E-list # 207

NY, Roaring Brook Press, (2012). In 1961, Charlayne Hunter was one of two Black students at the University of Georgia; in the mid-Sixties, she was the first Black female writer at The New Yorker, prior to a career that included The New York Times, The MacNeil Lehrer Report, NPR, and CNN. This book begins with Obama's inauguration and then flashes back to the years 1959-1965, concluding with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a prominent couple, active in Democratic politics and philanthropy. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036569] $200

NY, Epstein & Carroll, (1961). Juster's wildly successful first book, a now-classic fantasy adventure tale illustrated by Juster's housemate at the time, Jules Feiffer. This copy is inscribed by Juster to the founder of a literacy nonprofit -- "Lovely to be one of your books" -- and is also signed by Feiffer. Slight spine lean; small spot to upper spine; possible pencil markings at the lower edge of the text block. Still a near fine copy in a good, supplied, price-clipped dust jacket with internal and external tape repairs. [#036570] $3,500

NY, Scholastic Book Services, (1963). The first printing of the first book in the 29 book series, the last being published posthumously, 49 years after this one, in 2012. Solving mysteries (or, revealing enough clues so that the reader can solve them) with his dependable sidekick (and bodyguard) Sally Kimball, Encyclopedia Brown was a mainstay of Scholastic Book Services' outreach into schools in the 1960s; a comic strip appeared in the '70s; an HBO series appeared in the '80s. Sobol received a special Edgar Award for the book series from the Mystery Writers of America in 1976. Pages age-toned; shallow creasing to the front cover; corner crease and one small chip to the rear cover. About very good in wrappers. Uncommon in the first printing. [#036571] $275

NY, Riverhead Books, 2020. Gessen, a non-binary Russian-American journalist sentenced, in abstentia, to 8 years in a Russian prison for speaking out about atrocities in the war in Ukraine, here cogently skewers both the form and the function of the first Trump presidency. Signed by the author in 2022. Gessen had published the viral essay, "Autocracy: Rules for Survival," in The New York Review of Books two days after the 2016 election. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with a blurb by Timothy Snyder. Uncommon signed. [#036572] $250

NY, Crown, (2016). The subversion of democracy via gerrymandering, judicial activism, "Citizens United" and the rise of Super PACs, restrictive voting laws passed at the state level, etc., as seen from the politically pivotal year of 2016. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036573] $150

(New Delhi), Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, (2009). Essays by the Booker Prize winning author of The God of Small Things, an examination of rising wealth disparity, corporate power, religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, neo-fascism, and an unaccountable judiciary, in India. Inscribed by the author in New Delhi in the year of publication. In recent decades Roy has been known at least as much for her writings and activities as a political and social activist as for her literary writing. She was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004, and her two most recent volumes prior to this one were both nonfiction. This is the first Indian edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a small (Indian) bookstore label at the lower edge of the rear panel. [#036574] $250

Lancaster, Underwood Miller, 1991. Edited by Stephen Jones and with an introduction by Stephen King. This is Copy No. 6 of 8 Publisher's Copies, from the sheets of the 52-copy deluxe lettered edition. Signed by and with an original drawing by Barker, also signed. Contributors include Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Douglas E. Winter, Dennis Etchison, Stanley Wiater, Lisa Tuttle, Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, etc. Heavily illustrated with much artwork by Barker. Bookplate of one of the contributors on front flyleaf. Very near fine in a quarter leather and snakeskin binding, the only issue of this title bound this way. [#036575] $1,750

(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 1989-1993. A treatise by Bissette on a cycle of 1970's-era Italian horror films featuring cannibalism in the Amazon, Malaysia, and New Guinea. 80+ pages of computer printout, tapebound in cardstock covers. The front cover has a hand-written suggested date ("1993?"), but page 74 is dated 1989. Bissette is well-known for his work on Saga of the Swamp Thing in the 1980s; publishing the horror anthology Taboo into the early 90s; and co-editing Comic Book Rebels with Stanley Wiater in 1993. Since 2005 he has edited and published the film journal Green Mountain Cinema, with this manuscript being indicative of his longtime interest and expertise in the field. Stamp of another writer inside the front cover; the covers are soiled and lightly scented (cologne?); very good; the pages of text are near fine. [#036576] $1,500

