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Marlboro, Griffin Press, (1966)[1968]. A limited edition printing one section of Mountains & Rivers Without End. One of 200 copies, published in May, 1968. Entry A19 in Katherine McNeil's Snyder bibliography, which states that the 1966 copyright date refers to the poem's first publication in Poetry), and that the item's colophon erroneously describes the poem as six, rather than one, section of Mountains & Rivers Without End. Contents: Things to do around Seattle; Things to do around Portland; Things to do around a lookout; Things to do around San Francisco; Things to do around a ship at sea; Things to do around Kyoto. Nicely illustrated by Ken McCullough. Faint sunning to rear panel; very near fine in wrappers. Scarce. [#035895] $375

[London], Deutsch, [1986]. The uncorrected proof copy of the true first edition of his fourth novel, the British edition having preceded the American edition by one week. Inscribed by the author to author and critic David Lodge: "For David Lodge/ in happy recollection of New Zealand adventures -- until we meet again/ Robert Stone." The inscription is written inside the front cover as this copy, like all copies examined by Stone's bibliographer, Ken Lopez, has no preliminary pages prior to the text. A signed note from Lodge's son attesting to provenance is laid in. Small stains to covers; near fine in wrappers. A scarce proof of Stone's haunting Hollywood novel, and a nice association. [#036010] $375

(n.p.), (n.p.), 1978. Transcript of two consecutive nights of Updike's appearances on The Dick Cavett Show in December 1978. Ten pages and eleven pages, respectively, plus cover sheet. Printed on rectos only. Near fine, in a blue acetate folder that has split along its fold. DeBellis and Broomfield A68. Later collected in Conversations with John Updike. [#030282] $375

London, Cape, (1996). The lettered limited edition. Three novellas -- "tales of chemical romance." One of 15 lettered copies signed by the author and produced for private distribution. Consists of the first wrappered edition and colophon quarterbound in black leather and pink boards, with marbled endpages. Although the colophon states there were 15 lettered copies, this is letter "T." Fine. [#912162] $375

(n.p.), Dreamworks, 2007. The shooting script for the film version of Yates's first novel: the book was published in 1961; the movie was released in 2008. The script was nominated for a BAFTA Award for best adapted screenplay; Haythe's first novel, The Honeymoon, was nominated for the 2004 Booker Prize. This is a May 3rd shooting script with revisions for May 11 and May 16. "Revised" sticker on front. Pink and blue bradbound pages; near fine. [#029373] $375

St. Louis, CNI/CEI, 1963-1968. 7 issues of this magazine founded by Barry Commoner, which bore three different names in its publishing history. An incomplete run: Nuclear Information, August 1963; and Scientist and Citizen for May/June 1965; April and May 1966; January 1967; January/February and December 1968. A publication of the Committee for Nuclear Information, a non-governmental organization devoted to reducing the danger of nuclear war and informing the public of the dangers of nuclear technology. The first issue here was published during the Kennedy administration, the same month that the first Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed between the U.S., the U.K., and the Soviet Union, an effort that had been underway for more than eight years at that point. Commoner was one of the most well-informed and highly educated of the anti-nuclear activists at that time, and as a result he retains a unique place in the history of American environmentalism: when he died in 2012, the New York Times obituary characterized him as "a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause." Cover stains to the earliest issue; else the lot is near fine in stapled wrappers. [#035866] $350

NY, QCC Art Gallery, (2010). The catalog of an exhibition of Budnik's Civil Rights-era photographs. Inscribed by Budnik to the author Peter Matthiessen and his wife, "with all loving wishes and Peace to infinity." A bit of soiling on the rear cover; near fine in self-wrappers. Together with a copy of Theos Bernard's Penthouse of the Gods [Scribner's, 1939; heavily mottled and lacking dust jacket, front flyleaf excised], with Budnik's ownership signature and an undated autograph note signed laid in to Matthiessen, ("Here's 'that' book - rather amazing story"), saying he's headed to South America, and commenting on the death of what appears to be a mutual friend. Written on the back of a promotional card for a Book Search service; fine. [#031661] $350

