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1 AGEE, James. The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1968. First edition. Edited by Robert Fitzgerald. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a very faint stain on the rear panel.

2 ALBEE, Edward. Seascape. New York: Atheneum 1975. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

3 ALBEE, Edward. The Lady from Dubuque. New York: Atheneum 1980. First edition. Fine in spine-faded, else near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

4 ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. Wyndham Towers. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1890. First edition. Quarter parchment and cloth, stamped in gilt on the front board. Some foxing to the spine and endpapers, modest stains on the rear board, a very good copy. Inscribed by the author: “Mr. Geo. O. Manchester, With the kind regards of T.B. Aldrich. Nov. 30th / 89.” An early copy, BAL notes that the book was deposited at the Library of Congress on November 14th. BAL 350.

5 ALDRIDGE, John W. Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-Line Fiction. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1992). First edition. Fine in slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Aldridge to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco “who will not agree with a word of this book.” Delbanco is a leading teacher of creative writing and mentor to young authors at Michigan; Aldridge attacks modern American literature in this book.

6 ALEXANDER, Ruth. The Wrecker. New York: World Wide Publishers (No date - 1929). First edition. Pages browned, very good in a near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. Novelized by Alexander from the Ridley and Merrivale play. Presumably issued to coincide with the 1929 film directed by Géza von Bolváry, but making no specific mention of the film. An attractive copy.

7 (Anthology). CANE, Melville, John Farrar and Louise Townsend Nicholl, editors. The Golden Year: The Poetry Society of America Anthology (1910-1960). New York: Fine Editions Press 1960. First edition. Spine and edges slightly darkened, thus very good or better in very good, rubbed dustwrapper. One of 2500 copies printed, this copy Signed by contributors John Hall Wheelock, Laura Benet, Gwendolen Haste, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Margaret Widdemer, A.M. Sullivan and Charles A. Wagner at their poems, as well as by editors Melville Cane and Louise Townsend Nicholl on the title-page; this copy also with a laid in invitation from the Poetry Society of America to its 50th anniversary dinner featuring guests of honor Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Marianne Moore and others.

8 (Anthology). CARTER, Angela, Peter Redgrove, Wendy Oliver, John Cotton, Michael Holmes. Edited by Barry Tebb. Five Quiet Shouters: An Anthology of Assertive Verse. London: Poet and Printer 1966. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine.

9 (Anthology). DAVIDSON, Gustav, editor. In Fealty to Apollo: Poetry Society of America 1910-1930. New York: Fine Editions Press 1950. First edition. Advance Proof Copy. Foreword by Robert Hillyer, chronicle by A.M. Sullivan. Fine, unsewn signatures laid into near fine dustwrapper with the spine lightly worn. Signed by Leonora Speyer, Gustav Davidson (twice), Alfred Kreymborg (twice), Margaret Widdemer, Katherine Garrison Chapin, Percy MacKaye, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Henry Goddard Leach, John Hall Wheelock, Melville Cane, Laura Benet and Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. With a laid in clipping by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

10 (Anthology). LEYLAND, Winston.

Gay Sunshine Interviews. Volume 1. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1978. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Henri Ford, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, John Rechy, and others. Prospectus for Volume 2, published separately, laid.

11 (Anthology). MOORE, Robert Thomas, edited by. Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1955: A Compilation of Original Poetry Published in Magazines of the English-Speaking World in 1954. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1955. Seventh annual edition. Spine and board edges slightly sunned, thus near fine in very good dustwrapper with short edge tears. Signed by contributors Louise Townsend Nicholl, John Hall Wheelock, and John Ciardi beneath their poems.

12 (Anthology). POUND, Ezra and Marcella Spann. Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry. (Norfolk): New Directions (1964). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy, and seldom found thus.

13 (Anthology). SCOLLARD, Clinton and Jessie B. Rittenhouse, editors. The Bird-Lovers’ Anthology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1930. First trade edition. Gift inscription inked on the front fly, spine sunned and small stain to bottom page edges, thus very good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by contributors Louis Untermeyer (twice) and Mark Van Doren.

14 (Anthology). SPRIETSMA, Cargill, edited by. Columbia Verse: An Anthology of Verse Published in Undergraduate Magazine of Columbia University from 1897- 1924. New York: Columbia University Press 1924. First edition. Preface by John Erskine. Quarter cloth and blue papercovered boards. Spine a little tanned, else a near fine copy, without dustwrapper. One of 500 copies. Louis Zukofsky’s first book appearance; contributions by Erskine, John Kendrick Bangs, Joyce Kilmer, Babette Deutsch, Henry Morton Robinson, and many others.

15 (Architecture). LE CORBUSIER.

Gaudi. Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A. 1967. First edition. Photographs by Joaquín Gomis. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy.

16 (Art). SICKERT, Walter Richard. Osbert Sitwell, editor. A Free House! Or the Artist as Craftsman. Being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert. London: London 1947. First edition. Slight offsetting to the front fly from a clipping, else fine in very

good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with slight soiling and rubbing on the spine.

17 (Art). (SICKERT, Walter). LILLY, Marjorie. Sickert: The Painter and His Circle. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press (1973). First edition. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy.

18 ASBURY, Herbert. Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1940. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

19 ASHBERY, John. Hotel Lautreamont. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

20 AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman. The Magic Flute. New York: Random House (1956). First edition, preceding the English edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight wear at the crown. A new English translation of the libretto of Mozart’s opera. A very nice copy.

21 AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman. Elegy for Young

Lovers: Opera in Three Acts. Mainz: B. Schott’s Sohne (1961). First edition. Wrappers. A trifle age-toned, still easily fine.

22 AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman. The Bassarids: Opera Seria with Intermezzo in One Act based on “The Bacchae” of Euripides. Mainz: B. Schott’s Sohne (1966). First edition. Wrappers. A trifle age-toned, still easily fine.

23 AUDEN, W.H. and Paul B. Taylor. Voluspa: The Song of the Sybil. Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover Press 1968. First edition. Translated by Paul B. Taylor and W.H. Auden. With the Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor. Fine in papercovered boards. One of 450 copies.

24 (Automobile Racing). STANLEY, Louis T. Grand Prix World Championship (1960 edition). New York: A.S. Barnes (1960). First edition, American issue. Small folio. Foreword by Jack Brabham. Fine in lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. An especially

nice copy of a book generally found well-worn.

25 (Aviation). AMBERS, Henry J. The Dirigible and the Future. Brooklyn: Theo. Gaus’ Sons, Inc. (1970). First edition. Stapled yellow wrappers. Errata slip laid in. Publisher’s promotional material for the book laid in. Inscribed by the author.

26 (Aviation). JACKMAN, W.J. and RUSSELL, Thos H. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation. Chicago: Charles C. Thompson 1912. Reprint. Owner name else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper.

27 (Aviation). SCOTT, Col. Robert L. God Is My Co-Pilot. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1943. First edition. Foreword by Major General C.L. Chennault. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight nicks at the spine ends. Autobiography of a WW II fighter pilot, basis for the 1945 Robert Florey film featuring Dennis Morgan as Scott, also with Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, and Alan Hale. A nice copy, and scarce thus.

28 BALLIETT, Whitney. Alec Wilder and his Friends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

29 BANKS, Russell. The Relation of My Imprisonment. Washington, D.C.: Sun and Moon Press (1983). First edition. Two tiny shadows on the endpapers else fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by Banks.

30 BARNES, Djuna. The Selected Works of Djuna Barnes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1962). First edition. Omnibus volume reprinting Spillway, Antiphon and Nightwood. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

31 BARTHELME, Donald. Here in the Village. Northridge: Lord John Press 1978. First edition. Fine in cloth and papercovered boards, without dustwrapper as issued.

Copy #70 of 250 numbered and Signed by author.

32 BECKETT, Samuel. A Samuel Beckett Reader. London: Calder and Boyars (1967). First edition, hardbound issue. Edited by John Caldar. Pages browned, else fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. This hardcover issue is scarce in nice condition.

33 BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go: A Dramaticule. London: Calder & Boyars (1967). First English edition, wrappered issue. Stiff self-wrappers. Fine. An issue of 100 numbered hardcovered copies.

34 BECKETT, Samuel. No’s Knife: Collected Shorter Prose 1945 - 1966. London: Caldar and Boyars (1967). First English edition, trade issue. Fine in lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper (that states 1967).

