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(NY), Free Press, (1999). A book on media literacy, explaining the ways women are targeted as consumers, by one of the creators of the documentary film series Killing Us Softly. Signed by the author and dated prior to publication. Later released with the title Can't Buy My Love. Kilbourne was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2015. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with a blurb by Maya Angelou. [#034616] $250

NY, Exposition Press, (1969). A volume of vanity press poetry by Kelly, distinguished by a front cover blurb by Harper Lee, from a period of time when it was not uncommon for vanity publishers to simply warehouse their print runs for a predetermined length of time and then destroy them, with the majority of copies receiving distribution coming out of the author's allotment. For most vanity press works -- regardless of how many were originally printed -- the number of copies that ever made it into the marketplace probably averages in the low dozens. That fact, combined with the fact that Harper Lee has published so little other than To Kill a Mockingbird, makes this a rare occurrence in print by the author of one of the best-loved American novels of all time. This copy is inscribed by Kelly to Phoebe Lee "with fond best wishes." Kelly was a native of Excel, Alabama, less than 10 miles from Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Small spot to front cover; near fine in a mildly rubbed dust jacket with a tear at the upper spine fold. [#027232] $250

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1929). Foxing to foredge, spine-dulled and front hinge cracked; a very good copy with a folded, thus very good, first issue (no reviews on the front flap) dust jacket laid in. The jacket is fragile where it has been folded, but it appears to have spent most of its life inside the book and the color is completely fresh and unfaded. [#031434] $250

Sulphur, Abbott, 1908 [1909]. A collection of tales that appears to be an autobiographical novel written by a Chickasaw woman, but is, according to Marable and Boylan's A Handbook of Oklahoma Writers [Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939], authored by the publisher, Aaron Abbott. Title page states 1908; printed letters on verso dated 1909. Chipping to spine ends; creasing to rear cover; a very good copy in the darker tan covers. [#036331] $250

NY, Viking, (1983). Matthiessen's controversial and suppressed book about the confrontation between American Indian activists and the FBI in the early 1970s at Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee that left two federal agents and one Indian dead, and resulted in AIM activist Leonard Peltier imprisoned for life, convicted of the agents' murder in a case that, as Matthiessen describes it, was rife with government malfeasance. This copy is inscribed by Matthiessen in the year of publication: "For Rahda & Jimmy/ with many thanks and love. Peter. In your beautiful house/ Santa Barbara/ March - 1983." Also signed in full on the front pastedown. Trace edge sunning, still a fine copy in a very good, very spine-faded dust jacket with modest edge wear. [#035589] $250

(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, Vantage Press, (1995). A vanity press publication of a firsthand account of life at Los Alamos and the Trinity nuclear test. McMillan's husband was a physicist working on the Manhattan Project (Edwin McMillan would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for neptunium in 1951). They moved to Los Alamos with their infant daughter in 1943; their first son was born there. This copy is inscribed by McMillan: "To my friend Dr. Alan Ross/ we have had many good talks together/ Elsie Blumer McMillan." Erasure on front free endpaper; lower corners bumped, thus near fine in a near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket. [#036450] $250

(n.p.), (Jubilee), (1959). An offprint from Jubilee of an article Merton wrote on Pasternak following Pasternak's being awarded (and declining) the Nobel Prize for Literature. Oblong quarto; roughly a dozen pages. Mild, even acidification and a few small creases near the spine. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dell'Isola lists the Jubilee appearance, but makes no mention of this offprint. OCLC locates only three copies. [#030126] $250
On Sale: $163

NY/Chicago, Pitman, (1938). An explication of 350 Russian word roots. Inscribed by the author in 1938, to Mrs. Kathleen Barnes (possibly of the Institute of Pacific Relations). Patrick was, at the time, an Associate Professor of Russian at the University of California, Berkeley; he eventually chaired the Department of Slavic Languages. Spotting to top edge and mild dampstaining to lower board edges; near fine in a very good, somewhat stained and darkened dust jacket. [#035137] $250

Albuquerque/Reno, I Think I Hear Camels Coming, 1965-1966. The first six issues of this little poetry magazine edited by Richard Morris, which ran at least nine issues: a second series was started in 1972. Contributors include d.a. levy, Paul Blackburn, Clarence Major, John Sinclair, Fielding Dawson, Theodore Enslin, Margaret Randall, Clayton Eshleman, Judson Crews, and Larry Eigner, among others. All but #4 have mailing information on the rear cover (and #3 also has an address stamped on the front cover). The lot is otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. [#036444] $250