NY, Morrow Junior Books, (1995). The beloved storyteller tells her own story in her second memoir, following A Girl from Yamhill, published in 1988. Inscribed by the author, "especially for Ilene Cooper/ with best wishes. Beverly Cleary." Cooper, like Cleary, was a children's book librarian turned author. Trace foredge foxing; very near fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed, and a nice association. [#036501] $350

NY, Knopf, (1961). Later, but early, printing of one of Dahl's classics. Bound by Book Press, with a 4-line colophon, this is the issue in light blue boards with a darker quarter spine and an SBN on the rear jacket panel. Distinguished by its condition: light foxing to the top edge; slight mustiness; but a near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. [#035570] $350

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1935. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize, after winning the Harper Prize for best first novel, as judged by Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Canfield, and Louis Bromfield. Foxing to the boards and edges of the text block; a very good copy in a good dust jacket, chipped along the upper edge and spine crown and splitting at the folds. One of the more uncommon Pulitzer Prize novels, with a fragile dust jacket. [#035973] $350

(NY), Aperture, (1979). A volume in Aperture's History of Photography series. This copy is inscribed by the screenwriter Lloyd Fonvielle, who provides the introduction, to film critic Pauline Kael, in 1981. The introduction comprises the entire text of the volume, other than the appendices; the rest of the book reproduces Evans's photographs, without caption. Light foxing to prelims; near fine in boards, without dust jacket, as issued. [#035974] $350

[Paris], Gallimard, (1952). The first French edition. This is Copy No. 70 of 131 copies on "velin pur fil." Petersen A26.41. Spine tanned, with mild slant; very good in wrappers and glassine dustwrapper. [#034937] $350

NY, Henry Holt, (1936). Later printing. Inscribed by the author to Sidney and Bill Watt "from their great friend Robert Frost" and dated in 1958. A nice inscription. Boards mildly mottled; near fine, lacking the dust jacket. [#025084] $350

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. The uncorrected proof of this collection of three novellas. Inscribed by Harrison to a longtime editor (albeit not the editor of this title): "To ___, from his old friend/ Jimmy." Some handling apparent to wrappers; near fine. A nice association. [#036415] $350

London, Arrowsmith, (1924). First thus: a reissue of the Keartons' 1902 edition of "the most widely known book on the joys of outdoor life in the English language," according to Richard Kearton's two-page introduction to this volume, which talks of changes in Selborne, and the influx of American visitors. Still including his introduction to the 1902 edition, and with a different selection of 85 photographs by the brothers, Richard and Cherry Kearton, from the 123 that appeared in the earlier edition. Inscribed by Richard Kearton in the year of publication to his "old friend, Leonard P. Moore, Esq." Offsetting to inscription page; heavy foxing to page edges and prelims; a bit of sunning to cloth; and a short tear at the rear upper joint. A good copy. Laid in is a flyer for a 1993 exhibition marking the bicentenary of the death of Gilbert White. [#033522] $350

Chelsea, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, (1988). Winner of the 1989 John Burroughs Medal. Signed by the author on the title page. As the title suggests, not just a book about birds, but also about how to observe them. With a foreword by the 1971 Burroughs Medal winner, John K. Terres. Light foredge foxing; nonauthorial gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#036197] $350

London, Bodley Head, (1960). The first British edition of the author's first book, a pseudonymously published nonfiction account of Russia in the postwar years, predating his first novel, The Painted Bird, by five years. Inscribed by the author as "Jerzy Kosinski" for Hugh Moorhead in 1982. Moorhead was a Philosophy professor at Northeastern Illinois University who wrote to 250 authors to ask them what they thought the meaning of life was, and then published their answers in a depressing book that suggested nobody had much of a clue. Stripe at bottom page edges; very good in a very good dust jacket chipped at the upper front spine fold. [#000989] $350

[Canada], Maclean's, ca. 1957. A portfolio of bird watercolors by Lansdowne, first published in Maclean's Magazine in April, 1957. Lansdowne was a self-taught Canadian bird artist, whose work was often compared, favorably, to that of Audubon. Six 11" x 14-1/2" plates, plus an illustrated biography/colophon of equal size. Four of the plates have paintings of individual birds; two show two birds each, and one of these has been cut along the designated line. Two additional paintings adorn the portfolio's covers. Several of the plates have been previously hung and show pinholes or faint tape marks. Light rubbing to the covers; very good or better. Uncommon: five copies found in OCLC. [#035028] $350