35 BECKETT, Samuel and Georges Duthuit. Proust. Three Dialogues. London: John Calder (1965). First collected edition, printing two

previously published pieces together. Tiny spots on the topedge, still fine in fine dustwrapper.

36 (BECKETT, Samuel). KNOWLSON, James, catalogue by. Samuel Beckett: An Exhibition. Held at Reading University Library, May to July 1971. (London): Turret Books 1971. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.

37 BEHAN, Brendan with drawings by Paul Hogarth. Brendan Behan’s New York. London: Hutchinson 1964. Uncorrected proof. Slightly soiled, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Scarce in this format.

38 BENNETT, Arnold. These Twain. New York: George H. Doran (1915). First American edition. Small shelf number stamped on a couple of pages, paper over rear hinge cracked but the book is still tight, ink notations on the list of the author’s other books, a very good copy in very good dustwrapper, with the same small shelf number a couple of times, and ink notes on the front flap. Scarce in jacket.

39 (Bibliography). ANDERSON, Alan. The Tragara Press 1954-1979: A Bibliography. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press 1979. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine. One of 25 copies printed on Barcham Green Tovil paper, and Signed by Alan Anderson. This copy number 4.

40 (Book Collecting). SCHREYER, Alice D., editor. Rare Books 1983-84: Trends, Collections, Sources. New York: R.R. Bowker 1984. First edition. Fine in a slightly age-toned, near fine dustwrapper. Excellent collection of essays by Terry Belanger, Daniel Traister, G. Thomas Tanselle, William Matheson, John Feather, and others.

41 (Bookselling). CAIRNS, J.B. Bright and Early: A Bookseller’s Memories of Edinburgh and Lasswade. Edinburgh: Cairn’s Brothers (1953). First edition. Colored frontispiece and twenty-four full-page illustrations. Boards a little bowed, else very good plus in very good dustwrapper with a faint stain on the rear panel. Amusing memoirs of a Scottish bookseller.

42 (Bookselling). LOW, David. ‘With All Faults’. Tehran: The Amate Press 1973. First edition. Introduction by Graham Greene. Slight sticker shadow on the front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

English bookseller’s memoirs.

43 (Bookselling). ROTA, Anthony. Points at Issue: A Bookseller Looks at Bibliography. Washington: Library of Congress 1984. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine.

44 (Bookselling). WOLF, Edwin, 2nd and John F. Fleming. Rosenbach: A Biography. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing (1960). First trade edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear at the bottom of the front flap. Massive and fascinating biography of the “Napoleon of Booksellers.” A nice, crisp copy. Required reading.

45 BOWLES, Paul. The Time of Friendship: A Volume of Short Stories. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning on the front panel. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

46 BOWLES, Paul. Midnight Mass. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1981. First edition. Fine in fine unprinted glassine dustwrapper as issued. One of 350 numbered Signed by the author.

47 BRONK, William. The World, the Worldless. San Francisco: New Directions - San Francisco Review (1964). First edition. Fine in rubbed, else near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Bronk to author Nicholas Delbanco: “for Nick Who rescued it from the owls. B.” Additionally Signed on the titlepage.

48 BROPHY, John. Waterfront. New York: Macmillan 1934. First American edition. A little sunning to the boards, very good or better in very good dustwrapper, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff, with some tears, mostly near the spine. Basis for the 1950 British film noir, Waterfront Women featuring Robert Newton and Richard Burton.

49 BUCK, Pearl S. Imperial Woman. New York: John Day Company (1956). Limited edition (stated ninth impression). Fine in pebble-grained white cloth and papercovered boards, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 133 of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. A beautiful copy.

50 BUSCH, Frederick. Rounds. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1979). First edition. Corners a bit bumped, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Very nicely Inscribed by the author using most of the front fly to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

51 BUSCH, Frederick. A Dangerous Profession: A Book about the Writing

Life. New York: St. Martin’s Press (1998). Second printing. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife.

52 (Business). OSTRANDER, W.M. How Money Grows. (Philadelphia): W.M. Ostrander 1904. Possible first edition. Illustrated wrappers. Thin octavo. 20pp. Illustrated with vignettes. Printed in black and red. Fine. A stockbroker offers advice. A very handsomely printed pamphlet. OCLC locates no copies.

53 CALLAGHAN, Morley. Now That April’s Here and Other Stories. New York: Random House (1936). First edition. A few small spots on the foredge, thus near fine in a nice, very good dustwrapper with some overall age-toning, and a little tanning to the spine. A collection of short stories revolving around romance and human interaction by this Canadian member of the Lost Generation. These stories were made into the little-known but reportedly interesting 1958 “anthology” film Now That April’s Here directed by William Davidson and narrated by Raymond Massey.

54 CAPOTE, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms. New York: Random House (1968). 20th

Anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Uncommon, especially in this condition.

55 CAPOTE, Truman. The Thanksgiving Visitor. New York: Random House (1968). First edition, trade issue. Fine in fine slipcase. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

56 CHABON, Michael. Wonder Boys. New York: Villard Books 1995. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers. Basis for the 2000 film directed by Curtis Hanson starring Michael Douglas, Toby Maguire, and Frances McDormand.

57 CHAMBERLAIN, George Agnew. Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1946). First edition. Name on the front pastedown, some lightening to

the cloth at the crown, a very good copy in near very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, and a couple of tears on the front panel. A comic novel revolving around a pair of mules, and the basis for the 1948 F. Hugh Herbert film featuring June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, and 10 year old Natalie Wood in an early role. Poorly manufactured wartime book, copies in nice condition are uncommon.

58 CHATWIN, Bruce. What Am I Doing Here. (New York): Viking Press (1989). First American edition. Fine in slightly age-toned near fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip, photo, and promotional material laid in.

59 (Children). Ali Baba or The Forty Thieves. New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1889. Octavo. Stapled lithographic wrappers. Unpaginated, (12pp.) including wrappers. Contemporary pencil name, near fine. Issued in the Wonder-Story Series.

60 (Children). Mother Hubbard and Her Dog. New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1890. Small octavo. Stapled lithographic wrappers. Unpaginated, (12pp.) including

wrappers. Contemporary pencil name, near fine. Issued in the Pleasewell Series.

61 (Children). Robinson Crusoe. New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1897. Octavo. Stapled lithographic wrappers. Unpaginated, (12pp.) including wrappers. Contemporary pencil name, staples a bit oxidized, near fine. Issued in the Kris Kringle Series.

62 (Children). BIGHAM, Madge A. Stories of Mother Goose Village. New York: Rand, McNally and Company (1931). Reprint (originally published in 1903). Illustrated by Ella S. Brison. A bit

of soiling, near fine. The publisher’s file copy, stamped “Editorial” on the front fly.

63 (Children). BROWN, Margaret Wise. The Winter Noisy Book. New York: William R. Scott 1939. First edition. Thin square octavo. Pictures by Charles G. Shaw. Neat gift inscription, extremities a bit bumped and rubbed, and a slight scrape on front board, a very good copy, without dustwrapper.

64 (Children). GRAVES, Robert. The Penny Fiddle. Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1960. First American edition. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Small quarto. Fine in a bit age-toned, very good dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

65 (Children). JARRELL, Randall. The Animal Family. New York: Pantheon (1965). First edition. Decorations by Maurice Sendak. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.

66 (Children). JARRELL, Randall and Maurice

Sendak. Fly by Night. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1976). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

67 (Children). MAMET, David and Lindsay Crouse. The Owl: A Story for Children. New York: Kipling Press 1987. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

68 (Children). MERCIER, Joan M. The Mystery of the Disappearing Pets. New York: Vantage Press

(1965). First edition. A little spotting to the endpapers, else very good plus in near fine dustwrapper with a few tiny tears,

and a (probably authorial) correction of one word on the front flap. Vanity press children’s mystery. Scarce.

69 (Children). MOORE, Marianne. Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty & Cinderella. New York: Macmillan 1963. First edition. Illustrated by Eugene Karlin. Thin quarto. Fine in slightly age-toned, very good dustwrapper. A retelling of three classic fairy tales based on the French original of Charles Perrault.

