41.
MAILER, Norman.
Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100.
Montclair: Caliban Press, 1985.

First edition. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 (of 250) numbered copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text with handmade Indian endpapers. First separate appearance of this essay, in which Mailer celebrates Twain’s novel.
$75

42.
MILLER, Henry.
The Theatre & Other Pieces.
NY: Stroker (1979).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. This eleventh issue of Irving Stettner’s Stroker magazine is given over to seven prose works by Miller. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Miller. Shifreen & Jackson A226a.
$125

43.
MILLER, Henry.
What Are You Going to Do About Alf?
Berkeley: Bern Porter (nd).

First US edition. 24 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. 738 copies printed, all of which were to be censored by hand to cover 14 words, as in this copy. SIGNED by poet/publisher Douglas Blazek on the front free endpaper. Shifreen & Jackson A10c.
$75

44.
MOODY, Rick.
Demonology.
[Boston]: Little, Brown and Company [2000].

First edition. 16mo. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Moody on the title page. A chapbook presenting the title story of his forthcoming collection.
$45

45.
MURDOCH, Iris.
The Existentialist Political Myth.
Moseley: Delos Press, 1989.

First edition. 29 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket with one tiny edge tear. Foreword by Robin Waterfield. One of 180 (of 225) numbered
$40

46.
NICOLSON, Harold.
An Amazing Coincidence.
(np): Thomas Edwin Woodhouse, Frank J. Novak, Jack H. Aldridge, 1986.

First edition. [12 pp]. Tiny spot to margin of opposing leaves, else fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies printed by Harold Berliner. A keepsake for the Joint Meeting off The Roxburghe and Zamarano Clubs.
$40

47.
NIN, Anais.
Paris Revisited.
London: Village Press (1974).

First UK edition 11 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. An excerpt from the fifth volume of Nin’s celebrated Diary. “I had left Europe in 1939 in a hydroplane, and now I returned in a jet.”
$20

48.
NIN, Anais.
Preface to Henry Miller’s TROPIC OF CANCER.
NY: Lawrence R. Maxwell, 1947.

First edition, first issue. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Maxwell. Scholarship awards authorship of this preface to Nin and Miller together, rather than either of them alone. This copy has the frontis portrait of Nin (some copies do not). Shifreen & Jackson A59a.
$45

49.
NITSCH, Hermann.
on the metaphysics of aggression.
London: Atlas Press (1997).

First UK edition. 10 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the original German by Malcolm Green. One of 500 copies. Nitsch’s afterword to The Fall of Jerusalem. Eclectics & Heteroclites 1.
$75

50.
O’BRIEN, Tim.
The Nuclear Age.
Portland: Press-22 (1981).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 125 numbered copies on Invicta paper SIGNED by O’Brien.
$100

51.
OFFUTT, Chris.
Two-Eleven All Around.
St. Paul: Danger! Books (1998).

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine unprinted tissue dust jacket. Illustrated with two tipped-on images by Sandy Dyas. One of 300 (of 326) numbered copies on Sommerset Book paper SIGNED by Offutt. First book of the press, and Offutt’s first signed limited edition.
$45

52.
[PERCY, Walker]. Douglas, Ellen.
Walker Percy’s THE LAST GENTLEMAN.
NY: Seabury Press (1969).

First edition. 28 pp w/notes. Fine in stapled wrappers. Lee A. Belford provides a preface to novelist Douglas’ consideration of Percys’s second novel. A volume in the “Religious Dimensions in Literature” series. Uncommon.
$50

53.
PLANTE, David.
My Mother’s Pearl Necklace.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1987.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral marbled-paper dust jacket with a printed cover label. Printed at the Nadja Press. One of 150 numbered copies on Arches Text paper SIGNED by Plante. Original publication announcement laid in.
$75

54.
POSNER, David Louis and William Flemer, III,.
And Touch Clean Earth.
Trenton: Phillips & Godshalk, 1940.

First edition. 51 + 28 pp. Two volumes, each near fine in stapled wrappers with light sunning to spines, and a small spot to the front cover, and a bit of foxing to the fore-edge of volume II. “And Touch” is a collection of poems by Posner, “Clean Earth,” plant and animal stories by Flemer, both books with his linoleum cut illustrations. For the pair:
$750

55.
PRICE, Reynolds.
Country Mouse, City Mouse.
[Rocky Mount]: Friends of the Library, North Carolina Wesleyan College (1981).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. An essay with a short preface by Price. Produced on the occasion of his reading at the Library.
$20

56.
PYNCHON, Thomas.
Low-Lands.
London: Aloes (1978).

First edition. [32 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Pirated edition of this single short story that originally appeared in New World Writing magazine in 1960. The first issue, with an ISBN number, a printed 60p price, and the publisher logo (a book with a bite out of it). Mead C2.
$25

57.
PYNCHON, Thomas.
The Secret Integration.
London: Aloes Books (1980).

First edition. 47 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover and frontispiece illustration by Jake Tilson. The first of three printings of this piracy. Mead C3.
$25

58.
RODITI, Edouard.
The Wisdom and Folly of Edward Benlowes.
(np): Comparative Literature (1950).

Vol. II, No. 4. Fall. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. An offprint from the journal. SIGNED by Roditi on the cover.
$35

59.
ROLFE, Frederick aka Baron Corvo.
Frederick Rolfe and The Times 4–12 February 1901.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1977.

First edition. [26 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral dust jacket. One of 175 numbered copies on Glastonbury antique laid paper. Donald Weeks contributes an introduction to these letters by Rolfe, mailed to The Times after the death of Queen Victoria.
$40

60.
ROLFE, F.W. and Grant Richards.
The Reverse Side of the Coin: Some further correspondence between Frederick William Rolfe and Grant Richards.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press 1974.

First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. Introduction by Donald Weeks. One of 95 numbered copies. Nine letters by Rolfe, two by Richards.
$75

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