NY, Scribner's, 1978. The uncorrected proof copy of his third book, winner of the John Burroughs Medal as the best work of natural history published that year, and a nominee for the National Book Award. A remarkable and unlikely bestseller: the book was reprinted numerous times, brought into a new edition by the publisher (in a smaller format), picked up by the Book of the Month Club, and became a significant commercial success in a trade paperback edition as well. It attempts to explore the wolf both in the objective world and in the subjective ways that humans have seen and imagined it throughout history. This proof copy was printed with the original title, The Book of the Wolf, on the cover and the title page; the ultimate title has been written in by hand on the cover. A fragile, padbound proof with covers beginning to separate at the spine base; several scuff and spots to cover and a handful of page corners turned. Name of author and reviewer Ethel Jacobson across the front cover. A very good copy. A landmark in natural history writing. [#036475] $350

NY, Henry Holt, (2022). One of our leading environmental activists, after turning 60, turns his attention to the prior half century to explore the breakdowns in "American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity," and wonders what may be worth saving. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036550] $350

NY, Macmillan, 1949. A massive anthology, introduced by James Michener, and featuring Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Rupert Brooke, etc. Edited by Stroven and Day. Owner name front flyleaf; small separation at lower front hinge; offsetting to endpages. Still about a near fine copy in a dust jacket that presents as very good, in part owing to having been internally, unprofessionally tape-strengthened along all edges and folds. Michener had won the Pulitzer Prize the year before this publication for his first book, Tales of the South Pacific. [#036211] $350

NY, Macmillan, 1948. An early work by this scholar who often delved into the interplay of science and literature or the literary imagination and who here turns her attention to the possibilities for lunar travel and habitation, in fact and fiction. Includes a bibliography on the history of flight from 1493 to 1784. Nicolson earned her PhD at Yale; did postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins; taught at the University of Minnesota, Goucher College and Smith College, where she also served as dean of the faculty; in 1941, she became the first female full professor at Columbia, later becoming the chair of Columbia's graduate department of English and Comparative Literature and president of the Modern Language Association. This copy is inscribed by Nicolson "For Jane Kaufman/ one of the students to whom this book is dedicated/ Marjorie Hope Nicolson." The book's printed dedication reads "To the Smith College Students in 'Science and Imagination' 1936-1941/ from whose ingenious and amusing term papers their teacher learned more than she taught." The inscription is on an index card, tipped to the front flyleaf. Sunning to the board edges; a very good copy in a supplied dust jacket with shallow edge chipping and rubbing to the folds. [#036451] $350
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Boston, Little Brown, (1948). A prescient book (1948) by the President of the New York Zoological Society, warning of the effects of the increasing global depletion of natural resources: water, soil, forests, and biodiversity. Blurbs by Aldous Huxley and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. Less common than it seems, as many "firsts" fail to state "first edition" on the copyright page. Penciled notes on front flyleaf and underlinings in text; a very good copy in a good, edge-chipped dust jacket rubbed along the folds. [#035998] $350

[Berkeley], Maidu Press, [c. 1973]. "A Maidu Free Poem" broadside of the title poem of Piercy's 1973 collection. This version has one small change from the book version published in 1973 (there were several more changes in later versions). The edition of this broadside is unstated, but the broadside is marked as "1/ ." The only other Maidu Free Poems we are aware of are a 1971 Gary Snyder broadside, "Swimming Naked in the Yuba River," and "I Saw the Green Yuba Flow" by Franco Beltrametti. The Snyder was done in an edition of 200 copies. Maidu Press was the creation of two of Snyder's neighbors and friends, Steve Sanfield and Dale Pendell, both of them poets living on the San Juan Ridge, as Snyder was. This broadside reproduces calligraphy by Snyder, according to the Snyder bibliography. The presence of a blacked out mistake in the last line of the first stanza and the backward limitation (the copy number specified but not the number of copies, rather than vice versa) combine to suggest this is a trial copy or an unused or proof copy. We have no evidence that the edition was ever done: the Piercy bibliography lists no Maidu Press publication and OCLC shows no copies held in institutional libraries. A scarce, virtually unknown collaboration between Piercy and Snyder, both of them major American poets of the postwar era, and both associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond. 8-1/2" x 11", on heavy orange paper. One tiny lower corner bend; still fine. [#036504] $350

