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Undated nineteenth century prints of Indian scenes from the Pacific Northwest, each measuring approx. 6-1/2" x 9" and mounted in 12" x 14" mats. The first is a portrait of a "Mahlemute Man and Woman" in traditional dress standing at a riverside camp, with salmon being dried and smoked in the background. The second depicts a "Beluga Hunter and Dwellings - Lower Kuskokvim, Alaska," with the hunter, dressed for kayaking, and his wife standing at water's edge, ready to launch the kayak. The third depicts two Indian men, a "Thlinkit [sic] and Man From Copper River," showing the different traditional dress of the two, with the Tlingit carrying a rifle and the Copper River man a bow and arrows. An interesting glimpse at an early view of the various native tribes of that region. All three are slightly age-darkened, else fine. [#002192] $115
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(NY), New Rivers Press, 1974. The scarce hardcover issue of his second book, a collection of poetry. The total edition was 600 copies, of which only 200 were issued in cloth; 400 were issued in wrappers. Well-known these days as a writer of fiction and of essays on fiction, Baxter didn't publish his first novel until 1987, seventeen years after his first book (Chameleon) and thirteen years after this title. Inscribed by the author in 1982. Fine in a slightly rubbed, else fine dust jacket. [#911007] $650
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NY, Richard W. Baron, (1970). A review copy of Berger's third Reinhart book. Inscribed by Berger to film director Tony Bill "with all the best." Laid in is a publisher's press release as well as a print out of John Leonard's review from the New York Times News Service. The laid in materials have yellowed with age; the book is fine in a near fine dust jacket with a 1.5" vertical tear at the lower edge of the rear flap fold. [#912267] $150
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(Augsburg), Maro Verlag, (1997). The German language issue of the first separate appearance of a story that first appeared in the Georgia Review in 1979. Illustrated with woodcuts by Sophie Dutertre. Fine in self-wrappers, with a one sheet, four-page author/illustrator biographical supplement laid in, also illustrated by Dutertre. Uncommon. This copy is signed by Boyle. [#911383] $150
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Kingston, Kingston Publishers, (1992). The true first (Jamaican) edition of Campbell's autobiography which deals, to a great degree, with the obscenity case brought against him and the Two Live Crew for their lyrics on their album "As Nasty as They Wanna Be." The album was declared obscene and illegal to sell; Campbell and two others were arrested after performing songs from the album at a club in Florida. They were acquitted after Henry Louis Gates, Jr., among others, spoke on behalf of their lyrics. This book was published in Kingston, Jamaica, with a "Parental Advisory" notice on its cover, because it was thought that it might not be publishable by an American publisher. When it was finally published in America, after the trial and appeal had ended, it became a bestseller, but the Jamaican edition, which is the true first, is scarce. OCLC lists only 6 copies of the Kingston edition. Light wear to spine and corners; near fine in wrappers. [#034789] $1,500
$1,125

