21.
FORD, Richard.
Communist.
Derry & Ridgewood: Babcock & Koontz (1987).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Title page wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. Designed by Allan Kornblum and printed by Kent Aldrich of Coffee House Press. One of 200 numbered copies on Masa paper SIGNED by Ford. A short story.
$50

22.
FORSTER, E.M.
The Development of English Prose Between 1918 and 1939.
Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Company, 1945.

First edition. 23 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. The fifth W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow 27th April 1944. First appearance of this essay, later collected in Forster’s TWO CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY in 1951. Kirkpatrick A25.
$35

23.
FORSTER, E.M.
Sinclair Lewis Interprets America.
(np): Harvard Press for Harvey Taylor [1932].

First edition. 16mo. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies. SIGNED by Taylor. Forster celebrates Lewis’ evocation of the American landscape. Kirkpatrick A15.
$75

24.
FORSTER, E.M.
Tolstoy’s WAR AND PEACE: Introduction to the Series of Broadcasts.
Wembley: British Broadcasting Corporation [1943].

First edition. 24 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated. Forster’s essay along with an introduction by Jean Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, a character list, and synopsis. Kirkpatrick B15.
$45

25.
FOWLES, John.
My Recollections of Kafka.
Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press [1970].

First edition. [12 pp]. Light bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in printed wrappers. An offprint from MOSAIC III:4, one of only 25 copies produced. SIGNED by Fowles.
$200

26.
FRIEDMAN, Ed.
The Black Star Pilgrimage / The Escape Story.
NY: Frontward Books (1976).

First edition. Horizontal 12mo. [60 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Front and back cover art by Ed Bowes. One of 350 copies, produced at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project. Two prose works.
$35

27.
GADDIS, William.
from A FROLIC OF HIS OWN.
[Santa Fe]: Lannan Foundation, 1994.

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. An excerpt from the novel, published on the occasion of a reading by Gaddis.
$35

28.
GASS, William.
A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars.
St. Louis: International Writers Center, Washington University (1991).

First edition. 51 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated. Catalogue for an exhibit to inaugurate the International Writers Center. One of 1000 copies. A brief essay on each Pillar, leaving one wanting to read them all.
$45

29.
HAGEDORN, Jessica.
Two Stories: Carnal/Los Gabrieles.
Minneapolis: Demitasse/Coffee House Press (1992).

First edition. [28 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket. Two previously unpublished short stories, illustrated with five wood engraving by Charles Henrikson. SIGNED by Hagedorn and Henrikson.
$45

30.
HANLEY, James.
Lost.
Vancouver: Standard Editions, 1979.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 15 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Frontis illustration by J. Thomas Osborne. One of 60 numbered copies SIGNED by Hanley and Osborne. The first separate appearance of this short story, which was originally published in The London Aphrodite in 1956.
$75

31.
HOLLINGHURST, Alan.
The Folding Star: Sample Chapter.
London: Chatto & Windus (1994).

First edition. 27 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. The first chapter of Hollinghurst’s novel, issued for promotional purposes in advance of publication.
$35

32.
JACOBSON, Dan.
Stop Thief and A Way of Life.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1977).

First edition. 24 pp w/glossary. Near fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly rubbed. Two short stories, with questions, in “simplified text” for educational purposes. An uncommon appearance by South African novelist Jacobson.
$35

33.
JOYCE, James.
Daniel Defoe.
Buffalo: Buffalo Studies/State University of New York at Buffalo (1964).

Volume 1, Number 1. 27 pp w/appendix. Staples a bit rusty, light fade along spine; in all, near fine in printed wrappers. Joyce’s original Italian text with Joseph Prescott’s facing English translation.
$45

34.
[KEROUAC, Jack]. Clark, Tom.
Kerouac’s Last Word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade.
Sudbury: Water Row Press, 1986.

First edition. 49 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Designed and printed by Tabula Rasa Press, Morrow Bay, CA. One of 500 numbered copies. In addition to Clark’s text, prints three articles by Kerouac, “The Beginning of Bop,” “The Last Word,” and “The First Word.” Review slip laid in.
$55

35.
KINSELLA, W.P.
Chapter One of a Work in Progress.
Vancouver: William Hoffer (1988).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 13 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 (of 326) numbered copies SIGNED by Kinsella. The opening pages of his 1992 novel BOX SOCIALS.
$25

36.
KOSINSKI, Jerzy.
The Painted Bird: Notes of the Author 1965.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

First US edition. 29 pp w/sources of quotations. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Dated (Winter 1965) and INSCRIBED by Kosinski, “For Dick — with friendship / and admiration / Jerzy Kosinski.” Originally published at the end of the first German edition of THE PAINTED BIRD.
$125

37.
LEWIS, Janet.
Mulberry Street: A Libretto.
(np): J & J Dermont, 1981.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. One of 10 lettered copies on Ticonderoga laid text paper SIGNED by Lewis. Nicely printed in three colors by the salt-works press.
$100

38.
LEWIS, Sinclair.
The Valley of the Moon.
(np): Harvard Press for Henry Taylor [1932].

First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Taylor. Lewis reviews Jack London’s novel.
$75

39.
LOVECRAFT, H.P.
Medusa: A Portrait.
(np): Tom Collins (1975).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Afterword by Tom Collins. One of 500 (of 526) numbered copies on Tweedweave paper, printed at the Oliphant Press. A satirical poem published originally in 1921, under a pseudonym.
$30

40.
LOWRY, Malcolm.
China and Kristbjorg’s Story in the Black Hills.
[NY]: Aloe Editions (1974).

First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. Two short stories. Woolmer A12.
$35

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