70 (Children). ROBERTSON, Keith. If Wishes Were Horses. New York: Harper and Brothers (1958). First edition. Pictures by Paul Kennedy. Fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. An especially nice copy of a modestly uncommon title.

71 (Children). ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Christmas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1940. First edition. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. 12mo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The First Lady’s story of a peaceful Christmas Eve in a quiet European household beset by problems from the war-torn, outside

world. Scarce in this condition.

72 (Children). SHEPARD, Ernest H. Drawn from Memory. London: Methuen (1957). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. A nicer than usual copy. Memoir of the artist best known for his Winnie the Pooh illustrations.

73 (Children). UPDIKE, John. Bottom’s Dream: Adapted from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1969). First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Fine (lacking the ubiquitous remainder mark usually found on copies) in fine dustwrapper.

74 (Christmas). CRAWFORD, F. Marion. The Little City of Hope: A Christmas Story. New York: Macmillan 1907. First edition. Original pictorial cloth stamped with a holly pattern. Text printed in black, green, and red. 209pp. Foredge a little foxed else fine in a very good plus, attractive printed dustwrapper with small chips and tears. A Christmas novel that seems to have elements of fantasy. The white painted decorations are unrubbed, and scarce thus, and the jacket is very uncommon.

75 CLARK, Eleanor. The Bitter Box. London: Michael Joseph (1947). First English edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a thin, small chip on the rear panel. First novel, the author was the wife of Robert Penn Warren. The English edition is very uncommon.

76 (Cocktails). (SINGER, Victor). Cocktails: A Sample Guide on How to Mix ‘Em. (B’klyn: Victor J. Singer) 1940. 24mo. Illustrated stapled wrappers. 16pp. A few dampspots on rear wrap, small ink note in the margin of one recipe, an attractive very good copy. Drinks recipes, along with two pages of recipes for canapes to serve at your cocktail party. Advertising copy of a Long Island, New York liquor store on the front panel, presumably a stock booklet that could be personalized for free distribution for liquor stores.

77 COMPTON-BURNETT, I. Darkness and Day. London: Victor Gollancz 1951. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy and uncommon thus.

78 COMPTON-BURNETT, I. A Father and His Fate. London: Victor Gollancz 1957. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, and seldom found thus.

79 CORWIN, Norman. The World of Carl Sandburg: A Stage Presentation. New York:

Harcourt, Brace and World (1961). First edition. Fine in about very good, spine-faded dustwrapper with small chips. Inscribed by Corwin: “To Eve Schoenstein, This book may lack distinction, but at least it’s the first presentation copy you will have received, unless your crafty old man has beaten me to it – Norman Corwin. May 29 [D-Day plus 12] 1964.” Corwin was probably the greatest master of the radio drama, as well as a successful author and screenwriter.

80 CREELEY, Robert. Away. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1976. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author.

81 CREELEY, Robert. Myself. Knotting, Bedfordshire: The Sceptre Press (1977). First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies.

82 (Cuisine). ROUFF, Marcel. The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet. London: Faber and Faber (1961). First English edition. Translated by Claude. Preface by Lawrence Durrell. Illustrated by Charles Mozley. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, and uncommon thus.

83 D., H. (Hilda Doolittle). Kora & Ka. Berkeley: Bios 1978. First edition thus, after a privately printed edition of 100 copies in 1934. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of one hundred hardcover copies (of a total edition of 600).

84 DODGE, David. The Poor Man’s Guide to the Orient. New York: Simon and Schuster (1965). First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of tears. Inscribed by Dodge with a slightly suggestive sentiment: “For Florence from a bedside companion with love. David ‘Auntie Mame’ 1965.” A guide to the Orient by the author of To Catch a Thief.

85 DUBUS, Andre, III. House of Sand and Fog. New York: W.W. Norton (1999). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the film with Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.

86 DURRELL, Lawrence. Tunc. London: Faber and Faber (1968). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine wraparound band.

87 DURRELL, Lawrence. Nunquam. New York: E.P. Dutton 1970. First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper.

88 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Red Limbo Lingo: A Poetry Notebook. London: Faber and Faber 1971. First edition. Fine in original fine acetate dustwrapper in fine slipcase, with publisher’s information sheet. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author (there were also 100 signed copies of the American edition).

89 FALSTAFF, Jake. Reini Kugel: Lover of This Earth. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1929. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight spine-fading, and a tear on the rear panel. Jacket art by Lucien Bernhard. The aptly-named Falstaff ’s take on the Rabelaisian Teutonic folk hero. Scarce in this condition.

90 FARRELL, James T. Can All This Grandeur Perish? And Other Stories. New York: Vanguard Press (1937). Third printing. Endpapers a little browned, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with the

spine sunned and edges rubbed. Inscribed by the author.

91 FARRELL, James T. Father and Son. Cleveland: World Publishing 1947. First edition thus, with a new introduction by the author . Near fine with a touch of rubbing to spinal extremities, in a near fine, lightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper. Inscribed by Farrell. The third novel in Farrell’s Danny O’Neill series.

92 FAULKNER, William. El Villorrio [The Hamlet]. Buenos Aires: Editorial Futuro (1947). First Argentine, and first Spanish language edition. Translated by Raquel W. de Ortiz. Illustrated wrappers. Pages browned, wrappers lightly rubbed, a near fine copy. Faulkner’s work influenced the Latin American literary “boom” and had a profound effect on such notable writers as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez.

93 FAULKNER, William. The Town. New York: Random House (1957). First edition, first issue. 1957 gift inscription, a bit cocked, very good in very good or better, first issue dustwrapper with modest tears at the crown. The

second volume of the Snopes Trilogy.

94 (FAULKNER, William). FAULKNER, John. My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence. New York: Trident Press 1963. First edition. Fine in very slightly spine-faded dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s promotional material laid in. A nicer than usual copy.

95 FISKE, John. Tobacco and Alcohol. I. It Does Pay to Smoke II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. New York: Leypoldt & Holt 1869. First edition. Small octavo. Purple cloth gilt. Contemporary pencil owner name on the title page, corners a little bumped else fine. First book by the important historian and philosopher extolling the virtues of vice. BAL 5993, state 1.

96 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. New York: Random House 1960. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. One of 700 copies. Fitzgerald’s first story, written in his youth.

97 (FITZGERALD, F. Scott). BRUCCOLI, Matthew. F. Scott Fitzgerald Collector’s Handlist. Columbus, Ohio: Fitzgerald Newsletter 1964. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Early guide to collecting Fitzgerald.

98 (FITZGERALD, Zelda). CLINE, Sally. Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise. New York: Arcade (2002). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

99 FRANKFURTER, Felix. The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis For Lawyers and Laymen. Boston: Little, Brown 1927. First edition. Yellow boards stamped in black. A trifle soiled, else very near fine, lacking the dustwrapper.

100 FRASER, George MacDonald. Flashman at the Charge. New York: Alfred A.

Knopf 1973. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The fourth Flashman: Flashy besmirches the reputation of the British at Balaclava.

101 FRIEDMAN, Bruce Jay. Stern. New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a bit of age-toning. Author’s first book.

102 GALSWORTHY, John. Swan Song. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1928. First American edition. Fine in slightly rubbed and age-toned, near fine dustwrapper. Cleon-illustrated jacket.

103 GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1986. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Editor’s card laid in sending the book to author Nicholas Delbanco.

John Gardner’s copy104 (GARDNER, John C.). OBOLENSKY,

Dimitri, Introduced and edited by. The Penguin Book of Russian Verse. (Harmondsworth): Penguin Books (1962). First edition. Pages a little browned else a fine copy in wrappers. Author John C. Gardner’s copy with his ownership signature. Gardner is best known for his novels which include Grendel, Nickel Mountain, October Light, and The Sunlight Dialogues. From a group of books purchased from his former wife.

105 GARRETT, George. King of the Mountain. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1958). First edition. A faint dampstain on the front board else

near fine in a slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Signed by the author, his first book.

106 (Gay fiction). RECHY, John. Numbers. New York: Grove Press (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel about an aging male hustler.

Author’s uncommon second novel.

107 GINSBERG, Allen. T.V. Baby Poems. (London): Cape Goliard Press (1967). First edition, trade issue. Photographic frontispiece. Fine in very slightly soiled, fine dustwrapper. One of 400 casebound copies.

