated him to the front rank of American novelists, and a legitimate candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with light foxing to verso. [#030385] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1990). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911966] $35

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959. His first book, a collection of short fiction including the title novella -- which was the basis for a well-received movie in the Sixties -- and five short stories. Winner of the National Book Award and a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Top stain a bit faded, and a little rubbing to the board edges; near fine in a very good spine-tanned dust jacket with a few short edge tears. An attractive copy of an auspicious debut, the promise of which was more than fulfilled by the author's subsequent writing career. Roth was one of the few novelists to have his entire body of work re-issued in the Library of America series -- a total of nine volumes, more than any other writer in the series. [#030786] SOLD

(Lewisburg), Press of Appletree Alley, 1995. A fine press limited edition of a story that first appeared in The Partisan Review in 1986. Copy No. 138 of 195 numbered copies, signed by the author. An uncommon edition: although the stated limitation was 195, the press was selling unbound copies a couple of years after the initial publication date, suggesting that not all of the sets of sheets were bound. Fine in quarter leather, burgundy cloth boards, in a fine slipcase. The nicest edition done of one of Roth's works. [#911247] $850

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1998. The advance reading copy. A novel set in the McCarthy era, and the second book in the trilogy that includes American Pastoral and The Human Stain. Fine in wrappers. [#911986] $35

(NY), Library of America, (2005). The second volume of Roth's collected works: When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, and The Breast. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911999] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). Harold Bloom's copy of the uncorrected proof copy of Roth's novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Time magazine's Book of the Year; also voted one of the best works of American fiction in a quarter century in a New York Times Book Review survey. Bloom is perhaps most famous for his controversial book The Western Canon, which argued against "the Balkanization of literary studies" and presented an exhaustive list of what he considered to comprise the canon. Six Philip Roth books made it onto Bloom's list, including this title. With a typed note signed by Roth, from two years prior, laid in, in which Roth raves to Bloom about Douglas Hobbie's first novel, Boomfell. The note is folded, else fine. The proof has Bloom's notations on the front cover and summary page; handling apparent to covers; very good in wrappers. A good association copy between one of the leading novelists of his time and one of the leading critics of the day. [#032317] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). The uncorrected proof copy of this winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Time magazine's Book of the Year; also voted one of the best works of American fiction in a quarter century in a New York Times Book Review survey. Fine in wrappers. [#911970] $50

NY, Bantam, (1973). The "Watergate Edition." Roth's send-up of Nixon and the Nixon administration. First thus, a new Bantam paperback edition with a new introduction by Roth. Fine in wrappers. [#911940] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1971). Second printing. Roth's send-up of Nixon and the Nixon administration. Inscribed by the author: "For ___ and ___, two good kids." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911936] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. The advance reading copy. Winner of the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers. [#911975] $35

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1987). The uncorrected proof copy. Voted one of the best works of American fiction in a quarter century in a survey conducted by the New York Times Book Review. Of the 22 titles named in that survey, Roth was the author of six of them. Promotional sheet stapled inside the front cover; slight spine-fading, thus near fine in wrappers. [#030383] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2001. The advance reading copy. A novel featuring professor David Kepesh, who first appeared in Roth's novella, The Breast, in 1973 and again in his novel The Professor of Desire. Front cover splayed, else fine in wrappers. [#911996] $35

London, Jonathan Cape, (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of the British edition. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. Fine in wrappers. [#911991] $40

London, Jonathan Cape, (2000). The first British edition. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911993] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2000. A review copy of this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with author photo laid in and several pages of promotional material (no review slip). Very scarce signed, especially as an advance copy. [#911248] SOLD

(NY), (Houghton Mifflin), (2009). The advance reading copy of Roth's 30th book, a novella. Trace corner wear; very near fine in wrappers. A scarce advance copy. [#028318] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2004. The advance reading copy. An "alternate history" novel, which imagines a pro-Nazi Charles Lindbergh defeating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. Fine in wrappers. Together with an audio CD on which Roth reads an excerpt from Chapter 1. Fine. [#911998] $50

London, Cape, (1985). The uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of this volume not separately published in the U.S. until the 1996 paperback edition. Slight abrasion to rear cover; else fine in wrappers. A Roth rarity. Roth became one of the most highly acclaimed American novelists in recent memory with a string of award-winning books in the 1990s and 2000s and inclusion of six volumes of his writings in the Library of America series. [#911956] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). The uncorrected proof copy. Spine a bit faded, else fine in wrappers. [#911950] $50