Beverly Hills, Guild-Hartford Publishing, (1972). Uncommon novelization of the Paul Naschy horror film, a classic B-movie by the actor/director who was called "the Spanish Lon Chaney" and was awarded Spain's Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2001. Arthur Scarm is reportedly Leo Guild, who has been called "the worst pulp novelist ever" and, according to one writer "[t]his is a Holy Grail of weird books, full of disgustingly described graphic violence and cheesy erotica. This has absolutely nothing to do with the story of the film that this is supposedly based upon, and this book is something completely devoid of cultural value, which is why it is so much fun." Another writer said it "has the reputation among aficionados as the most craptastically awful book ever written," and a third one compared it to such "overhyped classics" as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Odyssey, Beowulf, etc.," saying, "I have read over 5000 books and I have only enjoyed two of them. This is one..." A minor classic, perhaps sui generis, and quite scarce. Stamp of another horror writer inside the front cover; narrow, blended dampstaining at the foredge of the front cover; general light rubbing. A good copy. [#036577] $450

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (1995). His first full-length novel, after a collection of stories and some small press publications. Alexie won the National Book Award in 2007 for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036578] $40

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (1996). Copy No. 84 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped-in colophon. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036579] $50

Brooklyn, Hanging Loose Press, (1996). A collection of poems and prose poems. This is the trade edition, bound in black cloth. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036580] $100

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (2000). A collection of stories, his first since The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which was the basis for the film Smoke Signals. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the New Yorker "20-under-40" label affixed to the front panel -- young writers who were supposed to represent the future of literature and to a large extent did: besides Alexie, the list included David Foster Wallace, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, George Saunders, and others. [#036581] $50

NY, Grove Press, (2003). A poignant and comic collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036582] $50

NY, Grove Press, (2009). A story collection. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036583] $50

Great Falls, Stay Away Joe Publishers, (1953). A later edition of this humorous, and now controversial, book by a white writer about Indian characters and lives. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#036584] $50

(Colorado Springs), (Dentan-Berkeland), (1967. The first edition (Dentan-Berkeland publisher), inscribed by the author in 1969. Note: with the dust jacket of the later edition (Johnson Publishing) and with a Johnson Publishing promotional flyer laid in: possibly a hybrid used as an advance copy. Also laid in is a signed photographic postcard. A historical novel written by a Native American writer, prior to the so-called Native American renaissance which began with N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn in 1968, and took root through the 1970s and into the 1980s. It has been argued that prior to Momaday's book, there were only nine novels written by Native authors, this being one of them. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket. [#036585] $125

NY, Scribner, (1995). Her second novel. Signed by the author. Published to widespread critical praise and with glowing blurbs from a host of acclaimed writers -- Louise Erdrich, Barbara Kingsolver, Tony Hillerman, Jim Harrison, and William Kittredge. Hogan's book Mean Spirit was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and her novel The Book of Medicines was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mean Spirit tells a fictionalized story of the Osage murders and land theft that were recounted, 30 years later, in the book and film Killers of the Flower Moon. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036586] $35

(Stillwater), Voyageur Press, (1993). A collection of poems and short fiction by a Chippewa writer. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036587] $85

NY, Vintage, (2019). First Vintage edition, a paperback. Inscribed by the author. The recipient's name has been blacked out (but is still visible). One of the most highly praised novels by a Native American writer in recent years. Fine in wrappers. [#036588] $25

(NY), Dutton, (1996). A supernatural crime thriller, his fourth book, and the winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, which is a multiculturally-focused nonprofit. Other winners have included Tony Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Joy Harjo. Owens' other novels won a bevy of prizes, including the Roman Noir for The Sharpest Sight, France's equivalent of the Edgar Award. He began his writing career as a Steinbeck scholar. This novel is described as "blending the gut-wrenching realism of Robert Stone with the Native American magical vision of Tony Hillerman." Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce signed: Owens died in 2002 at the age of 54. [#036589] $150

(NY), Simon & Schuster, (1999). Her third novel, following Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. Silko was one of the "first generation" of writers of the Native American Renaissance. Her novel Ceremony has become an enduring classic, part of the canon and a staple on high school and college multicultural reading lists. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036590] $125

