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NY, MCD/Farrar Straus Giroux, (2019). Rich's searing recounting of the 1980s -- the decade when we almost stopped climate change, and how it all derailed. Expanded here from a 2018 article in The New York Times Magazine. Signed by the author. Some toning to page edges and a bit of fading to the boards; near fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. [#036408] $275

1979, 1986. Two typed letters signed from Stone, the first from Honolulu, the second from Providence, RI. The first grants permission for the recipient to use his name and discusses his time in Hawaii and his delay in responding ["I've been under the weight of burdens real and imaginary here that have played hell with my time."]. The second apparently accompanied a recommendation for the recipient ["If you think of anything they might want beyond this, I think you might add whatever you feel is necessary and sign my name."]. The recipient was a writer who studied with Stone in the Seventies and later became a friend. Both letters are folded for mailing; else fine, with envelopes. Also included is an autograph letter signed by Stone's wife, Janice in which she offers the recipient use of their summer home in the off-season. [#026626] $275

NY, Harper & Row, (1972). First printing (full number line at rear of book) of Zwinger's second book, following Beyond the Aspen Grove, and preceding her John Burroughs Medal winning book Run, River, Run. This title is a guide to alpine tundra in the U.S. and features 24 color plates and 230 of Zwinger's line drawings. Inscribed by Zwinger and signed by Willard in 1978. Multiple instances of faint highlighting in text, thus very good in a very good, lightly edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket. [#036442] $275
On Sale: $179

(London), Macmillan, (1977). A science fiction anthology from the 1960s, featuring Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, Thomas Disch, Frederick Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, and others. Edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss, with a 12-page introduction by Aldiss. Aldiss, in addition to being a science fiction writer is also a historian of the field, with his book Billion Year Spree being the standard history of the field up to the early 1970s. Faint foredge foxing; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The least common title in this series, especially in the original hardcover edition. [#036543] $250

(San Francisco), Third World Communications, 1972. Edited by Janice Mirikitani, this anthology brought together work by "Third World people of Asia, Africa, and the Original Americas," including "A Scarlet Woman" by Ntozake Shange and "Custer Lives in Humboldt County" by Janet Campbell Hale, both appearances being prior to the authors' first books. Stamp of The Institute for the Study of Labor & Economic Crisis on the title page and inked-out address of the "Women's Library" inside the front cover. Spotting to covers; still very good in wrappers. 30 copies in OCLC. A landmark volume, and scarce now. [#036626] $250

Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 2010. The 2011 John Burroughs Medal winner. A surprisingly fascinating memoir of a woman's debilitating illness being eased by the companionship of a snail. Basis for the award-winning 2019 short film, narrated by Daryl Hannah and starring Ariela Kuh and Neohelix Albolaris (the snail). Signed by the author, "ETB," with a sketch of a snail on the move. Fine in a very near fine, lightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. First printings are scarce; signed copies much more so. [#036657] $250

DeKalb, Cedar Creek, 1980. The wrappered edition of the first book, a collection of poems, by this writer of Choctaw-English-Welsh descent. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed by him in 1999: "For __ ___ - with best wishes, this early, little book -/ Jim B." Fine in wrappers. An uncommon title in any issue, and especially scarce signed. [#036422] $250

Worcester, Metacom Press, 1981. The hardcover issue. The first separate appearance of this short story, which first appeared in Antaeus. Of a total edition of 276 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911362] $250
On Sale: $163

Manchester, Clarion, 1892. Two issues of the Socialist paper, the "Christmas Number" and the "Summer Number." Bound together (despite being different sizes). The binding is stained and worn and there is foxing to the endpages, but it has done its job protecting the issues, which are near fine. Scarce: one copy of the Summer Number found in OCLC. [#600045] $250

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1974. Catalog of an exhibition in the Ideas Gallery of Whitechapel of poems by this avant garde writer, known as a practitioner of concrete and sound poetry, and in most of the poems in this exhibition as a collaborator with visual artists. Signed by the poet. Chopin also founded the literary journal Cinquiame Saison, which morphed into the journal OU in 1964, and published a record of sound poetry with each issue. Six pages; fine. [#035638] $250

