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(n.p.), (n.p.), (n.d.). Disch, a prolific Hugo Award-winning author of speculative fiction, had three novels on Pringle's list of the top 100 science fiction novels: he was also a gay man who killed himself in 2008, not long after the death of his partner of 30 years. In 1970, Disch published the story "The Pressure of Time," in Orbit 7; in 1978 the novella "Chanson Perpetuelle" was published in Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future: both were intended to be part of a "largescale" (Disch's word) novel. Quoting Lee Sandlin from the website waggish.org, in 2010: "Disch spent many years, off and on, working on a kind of successor to 334 called The Pressure of Time. I interviewed him in the mid-1980s and he said the book was 'almost done,' but even though he published several pieces of it (adding up to maybe half the book) it never appeared. I’m hoping the rest of it exists somewhere in his papers..." Based on online descriptions, the extant manuscript exists within the Disch papers at Yale, which holds an Outline/Synopsis, Book I and Book II. Offered here is a photocopy of the same or similar, from the collection of Disch's friend and fellow writer John Crowley: 8 pages of Outline; 2 pages (title page/epigraph); 14 pages of Prologue; Book One, numbered as pages 15-98; Book II is then paginated 119-197. A second Book Two/ Part II begins and runs 62 pages. The typescript ends with a single page of Book Two/ Part III. Nearly 250 pages in all. Note that the title page states: "Portion: 73,000 words/ Estimated length: 140,000 words." Slight edge wear to the early pages, and a handful of pages have a light wave as though from prior dampening; overall the typescript is near fine or better. A "lost" novel by a prolific, and major, science fiction writer, with good provenance coming from his close friend, the award-winning fantasy author Crowley. [#036837] $7,500

(n.p.), (n.p.), 1970. A collection of sonnets by Disch and Marilyn Hacker, and by Hacker and Charles Platt. "There are no sonnets by Charles and Tom because Marilyn can't drive." This copy is inscribed by Disch in 1988. Precedes Hacker's first regularly published book, Presentation Piece, which won the National Book Award and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, by four years. Fine in stapled wrappers, with a cover illustration by Platt. Uncommon. [#035040] $450