61.
RUSHDIE, Salman.
In Good Faith.
(np): Granta (1990).

First US edition. 22 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of two essays by Rushdie, published by Granta shortly after the fatwah against him was issued.
$20

62.
[SANFORD, John]. Smith, Robert W.
The Literary Review. Volume 28, Number 4.
(np): The Literary Review, 1985.

Summer. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Interview with Sanford by Smith. SIGNED by Sanford along the top edge of the front cover, “John Sanford/Julian Shapiro.”
$35

63.
SILLITOE, Alan.
The Mentality of the Picaresque Hero.
London: Turret Bookshop (1993).

First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 500 copies. SIGNED by Sillitoe on the copyright page. Turret Papers No. 2.
$45

64.
STEIN, Gertrude.
Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms.
[NY: Haskell House, c. 1965].

First [pirated] paperback edition. 78 pp. Light edge wear and toning to extrems, else near fine in printed wrappers. A photo-offset reproduction of the 1914 first edition, slightly larger, in wrappers instead of boards. Uncommon. Wilson A3b.
$200

65.
STEINBECK, John.
Their Blood is Strong.
San Francisco: Simon J. Lubin Society of California, 1938

Fourth printing. 33 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. John D. Barry contributes an introduction to this work on the migratory agricultural workers in California. Goldstone & Payne A10d.
$200

66.
STYRON, William.
As He Lay Dead, a Bitter Grief.
NY: Albondocani Press, 1981.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. One of 300 numbered copies on Michelangelo paper SIGNED by Styron. His firsthand account of attending William Faulkner’s funeral. Albondocani Press Publication No. 27.
$55

67.
STYRON, William.
Christchurch.
Davidson: Briarpatch Press (1977).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 9 pp w/note. Fine in sewn wrappers. Commencement address delivered at Christchurch School 28 May 1975. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Styron. Includes a page of Styron’s original manuscript in facsimile.
$150

68.
THEROUX, Alexander.
Theroux Metaphrastes: An Essay on Literature.
Boston: Godine (1975).

First edition. 32 pp. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Theroux on the title page.
$75

69.
TREVOR, William.
The Last Lunch of the Season.
London: Covent Garden Press, 1973.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 11 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Trevor. Covent Garden Stories Number Six.
$125

70.
TREVOR, William.
Marrying Damian.
London: Colophon Press, 1995.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 22 pp. Small spot of foxing to first unprinted leaf, else fine in sewn wrappers with printed cover label. One of 175 numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper SIGNED by Trevor.
$55

71.
TYLER, Anne.
Your Place is Empty.
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1992.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 60 numbered copies on Rives paper SIGNED by Tyler. A short story that appeared originally in The New Yorker in 1976, and selected for the 1977 BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.
$125

72.
UPDIKE, John.
Couples: A Short Story.
Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1976.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 42 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine integral dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 250 numbered copies on Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Updike.
$75

73.
UPDIKE, John.
A Good Place.
[NY]: Aloe Editions, 1973.

First edition. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Updike. “Being a Personal Account of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Written on the Occasion of its Seventeenth-Century Day, 1972, by a Resident, John Updike.”
$150

74.
VAN HORN, Erica.
Bus.
Clonmel: Coracle, 2014.

First edition. 12mo. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Short essays on riding busses. Living Locally No. 29.
$20

75.
WELTY, Eudora.
A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car.
[NY]: Albondocani Press/Ampersand Books (1970).

First edition, first printing, simultaneous second issue. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Original mailing envelope present. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. One of 110 copies with additional text added to the first leaf. A single poem by Welty, originally published in the New Yorker in 1957, and here issued as a holiday greeting.
$75

76.
WELTY, Eudora.
Three Papers on Fiction.
Northampton: Smith College, 1962.

First edition. 46 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. “Place in Fiction,” “Words into Fiction” and “The Short Story” collected. Polk A13.
$40

77.
WESCOTT, Glenway.
New Jersey Farm Christmas Images.
[NY]: Monroe Wheeler (1937).

First edition. [4 pp]. A single sheet folded to make four pages, housed in a slightly larger sheet folded to make a cover. Fine. A Christmas greeting issued by Monroe Wheeler. A short prose work. SIGNED by Wescott at the conclusion of the text.
$75

78.
WOLFE, Tom.
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1987).

Advance excerpt. 18 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. The first chapter from Wolfe’s then forthcoming novel.
$35

79.
WOODBERRY, George E.
Taormina.
NY: Columbia University Press, 1926.

First edition. x + 55 pp. Short closed tear at crown, else fine in printed wrappers. Introductory note by John Erskine. First separate appearance of this essay that appeared originally in Century Magazine in 1893. Poet Woodberry appreciates more than most travel writers of the day.
$75

80.
WOOLF, Douglas.
Loving Ladies to Maine and back & beyond.
Minneapolis: Zelot (1986).

First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A selection from an autobiographical novel, “concerning mainly one of my daughters, one of my wives, and one of my mothers.”
$20

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