108 GINSBERG, Allen. Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze. New York: Gotham Book Mart 1972. First edition. Large octavo. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by Ginsberg.

109 GOREY, Edward. Books seem to me to be pestilent things…. New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery (no date). First edition. Single leaf folded to make four pages. Fine. Color illustration by Gorey accompanies a quotation by John Locke decrying the depredations of booksellers, printers, and binders.

110 GOREY, Edward. The Lavender Leotard: or, Going a Lot to the New York City Ballet. New York: Gotham Book Mart 1973. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Toledano A53c. Inexplicably

uncommon.

111 GOREY, Edward. [Program]: Tinned Lettuce, or, The New Musical written & designed by Edward Gorey. New York: NYU Undergraduate Drama in association with Clifford Ross (1985). Unbound folded sheets. (10)pp, two leaves folded to make four pages each, with an inserted single leaf comprising two pages. Cover illustration by Gorey. Uncommon piece of ephemera, a program for a play written by Gorey.

112 GOYEN, William. Nine Poems. New York: Albondocani Press 1976. First edition. Fine in marbled self wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author.

113 GRAVES, Robert. Seventeen Poems Missing from Love Respelt. London: Privately Printed 1966. First edition. Fine in flexible wrappers and

fine dustwrapper. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. A lovely copy.

114 HAWKES, John. The Cannibal. (Norfolk: New Directions 1949). First edition, first binding. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s first novel, preceded only by a rare pamphlet.

115 HAWKES, John. The Goose on the Grave and The Owl: Two Short Novels. New York: New Directions (1954). First edition, first binding. Fine in fine, first state dustwrapper with slight age-toning.

116 HECHT, Anthony. The Venetian Vespers. New York: Atheneum 1979. First trade edition (previously published by Godine in a limited edition with fewer poems). Fine in fine dustwrapper.

117 HESSE, Hermann. Stories of Five Decades. New York:

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1972). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A scarce title.

118 HILL, Janet McKenzie. The Up-to-Date Waitress. Boston: Little, Brown 1927. Stated new edition, apparently originally published in 1906. Pictorial boards. Illustrated from photographs. Small, neat owner name on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped, very good or better dustwrapper with a tear and modest chip on the rear panel.

119 HOTCHKISS, George Burton. Advertising Copy. New York: Harper and Brothers (1924). Reprint (code L-C indicating published in November, 1928). A couple of easily erasable pencil signatures, and some pencil notes, else fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny chips.

120 HUGHES, Ted. Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama. London: Faber and Faber (1978). First edition. Oblong quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

121 HUXLEY, Aldous, editor. An Encyclopedia of

Pacifism. London: Chatto & Windus 1937. First edition. Self-wrappers. A little offsetting to the titlepage and facing page, and rear endpapers, small tears, else near fine.

122 HYMAN, Mac. No Time for Sergeants. New York: Random House (1954). First edition. Slight foxing to the boards else fine in very good dustwrapper with some light wear to the edges and extremities. Basis for the Mervyn LeRoy film with Andy Griffith and Don Knotts (in his feature debut), the first of their many screen appearances together.

123 JANDEL, Ernst. No Music Please. (London): Turret Books (1967). First edition. Edited by Edward Lucie-Smith. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper, and original glassine. One of 50 numbered copies Signed by the author.

124 JANIS, Elsie. Love Letters of an Actress. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1925. First edition. Purple cloth with printed label on the front board. Two facing pages a little roughly opened,

a very good copy without dustwrapper. Signed on a label to Dot Rodgers, on the front pastedown intended for that purpose. Humorous letters by an interesting and important figure. Born as Elsie Bierbower in Columbus, Ohio, she became a vaudeville star by age eleven, and was soon a star on both Broadway and in London. She became one of the first important American stars to entertain the troops in WWI, and as such was widely beloved, earning her the nickname of “The Sweetheart of the A.E.F.” After the war she continued to appear on both stage and screen, as well as writing several popular songs, including the Paramount Pictures theme music “Paramount on Parade”; “Oh Give Me Time for Tenderness” for the film Dark Victory; and collaborating on other songs with both Jerome Kern and Irving

Berlin. Additionally, she wrote a couple of autobiographies, and was a successful screenwriter, co-writing the script (and songs) for Madame Satan, and writing dialogue for Cecil B. DeMille’s Squaw Man and several other films.

125 JHABVALA, R. Prawer. Like Birds, Like Fishes and Other Stories. London: John Murray (1963). First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers, fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a few spots of foxing.

126 (JOYCE, James). SVEVO, Italo. James Joyce: A Lecture Delivered in Milan in 1927. New York: New Directions 1950 . First edition. Cover photo by Man Ray. Translated by Stanislaus Joyce for James Laughlin as a keepsake for his friends and those of New Directions. Wrappers in dustwrapper. 48mo. Fine. One of 1500 press numbered copies (of a total edition of 1600).

127 KEES, Weldon. Poems 1947-1954. San Francisco: Adrian Wilson 1954. First edition. Former owner’s inscription, slightly soiled, a small bookplate on the front pastedown, some ink underlining assumed to be from the

reviewer, else near fine without a dustwrapper. Advance review copy with slip laid in.

128 KEROUAC, Jack. Two Early Stories. New York: Aloe Editions 1973. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. One of 175 numbered copies.

129 KILMER, Joyce. Trees and Other Poems. New York: George H. Doran (1914). First edition, without the “Printed in the U.S.A.” statement. Contemporary owner name, else about fine in good only dustwrapper with a relatively large chip on the front panel. A Johnson Highspot of American Literature. Kilmer was killed in action during World War I and posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre. Jacketed copies are uncommon.

130 KINNELL, Galway. Three Poems. New York: Phoenix Book Shop 1976. First edition. Fine in wrappers as issued. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author (of a total edition of 126).

131 KIRKWOOD, James. Some Kind of Hero. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell

(1975). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Promotional flier laid in. Signed by the author. Basis for the 1982 film featuring Richard Pryor and Margot Kidder.

132 KIRSTEIN, Lincoln. Rhymes of a PFC. New York: New Directions (1964). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

133 KOOSER, Ted. Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2002). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Kooser to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

134 KUNITZ, Stanley. The Testing-Tree. Boston: Little, Brown (1971). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

135 KURZWEIL, Allen. A Case of Curiosities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1992). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Well-regarded young author’s first book, a novel. Warmly Inscribed by Kurzweil to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

136 (LAWRENCE, D.H.). T., E. (pseudonym of Jessie Chambers).

D.H. Lawrence: A Personal Record. New York: Knight Publications 1936. First American edition. Fine in slightly soiled, very near fine dustwrapper.

137 (LENNON, John). ROSEN, Robert. Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon. (New York): Robert Rosen / (Soft Scull Press 2000). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small wrinkle on the front panel.

138 (Lesbian fiction). SHODO, Mitzi. The Juice of the Lemon Is Sour. New York: Vantage (1970). First edition. Neat owner name, corners a bit bumped, a very good copy in very good plus dustwrapper with a number of

small flaws. A vanity press novel by a Seattle-born Air Force wife and mother. Better than most vanity press productions, aside from a romance this is also a murder mystery and is replete with multiple heterosexual infidelities. In addition, a central plot element is that the mother of the family herein chronicled “is a submerged lesbian who comes to life…” Not in Grier, but probably should be. Very scarce.

139 LINDSAY, Norman. Madam Life’s Lovers: A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form. London: Fanfrolico Press (1929). First edition. Small quarto. Frontispiece gravure by the author. Cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Scattered foxing and some rubbing, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

140 MACBETH, George. The Humming Birds. London: Turret Books 1965. First edition. Quarto. Fine in pictorial boards. One of 50 numbered copies Signed by the author.

141 MACDONALD, George and Maurice Sendak. The Golden Key. New York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux 1967. First edition. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Afterword by W.H. Auden. Fine in slightly soiled, very near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy.

142 MAILER, Norman. The Deer Park: A Play. New York: Dial Press 1967. First edition. Fine in slightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s letter laid in.

143 MALAMUD, Bernard. God’s Grace. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s material laid in.

144 MALAMUD, Bernard. Long Work, Short Life. (Hoosick Falls, New York: A-B Graphics for Bennington College 1985). First edition. Introduction by Nicholas Delbanco. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Text of Malamud’s lecture in the Bennington Chapbook series. One of 1000 copies.

