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$35.00London: Eyer & Spottiswode (1967). First UK edition. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to crown of spine. Stegner’s first book.$20.00NY: Amistad (1993). First edition. 322 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Review slip laid in.
$650.00Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. The first book of the press, issued as “New Directions Pamphlets, Number One.” In his introductory note the publisher, James Laughlin, names the author, “the first American surrealist writer.” More than half a century later, in his afterword to Andrews' posthumous THE SURREALIST PARADE (New Directions, 1990), Laughlin recalled that “Wayne became my friend at Harvard...about 1935” and “the original 'Pianos' was...printed in an edition of 300 copies by the Vermont country printer who did the Harvard Advocate. But its unusual aroma quickly pervaded Harvard Square, and it was necessary to rush out a second printing.” WITH: the second printing of this work, bound in red wrappers as issued, adding the subtitle, “A Surrealist Shortstory,” and with the rear cover entirely reset with different text. Near fine. For the pair:$75.00NY: Norton (1994). Uncorrected proof. 160 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in. Collects two pieces by O'Brian, 'Black, Choleric and Married?' and 'Samphire' as well as essays by eight others.$45.00NY: Dutton (1999). First edition. 264 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with one tiny closed tear. SIGNED by Oates on the title page. Promotional flyer laid in.
$35.00[Lisbon]: Penumbra Press (1983). First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper. Carlile’s prose vision with two drawings by Schwartzman. A new year’s greeting from the Press.$25.00London: Macmillan (1969). First edition. 279 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket. First book appearance of Plath's short story, “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.” Stories also by Margaret Laurence, Bernard Malamud, Alan Sillitoe, and others.
$40.00Loughton: K.A. Ward (1969). First edition. 6 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Hanley. An essay, illustrated with two photographs. Gibbs A46a.$55.00Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (1992). First edition. 122 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Price contributes an introduction. SIGNED by Price.$20.00Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia (1986). First edition. xiv +122 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine.$12.50Boston: G.K. Hall (1991). First edition. 162 pp w/index. Fine in boards without dust jacket, as issued.$20.00Vol 19, Number 1. Spring. (1973). 135 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contains 'Pynchon's THE CRYING OF LOT 49: The Novel as Subversive Experience' by Kolodny and Peters. Also essays on Bellow, O'Connor, Kesey, Vonnegut, Barth, Hawkes, Gass, Brautigan.$50.00NY: Turtle Bay/Random House, 1992. Advance reading copy. 286 pp w/notes. One corner lightly bent, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Thomas Pynchon contributes an seven page introduction. Promotional flyer laid in.
$40.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press (1982). First edition. 19 pp. Near fine in wrappers. One of 110 copies.
$35.00(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.”
$75.00London: Fleetway Publications [c late 1950s]. Export editions. Six issues, all very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Thrilling tales, conveyed in b&w drawings. For the lot:
$55.00Clonmel: Coracle, 2001. First edition. 73 pp w/notes. Fine in full red cloth with black stamping to spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. A collage by Stadtmüller, built on texts by Schwitters. One of 500 copies.
$35.00NY: Unmuzzled Ox (1977). Vol. IV, No. 3. 135 pp. Bit of rubbing to spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Contributions by John Cage, John Ashbery, Djuna Barnes, Philip Glass, and others. Jack Boozer and Bob Yaeger interview Gary Snyder. SIGNED by Snyder.
$100.00Berkeley: Counterpoint (2016). First edition. Oblong 8vo. 117 pp w/list of names. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs by Goin with field notes by Snyder. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page.$150.00Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1956. First edition. xii + 511 pp w/index. A bit musty, else very good plus in full decorated red cloth. Lacks dust jacket. A few ink notes to verso of last leaf and rear fixed endpaper. Bookplate of Albert Sperisen, former librarian of the Book Club of California, inside the front board. Dated (ix.15.56) and INSCRIBED by Stacton, “to John from David: how typical that my only / scholarly work should be / anonymous - considering its / errors it is perhaps just as / well / David.” Stacton ghost-wrote this book for Spiegelberg.$45.00San Francisco: San Francisco Opera (c 1976). First edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers with mailing label (to Dutton editor William Abrahams) on rear cover and light sunning along spine. Prints a three page statement on this production by Stegner. Also by librettist Oakley Hall, and Andrew Imbrie, the composer. Uncommon.$20.00NY: Atheneum, 1972. First edition. 187 pp w/index. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs.$15.00Westport: Greenwood Press (1986). First edition. 162 pp w/index. Near fine in full cloth without dust jacket as issued.$250.00Rosi - Verlag & Sirenen, (1988). First edition. 20 x 26 inches, spiral-bound into boards. Fine. This work is comprised of conceptual drawings by Moritz (one section printed in full color on both sides pulls out to 85 inches, apparently for hanging from the ceiling and viewing from two sides). Opens with a foreword from Steinbeck's TORTILLA FLAT printed in English, Dutch, German, and French. An unusual presentation by this Dutch artist. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Moritz.
$150.00Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (1974). First edition. 240 pp w/index. Very near fine in decorated full cloth. Lacks unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. Still the reigning bibliography.$500.00(np): Privately Printed, 1964. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-titled leather spine. The printed month for services has been struck through in holograph and “november” penned in. Zachary Scott and John Steinbeck each contribute a brief essay on their friend Emery.$50.00NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. First US edition. 211 pp. Some light discoloration to half- and title pages, else very good plus in red cloth. No dust jacket.$350.00(np): Duke University Press, 1945. First edition. 297 pp w/index. Some light foxing to top edge, else near fine in like dust jacket with one small chip. Styron contributes 'Autumn' which was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 1944 contest sponsored by STORY magazine. Dated (1979 April) and INSCRIBED by Styron, 'To ___ / who found this / curiosity / Bill Styron.'$20.00NY: Clarion Books, 1993. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$150.00London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. First edition. Two volumes, 4to, original two-part green cloth, spines stamped in gilt, silk page-markers. Three tiny marks to spine of Volume II, else a very good set indeed. Babington 534.
$120.00Norfolk Press (2021). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. 283 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Harrell was the freelance copy editor for HELL’S ANGELS, Thompson's first book. Worried about being stomped by a group of unhappy bikers, Random House subjected the book to an intense vetting. Thompson and Harrell formed an alliance and then briefly had a romance. This generous hardcover reproduces Thompson's letters to her in facsimile, along with a wealth of photographs. Jim Silberman, Rosalie Sorrels, David Streitfeld, William J. Kennedy, and others contribute. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Harrell. New, at publication price (net):
$125.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1974. First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 47 pp. A few tiny scuffs to spine and fore-edge, else near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards that have some faint tanning along top edge. Illustrated with drawings by Caitlin Mackintosh. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Wilson. This edition includes a seven page “Note on Tolkien” not in the UK edition. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series #20.