Search Results, p. 21

(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

Elmwood, Raven Editions, 1987. The first separate edition of this story by Dubus, expanded from its magazine publication back to its original length. An attractive limited edition, designed and printed by Carol Blinn of Warwick Press. Copy No. 34 of 60 numbered copies, of a total edition of 70 copies signed by the author. Unmarked, but from the library of Robert Stone. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. [#033672] $450

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1961. Dugan's first book, a volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. This copy is signed by Dugan on the title page. In addition, although Dugan dedicated all of his books to his wife Judith [Shahn], on this copy Dugan has amended the dedication page to read "[For Judy] and my mother and in memory of my father". As this was not an indication of a future textual change (the second printing continues to say only "For Judy,") it appears this was Dugan's mother's copy and reverted to him, as it was with Dugan's own archive after he died. Fine in a fair dust jacket, which is not only inexpertly taped back together after a full length split at the rear spine fold, but re-taped inside-out such that the author photo and rear jacket flap are now on the verso. A noteworthy copy of a highly praised first book. [#036445] $450

NY, Random House, (1948). By most accounts, this novel -- which deals with the legacy of black-white relations in the South -- was the book that cinched the Nobel Prize for him, which he won in 1949. Some fading to the top stain, else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to the edges and folds. [#034929] $450

[Paris], Gallimard, (1962). The first French edition, limited issue. Copy No. 49 of 66 numbered copies on pure fil. Sunning to wrappers; near fine. [#034943] $450

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

London, Jonathan Cape, (1965). His final novel, completed by Kingsley Amis, and published after Fleming's death. Second issue, as usual, without the gun on the front board. Owner name stamp on front pastedown; faint dampstain to lower foredge and lower boards; very good in a very good dust jacket with dampstaining predominantly evident on verso. [#033624] $450

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1960). A specially-bound author's copy of Hoagland's second book, a novel. Three quarter leather, raised bands, gilt stamped, marbled endpapers. Probably a unique copy made for Hoagland by the publisher, or one of a couple of copies created by the publisher for the author and publisher -- a somewhat widespread tradition in American publishing in that era. Front cover fully detached, and in need of repair to be functional; leather somewhat mottled. A 1964 newspaper clipping about the 31-year-old Hoagland receiving two literary grants is laid in. From the author's library. [#033460] $450

(n.p.), (n.p.), 2000. An early, tapebound typescript of this novel that was published in July, 2001. No publisher indicated, suggesting this was an early agent's copy, or some other kind of copy prepared prior to the publisher issuing any version of it. Double-spaced, double-sided, 507 pages. "Revised: December 11, 2000" printed on the white front cover/title page. Textual differences exist between this and the published text, beginning with a different table of contents and including changes in the Acknowledgments section of the book. We are aware of another state of this draft that was comb-bound, which was issued by Knopf/Canada. Very near fine. [#030737] $450

NY, American Society of the French Legion of Honor, 1930-1938. The first 32 issues (Vol. 1 #1 through Vol. 8 #4) of this magazine edited by W. Francklin Paris and dedicated to fostering understanding between France and the U.S. Four volumes: half bound in green leather and marbled boards, with marbled endpages. Contents fine, but the leather is rubbed at the joints and ends, thus a very good set. [#600041] $450

Barcelona, Jose Janes, 1950. The first volume of the 3-volume set of the first Spanish language edition of Maugham's complete works. This copy is inscribed by Maugham to Hamlet Vittino : "To my distinguished friend/ H Vittino - Rio de Janeiro - Nov. 1950/ W. Somerset Maugham." Vittino was an Argentine friend of Maugham's. With Vittino's ownership stamps; page edges foxed; crown wear to the soft boards; very good. [#036418] $450

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1941. The autobiography of the naturalist, botanist, and writer, author of An Almanac for Moderns and Green Laurels: the Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists, among many others. Signed by the author. Family library bookplate on front pastedown; foxing to page edges. Very good in a very good, edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket. This is one of four titles we could find in Houghton Mifflin's apparently short-lived "Life in America Prize Book" series, the fourth being Wallace Stegner's One Nation in 1945. Uncommon signed, as well as in dust jacket. [#036646] $450

London, Faber and Faber, (1979). Signed by Priest, and with an autograph letter signed by Priest to John Fowles laid in, saying Faber was intending to send him a copy but Priest feared it would be misconstrued as a review solicitation, given the strong review Fowles had given a previous book [A Dream of Wessex], so Priest was sending a copy along himself so that it be received only as "inadequate appreciation for a lot of kind encouragement. You do not even have to read it! (However, if you have the time to glance through "The Negation" you might discover a fingerprint I put in for you....)" One may infer Priest means a metaphorical fingerprint, as no actual fingerprint is in evidence. An Infinite Summer is a collection of stories, including the first of his stories to feature the Dream Archipelago, which appears in a number of his works. Priest won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Science Fiction Association's award for Best Novel four times. The book is fine in a fine dust jacket, with Fowles' blindstamp on the front flyleaf; the letter is folded to fit in the book, else fine. Fowles, in his A Dream of Wessex review, had called Priest "one of our most gifted young writers of science fiction...I think not only H.G. Wells but Thomas Hardy himself would have enjoyed and approved of it." A nice literary association copy. [#029605] $450