St. Louis, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, 1975. The partial text (so stated, by design) of Commoner's address before the National Press Photographers Association Education Seminar in Jackson Hole in 1975, on the subject of nuclear energy. Commoner derides the lack of attention paid to the relationship between ecosystems and economic systems. Solutions are given in the following part of the address, not included here. Stapled wrappers: foxing to cover, rust to staples; near fine. No copies in OCLC. [#036236] $250

(n.p.), Boowat, 1976. A small book by Danielson on the meaning of Christmas, meant to serve as a Christmas card. With tipped-in illustrations by Riley. Inscribed by Danielson to Riley: "Nice to have you aboard my magnum opus. Your decadent friend, Garth Danielson." Riley was an up-and-coming young artist, who had been illustrating fantasy novels and would later branch out to mainstream book illustration, including a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate. By all appearances a handmade book; at the very least rare, perhaps unique. Clothbound; near fine without dust jacket, as issued. [#030706] $250

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1973). The uncorrected proof copy of the book published as The Truth About Kent State. Davies examines the questions Why did the Guardsmen fire? and Why did the Government do nothing? Obviously the book's title was softened prior to publication, as were the chapter headings (with the word "murder" removed or changed to "violence"). Many more changes were made to the text of the book: casual examination reveals another dozen textual changes over just the first two dozen pages, with the general impression being that Davies' first pass was dialed down in tone, and dialed in on facts. Near fine in tall wrappers. No copies in OCLC. [#036008] $250

NY, Scribner, (2005). His third published play. Inscribed by the author. This is the first printing of what was to be a simultaneous softcover issue, but we've found no indication (other than an assigned ISBN) of there ever having been a hardcover printing. Fine in wrappers. Scarce signed. [#036546] $250

NY, Penguin Press, 2019. Warnings about democracy from before the Capitol attack, before the (second) invasion of Ukraine, and during the (first round of) tariffs on China (one effect of which was China ending its domestic ownership rules for auto companies, benefiting Tesla). Inscribed by Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford University. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036547] $250

London, Godine, (1990). The uncorrected proof copy of the first British edition, and the first proof to contain the full complement of all 23 stories: the U.S. proof was intended to be issued with only ten of the stories; was mistakenly issued with the "left out" 13; and then re-issued with the intended 10. Signed by Dubus. Foxing near the spine; near fine in wrappers. [#033260] $250

NY, Grove, (2002). The advance reading copy of the second book by the author of the highly praised Lord of the Barnyard, who committed suicide in May, 2005. This copy is signed by Egolf. Fine in wrappers. [#914920] $250

NY, Institute of Life Insurance, 1975. An essay resulting from a grant by the Institute of Life Insurance's Social Research Grant Program. This was Epstein's second such grant -- her first, awarded to her while she was a graduate student at Columbia, became the basis of her 1971 book, Women's Place: Option and Limits on Professional Careers. An autograph note signed laid into this title presents it as "an example of what I've been doing -- I'm a full professor now! [at CUNY]/ Love, Cynthia." Epstein has also added the name "Fuchs" to the title page. Edge-sunned; near fine in stapled wrappers. Together with a photocopy of an offprint of Epstein's 1973 article from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, entitled "Bringing Women In: Rewards, Punishments, and the Structure of Achievement." [#036567] $250

Barcelona, Luis de Caralt, (1954). The first Spanish edition of Soldiers' Pay. Peterson A2.30 (incorrectly described as the first Catalan edition). Fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket. [#034940] $250

London, Fortune Press, (1967). A volume of poetry by this Gloucester, MA, poet who was a longtime friend and sometime rival of poet Charles Olson, who directed a critical part of The Maximus Poems at Ferrini. Ferrini's response was a 30-page love poem, which was published as In the Arriving and which Olson later said was Ferrini's best book. Despite a rivalry that has been characterized as "brotherly," they remained close friends throughout Olson's life. Inscribed by the author: "____/ the heart of the book/ Vincent." The recipient's name was deliberately abraded by the recipient. Fine in a near fine, modestly edgeworn dust jacket. [#016201] $250