London, Jonathan Cape, (2001). The advance reading copy, marked "uncorrected proof," and in pictorial wrappers that differ from the final dust jacket. Fine. [#912019] SOLD

London, Jonathan Cape, (2001). The advance reading copy, marked "uncorrected proof," and in pictorial wrappers that differ from the imagery and layout of the final dust jacket. Fine. [#019029] $40

London, Jonathan Cape, (1983). The second in his series of books dealing with Islam and the countries of the East, beginning with Midnight's Children and ending with The Satanic Verses. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Signed by the author. Minimal wear; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket. [#023954] $375

London, Jonathan Cape, (1995). A leatherbound limited edition of this novel that won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. One of 100 numbered copies bound in green full leather, all edges gilt, in a green cloth slipcase. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase. [#912015] SOLD

London, Jonathan Cape, (1995). A clothbound limited edition of this novel that won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Copy 82 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase. [#912016] SOLD

London, Heinemann, (1986). The first British edition of his first book, a collection of stories set in southern Africa. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913411] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, (1963). Salinger's fourth and last book, two long stories of the Glass family. This is the third issue, with the dedication page tipped in after the title page. Spotting to top edge; boards mildly sunned and splayed; very good in a very good, spine-sunned dust jacket with a little wear to the spine. [#024185] $250

Boston, Little, Brown, 1951. Salinger's classic first book, a coming-of-age novel that has influenced successive generations of young people with its adolescent hero's rejection of the "phoniness" of the adult world around him combined with the authenticity of his voice. Salinger's book retains the freshness it had when first published, and it stands as one of the great fictional accomplishments of 20th century American literature, included on every list of the 100 best novels of the century, and listed as number 2 on the Radcliffe list and number 6 on the Waterstone's list. Minor foxing to top and bottom edges of text block; offsetting to hinges from binder's glue; a very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with offsetting to the front flap, tanning to the spine, slight rubbing to the spine folds and light wear to the crown. A very nice copy with distinguished provenance: it was a gift from publisher Alfred A. Knopf to a young writer who was interviewing him for a biography, and who later went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in the 1980s. Letter of provenance available. [#028107] SOLD

Chicago, Consolidated Book Publishers, (1942). Salinger's first book appearance, this being the first issue (1942), the state without the head and toe bands. Rubbing to covers; near fine in a near fine, lightly faded mailing box, (printed in red, black and orange rather than the later red, white and blue), which has a revised page count stamped over the original page count. The "2" in the copyright date, which in our experience is always battered, is more clearly visible in this copy than in most other copies of the first issue that we have seen. [#914680] $2,500

NY, Various, (1958-1967). The first four books by Southern -- creator of Dr. Strangelove and the screenwriter of Easy Rider -- each inscribed by him to his friend, the bandleader, composer, and musician Artie Shaw. Flash and Filigree (NY: Coward McCann, 1958; the scarce first issue) is inscribed "To Artie and Casey with love and all best wishes/ Terry S." Laid in is an autograph note signed to Artie from Southern. The Magic Christian (NY: Random House, 1960) is inscribed "To Artie and Casey with love and best wishes for much happiness. Terry." Candy (NY: Putnam, 1964 -- first thus, and first hardcover edition) is inscribed "To Artie and Case [sic], with love and kisses (your so-called 'soul' or 'french' kiss, natch!) / Terry." Red Dirt Marijuana (NY: New American Library, 1967) is inscribed: "To Art/ with all best, Terry." The books are near fine or better in near fine or better dust jackets; each housed in a custom clamshell case. [#033653] $12,500

NY, Covici Friede, (1936). A powerful novel of migrant farm workers rising up against landowners. Written at a time when much contemporary fiction was geared toward proletarian aspirations, Steinbeck's novel could have been a mere propaganda piece; instead, it is an exploration of ideals, social protest and social justice, and the relationship of mob behavior to individual values and, as such, still resonates with relevance decades later. Owner signature, cloth dust-soiled and spine-faded, foredge foxed. A good copy only, lacking the rare dust jacket. [#023624] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 1986. The second novel, and first in 36 years, by this Southern writer who was renowned as a master of the short story. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912851] SOLD

NY, McDowell, Obolensky, (1959). A collection of short stories that takes its title from the opening lines of Anna Karenina -- "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" -- which aptly describes one of the major themes of Taylor's writing. Pencilled owner name on pastedown under front flap; else fine in a very good dust jacket which has very slight rubbing and wear to the spine ends, much less than usual, and is internally tape-strengthened at the crown. [#021732] SOLD