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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
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NY, Scribner's, [1981]. The uncorrected proof copy. Lower half of title page missing; otherwise near fine in wrappers. [#036248] $40
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Moorhead, Territorial Press, 1976. Second printing. An anthology of contemporary American Tribal poetry -- featuring the writers of the first generation of the Native American "renaissance" -- printed at Moorhead State College in Montana. Edited by James L. White and with early contributions by Leslie Silko, Joy Harjo, Duane Niatum, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Lance Henson, Anna Lee Walters, Carroll Arnett and many others. Uneven sunning; very good in wrappers. [#036299] $40
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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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(NY), Simon & Schuster, (2000). Uncorrected proof, in the form of a 8-1/2" x 11" typeset pages, of the British poet's first novel. Cardstock covers, held with a binder clip. Near fine. [#035443] $40
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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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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 dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the edges and folds. Uncommon in the first printing, with many copies having gone to libraries. [#035674] $200
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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, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1974. Catalog of an exhibition in the Ideas Gallery of Whitechapel of poems by this avant garde writer, known as a practitioner of concrete and sound poetry, and in most of the poems in this exhibition as a collaborator with visual artists. Signed by the poet. Chopin also founded the literary journal Cinquiame Saison, which morphed into the journal OU in 1964, and published a record of sound poetry with each issue. Six pages; fine. [#035638] $250
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1993. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival, which each year since 1980 has brought together many of the best writers of contemporary world literature. One of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants, approximately 61 signatures. Signed by: Paulo Coelho, William Vollmann, Jane Urquhart, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bharati Mukherjee, Aidan Mathews, Peter Levi, Marilyn Davis, Carol Shields, Ruth Rendell, Mavis Gallant, Barry Callaghan, Rose Tremain, Peter Mayle, Walter Abish, Robert Stone, Priscilla Juvelis, Paul Auster, Barry Unsworth, Rosa Lixsom, Vikram Seth, Austin Clarke, Bapsi Sidhwa, Joan Riley, Yves Beauchemin, James Mackey, Daniel Mark Epstein, and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival, Greg Gatenby. Designed by General Idea, a collective of three Canadian artists, two of whom died of AIDS in 1994. 17" x 22". Fine. [#029749] $1,000
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Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1925. The inaugural lecture in the Paul Carus Foundation Lecture Series, an ongoing series in which lectures are presented over three consecutive days in prominent sessions at a divisional meeting of the American Philosophical Association. John Dewey was a philosopher, psychologist and educator who was one of the founders of the pragmatism school of philosophy and was called by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "arguably the most prominent American intellectual for the first half of the twentieth century." He founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1896 to test his educational ideas; he became President of the American Philosophical Association in 1905; he was one of the founders of the New School for Social Research in 1919; and he was a member of the first Board of Directors of Hull House, among many other projects and accomplishments. His ideas helped shape the founding of Bennington College and Goddard College, and later Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which for a time became the nexus of the arts and education in the U.S. Experience and Nature is considered his most metaphysical book and, as such, his most important in tying together all of his ideas of philosophy and psychology and grounding them in nature and a model of how the human being grows and learns. Owner name of Robert Rothman, and several marginal marks in the text. A very good copy with some handling and spotting to the brown cloth, particularly on the spine. Uncommon in the first printing. [#034725] $375
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Novato, Underwood Miller, 1990. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers, with errata slip laid in correcting the page numbering of the entire index. [#035521] $50
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NY/San Francisco, Knopf/McSweeney's, 2014. The uncorrected proof copy of this Eggers novel, built entirely of a conversation between the protagonist and his kidnapped astronaut. Fine in wrappers, with a Knopf Canada label on the rear cover that changes the contact information printed beneath, as well as the publication date and price. [#033164] $100
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[Boston], [Houghton Mifflin], [1980]. An advance issue consisting of unbound 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of this collection edited by Stanley Elkin and with stories by John Updike, John Sayles, Donald Barthelme, Frederick Busch, William Gass, Larry Heinemann, I.B. Singer, Grace Paley, Peter Taylor, Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Hardwick and others. Elkin's introduction bears copyeditor's marks throughout. Minor edge wear to a few pages; else fine. [#000786] $150
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Jonesborough, (Earthborn Press), 1979. Published by Elihu Embree in Jonesborough, Tennessee in 1820, The Emancipator was the first newspaper in the U.S. solely devoted to the abolition of slavery. In this more recent incarnation, the topic is nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Includes an excerpt from the last issue (October 31, 1820), as well as a poem by Gary Snyder ("For the Children"). Original content by David Winship. 8 pages; edgeworn; very good in stapled wrappers. [#035718] $40
