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Barth, John.
CHIMERA.
New York:
Random House
(1972).
First edition. Number 103 of 300 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies of this National Book Award winner. A collection of postmodernist novellas. Fine in lightly worn original plain acetate and original, hand-numbered slipcase with nicks to open corners where just beginning to split.
[Book #49050]
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(Browning, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett) By Lilian Whiting.
THE BROWNINGS: Their Life and Art.
Boston:
Little, Brown, and Company,
1911.
First edition. A biography and study of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Tissue-protected frontis of Robert Browning from a drawing by Field Talfourd. With over thirty photographs and drawings, as well as a facsimile letter. Page top edges gilt; gilt lettering and decorations; paper label portraits. Base of spine a little bumped and rubbed, otherwise bright and fine in a lovely dust jacket with light staining along rear spine fold extending slightly to top and bottom of spine and just a few small chips and tears. Rare in dust jacket.
[Book #48832]
Price: $350.00
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Capote, Truman.
MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS.
New York:
Random House
(1980).
First edition. An anthology of fiction and non-fiction pieces. One of 350 SIGNED, numbered copies issued without dustwrapper in slipcase. Fine, still in original shrinkwrap.
[Book #49146]
Price: $400.00
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Doctorow, E. L.
WORLD'S FAIR.
New York:
Random House
(1985).
First edition. One of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies. Recollections of a boyhood in 1930's New York City. Winner of the 1986 National Book Award for Fiction. About fine in slipcase without dust jacket, as issued.
[Book #49085]
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Faulkner, William.
REQUIEM FOR A NUN.
New York:
Random House
(1951).
First edition. His part novel, part play sequel to SANCTUARY. Number 204 of 750 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies. Three-quarters cloth with marbled paper boards. Spine and edges of rear board sunned though still bright; otherwise near fine in original acetate. Issued without a slipcase.
[Book #49127]
Price: $1,750.00
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Greene, Graham.
THE POWER AND THE GLORY.
London:
William Heinemann
(1940).
First edition. One of Greene's most powerful and influential books: Cyril Connolly included it in his "The Modern Movement:100 Key Books"; Anthony Burgess included it in his list of "Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English sice 1939"; and Time Magazine included it in its list of the "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005." The title alludes to the doxology often added to the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory." The novel tells the story of a nameless, Roman Catholic "whiskey priest" (the term was coined in this book) in Tabasco, Mexico, in the 1930s--a time when the Mexican government, still effectively controlled by Plutarco Elías Calles, strove to suppress the Catholic Church. Persecution of Catholics was especially severe in Tabasco, where anti-clerical governor Tomás Garrido Canabal, through the "fascist" paramilitary groups he founded and encouraged, succeeded in closing all the churches in the state. Yellow cloth slightly aged, head of spine softened and showing a light damp stain, few tiny stains to top edge, endpapers browned and pages tanning. Still, very good, lacking the rare dust jacket.
[Book #49148]
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Hammett, Dashiell, and Robert Colodny.
THE BATTLE OF THE ALEUTIANS.
(Adak, Alaska:
Intelligence Section Field Force Headquarters,
1944).
First edition. "In Honor and Memory of the Men of the North Pacific Theater Who Died so that a Continent Might Be Free." Hammett, who was stationed in the Aleutians Islands was assigned to help compile an accounting of the Aleutian Campaign under supervision of the Intelligence Section. Text by Hammett and captions by Colodny; illustrations, maps and layout by Harry Fletcher. Few small scrapes and light stains to rear cover, edges lightly rubbed, otherwise very good or better in oblong, stapled blue paperwraps.
[Book #49126]
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Harriman, W. Averell, Elie Abel.
SPECIAL ENVOY: To Churchill and Stalin 1941-1946.
New York:
Random House
(1975).
First edition. "Averell Harriman's account of the secret decisions affecting the course of the war, of the controversies that sprang from those decisions, and of his intimate discussions with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin" -- from the jacket flap. INSCRIBED by Harriman on the front endpaper, "To -- -- with high hopes of our collaboration and my best wishes, W. Averell Harriman, Washington DC, June 12, 1979." Illustrated with many historic photos. Largish scrape to rear paper-covered board, light edge wear, otherwise near fine in bright, pictorial dust jacket with edges lightly rubbed and two tiny scrapes to rear panel.
[Book #48833]
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE'S SECRET: A Romance.
Boston:
James R. Osgood & Co.,
1883.
First edition. Posthumously published, edited and with a preface and notes by his son, Julian Hawthorne. Two volumes, both about very good only, with some bubbling to the cloth as usually seen, names in both, and bookplate in one. Both volumes are in the trade binding described by Clarke [A31.1a], with slight batter to folio p.48, etc., as called for but one has plain top edge and sheets bulking 13/16", and the other has gray top edge and sheets bulking 15/16". Interesting set.
[Book #48961]
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Heller, Joseph.
SOMETHING HAPPENED.
New York:
Knopf,
1974.
First edition. Number 324 of 350 SIGNED, numbered copies. His second novel, published thirteen years after Catch-22, with a much darker tone than its predecessor. Heller turns his jaundiced gaze from the military to the "American Dream," focussing on the the work and home life of Corporate Man. Tiny strip at base of spine slightly sunned, tiny rub to page top-stain, otherwise bright and fine in dust jacket with the barest tanning on spine. Housed in lightly soiled, original slipcase with sticker shadow on back and only minor paper loss to edges.
[Book #49149]
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Kennedy, John F.