London, Faber and Faber, (1980). First thus: the first British edition of this collection of stories, some of which appeared in the collection War Crimes, which was not published outside of his native Australia, and the others of which are from his first book, which was published in Australia with this same title in 1974. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911418] $125
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London/NY, Jonathan Cape/Summit, 1977/1978. A hardcover advance proof copy of the American edition of Chatwin's first book, created from a first British edition, with the addition of a U.S. proof dust jacket, featuring quotes from British publications (including Paul Theroux, writing for the London Times). The British trade edition has had its free endpages excised and pasted over the pictorial pastedowns; and the photographs that graced the text of the British edition have also been excised, in keeping with the appearance of the American edition. This copy was obviously sent out and used for review: reviewer's marks and comments in text, and the blank jacket flaps have been filled with the reviewer's notes. The book, apart from the intended excisions and notes, is fine; the proof jacket (again, apart from the reviewer notes), is spine and edge-sunned, with the title and author handwritten on the spine, largely faded; overall near fine. An uncommon issue, presumably done prior to the issuance of an American proof copy and different from the U.K. first edition in ways that parallel the eventual U.S. edition (and U.S. proof). [#031672] $750
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London, Secker & Warburg, (1983). The first British edition of the first Booker Prize-winning novel by the South African Nobel Prize-winning author. Tap to spine crown; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912381] $100
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NY, William Morrow, 1965. Winner of the 1966 John Burroughs Medal; a book about the life of herring gulls on an island off the Maine coast. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Darling, and with a foreword by Roger Tory Peterson, whose recommendation of Louis and Lois Darling to Rachel Carson had resulted in the Darlings illustrating Silent Spring in 1962. An uncommon first edition. Slightly musty; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of small edge chips on the rear panel. [#035124] $125
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An archive of Demas’ memoir of growing up in Stuyvesant Town, a carefully planned postwar neighborhood in central Manhattan where prospective tenants were closely screened. Many were immigrants or the children of immigrants. Blacks were excluded in the early years. For most, ST represented a step up the social ladder, into the middle class, with higher incomes, better education for the children, less onerous working conditions for the fathers, and mothers who could stay at home as housewives. Eleven Stories High explored the changing roles and expectations of women between Demas’ mother's generation and her own, as well as being a Gentile in a Jewish world; the secret community of Greeks in America; and the contrast between "the country" and the vast sterility of Stuyvesant Town where “an earthworm was an exotic, a butterfly a miracle.” When Eleven Stories High was published, Demas became an inadvertent spokesperson for Stuyvesant Town, and her comments on various ST-related matters – having to do with real estate values in the late 1990s and early 2000s; gentrification; the decline of the middle class, and the contrast with the values instilled by her upbringing in this "accidental utopia," as she called it – appeared in the New York Times as an article, an op-ed piece, and a letter to the editor. The book itself generated several large files of correspondence: included are hundreds of pages of readers sharing their responses to the book and their own recollections of Stuyvesant Town. Demas’ book is a memoir, but her archive is a social history. Little else has been written about ST: Charles Bagli’s 2013 book Other People's Money focused on Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village as the center of the greatest real estate deal ever made – and then, at the height of the Great Recession, ever to fail, but little has been written about the community itself, which helped give rise to the idea of gated communities around the country; helped to define what it meant to be in the middle class at that time, especially in an urban area; and embodied so many elements of both the positive and negative aspects of "the American Dream." A full inventory is available on request. [#033849] $9,500
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1980, 1982. Two letters from Dickey to John Crelan, director of the Boston-based cultural organization Arts and Society. The first (1980) says he may be willing to do a reading; the second says that his teaching schedule only permits local (South Carolina) appearances. Foxing to the first letter; near fine. The second letter is fine, with envelope. [#032641] $150
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1975. A letter dated January 27, 1975 and written to Paul [presumably Paul Williams, Dick's close friend and eventual biographer] transmitting chapter one of Confessions [of a Crap Artist] (not included here) and, included here, two pages of "theological ramblings" related to Dick's "beginning to fashion a scientific theory about [his] theological experiences..." The letter covers a bit about the retrograde forces such as tachyons bleeding back at Earth due to the weakening field of time; one of the two pages of notes considers humans' (and Dick's) roles as avatars, with knowledge received from the Holy Spirit; the other page considers our inability to recognize God and postulates a "SF novel: Hefestus as VALIS" -- a very early mention of the acronym Dick developed for the "Vast Active Living Intelligence System" that he considered to be the nature of reality and the universe, after his psychological/religious epiphanies that he experienced in February and March of 1974. The theological writings are from the early pages of what came to be known as his Exegesis, which, by the time of his death in 1982, had reached over 8000 pages of religious and metaphysical insight and speculation. The letter, signed by Dick, runs about 225 words; the theological musings about 950 words. Near fine. [#032866] $8,500
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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