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London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. Warmly inscribed by the author to Jean Gilbert in 1967. Dusty top edge; spine roll; near fine in a very good dust jacket splitting at the front flap fold. Laid in is a typed letter signed from Fenn to Gilbert expressing gratitude for a very delightful evening in 1965. Folded in fourths; fine. [#028632] $115
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Somerset, Chicken House, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915006] $150
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NY, Quill, 1983. The first printing of the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs, both color and black and white, including artwork by Dead fans. With a short preface by Jerry Garcia. Very light wear to the edges and folds; near fine. [#036217] $125
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London, Jonathan Cape, 2003. A promotional T-shirt with a "Curious?" tagline and a stabbed dog graphic. Blue, V-neck, "one size" (small-ish), 100% cotton; fine. A different design than the "Curious" t-shirts that are sold at the National Theatre Shop in conjunction with the theatrical release of this title. [#031394] $50
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Princeton, Contemporary Poetry Press, (2013). First published in 1980, this is a new edition, with a foreword by Carlos Fuentes. This copy is inscribed by the author to the Chinese poet Bei Dao: "For the great poet Bei Dao -- on a wonderful meeting and in memory of [?], Mahmoud Darwish, Ramallah and freedom and justice." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Laid in is a typescript copy of Hamod's poem "Sabra/Shatilla: In Sorrow," which does not appear in the collection. [#032647] $115
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(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
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(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 1961-1963. A portrait of a smiling Kennedy, presumably taken during his years as President. Inscribed by Kennedy: "To Bill/ with very best wishes/ John Kennedy." From the estate of Doris Dana, the partner and translator of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We were presented with the possibility that the inscription was to William Carter, Chief of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, but any connection he may have had to Kennedy, decades earlier, is lost to us. 8" x 10". Two pinholes to top margin, marginal tear to top edge; half-inch tear on right side; light creasing and minor edge wear; very good. [#036417] $3,500
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NY, Pantheon Books, (1994). Lamott's classic on writing and the writing life. Inscribed by the author in 1999: "For Catherine/ with best wishes/ [heart] Anne Lamott." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Scarce signed. [#036482] $200
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NY, Galleon Press, 1935. Aldous Huxley, Erskine Caldwell, Lynd Ward engraving. Tanned cover and pages; cover foredge chipped; about very good. [#036087] $45
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Eugene, Lone Goose, 1997. One of 16 participant's copies of this limited edition of an essay from Crossing Open Ground, which was later issued in a trade edition by the University of Georgia Press. Here issued with twenty-three 11-3/4" x 11" woodblock images by Robin Eschner, hinged in a continuous presentation almost 22 feet long, encompassing the text. An elaborate production, involving a number of individuals prominent in the book arts, in addition to Lopez and Eschner: Charles Hobson, the designer, whose work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum and the National Gallery of Art, among others; Sandy Tilcock, the publisher and boxmaker; Susan Acker, the letterpress printer; Nora Pauwells, the relief edition printer; and John DeMerritt, the binder, who is President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Of a total edition of 66 copies, this is Copy L of 16 lettered copies signed by Lopez and Eschner and including a unique tire-tread print from Lopez's Toyota 4-Runner, the vehicle used in the journey from Oregon to Indiana that is described in the story. Fine, in a clamshell box. [#034702] $3,500
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Hadley, Ken Lopez Bookseller, 2000. In a 4-page introduction to a catalog of nature writing, Lopez takes the measure of the field to argue that it is "that strain of American literature that, more than others now, is pursuing the ancient discourse on human fate," and that "like any worthy literature it should continue to undermine complacency, resist definition, and induce hope." An interesting essay, on a subject close to the writer's heart, and not reprinted elsewhere that we're aware of. Fine in wrappers. [#035676] $45
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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
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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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(Thomaston), (Northwoods), (1984). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] in 1994: "Here's why I gave up on poems and cast my lot with fiction." Fine in wrappers. [#032102] $40
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NY, Pageant Press, (1952). Apparently his first book, on how to make money on horse racing, after a career that started with writing for racing papers and eventually evolved into writing pulp fiction for Ace paperbacks, most with a race track theme. This copy is inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ You can always tell a horse player, but you can't tell him much." A very good copy in a fair, edge-chipped dust jacket. [#035815] $75
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(Toronto), McClelland & Stewart, (1996). An advance copy, in the form of comb-bound galleys, typeset but reproducing several holograph corrections. Her third book, first novel, which was first published in Canada, and only in wrappers. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Prize for Fiction, the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Prize. Signed by the author. 9" x 11". Fine. [#915362] $650