NY, Knopf, (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of the second book in his Sally Lockhart trilogy. "Press Copy" markings to cover and summary page; title and date handwritten on spine; else fine in wrappers. Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, published just after the Sally Lockhart books, became worldwide bestsellers and modern fantasy classics. [#023041] $250
On Sale: $163

NY, Knopf, (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of the second book in his Sally Lockhart trilogy. Light red splashes on lower spine; near fine in wrappers. [#023040] $250

(NY), (Billboard Books), (2004). The advance reading copy of this memoir by the lead singer of Goldie and the Gingerbreads, the first all-female band signed to a major label (Atlantic) and who opened for the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and the Yardbirds, among others. Ravan also fronted Ten Wheel Drive, an early psychedelic jazz fusion band, and was the first female producer hired by a major record label. She was often compared to Janis Joplin, and was the prototype female rock star, predating Chrissie Hynde, Joan Jett, Blondie, and Courtney Love. Inscribed by Ravan: "Dear Lee -- what would I do without you? Genya Ravan." Fine in wrappers. Uncommon in an advance issue, and especially scarce signed. [#035901] $250

NY, Morrow, 1971. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this novel about "dicing" or "dice living" (living life according to the roll of the die). Rhinehart is Cockcroft's pen name, and also the name of the main character in the book, leading to ambiguity as to whether it was fiction or not when it was first published. Such ambiguity did not help its early sales, but over time the book has become a cult classic, selling over two million copies and positing the idea that substituting a throw of the dice for the normal criteria for decision-making contains a germ of wisdom about living life. Creasing to the faded spine from binder's glue; corner crease rear cover; near fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof. [#036239] $250

Charlotte, East Woods Press, 1982. Her first book: a journal of her thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, over two summers, partly alone, and partly with two separate female hiking partners. With 120 illustrations by the author. Warmly inscribed by Ross to a close friend, and with a blurb by Annie Dillard. Extrapolating from the Appalachian Trail's website for data from the 1980s, there were likely fewer than two dozen successful female thru-hikers on the trail with Ross in those two years. An oblong softcover, with text in cursive. Partly sunned; near fine. [#036594] $250
On Sale: $163

(New Delhi), Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, (2009). Essays by the Booker Prize winning author of The God of Small Things, an examination of rising wealth disparity, corporate power, religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, neo-fascism, and an unaccountable judiciary, in India. Inscribed by the author in New Delhi in the year of publication. In recent decades Roy has been known at least as much for her writings and activities as a political and social activist as for her literary writing. She was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004, and her two most recent volumes prior to this one were both nonfiction. This is the first Indian edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a small (Indian) bookstore label at the lower edge of the rear panel. [#036574] $250

Boston, Little Brown, (1963). Salinger's fourth and last book, two long stories of the Glass family. This is the third issue, with the dedication page tipped in after the title page. Spotting to top edge; boards mildly sunned and splayed; very good in a very good, spine-sunned dust jacket with a little wear to the spine. [#024185] $250

NY, Norton, (1989). Inscribed by Sarton to Doris Grumbach in the year of publication: "For Doris/ with love always/ from M." Below this, Sarton has signed her name in full. Grumbach is not specifically named, but the book comes from a collection where similarly inscribed books confirmed the attribution. A wonderful association: in addition to their being friends; both authors explored lesbian themes in their novels before such a thing was fashionable, then ordinary, then cause for rage and banning. Slight lean (as though from gentle reading), else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036481] $250

[various], [various], 1967-1997. From the author's own library: eight various editions of his first book. Includes a later printing of the first edition (1967, Houghton Mifflin hardcover) and seven paperbacks: five first printings (Fawcett 1968; Ballantine 1975; Houghton Mifflin 1981; Penguin 1987; Mariner 1997) and two later printings (Picador and Penguin, both 1987). All copies from the '80s and '90s are fine or near fine; the hardcover and the Ballantine are very good; the 1968 paperback ("Now the major Paramount picture WUSA") is a poor copy, barely held together with a dozen pieces of tape, but with Paul Newman on the cover. [#033840] $250

(Oxford), Arete, (2003). The full text of Stoppard's previously unpublished 1970 screenplay, published here as the entire Issue 11 of Arete, with a contemporary introduction by Stoppard. Although known primarily as a playwright, Stoppard was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brazil in 1985, and he won the Academy Award for the screenplay of Shakespeare in Love, in 1998. Fine in self-wrappers. [#036600] $250