WHY ENGLAND SLEPT.
New York:
Wilfred Funk, Inc.,
1940.
First edition. Kennedy's senior thesis for Harvard--his first published book, a review of British foreign policies in the 1930's. Subtle rumpling to cloth on front board, spine ends a little creased, otherwise near fine, lacking the scarce dust jacket.
[Book #48774]
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Mailer, Norman.
CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS.
New York:
Dial Press,
1966.
First edition. First issue with frontis photo tipped in. INSCRIBED, "To -- -- Cheers, Norman Mailer, Oct. '79." Mailer's interpretation of the Goldwater Convention in San Francisco, take on the United States' policy in Vietnam, views on sexual attitudes in America, etc. Fine in bright, near fine dust jacket with title lettering at spine mellowed from yellow to white and light rubbing to edges and folds.
[Book #49147]
Price: $300.00
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McMurtry, Larry.
FILM FLAM Essays on Hollywood.
New York:
Simon and Schuster
(1987).
First edition. A selection from his columns in "American Film" magazine. INSCRIBED "For Paul" with a more legible version than usually seen of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's customary scrawl. There were only 15,000 copies of the first printing, an unusually low amount for one of his books. Fine in dust jacket.
[Book #49125]
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Michener, James A.
CENTENNIAL.
New York:
Random House
(1974).
First edition. Number 371 of 500 SIGNED, numbered copies. A saga set on the windy plains of Colorado at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, starting with the age of the dinosaurs. Near fine to fine in slipcase with just a little wear.
[Book #49048]
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Michener, James A.
THE DRIFTERS.
New York:
Random House
(1971).
First edition. Number 419 of 500 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies. Torremolinos, Spain, is the gathering and "jumping-off" point for a motley group of young people. Tiny rub to upper rear corner of spine, otherwise fine in original acetate and hand-numbered publisher's slipcase just beginning to split at open edges.
[Book #49049]
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Momaday, N. Scott.
HOUSE MADE OF DAWN.
New York:
Harper & Row
(1968).
First edition. The Kiowa-Cherokee writer's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a young Native American's difficult journey through life; some pitfalls of his own making, others not. Light sunning to edges of gray paper boards, otherwise near fine in white pictorial dust jacket with a touch of minor edge wear. A nice copy.
[Book #49113]
Price: $200.00
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Styron, William.
SOPHIE'S CHOICE.
New York:
Random House
(1979).
First edition. Uncorrected proof. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award-winning movie of the same name featuring the inimitable Meryl Streep. Included in Anthony Burgess's 99 Best Novels. Touch of minor shelfwear, otherwise fine in red, printed paperwraps.
[Book #49037]
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Twain, Mark.
THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON and the Comedy THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS.
Hartford:
American Publ. Co.,
1894.
First American edition. First issue with sheets bulking approximately 1 1/8" and title page clearly joined (not inserted). A tale of two babies--one white and one "slightly" black--switched shortly after birth, one of whom ultimately sells his own mother into slavery in order to pay off his gambling debts. This novel has come to be regarded as one of Twain's strongest statements on the subjects of miscegenation and on the degenerative impact of slavery [McBride p.170; Blanck 3442]. A Merle Johnson High Spot. Spine ends and corners touched up, making this just about a fine copy, with covers very bright.
[Book #48787]
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Tyler, Anne.
IF MORNING EVER COMES.
New York:
Knopf,
1964.
First edition. The author's first book, written when she was just twenty-two. A very fine copy in a bright dust jacket with the barest of wear. A really nice copy, hard to find another in this condition.
[Book #49129]
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Updike, John.
PROBLEMS: And Other Stories.
New York:
Alfred A Knopf,
1979.
First edition. Uncorrected proofs with no noted expected date of publication noted. The prize-winning author addresses middle age. Faint glass ring on front cover, otherwise near fine in salmon, printed paperwraps. Scarce.
[Book #49139]
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Updike, John.
RABBIT IS RICH.
New York:
Alfred A. Knopf,
1981.
First edition. Updike's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning continuation of Rabbit's struggles with the Middle American dream and its pitfalls. SIGNED 3 x 5" card laid in. Uncorrected proof, near fine in paperwraps with "60M" penciled on front cover.
[Book #49084]
Price: $250.00
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Updike, John.
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.
New York:
Alfred A Knopf,
1984.
First edition. SIGNED by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the front endpaper. Board edges lightly sunned, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with two small creased and rubbed tears.
[Book #49036]
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Updike, John.
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.
New York:
Alfred A. Knopf,
1984.
First edition.The first issue of the uncorrected proof in red wraps (vs. mauve), reportedly containing passages not in later proofs or the published version. No tentative date of publication or price noted on front cover. Three small-town witches have their pots stirred by a devilish stranger. Fine, with only the barest wear, in red, printed paperwraps.
[Book #49082]
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Vidal, Gore.
1876: A Novel.
New York:
Random House
(1976).
First edition. His sequel to BURR; the third volume chronologically in his "Narratives of Empire" series. Number 104 of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies. Fine in slipcase.
[Book #49158]
Price: $100.00
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Warren, Robert Penn.
SELECTED POEMS: 1923-1975.
New York:
Random House
(1976).
First edition. Number 30 of 250 SIGNED, numbered and specially bound copies. Spine sunned from black to dark gray, with gilt lettering very slightly dulled, otherwise near fine in original lightly soiled yellow slipcase.
[Book #49124]
Price: $100.00
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