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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, Knopf, 1993. Inscribed by the author to Virginia [Spencer Carr], biographer of Paul Bowles, Carson McCullers, and John Dos Passos. This is the definitive biography of O'Hara, who was at the heart of the "New York poets" in the 1950s and '60s. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#035304] $125
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(Sydney), Picador, (2003). Signed by the author. Slight bump to crown; else fine in self-wrappers. [#912691] $100
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NY, Atlantic Monthly, (2000). An epistolary mystery about a missing pet problem advice columnist. Illustrated by Edward Koren. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] and his wife; signed, "love, George, with an added "Happy New Year!!" Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#032515] $300
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London, Punch/Bradbury Agnew, ca. 1894. Fifteen issues: Nos. 3-5 and 7-18. Original wrappers, not a bound set. Nearly all covers detaching or detached but present (but for the rear cover of No. 11). Some sunning and dampstaining (particulary No. 11); overall the lot is in good condition. [#600031] $50
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. A Morgan named Georgia becomes Richards' lifeline out of a bad marriage and a decade of drinking. Blurbs by Stacey O'Brien, Abigail Thomas, Rita Mae Brown, and others. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, slightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. [#036661] $125
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(London), Little Brown, (2004). The advance reading copy of the British edition of this massive novel, which was loosely based on the author's life story, including his escape from an Australian prison and living on the run for a number of years. He wrote the novel while in prison, after being recaptured, and it became a bestseller. Labeled "uncorrected bound proof." Fine in wrappers. Uncommon in an advance issue. [#914678] $200
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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
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NY, Schirmer, (1918). Folk songs collected in the Southern Appalachians. A good copy in tanned wrappers with insect damage to the covers. [#036179] $65
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Ottawa, Borealis, 1974. Her second book. Fine in wrappers. [#912740] $100
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NY, Counterpoint, (2003). The advance reading copy. Trace foxing to top edge, else fine in wrappers. [#036180] $45
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NY, Harper & Row, (1980). The first book by the highly-regarded author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres. This copy belonged to the author Robb Forman Dew -- who provided dust jacket blurbs for Smiley's next two books -- and bears her ownership signature. A little dampstaining to lower spine and foxing to top edge; near fine in a very good, dampstained dust jacket with light chipping at the crown. A nice association copy, albeit not a presentation copy. [#019624] $150
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NY, Dutton, (1987). A review copy of this collection of poetry. Mild age toning to pages, else fine in a fine dust jacket, with review slip, author photo and promotional pages laid in. [#916868] $100
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(Melbourne), (UTS Community Law and Legal Research Centre), (2002). A critical reader on surveillance and social control in the post-9/11 age, published in Australia in conjunction with two public events, in Sydney and Melbourne, designed to provoke discussion and debate about the subject. Heavily illustrated, with drawings, photographs (including surveillance photographs), collages, cartoons, and including essays, articles, skits, dialogues and political statements. Oblong wrappers. Rubbed; near fine. [#029179] $60
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NY, Modern Library, (1931). First Modern Library edition. Green balloon cloth. Penciled owner name on flyleaf and penciled notes rear endpages, as well as several instance of underlining. Fading to the spine ends; a very good copy in a good edge-chipped dust jacket, with a 2" chip to the lower spine. [#035957] $100
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NY, Knopf, (1965). A book of poems, one for each month. This is the third of Updike's books for children done in the Sixties, this being the trade binding (there was also a library binding done). Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#912070] $100
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[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
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(Toronto), (Aya Press), (1982). Number 407 of 500 numbered copies signed by Jane Urquhart and by Tony Urquhart, the artist. 18-3/8" x 4-3/4". This is the second issue, in gray cloth. Pages uncut; two very slight corner taps; else fine. [#914603] $150
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[San Francisco], [Auerhahn Press], 1964. A broadside poem. One of 125 copies. 8-1/2" x 12", fine. [#019387] $40
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Santa Fe, Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1956. As recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright. Edited with commentaries by David P. McAllister, and with 22 serigraph color plates by Louis Ewing. This copy has fundraising material for the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art laid in, including a brochure by and a form letter from Oliver La Farge, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Museum; and a newspaper article about the Museum and its founder, Wheelwright, the author/editor of this volume, and the person whose collection formed its basis. Edge sunning to boards; near fine, without dust jacket, as issued. [#036429] $650
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NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1978). First thus: a collection of nature poetry first published in 1970 but re-issued here with illustrations by Kazue Mizumura. Inscribed by Zolotow: "For Rebecca/ Lucky wishes/ Charlotte Zolotow." Zolotow, a prolific author of children's books, also holds the distinction of being the person who first recognized the genius of Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy, while working at Harper & Brothers. Near fine in a very good, lightly foxed dust jacket. [#036496] $125
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