London, Jonathan Cape, 1957. Quarter leather clamshell box, custom made for the first edition of Fleming's spy thriller. Black cloth; black leather spine with raised spine bands, printed in gold with author, title, and "First Edition / 1957." Near fine. Case only, no book. [#036398] $250

NY, Riverhead Books, 2020. Gessen, a non-binary Russian-American journalist sentenced, in abstentia, to 8 years in a Russian prison for speaking out about atrocities in the war in Ukraine, here cogently skewers both the form and the function of the first Trump presidency. Signed by the author in 2022. Gessen had published the viral essay, "Autocracy: Rules for Survival," in The New York Review of Books two days after the 2016 election. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with a blurb by Timothy Snyder. Uncommon signed. [#036572] $250

(n.p.), Self-Published, 1940. A catalog of 1364 books and 1111 piece of music, alphabetically listed. An impressive inventory of the library of the author and music critic. Judging by appearance, a carbon typescript, bound in green boards, and thus probably one of only a couple of copies ever created of this volume. Middleton's owner name. Near fine. [#035977] $250

Baltimore, Contemporary Poetry, 1944. A collection of poems, one of 1000 copies. A nice association copy, inscribed by the author to a painter, the wife (for a time) of a poet. A fine copy in a worn dust jacket severed at the spine. A fragile wartime book. [#016232] $250

London, Gollancz, 1958. Her fourth book, second novel. The British edition is the true first edition. Signed by the author. Owner name front flyleaf, else fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips at the corners and crown and a 1-1/2" tear at the upper front spine fold. Overall, an attractive copy. [#028433] $250

(Johannesburg), Ravan Press, (1973). Second issue, with passages by Mandlenkosi Langa censored on pages 54 and 60. Subtitled "Notes on African Writing," with one section on fiction and one on poetry. This copy is signed by the Nobel Prize-winning author. The poet was supposedly issued with a banning order in October, 1973 and the passages quoting him had to be deleted or the issues pulped: later reports say it was actually Langa's brother Benjamin who had been banned. Handling apparent to rear cover; about near fine in wrappers. A fairly uncommon book in either issue, and quite scarce signed. [#026742] $250

Boston, Little Brown, (1965). The biography covering the formative years and education of Dr. Connie Guion, who attended Wellesley and Cornell Medical College, with an internship and residency at Bellevue. The biography ends in 1919, when Guion was 37, though she would practice medicine until her death at 88, becoming known as "the dean of women doctors." She was the first woman in the U.S. to be made a professor of clinical medicine; the first woman to become a member of the medical board of the New York Hospital; and the first living female doctor in the U.S. to have a hospital building named in her honor. Guion never married, but had a lifelong partnership with Ruth Smith, a physical education teacher. This copy is signed by Guion and by the two authors, Campion and Stanton on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Gift inscription front flyleaf and owner's stamp front pastedown. Possible water damage to rear board and spine, and some discoloration there; a good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. [#036511] $250

NY, St. Martin's, (1988). A review copy of his highly acclaimed third novel, the first to feature Hannibal Lecter as the central character. Basis for the Jonathan Demme film with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster, winner of five Academy Awards and one of the American Film Institute's top 100 Films of the Century. Mild foredge foxing, else fine in a fine dust jacket, with the bookplate of another horror writer on the front flyleaf and with 3 pages of promotional material laid in. [#036414] $250

NY, Random House AudioBooks, 2001. The audiobook. The unabridged novel, on seven cassette tapes, read by Jason Culp. Fine in a fine carton, which has been signed by Irving. [#023858] $250

Woodstock, Overlook Press, (2008). Signed by Kelly and inscribed by Jacobs: "Mickey - a brown drama for a warming age. Hope it's instructive." The authors examine decades of fits and starts in clearing the Californian air in this "cautionary tale of environmental crisis." Tanning to page edges, else fine in a fine dust jacket bearing an Independent Publisher Book Awards label. Scarce signed. [#035992] $250