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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

London, Hogarth Press, 1925. Cracked front joint; moderate staining and handling to boards. A good copy, lacking the dust jacket. [#035505] $65

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), Harper/Perennial, (1986). Second printing of the Perennial paperback. Inscribed by Fuentes to the poet Ai, "with the pleasure of our meeting" and dated 1988. Very good in wrappers. [#035924] $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

(Greensboro), Unicorn Press, (1974). Poems from the "Poland 1931" sequence. Inscribed by Rothenberg to Clayton [Eshleman], "with admiration & thanks for the encouragements & challenge." Illustrated with posed photographs featuring Rothenberg and Kathy Acker, among others. One of 2000 copies in wrappers. Near fine. [#033542] $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, Atheneum, 1977. Uncorrected proof copy of his highly praised first book, which was called by The New York Times Book Review "the best novel of the year." Casey's third book, Spartina, won the National Book Award. Erasure abrasion on front cover, and a small surface gouge on (blank) rear panel; otherwise fine. An auspicious debut. [#006300] $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

NY, Dial, 1967. His first book, and his only novel -- a military tale not unlike William Styron's book The Long March -- a story of the peacetime military and the challenges to manhood and honor that its rigid code of morals creates. Dubus was once quoted as saying that after he wrote this novel someone introduced him to Chekhov's short stories, and he threw away the manuscript of what was to be his next novel and began writing short fiction -- of which he became one of our most acclaimed and accomplished practitioners. Dampstaining to lower boards; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small droplet on spine, light corner chipping, and one internally mended edge tear. [#029303] $60

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