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NY, Knopf, 1988. The first trade edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The success of her previous novel, The Accidental Tourist, and the movie made from it, led the publisher to give this title a first printing of 175,000 copies. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#019050] $70

NY, Knopf, 1990. The concluding volume in the Rabbit series. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the first trade edition; the true first was issued by the Franklin Library. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not uncommon, but perfect copies are harder to come by than one might think. [#019643] $70

NY, Knopf, 1987. A collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912097] $70

(NY), HarperCollins, (1991). Her third mystery featuring Neil Hamel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024229] $70

NY, Dodge, (n.d.). Undated, presumed first edition. Although there was an issue in white cloth, this is a copy in brown leather. Fifty color plates, some detached and laid in. Gift inscription. Spine split at upper front joint. Musty. A good copy. [#035800] $65

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife, "with much affection & admiration," in the year of publication. Fine in a very good dust jacket, with some fading to the spine and a small but jagged edge tear on the lower back panel. [#033691] $65

London, Hamish Hamilton, (1992). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915883] $65

(NY), Soho, (1994). A complimentary copy of the first edition, sent to booksellers. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with promotional sheet laid in. [#916270] $65

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (2002). The advance reading copy of this mystery/thriller. Fine in wrappers. [#035009] $65

NY, Dutton, 1965. The first American edition of this Vietnam novel by the author of The Centurions and The Praetorians. Offsetting to endpages and foxing to the edges of the text block; very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. [#035538] $65

San Francisco, Journeys Into Language, 1987. An advance copy in the form of loose, photocopied typeset sheets. Signed by the author in 1987, with the added notation "6/6," presumably indicating this as one of only 6 such copies. Fine. [#036038] $65

NY, Harper & Row, 1973. Full on hippie happiness. Drawings and music and meditations. Rubbing to spine; near fine in wrappers. [#036049] $65

NY, Schirmer, (1918). Folk songs collected in the Southern Appalachians. A good copy in tanned wrappers with insect damage to the covers. [#036179] $65

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1970). "The amazing story of the fight to unionize the United States Army." First paperback edition. Owner name; near fine. [#035954] $65

NY, Henry Holt, (1989). The hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916985] $65

(n.p.), MCA Universal, (1990). 22" x 34" poster advertising the release of the videocassette of the 1989 movie based on the 1975 book by Ron Kovic. Folds in eighths to a promotional booklet entitled "He Was Strong/ He Was Proud." Slight wrinkle; near fine. [#030867] $60

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (2000). The advance reading copy, marked "uncorrected proof" by the publisher, of this collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#912234] $60

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Bell's second novel, a semi-fantastic novel of urban decay involving spontaneous human combustion, among other things. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914764] $60

NY, Harper & Row, (1989). The first paperback edition of his first book, a collection of stories. Brown, from Mississippi, was the first writer to twice win the Southern Book Award, the major literary award given out by the Southern Book Critics Circle. Signed by the author. Fine. [#912281] $60

(Shelburne), Battered Silicon Dispatch Book, 1999. Inscribed by the author in 2000: "How nice to have the Goose Club here." One slight lower corner tap; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029350] $60

NY, Knopf, 1979. Uncorrected proof copy of his second book, a highly praised collection of stories. Laid in are two pages of publisher's promotional material, with review excerpts from Casey's first novel, including a John Irving blurb. Fine in tall wrappers, with a label pasted over bottom edge of pages. [#005033] $60

Binghampton, Bilingual Press, (1986). The hardcover issue of her first novel (after several poetry books). An epistolary novel for which the author proposes three different routes through the text, none of them in strict conformance with a straight reading. Signed by the author. Fine in pictorial boards, without dust jacket, as issued. [#913825] $60

(London), Little Brown, (1992). The first British edition of her third novel, featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913870] $60

NY, Random House, (1984). The limited edition of this collection of six stories and a novella, his first book of short fiction. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine slipcase with a few shallow scratches at one corner. [#911493] $60

(London), Faber and Faber, (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and dust jacket. [#913074] $60

(NY), Viking, (2002). A review copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with press release and promotional material laid in. [#914017] $60

Boston, New York Graphic Society, (1976). Highwater was one of the controversial figures in the field of Native American literature. He claimed to be of Blackfeet/Cherokee heritage, but critics disputed that and saw it as yet another case of exploitation of Native Americans -- in this case, Native American heritage and ethnicity itself, and the "authenticity" that comes with it -- by self-promoting whites. For nearly 30 years, though, "Highwater" -- his real name was Jackie Marks -- wrote extensively on American Indian culture and was one of the most visible promoters of Native American interests. He won awards for his writing and his other works, including some from Native American organizations and tribes. His ethnicity may have been a sham -- it was -- but for a time he was an important contemporary literary voice dealing with matters of Native American culture and heritage, with a hefty dose of self-promotion folded in. His writing was prolific, and his books -- on Native American painting, dance, and other subjects -- filled voids left by other writers and became landmarks in their fields. This title, Song From the Earth, an introduction to American Indian painting, and The Sweet Grass Lives On, a subsequent volume that introduced 50 contemporary American Indian artists, together helped launch the trend in collecting contemporary Indian art, and reviving memory of such artists as "the Kiowa Five," from the early 20th century, as well as promoting more contemporary artists. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket worn at the corners and spine extremities. [#016662] $60

Iowa City, Image & Idea, (1978). An original filmscript, published in the Student Screenplay series. "A tragic story of the U.S. Marines and their impact on the people of the Orient during the Vietnam war." Fine in wrappers. [#028654] $60

(NY), Weisbach/(Morrow), 1999. An advance excerpt from Homes' Music for Torching, together with an interview with Homes, a review, and praise for her earlier books. Also includes excerpts of work by Amanda Davis, Scott Lasser and Dale Peck. Fine in stapled wrappers, with accompanying CD, all housed in publisher's tri-fold folder. A highly unusual, multimedia publisher's promotional item. [#025104] $60

Smithtown, Exposition Press, (1983). A vanity press publication by a white writer, written for pre-teens. Despite the title, which seems thematically all-encompassing (albeit gender-specific), each chapter is actually a story about food, and the author includes an introduction for teachers stressing that the coming global food crisis can be averted by emulating some Indian practices. A fine copy in a heavily rubbed, very good dust jacket with tiny corner chips. [#016678] $60