145 MAMET, David. Sexual Perversity in

Chicago and The Duck Variations. New York: Grove Press (1978). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author.

146 MAMET, David. The Woods. New York: Grove Press (1979). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning.

147 (MAXWELL, William). BAXTER, Charles, Michael Collier, Edward Hirsch. A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company 2004. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Baxter.

148 McCLURE, Michael. Little Odes Jan - March 1961. (New York: Poets Press 1968). First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by McClure.

149 McGINLEY, Phyllis. Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades with Seventy New Poems. New York: Viking Press 1961. Second printing. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Slight spotting to the spine, very good in modestly foxed, very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed by McGinley to playwright William McCleery and his wife: “For dear Bill and Ann, with the warmest of affectionate good wishes, Phyllis McGinley, May, 1961.” Laid in are two Autograph Letters Signed to McCleery, totaling six pages, relating personal and literary news. Pulitzer Prize-winning collection.

150 McINERNEY, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City. New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1984). First edition. Paperback original. Fine in wrappers. Advance Review Copy with publisher’s promotional material laid in. Author’s first book.

151 McPHEE, John. Levels of the Game. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1969). First edition. A little foxing to the endpapers, very near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear.

McPhee’s sixth book, a profile of two tennis players, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, seen through the vehicle of a single game: the final of the U.S. Open. A wonderful book, especially if you like tennis.

152 MEGRUE, Roi Cooper and Walter Hackett. It Pays to Advertise. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1915). First edition. Novelized by Samuel Field and illustrated with scenes from the play. Edges of the boards darkened, faint dampstain to the rear board, else very good in very good, moderately soiled dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks and tears and some rubbing to the edges. Donald Crisp directed the 1919 film version.

153 MENCKEN, H.L. Treatise on Right and Wrong. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1934. First edition. Just about fine, with the front flap of the dustwrapper laid in. Signed by the author.

154 MENCKEN, H.L. The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts & Bravos from the Chicago Tribune. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. First edition. Front endpapers and a couple of blank pages a little offset from clippings, else fine in fine and bright dustwrapper with a short tear. Jacket design by Paul Rand.

155 MERCER, David. Ride a Cock Horse. New York: Hill and Wang (1966). First American edition. Fine in a lightly worn, very good dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. A play that featured Peter O’Toole, Barbara Jefford, and Sian Phillips.

156 MERRILL, James. A Different Person: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A memoir by

the poet. Advance Review Copy with publisher’s promotional material laid in.

157 MISHIMA, Yukio. Runaway Horses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973. First American edition. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Slight foxing to the foredge, else fine in lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. Second volume in the The Sea of Fertility Cycle.

158 (Modern Library). A Complete Catalogue of Modern Library and Modern Library Giants.

New York: Modern Library (1937). 1937 edition. Oblong 12mo. Printed wrappers. (56pp). Illustrated. Fine, with perforated rear wrap/order form fine and intact. Scarce.

159 (MOORE, Marianne). TAMBIMUTTU, editor. Festschrift for Marianne Moore’s Seventy Seventh Birthday. New York: Tambimuttu & Mass 1964. First edition. Near fine, with the spine lettering in the second state, in very good dustwrapper with modest wear and age-toning. Inscribed by the editor to Richard Biddle: “For Dick who helped greatly with this book from Tambi. 24 March ‘65.” Biddle is mentioned in the acknowledgements. Contributors include Robert Lowell, Babette Deutsch, May Swenson, James Laughlin, Allen Tate, Kathleen Raine, Vernon Watkins, Allen Ginsberg, Ruthven Todd, Howard Moss, Robert Penn Warren, David Ignatow, Herbert Cahoon, Stanley Kunitz, James T. Farrell, and others. Fifteen black and white drawings, most of which are by Laurence Scott and Peggy Bacon. Dustwrapper design by Leonard Baskin.

160 MORRIS, Wright. Plains Song for Female Voices. New York: Harper and Row (1980). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the National Book Award.

161 (Music). BERLIOZ, Hector. Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865, Comprising His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia and England. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1932. First edition. Tiny owner’s label on the front pastedown, and a small picture of Berlioz on the rear endpaper, offsetting to preliminary pages from clippings, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears, and a small chip on on the front flap fold. Very scarce in jacket.

162 (Music). BUSONI, Ferruccio. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music. New York: G.

Schirmer 1911. First American edition. Translated by Dr. Th. Baker. 12mo. Cloth with printed paper labels. Light nicks to the thin spine label, else near fine.

163 (Mystery). CASEY, Robert J. The Third Owl. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1934). First edition. Modest spotting to the boards, slight foxing to the endpapers, thus near very good in near fine dustwrapper with some tiny tears. Did the Duke of Burgundy commit suicide or was he murdered?

164 (Mystery). CHASE, James Hadley. I’ll Bury My Dead. New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First edition. Name marked over on the front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

165 (Mystery). FENWICK, Elizabeth. The Silent Cousin. New York: Atheneum 1966. First American edition. Fine in lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to editor and playwright William McCleery, suggesting that this book would be impossible to make into a play.

166 (Mystery). FROST, Barbara. Innocent Bystander. New York: Coward-McCann (1955). First edition. Boards a trifle soiled, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight chipping at the foot. Lady lawyer in New York investigates the murder of her musician client.

167 (Mystery). GORES, Joe. Typed Letter Signed (“Joe”) to Matthew Bruccoli. Quarto leaf. Dated 9 December 1975 on Gores’ stationery. Fine. Gores sends a Dashiell Hammett City Mag issue to Bruccoli, reacts favorably to the idea of writing an article for a journal that Bruccoli is publishing, and discusses at some length his book Hammett: “As for how its selling, I didn’t really expect a best-seller. It has gone into a second printing, which makes it the bestselling book I ever wrote…And it has sold to Coppola for the movie version with me to do the script. So the book has been good to me.” Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios released the film, directed by Wim Wenders and

starring Frederic Forrest as Hammett, in 1982, after many production problems including a change in the ending allegedly because the novel’s ending was deemed too close to Hammett’s own writings.

168 (Mystery). HALLIDAY, Brett. Weep for a Blonde. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company / Torquil (1957). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a modest tear at the bottom of the rear spine fold. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Mike Shayne tries to

help out a friend of his dead wife.

169 (Mystery). HUXLEY, Elspeth. The African Poison Murders. New York: Harper and Brothers 1940. First American edition. Slightly cocked and a little soiling to the boards, very good or a little better in an attractive, very good dustwrapper that has been reinforced internally with brown paper. Author’s third mystery, a thriller set in Africa.

170 (Mystery). OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips. The Light Beyond. Boston: Little, Brown 1928. First American edition. Endpapers foxed else fine in near fine, Bip Pares-illustrated dustwrapper with a shallow nick and a couple of tears.

171 (Mystery). SANDERS, George (and Leigh Brackett). Stranger at Home. New York: Simon & Schuster 1946. First edition. A tape shadow to each of the pastedowns, else very good or better in very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of internal repairs. The second novel purportedly written by the suave actor but really ghostwritten by Leigh Brackett (Sanders’ first was ghostwritten by Craig Rice and Cleve Cartmill).

172 (Mystery). SEABROOK, John Paul (pseudonym of Adele Luehrmann, in this case). The Woman in 919: A Detective

Story. New York: Chelsea House (1925). First edition. Owner name on the front fly else near fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, and other modest wear. Woman with a lot of enemies found murdered in her hotel room, everyone is a suspect. John Paul Seabrooke was a pseudonym used by the publishing house, in this case Luehrmann wrote the book, according to Hubin (who incorrectly dates the book in 1926).

173 (Mystery). WILLIAMS, Henry Smith. The Witness of the Sun. Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1920. First edition. Owner name stamp on the front fly, foredge slightly foxed, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. Author’s only mystery, a very scarce novel about a murder committed in one of New York’s big office buildings.

174 NATHANSON, E.M. The Dirty Dozen. New York: Random House (1965). First edition. Fine in a lightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of very small nicks and tears. Basis for the entertaining Robert Aldrich film featuring Lee Marvin as the head of a band of army degenerates who will be granted reprieves if they survive a pre-D-Day suicide mission; also with Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Robert Ryan, and Telly Savalas.