Chicago, J.G. Ferguson, (1976). An anthology of 200 years (1776-1976) of American outdoor writing and photography, featuring Bartram, Thoreau, Muir, Burroughs, Hornaday, Faulkner, Rawlings, Leopold, and nearly 100 others. Heavily illustrated with paintings and drawings in addition to photographs. This is the limited edition printed for the Outdoor Writer's Association of America. The colophon indicates this is copy No. 84 of 1000 copies bound in steerhide and with "OWAA" branded on the front cover. This copy is inscribed by the co-editor, Bashline, to Charles Kurault, of CBS's "On the Road" fame, in 1990, after Kurault spoke at the annual OWAA conference. Additionally, there's a letter laid in to Kurault from the Executive Director of OWAA, expressing praise and thanks. Note that the colophon was apparently filled in at the time of presentation, as it has been given the same date (6/29/90) as the letter. The letter also provides the information that, despite the colophon statement, only 105 copies of this edition were created, not 1000. The book also contains a fold-out sheet with the printed signatures of the 21 OWAA Officers and Board of Directors. A landmark collection, extremely scarce, and with a good association. Slight foxing to top of text block and slight shelfwear to the steerhide; still a fine copy, without dust jacket, as issued. [#036591] $1,500

NY, Putnam's, (1973). A book for young readers on both the horrors and the marvels of warrior ants, by the author best known for Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee. Boards slightly rubbed; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a light stain mid spine. [#036592] $125

Garden City, Doubleday, 1970. Written during Rockefeller's time as Governor of New York, during which time he launched the Pure Waters Program, a Clean Air Program, and expanded the New York State Parks system. Chapters cover water, the atmosphere, energy, noise, open space, and the arts. This copy is inscribed by the author: "To Steve [?] and Peggy/ Good Luck/ May you have all your dear father wanted for you. Nelson and Happy Rockefeller." (Happy has added her own name). Note that the inscription is on the half-title and the front flyleaf has been removed. But for the excision; a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. [#036593] SOLD

Charlotte, East Woods Press, 1982. Her first book: a journal of her thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, over two summers, partly alone, and partly with two separate female hiking partners. With 120 illustrations by the author. Warmly inscribed by Ross to a close friend, and with a blurb by Annie Dillard. Extrapolating from the Appalachian Trail's website for data from the 1980s, there were likely fewer than two dozen successful female thru-hikers on the trail with Ross in those two years. An oblong softcover, with text in cursive. Partly sunned; near fine. [#036594] $250

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1981). The third book in his New Mexico trilogy. Signed by the author. Slight edge sunning; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#036595] $75

Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, (1986). "An autobiographical celebration of life in a fragile and marginal place," the Taos Mesa. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a 1" stain at the upper front corner and a bit of discoloration at the bottom edge of the rear panel. [#036596] $45

Albuquerque, High Road Books, (2022). A memoir of his writing life, and his last published book. Signed by the author, with a self-caricature. Fine in a fine dust jacket and uncommon signed: Nichols died in 2023. [#036597] $75

(Aquora), (Pad Library), (1967). One of about 80 pulp novels written by the legendary director. A biopic based on Woods' life and work won two Oscars, and he was awarded the Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of all time, with his movie Plan 9 From Outer Space being awarded the Golden Turkey for Worst Film of All Time. Ownership stamp of a horror writer inside the front cover, with his inscription, "Stole this from my father!" Pages age-toned; covers rubbed; splitting at the upper spine folds. A good copy. Scarce. [#036598] $750

NY, Scribner's, 1886. Early later printing ("Sixteenth Thousand") of the 1886 Authorized Edition. A classic of Victorian and horror literature, first published by Scribner in January 1886 in an edition of 4200, of which 3000 were in wrappers. Rear cover and much of the spine missing; front cover detached; Several small ownership stamps to the front cover and prelims. A fair copy. [#036599] $500

(Oxford), Arete, (2003). The full text of Stoppard's previously unpublished 1970 screenplay, published here as the entire Issue 11 of Arete, with a contemporary introduction by Stoppard. Although known primarily as a playwright, Stoppard was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brazil in 1985, and he won the Academy Award for the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love, in 1998. Fine in self-wrappers. [#036600] $250

Haydenville, Mirage Studios, (1988). The first hardcover book of the Ninja Turtles, copy No. 64 of 1000 copies. This copy is specially signed by Eastman and inscribed by Laird -- "For my pal Stan... Another first in a year of firsts!" -- in the year of publication, with a drawing by each of them of a Ninja Turtle. The book comprises reprints of the first 11 Ninja Turtles comics, with four new pieces, one about each of the turtles, and introductory and historical information. Bookplate and ownership stamps of the recipient, author Stanley Wiater. Wiater worked at Mirage Studios for several years, and wrote The Official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Treasury in 1991. Faint scent to book; near fine in a very good dust jacket. Far scarcer than the limitation would suggest; we could only find a record of one copy offered for sale, and no copies showed up in OCLC. A landmark volume on a cultural phenomenon and a nice association copy. [#036601] $3,500

