81.
SCHUYLER, James.
The Morning of the Poem.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1980).

First edition. 117 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a hit of sunning to spine. Cover art by Anne Dunn. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Young 3468.
$125

82.
SILVERBERG, Robert.
The Book of Skulls.
NY: Scribner’s (1982).

First edition. 222 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards. Young 3530.
$40

83.
STERN, James.
The Man Who Was Loved.
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1951).

First US edition. 234 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (June 18, 1951) and INSCRIBED by Stern, “For Andrew Malmsea / with gratitude for / his attention & to / SS ‘America’ / James Stern.” Malmsea’s bookplate inside front board. Young 3633*.
$125

84.
THOMPSON, Dunstan.
Lament for the Sleepwalker.
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1947.

First edition. 50 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short edge tears and light wear to crown. “Pearn, Pollinger & Higham” stamp to front free endpaper. Laid into this copy are three letters, one addressed to author agent Laurence Pollinger, the second to Frederic Warburg, of Martin Secker & Warburg, and the third to Roger Stenhouse, also of Martin Secker & Warburg, all relating to the appearance of poems in this volume, that already appeared in POEMS (Secker & Warburg, 1946). Young 3787*.
$200

85.
VOELCKER, Hunce.
joy rock statue ship.
NY: Cowstone Press (1968).

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems, with illustrations and design by Don Lewis. INSCRIBED by Voelcker inside the front cover, “To Don Allen w/love Hunce Voelcker.” Young 3955.
$35

86.
WARD, R.H.
The Offenders.
London: Cassell (1960).

First edition. 223 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with foxing to the edges of the unprinted rear jacker flap. Trouble at Elvey College. Young 3992.
$125

87.
WATSON, J. pseudonym for Larry Townsend.
The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
NY: Olympia Press/The Other Traveller (1971).

First edition. [224 pp]. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Watson’s secret record, “telling it the way it REALLY was!” Young 4010*.
$150

88.
WEIRAUCH, Anna Elisabet.
The Scorpion.
NY: Greenberg (1932).

First US edition. 396 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. Translated from the original German by Whittaker Chambers. One of the first German novels to present lesbian relationships in a positive light. Young 4043.
$750

89.
WELCH, Denton.
Brave and Cruel and other Stories.
London: Hamish Hamilton (1948).

First edition. 248 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with toned spine. Cover art by Welch. A collection of short stories. Young 4046*.
$350

90.
WHITE, Edmund.
Forgetting Elena.
NY: Random House (1973).

First edition. 184 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the top edge of the front panel. His first novel. INSCRIBED by White, “for Burton / all my best / Edmund White.” Review slip accompanies. Young 4077.
$150

91.
WIENERS, John.
Ace of Pentacles.
NY: James F. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 72 pp. Fine in black leatherette with gilt stamping to spine. Original unprinted glassine present, lightly toned and edgeworn. One of 75 numbered copies (this is copy #29) SIGNED by Wieners with a tipped-in original manuscript page. The page has a portion of “A Series” which appears on page 39 of the finished book. The page is SIGNED by Wieners at the foot of the page. Young 4100.
$750

92.
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
Androgyne, Mon Amour: Poems.
NY: New Directions (1977).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 92 pp. Faintest sunning to spine, else fine in full green cloth and fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Frontis a full-color reproduction of a painting by Williams. One of 200 numbered copies on Curtis Rag paper SIGNED by Williams. Young 4142*.
$225

93.
WINDHAM, Donald.
The Dog Star.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950.

First edition, signed issue. 221 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine lettering. One of an unstated limitation SIGNED by Windham on a leaf tipped-in before the half-title page. His first novel. Young 4199.
$250

94.
WRIGHT, Charles.
The Wig: A Mirror Image.
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1966).

First edition. 179 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Cover art by Milton Glaser. Wright’s second novel. Young 4237.
$55

95.
“Y” pseudonym for Carl Yaeger.
The Autobiography of an Englishman.
London: Paul Elek (1975).

First edition. 176 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a US$ price sticker on the front flap. Preface by S. Jacobson. Young 4250*.
$35

96.
YATES, Richard.
A Good School: A Novel.
NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1978).

First edition. 178 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Young 4252.
$100

97.
YOUNG, Ian with Richard Phelan.
Common or Garden Gods.
Scarborough: Catalyst (1976).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 79 pp. Fine in two-part cloth biding with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems by Young, one co-written with Richard Phelan, and one by Phelan on his own. One of 25 numbered copies SIGNED by Young and Phelan. Young 4257*.
$100

98.
ZAPATA, Luis.
Adonis García: A Picaresque Novel.
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1981).

First edition, lettered & signed issue. 208 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original Spanish by E.A. Lacey with his concluding note. Introduction by José Joaquín Blanco. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Zapata and Lacey. Young 4277a*.
$250

99.
ZILINSKY, Ursula.
Middle Ground.
Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1968).

First edition. 192 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a small scuff and short tear to rear panel. Laid into this copy is a TLS from a Lippincott editor presenting this copy to Kay Boyle. Young 4279*.
$75

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