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1989. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival, which each year since 1980 has brought together some of the best writers of contemporary world literature. This is one of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants, approximately 48 signatures. Signed by: Bharati Mukherjee, Nobuo Kojima, Jamaica Kincaid, Julian Barnes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Susan Fromberg Schaffer, William Jay Smith, Mordecai Richler, Joan Chase, Murray Bail, Deirdre Bair, Alice Wexler, Thomas McGuane, Desmond Hogan, Martin Amis, Hella Haasse, Alice Adams, Norman Sherry, Gabriele Eckart, Hans Joachim Schadlich, Friedrich Christian Delius, Caryl Churchill, W.P. Kinsella, Roy Heath, Nissam Ezekiel, Ruth Rendell, Kjartan Flogstad, Michael Coren, Pia Tafdrup, Louise DeSalvo, Hugo Loetscher, and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival, Greg Gatenby. Designed by Annalisa Di Felice and Anita Kunz. 18-1/2" x 25-1/2". Fine. [#029748] $1,000

(n.p.), Sports Illustrated, 1971-1973. Sports Illustrated file copies of five articles by McGuane and two Letters from the Publisher about McGuane that appeared in the magazine. The articles include "Casting on a Sea of Memories," "A Bomb in Sheep's Clothing," "Angling and Some Acts of God," "Hazardous Life in a Meat Bucket," and "Gundog Molly, Folly and Me." These, as well as the two Letters from the Publisher columns, are each stamped "Edit Ref./ [date]/ S.I." The articles are corner-stapled, with one staple failing; near fine. [#035853] $250

NY, Dutton, (1986). A collection of stories. Inscribed by McGuane to Susan Minot: "Dear Susan, This seems sort of inflated after Monkeys, the pen in my hand on the jacket photo is, I don't know.../ Tom." McGuane had blurbed Minot's debut novel, Monkeys, which also came out in 1986, calling it "a book of unusual purity and truthfulness. It hardens the lines of a world once barely familiar and makes it ours. Susan Minot touches us by her accurate humanity." Very slight spine lean (as though from reading), else fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice inscription and association. [#036478] $250

NY, Dutton, (1986). A limited advance reading excerpt, printing only the title story. One of 250 copies printed. Signed by McGuane. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#911718] $60

NY, Knopf, 2002. The advance reading copy of the British edition. Fine in wrappers. [#911744] $40

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1989). The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Spine-sunned, else fine in wrappers. [#911723] $35

NY, Dutton, (1986). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of stories. Edge foxing and sunning to spine; very good in wrappers. [#035546] $25

London, Harvill Secker, (2006). The first British edition of this collection of stories. Fine in wrappers. [#911750] $21

NY, Knopf, 2006. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of stories. Fine in wrappers. [#911749] $21

(London), Minerva, (1989). A British paperback edition of his second book, winner of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for a novel of "considerable literary achievement." A bit of age-toning to page edges, else fine in wrappers. [#911724] $21

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. [#706528] $20

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. [#706527] $20

[NY], [Farrar, Straus & Giroux], [1980]. A proof dust jacket (jacket only, no book) for this collection of essays on sports such as such as hunting and fishing. Front panel and spine printed only; flaps and back panel blank. Differs from the published version in that the spine here is beige rather than white and the title is outlined in green rather than blue. Folded at the rear spine fold; else fine. [#019700] $20