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1933. Autobiographical sketches by Thurber. This copy has, on the front flyleaf, three drawings by Thurber and the instruction: "'Rummie' [?] - try a few pictures! I've left space of 3 sheets in back." Rummie did not take him up on the offer, as the rear pages are blank. Pure speculation, but in the early 1930s, Thurber's "roomie" at The New Yorker was his office-mate, E.B. White. White and Thurber had collaborated on the 1929 book Is Sex Necessary?, and it was White, after going through Thurber's office trash, who had first submitted Thurber's drawings to the magazine. White himself had a New Yorker cover illustration credit in 1932. Spine label missing; handling apparent to boards; a good copy in a good, supplied dust jacket with minor edge wear and some staining, mostly evident on verso. [#036602] $4,500

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1994). His first book, a nonfiction account of being a physician caring for an unexpectedly large AIDS outbreak in eastern Tennessee. Inscribed by Verghese in 2002 to the medical historian Howard Markel, who taught at the University of Michigan. Laid in is a typed note signed (2010) and a typed letter signed (2002) from Verghese to Markel--the former offering congratulations; the latter a thank you for hospitality during a visit to Ann Arbor. Additionally laid in is a 3-page copy of the remarks Markel made introducing Verghese for a speaking engagement. The letters and remarks are folded, else fine; the book is fine but for lower corner bumps, in a very near fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear. Verghese is the author of the highly praised novels Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water. [#036603] $750

Brooklyn, Brooklyn Draft Information & Counseling Service, ca. 1967. A flyer advertising the free services of trained draft counselors in Park Slope, Coney Island, and East New York. 8-1/2" x 11". Trace edge wear and edge sunning; near fine. A nice example of grass roots antiwar activism early in the Vietnam era. [#036604] $250

(n.p.), (n.p.), 1967. Julian Bond's 19-page anti-war "comic," illustrated by T.G. Lewis. Written during the two year period that Bond was appealing to take his elected seat in the Georgia House of Representatives, a seat he was initially denied for voicing support for SNCC's policy of opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Bond provides a clear time line of American involvement and the accompanying hypocrisy of stated purpose, with commentary on the extra toll of involvement on the Black population. He eventually served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and six terms in the Georgia State Senate, eventually serving as chairman of the NAACP. Note that Bond is not credited as the author on the publication. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. A remarkable production that links the Civil Rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and dramatic graphic illustrations that foreshadow the rise of underground comics and graphic novels in the coming years. [#036605] $1,250

NY, New York University, (2018). An examination of why the most forward-facing sector of the economy is the most backward in its relationship to women, and how to achieve "gender diversity," i.e. inclusion and equity. From the decade before the vilification of DEI. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036606] $200

NY, American Sports Publishing Co., 1910-1911. A volume in Spalding's Athletic Library, this being Group VII, No. 7A, September, 1910, containing The Official Rules for Women's Basketball and edited by Senda Berenson, who introduced the game, adapted for women, to Smith College in the 1890s. Known as the Mother of Women's Basketball, Berenson became the first woman enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, in 1985. Smith College, whose basketball team reached the Division III Final Four in each of the last two years, recently changed its sports teams' nicknames from "Pioneers" to "Bears" -- in homonymic honor of Berenson. Spalding's Women's Guides were reportedly issued from 1899 to the late 1930s, albeit not always annually. This copy has sustained some prior dampening, resulting in partial adhesion of the front cover to the first page; there is some loss to the spine; a good copy. Rare. [#036607] $1,500

Boston, D.C. Heath, (1929). A volume presenting basketball as an avenue for developing physical, mental, social, and moral qualities in young women. Complete with suggestions on teaching methods; warm up drills; techniques for passing and shooting; offense and defense; the character of coaches and officials; the structure of practices and competition; and an appendix diagramming 60 plays. Inscribed by the author: "Nellie, You've been an inspiration to the basketball class and I've enjoyed having you in it. Let's always keep the standards of girls basketball high." Recipient's signature on both pastedowns; light foxing to endpages; modest staining to the boards, more so on the rear board. A very good copy, lacking a dust jacket. [#036608] $450