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(Port Townsend), Graywolf Press, 1976. The poet's second book, this being the issue in wrappers, one of 1350 copies of a total edition of 1500. Inscribed by the author to another poet in 1981, with reference to "our days in Seattle," and signed with "Love." With the recipient's ownership signature. Fine in wrappers. A nice literary association. [#022701] $100
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NY, Alliance Book Corporation, (1941). Presumed first edition. Inscribed by Gessner to Elmer Rice, "with best wishes." In the year of publication, Gessner founded the Motion Picture Department at NYU; Rice (who had won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1929 for Street Scene), was then part of the Playwrights Company, which he had founded with Maxwell Anderson and Robert E. Sherwood, among others. Spine and edge-faded; a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. A nice association copy. [#035580] $200
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(Riverside), (National Shooting Sports Foundation), [ca. 1960s]. A youngster's gun craving is "as normal and as healthy as the love of ice cream" and if you would leave your youngster alone in the house for two or three hours, then he or she is ready for his or her first gun. A gender-neutral pro-gun brochure from a half-century ago. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#035007] $100
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NY, Folkways Records, (1978). A long-playing record. Highwater reads from Anpao. Fine in a near fine sleeve, with a "Newbery Honors Book" sticker on the front panel. [#025538] $40
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Rochester, George Eastman House, 1956-1960. 29 issues of this "Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures." Unmarked, but from the library of Pauline Kael. The George Eastman House published this journal beginning in 1952. This lot begins with all ten issues from 1956 and includes nine of the ten issues from 1957 (all but No. 55, the December issue); five of the ten issues from 1958 (Nos. 57, 58, 62, 64, 65); three of the four quarterly issues from 1959 (June, September, December) and two of the four issues from 1960 (March, June). These date from the period that Kael managed the Berkeley Cinema-Guild and Studio, an art film house that she ran for about five years before beginning her career as a film reviewer. The lot is musty; the June 1956 issue has lost its staples; otherwise the lot is near fine in stapled wrappers. [#036416] $375
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NY, Quality Paperback Book Club, (1995). Inscribed by Cahill to Kael: "For Pauline, without your early illustration encouragement, this could never be. Thank you. Joey." Contains Cahill's graphic story "Print City." Near fine in wrappers. [#036083] $50
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NY, McGraw-Hill, (1979). Pseudonymously published novel, inscribed by one of the co-authors to Pauline Kael: "For Pauline -- You deserve two autographed copies! All my love, (and for Sue, too)/ Howard." Only one copy of the book present, but two copies of the author photo are laid in, showing the Kaminskys and naming them as the authors. Howard Kaminsky was a publisher at Random House; this title was filmed as a made-for-tv movie in 2002. The book is water-damaged: a fair copy in a good dust jacket. [#035496] $40
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London, Bodley Head, (1960). The first British edition of the author's first book, a pseudonymously published nonfiction account of Russia in the postwar years, predating his first novel, The Painted Bird, by five years. Inscribed by the author as "Jerzy Kosinski" for Hugh Moorhead in 1982. Moorhead was a Philosophy professor at Northeastern Illinois University who wrote to 250 authors to ask them what they thought the meaning of life was, and then published their answers in a depressing book that suggested nobody had much of a clue. Stripe at bottom page edges; very good in a very good dust jacket chipped at the upper front spine fold. [#000989] $350
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London, Oxford University Press, 1963. Signed by both editors. Musty; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#035943] $50
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(Ancona/Rome), Institut International J. Maritain, 1978-1990. 24 volumes, totaling 34 issues (including double issues), as follows: Numbers: 10/11, 15, 17, 22/23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29; and New Series Numbers: 1, 2/3, 4, 5/6, 7, 8, 9/10, 11/12, 13, 15/16, 19/20, 21/22, 23, 26, 27/28. About 1/4 of the covers are dampstained, although the texts are mostly unaffected but for some moderate foxing. The price of the lot has been reduced for condition. Text in French. [#035813] $100
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Barcelona, Jose Janes, 1950. The first volume of the 3-volume set of the first Spanish language edition of Maugham's complete works. This copy is inscribed by Maugham to Hamlet Vittino : "To my distinguished friend/ H Vittino - Rio de Janeiro - Nov. 1950/ W. Somerset Maugham." Vittino was an Argentine friend of Maugham's. With Vittino's ownership stamps; page edges foxed; crown wear to the soft boards; very good. [#036418] $450
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(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 1969. Vintage Peter Max poster, 30" x 21", with the heavens and earth, angels, a rainbow, and an enlightenment vibe. Undated but includes a photo of Earth that was taken by the Apollo 8 crew in December 1968. Previously folded in 8ths, with extremely fragile folds and small tears at several junctions. A very good copy. Will ship flat: domestic shipping only. [#036242] $300
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(n.p.), (New Directions), (1962). One of 8000 copies in wrappers of Merton's meditation on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Inscribed by Merton: "For Doris/ from Tom." Doris Dana and Merton met in 1966, having been introduced by Dana's godfather, Jacques Maritain. Dana visited Merton at the Gethsemani monastery twice in 1967, and the two maintained a correspondence until Merton died in December, 1968. Foxing to covers, and a creased bump to the spine crown; very good in wrappers. Mailing label from the Abbey of Gethsemani, made out to Dana in Merton's hand is included. There was a signed limited edition of this title done -- 500 copies -- which is uncommon now; signed copies of the trade edition are considerably scarcer, especially with a good association as this one has. [#035855] $1,500
$1,125

Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, (1989). Inscribed by Morgan to fellow poet Ai. Near fine in wrappers. [#036042] $50
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NY, Morrow, 1981. An epistolary novel of a gay medic in Vietnam, by a Marine Corps veteran of the war. Inscribed by the author: "To ___ ___, This may not be the true story of Vietnam that you're looking for, and I certainly hope it's not the Vietnam your brother served in, but I tried. Thank you very much for picking up my boy./ Relentlessly/ Charles Nelson. Mild foxing to prelims and text block; very good in a near fine dust jacket with modest foxing to verso. Jacket blurb by Richard Hooker, author of MASH. A landmark novel, uncommon signed. [#036652] $200
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NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1994). The first printing of the 20th anniversary edition of his third book, which was the first volume in his New Mexico Trilogy and the basis for a movie produced and directed by Robert Redford. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with tiny edge tears at the crown and upper front flap fold, and mild fading to spine. [#036620] $75
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NY, David McKay, (1965). His first novel. Some loss to spine lettering and modest handling to boards; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with one short edge tear on the upper front panel. [#911784] $175
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1998. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival, which each year since 1980 has brought together some of the best writers of contemporary world literature. This is one of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants, approximately 51 signatures. Signed by: Rose Tremain, Tim O'Brien, Ho Anh Thai, Jay McInerney, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Edwidge Danticat, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Holmes, Robert Coover, Geoff Nicholson, Leon Rooke, Timothy Findley, Farley Mowat, Susan Minot, Colin Wilson, Herta Muller, Jack Hodgsins, Greg Hollinghead, Yves Beauchemin, Howard Norman, Patricia Melo, and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival, Greg Gatenby. Designed by Sandro Chia. 17" x 23". Fine. [#029754] $1,000
$700