(n.p.), (Touchwood), (2013). Square octavo. Photography and text focusing on 11 gardeners and their gardens in the Pacific Northwest. Inscribed by the authors, Terry and Bates, to Peter and Maria [Matthiessen]. Additionally inscribed to the Matthiessens by the Batemans, who are the subjects of one of the book's chapters and longtime friends of the Matthiessens. Birgit's photographs illustrated one of Peter's books, and Bateman's paintings appeared in others. Also laid in is a photo from the Bateman Centre Gift Shop, showing a shelf displaying Matthiessen's books for sale. Fine in self-wrappers. A nice double association. [#032533] $450

NY, Walker and Company, (1988). Her acclaimed first book, a mystery novel introducing attorney Neil Hamel of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a new entry in the ranks of contemporary female sleuths, and the start of a new mystery series located in the American Southwest. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024227] $450

Toronto, Random House, (1993). Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which also won Canada's Governor General's Award -- the highest literary prize given in that country -- as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orange Prize. Also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a Vintage Canada Reading Group Guide (from a later date) laid in. A nice copy of the award-winning novel, with an uncommon ephemeral piece laid in. [#023959] $425

Madrid, SPAIN, Imprenta de Fortanet, 1885-1886. First Edition. Two volumes. Text in Spanish. 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt tooling to spines, gilt top edge, matching marbled endpapers. 400pp and 454pp, respectively. Some wear to extremities, tiny chips to crowns and slight discoloration to spine of volume two. Still, an attractive set in Very Good condition. [#600005] $400

Garden City, Doubleday, 1986. A Double D Western set around the turn of the 20th century, and Lansdale's first book to be published in hardcover. Inscribed by Lansdale to fellow writer Stanley Wiater: "For Stan, Hope you enjoy your ride on [The Magic Wagon]. Thanks for the Fangoria interview. Joe R. Lansdale." Wiater's Gahan Wilson-designed bookplate front flyleaf; small scrape to rear board; foxing to top edge; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a few edge nicks. Wiater's interview with Lansdale appeared in a 1990 issue of Fangoria. A nice inscription and association, and one of the author's scarcer titles. [#029676] $400

NY, Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, 1933-1937. 39 programs for performances of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1933-1937. 24 are for performances at Carnegie Hall; 15 are for summer performances at Lewisohn Stadium. The 24 Carnegie Hall programs date from 1933-1936: 22 of them are from the 94th Season, and half of these feature Toscanini conducting (the other two are from the 92nd and 95th seasons). The 15 Lewisohn Stadium programs ("Stadium Concerts Reviews") date mostly from 1935-1937 (with one from 1933). Some of these bear notations, but are near fine or better in stapled wrappers. The condition of the Carnegie Hall programs is more mixed: about half are near fine; one has insect damage; one is missing half of the first page; a few are dirty; and several have notations, including the March 5-6, 1936 program with a cover that bears the words "Performance Cancelled; Requiem Not Performed." [#036002] $400

NY, Norton, (2012). From Quammen's website, ca. 2012: "The next big and murderous human pandemic ... will be caused by a new disease -- new to humans, anyway. The bug that’s responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won’t come from outer space. Odds are that the killer pathogen -- most likely a virus -- will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal." Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#034919] $400

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2012). Two advance states of this collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. The first item is an advance reading copy, signed by the author, with an announcement for a 2014 reading by Robinson laid in, which is presumably where the signature was obtained. The second item is also an advance copy, with the U.S. publishing information, but it is tapebound with an acetate cover and carries the cover image of the U.K. edition published by Virago, also in 2012. Other differences: the U.S. edition states "Dedication TK [to come]"; the "U.K." edition has the dedication. The U.S. edition has an Introduction; the U.K. edition has a Preface. The latter edition also bears several instances of typeset copyeditor notations in the margins, all preceded by "AU," meaning author. At least one of the changes ("for" replacing "of") was made in the published version. Both copies are fine. Uncommon advance issues -- works-in-progress -- for one of the most acclaimed U.S. authors of recent decades, whom President Barack Obama interviewed shortly after his election, reversing the usual relationship between writer and politician by doing so. [#036240] $400