(n.p.), Kyuryudo, 1992. Text in Japanese, but primarily a book of photographs. Inscribed by actor Anthony Quinn to film director Anthony Harvey: "Dear Tony, the man at the bookstore asked me if my friend could speak Japanese. I said you spoke photo language. Here is [sic] some wonderful photos to last you the following wonderful New Year. A. Quinn." A nice Hollywood association: Harvey directed Quinn in the television movie This Can't Be Love, which also starred Katharine Hepburn, who won an Oscar working for Harvey in The Lion in Winter. Tall quarto; spine crease, else fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket, lacking the wraparound band. [#026868] $350

(Various), (Various), 1986-2003. An extensive collection of audio renditions of Rice's long-running Vampire series, with 41 recordings of 13 titles, most of which are Random House audiobooks or Books on Tape, but also including works by Recorded Books and Isis Audio Books. The majority of the recordings are on cassette tape, with a dozen in CD format. 18 of the recordings are unabridged, with at least one unabridged audio of each title present, with the exception of Memnoch the Devil (and The Vampire Chronicles, which is itself an abridgment). The titles (and the number of recordings) are as follows: Interview with the Vampire (4); The Vampire Lestat (4); The Queen of the Damned (2); The Vampire Chronicles (1); The Tale of the Body Thief (3); Memnoch the Devil (1); The Vampire Armand (4); Pandora (3); Vittorio the Vampire (4); Merrick (3); Blood and Gold (3); Blackwood Farm (5); and Blood Canticle (4). The audios are presumed to be in fine condition. Vittorio's CD case has been replaced; otherwise the cases and boxes are fine or near fine, but for an indentation to an Interview cassette box. Will ship at cost. [#035610] $350

Berkeley, Last Gasp, 1970. The first issue (blue and purple background on cover) of the first comic produced entirely by women: Trina Robbins, Barbara "Willy" Mendes, "Hurricane" Nancy Kalish, Carole Kalish, Lisa Lyons, Meredith Kurtzman, and Michele Brand. This comic was a spin off from the first feminist newspaper, also called It Ain't Me Babe, which was started by Berkeley Women's Liberation earlier in 1970. After the comic had gone through several printings, Last Gasp began publishing Wimmen's Comix, which ran for 20 years. Some toning to the pages; a bit of rubbing to the front cover; near fine. [#036446] $350

(n.p.), The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies, 1965. The case for and against U.S. involvement in Vietnam, authored by a Jesuit priest "at the request of The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies for the private information of some of their employees" -- an early publication on the war, done during the first year of the U.S. "escalation" and the shift from an advisory role to direct combat with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. 113 pages of analysis, with the prescient conclusion that a long-range, consistent U.S. policy needs to be bipartisan so that international commitments don't waver with the Presidency. Near fine in wrappers, with some wrinkling to the rear cover, apparently caused by the glue holding the pocket on the inside rear cover, which holds a map. No copies listed in OCLC. [#036565] $350

San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1972. The first and only printing of this comic, featuring the debut of Art Spiegelman's Maus. Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale would be published in 1986; the combined edition of Maus and Maus II won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, a first for a graphic novel. This comic also includes work by R. Crumb and others. Shallow corner crease to front cover; near fine in stapled wrappers. [#036412] $350

San Francisco, Sierra Club/Yolla Bolly Press, (1983). His third book, winner of the1984 John Burroughs Medal. Inscribed by the author: "To Raymond and Mary Ellen Haight/ with best wishes/ David Rains Wallace/ 3/17/83." Evolution, mythology, and Sasquatch mix amid the ecosystems of the Northwest's Klamath Mountains. Published by the Sierra Club. A fine copy in a very good, unlaminated jacket with strips of sunning, light edge wear and a 2" tear at the lower rear spine fold. Scarce signed. The Haights were long-time residents of San Francisco: Raymond's great grandfather, Henry Huntley Haight, was governor of California, and among other accomplishments, has a famous street named for him. [#036000] $350