175 (NIETZSCHE, Friedrich). O’BRIEN, Edward J. Son of the Morning: A Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche. New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam (1932). First edition. Offsetting to the half-title from clippings, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

176 OATES, Joyce Carol. Cupid & Psyche. New York: Albondocani Press 1970. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers. Prospectus laid in. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author.

177 OGDEN, C.K. Bentham’s Theory of Fictions. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1932. First edition. Very near fine,

without dustwrapper.

178 OLSON, Charles. Human Universe and Other Essays. New York: Grove Press 1967. First trade edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

179 (OLSON, Charles). BUTTERICK, George F. Albert Glover. A Bibliography of Works by Charles Olson. New York: The Phoenix Book Shop 1967. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine.

180 PARKS, Edd Winfield. Long Hunter: The Story of Big-Foot Hunter. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1942). First edition. Very near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a small chip and tear at the edge of the crown. Historical novel about a Tennessee pioneer by a Tennessee-born Vanderbilt graduate. Scarce.

181 PASTAN, Linda. Setting the Table: Poems. Washington, D.C.: Dryad Press (1980). First trade edition. Wrappers. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by Pastan.

182 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Hurrah for Anything: Poems and Drawings. Highlands, North Carolina: Jargon Society 1957. First edition. Slight offsetting on rear endpaper, else fine in stiff wrappers with affixed dustwrapper as issued. Issued as Jargon 21.

183 PATCHEN, Kenneth. Poemscapes. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams 1958. First edition. Selfwrappers over cardboard as issued. Near fine with some soiling to the wrappers. Issued as Jargon 11.

184 (PATCHEN, Kenneth). EATON, Gail. Kenneth Patchen: A First Bibliography. Denver: Compliments of Alan Swallow, Publisher 1948. First edition. 12mo. One leaf folded to make four pages. Date inked onto the first page, else fine. A scarce and ephemeral little pamphlet listing Patchen’s publications up until that time. OCLC locates no copies.

185 PATRICK, Chann. The House of Retrogression. New York: Jacobsen (1932). First edition. Top of spine a trifle bumped, still fine in very good plus dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the crown. A $5000 “Prize Mystery Story” with the reader asked to write an alternative final chapter, with the details of the contest announced on N.B.C. radio. Uncommon in jacket.

186 PENNEY, J.C. Fifty Years with the Golden Rule. New York: Harper & Brothers (1950). First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel, and other light wear. Inscribed by the author: “To Jim Hester with best wishes from the author, J.C. Penney.”

187 (PERKINS, Maxwell). BERG, A. Scott. Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. New York: E.P. Dutton (1978). First edition. Fine in fine

dustwrapper. Important biography of Perkins, the editor who helped guide F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe, among many others. A beautiful copy.

188 (Photography). ABBOTT, Berenice. Photographs. New York: Horizon Press 1970. First edition. Quarto. Foreword by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction by David Vestal. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.

189 (Photography). COLE, Ernest. House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes In his own Pictures and

Words the Bitter Life of his Homeland Today . New York: Random House (1967). First edition. Text by Cole and Thomas Flaherty. Introduction by Joseph Lelyfeld. Large quarto. Bookplate on half-title, small owner’s name on a preliminary page, near fine in fine dustwrapper.

190 (Photography). REYNOLDS, Robert. Rio Grande. Portland OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing (1975). First edition. Text by Tony Hillerman. Folio. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper.

191 (Photoplay edition). HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. London: Readers Library (nd -1926). English photoplay edition. Pages browned, a very good copy in near very good dustwrapper (with a painting of Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne) with a chip on the front panel.

192 PINERO, Miguel. Short Eyes. New York: Hill and Wang (1975). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight age-toning. Winner of the New York Drama Crtic’s Award for Best American Play. A play about a white-collar child molester who finds prison justice harsher than legal punishment. Basis for a little-seen but highly regarded 1977 film, scripted by Pinero (who also acts), directed by Robert M. Young, and starring Bruce Davison. Very uncommon first edition.

193 PRICE, Harry. The End of Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. (1952). Fifth impression. Fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short tears. A pretty copy.

194 PRICE, Richard. (Film Script / Screenplay): Wingo. Hollywood: Edgar J. Scherick & Assoc. (No date). Second Draft screenplay. Bradbound mimeographed sheets in self-wrappers. First page slightly pulled, else very good or better. Apparently unproduced. Scarce. Ex-Carter Burden.

195 (Prison breaks). SMITH, Edward H. You Can Escape. New York: Macmillan 1929. First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers, very near fine in near fine and attractive dustwrapper. Nineteen short stories of escapes from American prisons. A lovely copy.

196 PURCELL, Victor as Myra Buttle. The Sweeniad. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: The Broadwater Press, Limited 1957. First edition, preceding the Sagamore trade edition. Octavo. 66pp. Red cloth gilt, without dustwrapper as issued. Near fine with the gilt lettering a bit faded. A satire of T.S. Eliot, printed for private circulation. American poet Harold Moss’s copy with his ownership signature.

197 PURDY, James. Lessons and Complaints. (New York): Nadja (1978). First edition. Fine in wrappers. Copy number 3 of 174 numbered copies Signed by the author.

198 RAIMUND, Ferdinand. The Spendthrift: A Musical Fairy Tale in Three Acts. New York: Frederick Ungar 1949. First American edition. Translated and adapted by Erwin Tramer. Rubbed spot at the bottom of the rear board, else near fine in a modestly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Adaptation of a 19th Century Austrian play.

199 RUSSELL, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1872-1914. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. (1967). First edition. A little spotting to the topstain, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Alyse Gregory to Sibley Watson in 1967. Gregory was a women’s suffragette and editor of the influential literary magazine The Dial. Watson was the publisher of The Dial.

200 RUSSELL, Harold with Victor Rosen. Victory in My Hands. New York: Creative Age Press 1949. First edition. Covers with mild dampstaining, else fine

in very good dustwrapper with the spine tanned. Inscribed by the author, a World War II veteran who lost both hands during the war. Russell appeared in an army training film, and then was featured prominently in The Best Years of Our Lives, in a role written especially for him. He was awarded an unprecedented two Oscars for the same role (one for Best Supporting Actor, the other for serving as an inspiration to all returning servicemen), and late in life returned to acting with a few key additional roles.

201 SAKAKI, Nanao. Bellyfulls. Toad Press, Oregon: Toad Press 1966. First American edition. Translated by Neale Hunter. With a note by Gary Snyder. Wrappers. Fine. Uncommon edition of the Japanese poet’s work.

202 SALTEN, Felix. Samson and Delilah. New York: Simon & Schuster (1931). First American edition. Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear and some tiny nicks. Original version of the Bible story.

203 SALTER, James. Light Years. London: The Bodley Head (1975). First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A novel that is an intimate portrait of a marriage, and upon which much of Salter’s reputation rests.

204 SANDERS, Ed. Poem from Jail. (San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore 1963). First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Modest age-toning to the wrappers, and a single sentence in ink on rear wrap, else near fine. Epic poem from the former lead singer of The Fugs and a former bookseller.

205 SCHWARZENEGGER, Arnold and Douglas Kent Hall. Arnold: The Education of a Body Builder. New York: Simon and Schuster (1977). First edition. Remainder mark on the bottom of the page edges, near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown, and a little rubbing. Surprisingly interesting biography.

206 (Science fiction). CROSS, John Keir. The Angry Planet. New

York: Coward-McCann 1946. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An unusually nice copy.

207 (Science-Fiction). JOHNSON, Owen. The Coming of the Amazons: A Satiristic Speculation on the Scientific Future of Civilization. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1931. First edition. Relevant clipping on front fly else fine in nice, very good plus dustwrapper with slight fading at the spine and a little rubbing at the crown. Futuristic fantasy of a world where men exist only for breeding purposes. In Bleiler.

208 (Science-Fiction). LARGE, E.C. Sugar in the Air: A Romance. London: Jonathan Cape (1937). First edition. Book Society bookplate for the book and Signed by the author on the front fly, corners a little bumped, else near fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with some tears and modest light wear. Science fiction romance.