NY, St. Martin's, (1989). A review copy of his scarce second book, based on the story of Lizzie Borden. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's promotional material laid in. [#024187] $400

NY, St. Martin's, (1987). The author's first book, a mystery novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and published to substantial critical acclaim. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024186] $400

NY, Knopf, 1974. Her fifth book. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with trace wear at the crown. [#024215] $400

Newburyport, Wickford Press, 1968. An unsigned limited edition of an essay that first appeared in the New York Times. One of 250 numbered copies. Edge-sunning to covers; coffee splot lower front corner; very good in stapled wrappers. One of Updike's earliest limited editions, done the same year as Bath After Sailing and The Angels. Although the limitation of this title is larger than either of those, we have seen it less often and it appears to be scarcer in the market. [#026894] $400

Mexico, Nuevo Mundo, (1945). The first Mexican edition of Von Hagen's work on pre-Columbian papermaking, published a year earlier in the U.S. as Aztec and Maya Papermakers. With an introduction by Dard Hunter, the preeminent authority on handmade paper -- to whom this edition of the book is dedicated -- and a prologue by Dr. Alfonso Caso, the Mexican archaeologist, which does not appear in the American edition. One of 750 numbered copies. With 39 pages of photographs and two handmade paper samples tipped in. Also with a fold-out frontispiece reproducing four pages from the Maya Dresden Codex, on huun paper, the traditional paper of the Mayans since the Classic Maya period. Bookplate front pastedown; stamp to rear flyleaf; foxing to top edge. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to the crown. An 1881 pamphlet on Mexican paper as an article of tribute is laid in; owner signature; otherwise the pamphlet is fine. An attractive and elaborate edition of this book. [#029131] $400

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. An early biography of Bartram, the naturalist, explorer, and writer, with particular attention paid to the influence of Bartram on literature (in America, this means Emerson, Thoreau, Thomas Holley Chivers, and Lafcadio Hearn). Fagin taught English at Johns Hopkins, and this copy is inscribed by the author: "To Professor Gilbert Chinard/ with grateful acknowledgments," in the year of publication. Chinard is also acknowledged in the book's Preface, "for first directing my attention to Bartram." A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small stain at the front spine fold. Uncommon inscribed, and also in dust jacket. [#036638] $375

Ithaca, Ithaca House, (1971). The second book, and first regularly published volume, by this writer of Abenaki descent, who has carved out a unique place in contemporary American Indian literature as a publisher, poet, novelist, anthologist, storyteller and chronicler of traditional stories. Warmly inscribed by the author to his grandmother: "For Grandma/ For her birthday./ July 4, 1972/ Love,/ Sonny." Joseph "Sonny" Bruchac was raised by his grandparents, and his grandmother influenced his early love of reading. Some staining to front cover and some rubbing and surface peeling there. Very good in wrappers. A nice association copy. [#016536] $375

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1942). The apparent dedication copy of this early novel of how an average American man devolved into fascism. From the New York Times review: "It is very likely that the next few years will bring us much fiction about the disease of fascism that is corroding so large a part of the green earth. A wave in the coming tide, albeit a small one, is this volume by John Burgan on the making of an American Fascist." This title's dedication reads: "This Book Is For Wanda." Below, it is inscribed by the author, "who is the only one who knows all that is in it and all that is not. With my love, Jack/ Sept. 7, 1942/ Washington D.C." John "Jack" Burgan was a "newspaperman" and magazine editor. Born in 1913, he married Wanda Smith in 1939 and died in a plane crash in 1951 at the age of 38. Offsetting to the endpages; a near fine copy in a good dust jacket with shallow edge chipping but fragile along the folds. The rear panel is fully dedicated to Burgan's own pitch for Americans to buy war bonds. A scarce wartime publication; 14 copies listed in OCLC, no other copies available online. [#036634] $375

Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1925. The inaugural lecture in the Paul Carus Foundation Lecture Series, an ongoing series in which lectures are presented over three consecutive days in prominent sessions at a divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. John Dewey was a philosopher, psychologist and educator who was one of the founders of the pragmatism school of philosophy and was called by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century." He founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1896 to test his educational ideas; he became President of the American Philosophical Association in 1905; he was one of the founders of the New School for Social Research in 1919; and he was a member of the first Board of Directors of Hull House, among many other projects and accomplishments. His ideas helped shape the founding of Bennington College and Goddard College, and later Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which for a time became the nexus of the arts and education in the U.S. Experience and Nature is considered his most metaphysical book and, as such, his most important in tying together all of his ideas of philosophy and psychology and grounding them in nature and a model of how the human being grows and learns. Owner name of Robert Rothman, and several marginal marks in the text. A very good copy with some handling and spotting to the brown cloth, particularly on the spine. Uncommon in the first printing. [#034725] $375