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1951. Their second collaboration, inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971. Howes/Smith bookplate front pastedown, causing offsetting to flyleaf at inscription. Introduction by Edmund Wilson, with Howes' pencilled markings in the text of the introduction; spine cloth faded; very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several small edge chips. Uncommon, especially signed. [#018567] $250

NY, Viking, (1979). His second collection of essays, after The Lives of the Cell won two National Book Awards in 1975. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a short, closed edge tear to the upper front panel. [#036205] $250

London, Elkin Mathews, 1905. Volume 23 in the Vigo Cabinet Series. Inscribed by the author on the front cover, prior to publication. Additional pencil mark to cover; spine and edge-darkened wrappers; a very good copy. [#036005] $250

(Schenecdaty), (Union College), (1971). Printed as a special issue of The Idol and featuring the text of a conversation with Updike. 32 pages, fine in glossy stapled wrappers with a pencil sketch of Updike on the cover. This copy is inscribed by Updike. [#031521] $250

London, Thames and Hudson, (1958). The first British edition. Watts explores Man's alienation from nature and its parallel in sexual anxiety with women, positing that approaching sexuality and the sexual act as sacred provides an avenue for spiritually reintegrating with the natural world and our own nature. Foxing to endpages and page edges; very good in a very good, sunned and foxed dust jacket with modest edge wear. [#036487] $250

NY, World, (1971). The first book by this author of Blackfoot-Gros Ventre heritage, who was one of the most important and accomplished Native American writers of the post-1968 generation. Welch was a respected poet and an award-winning novelist, and wrote, with great power and sensitivity, fiction focused on both contemporary Indian life (e.g., Winter in the Blood) and historical material (the award-winning Fools Crow). Riding the Earthboy 40, a collection of poems, was never properly distributed as the publisher folded at the time of publication. It was re-published five years later in a revised and expanded form by Harper & Row. This is the first edition. Inscribed by the author to poets Sandra McPherson and Henry Carlile "with best wishes and hopes for another fishing trip soon. Love, Jim." Carlile's ownership signature and stamp; a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the spine extremities. A nice association copy. [#025809] $250

(San Francisco), Auerhahn Press, 1960. One of 500 copies of the legendary Beat poet's first book. Sunned, with some narrow staining near the base of the spine; very good in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. [#034849] $250

(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 2009. A spiralbound mock-up of a book of selected poems, with photocopied selections from, apparently, seven of her previous books. Some pages reproduce copyeditor's marks. Such a selection was issued by Wave Books in 2009. Last few pages creased, with a small (coffee?) stain. Otherwise about fine. Unmarked, but from the author's library. Scarce, possibly unique. [#034480] $250

NY, Vantage, (1956). A vanity press account of a woman born in 1885, the 7th of 10 children, who lived nearly eight decades in Oregon, Washington in Idaho, with a series of 4 husbands. Nearly 300 pages of hardship, beginning at the time of the Indian wars in the late 19th century up to the 1960s. Signed by the author. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with modest rubbing and some minor discoloration to the rear panel. Vanity press books are in general very scarce, as the publishers are paid for printing them and usually do not spend money marketing them; they are, in effect, privately printed by their authors. An uncommon first person account. [#036654] ON HOLD
$250

(n.p), (n.p), (n.d.). Farrell's typescript pages (pp. 4, 5, 11) for what appears to be an introduction to a work by or about Dreiser. Reportedly, this was from an introduction to a Collier Books edition of Sister Carrie, but we have been unable to verify that such an edition existed. It is not from the 1975 Sagamore Press edition (which does have a Farrell introduction). Nor, as best as we can tell, is it from Farrell's introduction to The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser, nor the 1955 volume The Stature of Theodore Dreiser, nor the 1962 volume Theodore Dreiser. What it is: three pages of text (two ribbon copy; one carbon copy), with holograph corrections, with an additional two pages (p. 11, p. 12) of notes/inserts, in manuscript. It is verifiable as Farrell's by the fact that in the text he quotes from letters to himself from H.L. Mencken, about Dreiser. The manuscript pages are darkened; page 11 has some offsetting; near fine. Farrell wrote about Sister Carrie repeatedly in his career, including a piece for the New York Times Book Review in 1943. Dreiser's book claimed the #33 spot on the Modern Library's list of Books of the Century, four spots behind Farrell's Lonigan Trilogy. [#012793] $225
On Sale: $146