209 (Science-Fiction). LEVIN, Ira. Rosemary’s Baby. London: Michael Joseph (1967). Uncorrected proof of the English edition. Wrappers. A bit cocked, small tears, some soiling, a good copy. Basis for the memorable Roman Polanski film with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, and Ruth Gordon, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

210 (Science-Fiction). MacISAAC, Fred. The Mental Marvel. Chicago: A.C.

McClurg 1930. First edition. Fine in an internally repaired, good only dustwrapper with a scrape on the front panel, much of the spine lettering faded, and some modest overall wear. One of our favorite books, about a youthful genius who declares that his mental prowess is enough to attract any woman, and outfight any man. In Bleiler.

211 SEBALD, W.G. The Rings of Saturn. (New York): New Directions (1998). First American edition. One corner bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

212 SEGAL, Lore. Lucinella. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1976). First edition. Fine in near fine, slightly age-toned dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Segal to author Nicholas Delbanco and his family. Author’s second novel. Jacket art by William Steig.

213 SIMPSON, Mona. Anywhere But Here. New

York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First edition. Fine in slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Spencer to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

214 SITWELL, Edith. Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems. London: Duckworth (1929). First edition. Scattered foxing, else near fine in very slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick at the crown. Of 2000 copies printed, about 500 were exported to America in sheets. Fifoot EA 18.

215 SITWELL, Osbert. Open the Door! A Volume of Stories. New York: Smith and Durell 1941. First American edition. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with some small nicks and tears.

216 (Sixties). BAEZ, Joan. Daybreak. New York: Dial Press 1968. Uncorrected proof. Spine area tanned, small tear at the foot, an about very good copy in wrappers. The proof in scarce.

217 (Sixties). MAX, Peter. Peter Max Poster Book. New York: Crown (1970). First edition. Paperback original. Folio. Fine.

218 SMITH, Timothy D’Arch. R.A. Caton and the Fortune Press: A Memoir and a Hand-List. London: Bertram Rota 1983. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

219 SNYDER, Gary. He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth. San Francisco: Grey Fox Press (1979). First edition. Cloth. Fine, issued without dustwrapper.

220 SNYDER, Gary. Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End Plus One. Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation (1979). First edition. Wrappers. Lightly rubbed, near fine.

221 SNYDER, Gary. Good Wild Sacred. (Madley): Five Seasons Press 1984. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine.

222 SPARK, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott 1962. First American edition. Topedge a trifle soiled, else fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a couple of spots of foxing on the rear panel. Basis for the stage version with Vanessa Redgrave and then the film starring Maggie Smith, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the title role of the flamboyant but flawed Scottish schoolteacher. An especially crisp copy.

223 STEIN, Gertrude. Wars I Have Seen. London: B.T. Batsford (1945). First edition. Fine in a very slightly worn, fine dustwrapper.

224 STEVENS, Leslie. The Lovers. New York: Samuel French (1956). First edition. Rubber price stamp on front wrapper, else near fine in wrappers. Stevens was an acclaimed teleplay writer who is today best remembered for his cult television show The Outer Limits.

225 STRONG, L.A.G. The Big Man. London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd. / Furnival Books 1931. First edition. Frontispiece by Tirzah Garwood. Foreword by A.E. Coppard. Near fine. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Tipped-in publisher’s slip on the titlepage.

226 STRONG, L.A.G. The Bay. London: Victor Gollancz 1941. First edition. An attractive bookplate on the front pastedown, pages tanned, very good plus in very good dustwrapper with some spine-tanning and one internal repair.

Signed by the author. A novel. Scarce signed.

227 TALLENT, Elizabeth. Museum Pieces. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. Third printing. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Tallent to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

228 TASAKI, Hanama. Long the Imperial Way. London: Victor Gollancz 1951. First English edition. A little soiling in the front board, else about fine in about fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the crown. Purportedly the first novel by a Japanese soldier about the recently concluded war.

229 (Tennis). TILDEN, William T., 2nd. My Story: A Champion’s Memoirs. New York: Hellman, Williams & Company 1948. First edition. Rubbing and small splashmarks on the spine, a very good copy in slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. An uncommon first edition.

230 THEROUX, Paul. Waldo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1967. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. The thin, uncoated jacket is particularly susceptible to rubbing. A nicer than usual copy of the author’s first book, a novel.

231 THEROUX, Paul. Girls at Play. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1969. First edition. Fine in lightly soiled near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of the author’s third book.

232 THEROUX, Paul. Jungle Lovers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1971. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Author’s fourth book.

233 THEROUX, Paul. Sinning With Annie and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1972. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of the author’s fifth book.

234 THEROUX, Paul. Saint Jack. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1973. First edition. Fine in slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears at the crown. Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich, and Howard Sackler co-scripted the Bogdanovich-directed film starring Ben Gazzara as an ambitious American pimp in 1970s Singapore. A nice copy.

235 THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep. (New York): New Directions (1952). First American edition. Fine in

about very good dustwrapper with some overall age-toning, and a chip on the front panel.

236 THOMAS, Dylan. Conversation About Christmas. (New York): For the friends of J. Laughlin and New Directions Christmas 1954. First edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. A touch of soiling else fine. A scarce pamphlet.

237 TILGHMAN, Christopher. In a Father’s Place. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1990). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

238 TILGHMAN, Christopher. The Way People Run. New York: Random House (1996). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Tilghman to author Nicholas Delbanco.

239 TOWLE, Tony. North. New York: Published for the Frank O’Hara Foundation at Columbia University Press 1970. First edition. Light paper clip stain on the half-title, slight scrapes and a short tear on the rear fly, where an excess of binder’s glue has caused the fly to adhere to the rear pastedown, else near fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a small, creased tear on the rear panel. Inscribed by the author to Stanley Woodward, career foreign service officer, ambassador, and Chief of Protocol under Harry Truman. Also laid in is a brief Typed Letter Signed from the poet to Woodward presenting the book. Jacket design by Jasper Johns.

240 TRILLIN, Calvin. An Education in Georgia: The Integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes. New York: Viking Press (1964). First edition. Fine in a trifle rubbed, still fine dustwrapper. Author’s first book, the non-fiction account of the integration of two black students into the University of Georgia, one of whom, Charlayne Hunter (now Charlayne Hunter-Gault), became the first African-American reporter for The New Yorker.

241 TRILLIN, Calvin. About Alice. New York: Random House (2006). Second printing. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author’s memoir of his late wife, which first appeared as an article in the New Yorker. Inscribed by Trillin to

fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.

242 UNRUH, Fritz Von. Bonaparte. New York: Knopf 1928. First American edition. Translated from the German by Edwin Bjorkman. Spine sunned through the jacket, else near fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with light sunning to the spine. A

play.

243 UNTERMEYER, Louis. Heavens. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1922). First edition. Cloth and illustrated papercovered boards. A bit of edgewear to the boards, a very good copy without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to poet and future publisher John Farrar: “for John Farrar, this not-so-graceful exhibition of absurd and lofty tumbling. Louis Untermeyer. March 1922.” Farrar won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1919 and later founded the Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishing company.

244 UPDIKE, John. The Music School. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1966. First edition, second issue with page 46 a cancel. Fine in fine dustwrapper with none of the

usual tanning or wear. A lovely copy of a scarce book in this condition.

245 UPDIKE, John. Rabbit Is Rich. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. The third volume of the Rabbit series, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

246 UPDIKE, John. Golf Dreams. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1996. First edition. Fine in fine, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

247 VAN DOREN, Carl. An Illinois Boyhood. New York: The Viking Press 1939. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Excerpt from the author’s previously published biography.

248 VAN DRUTEN, John. I Remember Mama: A Play in Two Acts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1945). First edition. Bookplate and small bookstore label on the front pastedown else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some modest overall age-toning and a small spot on the spine. Adapted from Kathryn Forbes’ book Mama’s Bank Account, the play was the basis for the 1948 George Stevens film with Irene Dunne as Mama. Dunne, Oskar Homolka, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Ellen Corby were all nominated for acting Academy Awards; none of them won. Homolka reprised his role from the original theatrical production, which also featured Marlon Brando in a lesser role.

