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NY, PPP Editions, 2001. The Roth 101 reference work, a chronological guide to collecting 20th century photography books, which redefined the field in the early 2000s. With a 30-page essay, "When Objects Dream," by Shelley Rice, and writeups of each of the books chosen, describing their contents and explaining their importance. This is the trade edition; there were also two different limited editions. Slight corner taps, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Extra shipping may apply. [#035135] $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

(n.p.), United Press International, 1963. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning first-hand account of the Kennedy assassination, issued by UPI in pamphlet form. Copies of this pamphlet were included in the 1964 UPI/Colpix record album Four Days That Shook the World. 8 pages of text; shallow lower corner creases; near fine in stapled wrappers. 10 copies in OCLC. [#035981] $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
On Sale: $163

(various), (various), (1983-2009). Six books from the library of Robert Stone, author of the National Book Award winning Dog Soldiers and Damascus Gate, among others. Both of these novels had war as their backdrop (Vietnam in Dog Soldiers) or their subtext (the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflicts in Damascus Gate), and Stone's portrayal of war and its influence on individuals and societies is nuanced and psychological, as well as broad and deep and historical. These six war-related titles show evidence of his taking the study of war seriously, even when the particulars of a given conflict did not go into his books. The titles are: Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn; John Keegan's A History of Warfare; Derek Leebaert's The Fifty-Year Wound; Niall Ferguson's The War of the World; Michael and Elizabeth Norman's Tears in the Darkness; and Robert Paul Jordan's The Civil War. The Norman, the Jordan, and the Keegan are later printings; only the Norman has a dust jacket; all but the Jordan are well-read and stained. Reading copies only. [#033822] $250

Boston, James H. Earle, (1902). The author's account of two trips to Alaska, "practically alone," and covering 18 months beginning in 1899. "I had first-class health and made up in endurance what I lacked in avoirdupois, along with firm determination to take up the first honest work that presented itself, regardless of choice, and in the meantime to secure a few gold claims..." Illustrated with maps and photos. Tipped to the front pastedown is a newspaper article from 1934, stating that the author had staked out claims to approximately 5000 acres of Alaskan oil lands and was headed back there in the coming weeks. Perhaps the definition of a woman ahead of her times: while the book went through at least 6 printings in the first year after publication, over one hundred years later it was issued in at least 6 new editions from 2007-2024. Owner name front flyleaf; minor shelf wear; stains to the rear cover; a very good copy, without dust jacket. [#036510] $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

(n.p.), (n.p.), 1979. A treatment script for an unproduced television film about Thorpe, co-written by Thorpe's daughter, Grace. Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the U.S. at the Olympics (in 1912). Thorpe won gold for both the pentathlon and decathlon -- being acclaimed for those wins as "the greatest athlete in the world." He was stripped of the medals when it was learned that he had briefly played semi-professional baseball in the years prior; the medals were reinstated posthumously. Following his Olympic career, Thorpe played six seasons of professional baseball and six seasons of pro football. 19 pages, rectos only; comb-bound with acetate cover. Near fine. [#035021] $250

Garden City, Doubleday, (1969). An illustrated book of advice and random thoughts, written at the peak of his popularity, around the time of his appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; his Billboard Chart release of "Tip Toe Through the Tulips"; his Grammy-nominated children's album; and his ukulele contribution of "Nowhere Man" on the Beatles' Christmas album. This copy is inscribed by Tiny Tim in the year of publication. Shallow insect damage to the front board; near fine in a good dust jacket with some faded water stains on the front panel. [#036485] $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, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1970). Apparently the first of many biographies of Carson, preceding even Paul Brooks' The House of Life (1972). This volume was published in Crowell's "Women of America" series. Mild splaying to boards; near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the edges and folds. Uncommon in the first printing, with many copies having gone to libraries. [#035988] $225

(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

(Princeton), (Princeton University Library Chronicle), (1974). An offprint from the Chronicle, reportedly fewer than fifty copies printed for the author's use. Signed by the author. Shallow edge-sunning; near fine in stapled wrappers. [#021499] $225

NY, Rinehart, (1959). The social, political and ethical questions that were still arising from Darwin's theory, 100 years after its publication. Signed by the author. Near fine in a very good, lightly edge worn and spine-sunned dust jacket. [#036554] $225

Washington, DC, U.S. General Accounting Office, 1978. Three reports: "Tribal Participation in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Budget System Should Be Increased," "Bureau of Indian Affairs Not Operating Boarding Schools Efficiently," and "The Indian Self-Determination Act--Many Obstacles Remain." The first two are near fine in stapled wrappers, and addressed to Senator Robert Byrd with respect to his role on the Senate Appropriations Committee; the third has some darkening and staining to the front cover, and is addressed to both houses of Congress; very good in stapled wrappers. [#035859] $225

North Brookfield, Thistle Hill Press, 1978. "An Ecological Parable." One of 500 copies, signed by Neal and by Fritz Eichenberg, who provides a wood engraving, also signed, as illustration. The text and the illustration are in separate saddle-stitched wrappers; these are housed together in a slipcase. Very slight spine-sunning to wrappers, else fine; the slipcase is near fine. [#027445] $225

NY, Scribner, (2006). In the spirit of Edwin Way Teale's North with the Spring (Florida to New Hampshire, 1951), Stutz takes a (very indirect) 3-month journey chasing spring from Louisiana to Alaska, 55 years later. Inscribed by the author: "To Lee & Ellen/ Enjoy this journey and all of your own, Best/ Bruce/ 7/27/07." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036204] $225

Cambridge, Leavitt & Peirce, 1958. The hardcover issue of this very early appearance in print by Updike. Harvard alumni commemorate the 75th anniversary of a tobacco store and gathering place; Updike contributes a poem, "The Old Tobacconist." Slight foxing to top edge, else fine in a near fine, orginal glassine dustwrapper. [#030276] $225

NY, Knopf, 1959. His third book and first collection of stories. Fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. A very nice copy. [#027123] $225

NY, Collier, (1966). A story-poem for children by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Aiken, illustrated by Julie Maas. This is a "Beginning Reader" book. Minor foxing to boards and jacket: very good in a very good dust jacket. [#035634] $200

NY, HRW, Arbor House, HBJ, (1982-1993). The uncorrected proof copies of eight volumes of the Nebula Awards: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Publisher changed from HRW, to Arbor House, to HBJ. The lot is near fine. [#036129] $200

Washington, D.C., A.S. Witherbee, 1887. A 20-page pamphlet dedicated to proving that the epitaph on Shakespeare's gravestone contains the sentence (via cryptogram) "Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays." One name (Ignatius Donnelly) underlined in the introduction. Covers dust-soiled; else near fine in self-wrappers, with a fold-out of the epitaph tipped-in. No copies in OCLC. [#035687] $200

[London], Telegraph Sunday Magazine, [1977]. An article by Morton Cohen about the discovery of the galleys for "A Wasp in a Wig," a story deleted from Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and missing for more than 100 years, until appearing at auction in 1974. This article is the first published appearance of the galleys for a general audience (just ahead of a limited edition issued by The Lewis Carroll Society of America the same month). Reportedly, the episode had been dropped at the request of the illustrator John Tenniel, who thought drawing the character to be "altogether beyond the appliances of art." The task is completed here by Ralph Steadman. Five pages, taken from the Telegraph: Sunday Magazine, September 4, 1977. Folded in fourths; near fine. Laid into a 1966 Nonesuch Press reprint edition of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass. [#035099] $200