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1982-1984. Correspondence and publicity related to Crossroads, Morris's second book and first novel. The file includes a completed author questionnaire; four typed letters signed; two typed notes signed; one autograph letter signed; Morris's own 4-page synopsis of the book; her C.V.; an author photo and press release; retained copies of several letters; and one typed postcard signed from Joyce Carol Oates declining, on principle, to provide commentary but adding that she has been "a supporter of Mary for some time." When the file begins, Morris is still working on the manuscript (which she submits a month later) and trying to come up with a title. Her submitted questionnaire lists filmmaking and travel among her interests: specifically, she is "working on a proposal for a film about women in the third world." She offers an impressive list of writers who may be interested in providing comment (including Oates, Ann Beattie, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Jayne Anne Phillips, Raymond Carver, E.L Doctorow, etc.). At the galley stage, Morris is reconsidering character names and musing about the need for an added scene ("--a confrontation, a blow-up. Maybe even just a little paragraph"). Three months prior to publication, she loses a debate about redesigning the dust jacket. The author photo included here differs from the one used on the book. Post-publication, Morris informs her publisher that she has been awarded the first ever prize for literature from the American Council for the Arts (and now she's off to Europe). The lot is fine. Morris has written novels and short fiction, and she has been widely praised for a series of travel memoirs. [#036722] $1,000

(NY), Viking, (2005). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916576] $35

NY, Picador, (2000). Signed by the author. One lower corner tapped; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916573] $21

NY, Talese/Doubleday, (1993). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916570] $21

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket. [#916567] $21

NY, Talese/Doubleday, (1996). A novel about a woman trapped in a political investigation on a Caribbean island. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916571] $21

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1985. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916568] $21

NY, Talese/Doubleday, (1997). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916572] $21

NY, Doubleday, (1989). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916569] $21

Boston, Godine, (1979). Her first book, a collection of stories that won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Fine in a near fine, mildly spine-faded dust jacket with a price sticker on the front flap. [#916566] $21

(NY), Viking, (1995). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916575] $21

NY, Picador USA, (1999). The uncorrected proof copy of this nonfiction book, part personal essay and part travel narrative of the author's visits to various California spiritual communities and cults. Morris, who has written several novels and collections of stories, has received high praise for her two previous nonfiction books, both memoirs of a woman traveling alone. Fine in wrappers. [#013767] $20

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Very Good in Very Good (spine-faded) DJ. [#706908] $20

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. [#706907] $20

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. [#706909] $20

NY, Doubleday, (1989). Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. [#706910] $20

Boston, David R. Godine, (1979). Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. [#706911] $20

Boston, Godine, (1979). Her first book, a collection of stories that won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title, and additionally signed by her in 1991 on the title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket bumped at spine crown. Tim O'Brien and Joyce Carol Oates blurbs, among others. [#006529] $20

NY, Doubleday, (1991). Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. [#706912] $20

NY, Viking Press, (1991). Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. [#706913] $20

NY, Viking Press, (2000). Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. [#706914] $20

NY, Viking Press, (1995). Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. [#706915] $20