249 VAN DYKE, Henry. The Golden Key. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1926. First edition. Fine in Margaret Armstrong-designed binding, in near fine dustwrapper that repeats the design, with some tanning to the spine and light stains on the rear panel. Inscribed by the author: “Inscribed for John T. Mayfield of Texas with best wishes on his birthday. Henry Van Dyke. Washington, Dec. 3, 1926.”

250 (Vietnam). A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. (Madison, Minnesota): American Writers Against the Vietnam War distributed by the Sixties Press 1966. First edition. Wrappers. E.E. Cummings name marked through, and with pages 21-24 (E.E. Cummings poems) cut out as issued, else fine.

251 WARHOL, Andy. Blue Movie. New York: Grove Press (1970). First edition. Paperback original. Illustrated with over 100 stills from the film. Corners slightly bumped, tiny stain on rear wrap, still a nice and tight, near fine copy in wrappers as issued. Andy tries his hand at porn in a film featuring Viva and Louis Waldron.

252 WARREN, Robert Penn. Homage to Theodore Dreiser. New York: Random House (1971). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears. Signed by the author. Random House Editorial Fact Sheet laid in.

253 WEISBERGER, Lauren. The Devil Wears Prada. New York: Doubleday 2003. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the film directed by David Frankel and starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci.

254 (Western). WEST, Ward. Trouble Valley. London: George Newnes (1935). First edition. News agent’s stamp on front fly, boards a little faded, near fine in very good dustwrapper with slight internal stain and a little soiling. OCLC locates no copies of this edition.

255 WESTHEIMER, David. My Sweet Charlie. Garden City: Doubleday 1965. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with almost imperceptible fading of the red spine lettering, and a faint stain at the bottom of the rear flap fold. Basis for the 1970 television movie directed by Lamont Johnson, and featuring Patty Duke, who won an Emmy for Best Actress. A very nice copy.

256 WHEELOCK, John Hall. The Human Fantasy. Boston: Sherman, French 1911. First edition. Very good, the spine sunned with the extremities and paper label rubbed, without dustwrapper as issued. The author’s first solo book, Signed twice by him, once with a few lines on the book’s origins, and again after a poem, with a note regarding a woman mentioned. The book’s owner left extensive annotations in pencil on the front pastedown and fly about that woman, based on conversations with Wheelock.

257 WHEELOCK, John Hall. The Black Panther. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1922. First edition. Spine lettering a bit rubbed, thus near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Alice Hunt Bartlett, with the poem “The Lion-House” copied in Wheelock’s hand, dated 1923.

258 WHEELOCK, John Hall. The Bright Doom. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1927. First edition. Spine and corners rubbed, thus very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed to Willard Huntington Wright in the year of publication.

259 WHEELOCK, John Hall. What Is Poetry? New York: Scribner’s Sons (1963). First edition. Fine in two copies of the dustwrapper, the innermost near fine with a touch of wear and the outermost very good with the crown of the spine crumpled. Signed twice by the author.

260 WIDDEMER, Margaret. The Singing Wood. New York: Adelphi Company (1926). First edition. Small stain to the upper corner of the front board and front fly, slight discoloration to the boards, a very good or better copy in about very good dustwrapper with a little soiling and a couple of small chips. Inscribed by the author to artist and writer Claire Dana Mumford with a long poem, and using the entire front fly. Tipped to the front pastedown is a brief but warm letter to Mumford Signed “Margaret.” Widdemer shared the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for poetry (the second ever awarded) with Carl Sandburg. Very scarce title, especially in jacket.

261 WILBUR, Richard. Complaint. New York: The Phoenix Book Shop 1968. First edition. Fine in wrappers

and fine dustwrapper. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.

262 WILLARD, Nancy. Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, and Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1993). First edition. Paperback original. Very near fine in wrappers as issued. Very nicely Inscribed with an elaborate drawing by Willard to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Delbanco contributes a blurb that appears on the rear wrap.

263 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Un Tramway nomme Desir [A Street Car Named Desire]. (Paris): Bordas (1949). First French edition. Adapted by Jean Cocteau. French-folded wrappers with illustration by Cocteau. Some mild offsetting to the wrappers, pages a little browned, a

nice, very good or better copy. Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and basis for the film.

264 WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Make Light of It: Collected Stories. New York: Random House (1950). First edition. Just about fine in a price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with a few short tears, and a tiny chip on the front panel.

265 WILSON, Angus. For Whom the Cloche Tolls: A Scrap-Book of the Twenties. London: Methuen (1953). First edition. Line drawings by Philippe Jullian. Oblong octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

266 WILSON, Edmund and Edward Gorey. The Rats of Rutland Grange. (New York): Gotham Book Mart 1974. First edition. Wrappers. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Fine. One of 1000 copies.

Gillie Potter’s Copy267 (Wine). AYE, John (pseudonym of John Atkinson).

The Humour of Drinking. London: Universal Publications (1934). First edition. Spine lettering rubbed and

readable only with difficulty, scattered foxing to the text, a sound very good copy without dustwrapper. Ownership Signature of British comedian Gillie Potter, with his caricature bookplate (“Gillie Potter – Hogsnorton”). A study of the humor inspired by the consumption of alcohol. Gillie Potter was one of the first people ever to appear on television, one of four entertainers who had taken part in experimental

transmissions from the Crystal Palace. Beginning in 1936 he had his own comedy show on radio, and later television, broadcast from the fictitious hamlet of Hogsnorton. Ex-James Gabler. Gabler G8978.

268 WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1937). First American edition. Slight offsetting and tiny remnant on front fly from a clipping, thus near fine in very good price-clipped

dustwrapper with rubbing and small nicks and tears. Advance Review Copy, so stamped on the front fly.

269 WOOLF, Virginia. Tres Guineas [Three Guineas]. Buenos Aires: Sur (1941). First edition in Spanish of Three Guineas. Translated by Roman J. Jimenez. Fine in stiff wrappers in slightly edge-worn, near fine French-folded dustwrapper.

270 WOOLF, Virginia. El Cuarto De Jacob [Jacob’s Room] . Barcelona: Ediciones Lauro 1946. First edition in Spanish of Jacob’s Room. Translated by Simon Santaines. Pages a bit browned, else near fine in near fine, price-

clipped dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Scarce.

271 WOOLF, Virginia. The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays. London: Hogarth Press 1950. First English edition, preceded by the U.S. edition. Offsetting to preliminaries and rear endpapers from clippings, and slighty offset on two facing pages of text, thus only very good in price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear, and slight toning to the spine.

272 WOOLF, Virginia. Freshwater: A Comedy. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1976). First edition. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo. Illustrated by Loretta Trezzo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of soiling at the extremities. An Advance Review Copy with two examples of the dustwrapper.

273 WOON, Basil. The Paris That’s Not in the Guide Books. New York: Robert M. McBride 1931. Reprint (originally published in 1926). Near fine in colorful, good dustwrapper with some chipping.

274 WURLITZER, Rudolph. Nog. New York: Random House (1968). First edition. Owner’s name, a little scratching on the front board, and slight spotting on the topedge stain, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with small tears. Inscribed by the author beneath the owner’s name: “January 1969 from Rudy.” Wurlitzer’s first novel, a sixties road trip narrative that was compared to Pynchon’s work (Pynchon himself contributed a blurb to a later Wurlitzer novel). Wurlitzer also wrote numerous screenplays including the cult drag-racing film Two-Lane Blacktop starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, and the cult search-for-the-perfect-guitar film Candy Mountain with Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John, and many others.

275 ZUKOFSKY, Louis. All: The Collected Short Poems 1956-1964. New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1966). First edition. Fine in price-clipped, else near fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears, and the date of publication written on the front flap.

276 ZWEIG, Arnold. The Case of Sergeant Grischa. London: Martin Secker 1928. First edition in English. Translated by Eric Sutton. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. German World War One novel about a Russian soldier who escapes a German prison camp. Basis for a 1930 film directed by Herbert Brenon and featuring Chester Morris and Betty Compson. Very scarce in this condition.

277 ZWEIG, Stefan. Master Builders. New York: Viking Press 1939. First American edition. Offsetting to rear endpapers from a clipping, near fine in attractive, near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. First complete edition of this “trio of trilogy” biographies, some not previously published. Biographies of Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoeffsky; Holderlin, Nietzsche, and Kleist; and Casanova, Stendhal, and Tolstoy. Very scarce.