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
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(Sydney), Picador, (2003). Signed by the author. Slight bump to crown; else fine in self-wrappers. [#912691] $100
$65

NY, Broadway Play Publishing, (1990). A play by this poet, playwright, essayist and novelist. His novel Cold Hands was chosen as New York Times Notable Book. Inscribed by the author: "Tony [Harvey] -- Thanks for lunch. Joe." Near fine in wrappers. [#026853] $40
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(n.p.), Kyuryudo, 1992. Text in Japanese, but primarily a book of photographs. Inscribed by actor Anthony Quinn to film director Anthony Harvey: "Dear Tony, the man at the bookstore asked me if my friend could speak Japanese. I said you spoke photo language. Here is [sic] some wonderful photos to last you the following wonderful New Year. A. Quinn." A nice Hollywood association: Harvey directed Quinn in the television movie This Can't Be Love, which also starred Katharine Hepburn, who won an Oscar working for Harvey in The Lion in Winter. Tall quarto; spine crease, else fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket, lacking the wraparound band. [#026868] $350
$228

(Wheeling), Innovation, (1991-1993). Six of the twelve issues (#s 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 11) of Innovation's graphic serialization of the third book in the Vampire Chronicles. All are fine in stapled wrappers. [#035828] $60
$30

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1980). Inscribed by the author to Pauline Kael "who has the dubious distinction of having first put my name and writing between hard covers. With admiration, Rich Setlowe." Setlowe was, among other things, the longtime film reviewer for Variety, and Kael quoted his review, in 1970, of Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point in her own New Yorker review of the same, which was later collected in Deeper Into Movies. Some dust soiling to page edges and covers; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#034581] $150
$98

NY, Schirmer, (1918). Folk songs collected in the Southern Appalachians. A good copy in tanned wrappers with insect damage to the covers. [#036179] $65
$33

Ottawa, Borealis, 1974. Her second book. Fine in wrappers. [#912740] $100
$65

[various], [various], 1981-1997. Five various editions of the author's first book, all from the author's own library. Five paperbacks: three first printings (Houghton Mifflin 1981; Penguin 1987; Mariner 1997) and two later printings (Picador and Penguin, both 1987). The Penguin edition has a rear cover crease; otherwise the lot is near fine or better. [#033841] $150
$98

NY, Knopf/Vintage, (1986)/(1992). Later printings of the first American edition and the Vintage paperback edition, but both from the author's own library. Fine in a fine dust jacket; fine in wrappers. [#033833] $50
$25

NY, Quantuck Lane Press, (2007). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone, who provides a brief foreword: "Thank you for being such a kind first reader -- I appreciate your support!" Fine in a fine dust jacket, which has a blurb by Stone on the rear panel that is excerpted from his foreword. [#033781] $125
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NY, Bradbury Press, 1985. A collection of more than 100 poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko, and published in a pocket sized book with glossy flexible pictorial covers. Updike's contribution is "The Grief of Cafeterias" and it contains two typographical errors, which have been corrected in red copyeditor's pencil, in copyeditor's style. Slight foxing to the edges of the text block, else fine. [#030862] $60
$30

NY, Knopf, 1963. His second collection of poems. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket with creasing to the base of the spine. [#912067] $300
$195

[1980]. Dated "Jan 1". One paragraph, agreeing to sign books for the recipient's wife. Written on the verso of the colophon for the limited edition of Problems. Signed in blue, with recipient's address hand-written in pink across the top; the colophon has some math written in pink. Folded in thirds for mailing; else fine. [#013416] $115
$75

(NY), Farrar Straus, (1948). A historical romance. Waters' second collaboration with Branch, after River Lady. Waters is better known for his novels and nonfiction about the American Southwest, and in particular Native Americans, than for his historical fiction collaborations with Branch. Handling apparent to boards, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shallow edge chipping. [#035048] $100
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NY, L.B. Fischer, 1945. The first American edition. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. Front hinge starting; beige cloth dust-darkened; a good copy, lacking the dust jacket. [#035480] $40
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(London), Vintage, (2003). Fourth printing of the paperback edition. Inscribed by Welsh to the novelist Robert Stone: "Some writing returned with thanks, borrowed from yourself many moons ago. May all good things come your way" and signed "Irvine." Food stains to the first few pages; light cover creasing; very good in wrappers. [#027778] $60
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(Sausalito), (Point), 1985-1995. 41 issues: Nos. 45-88, missing Nos. 77, 78, 80. Note that Whole Earth Review began with No. 44 (following CoEvolution Quarterly 43 and merging with Whole Earth Software Review) and continued through No. 110 in 2002. So again, offered here are 41 issues of 67 total issues, but complete but for 4 issues, up to No. 88. Mailing label to most issues; very light overall wear: the lot is near fine. [#036246] $850
$595

(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
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Arlington Hts, Dark Harvest, 1991. A Publisher's Copy ("PC") of 400 copies signed by the author and by Phil Parks. Fine in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. [#031168] $125
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NY, Modern Library, 2000. An advance copy in the form of tapebound 8-1/2" x 11" typeset pages, with printed cover. Selections from the 11-year history of The Messenger Reader: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, etc. Cover dirt-smudged; else near fine. [#036057] $45
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