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$750.00Guatemala City: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1965. First edition. [8 pp]. Very near fine in printed green wrappers. First edition of Coover’s first separate publication, an offprint with specially printed covers from the journal Universidad de San Carlos No. LXV. Brief note of introduction by Guillermo Putzeys Alvarez. All texts in Spanish. SIGNED by Coover, and SIGNED by his wife, Pilar Sanz de Coover, who translated one of the stories. Precedes THE ORIGIN OF THE BRUNISTS by a year.
$350.00[Andoversford]: Whittington Press (1984). First edition. Small 4to. x + [50 pp]. Fine in full canvas with printed spine and inset cover label. Illustrated with fifty wood-engravings by Craig, with one fold-out plate. One of 300 (of 350) numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper SIGNED by Craig.
$350.00Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 38 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper SIGNED by Crews. Two essays, “The Violence That Finds Us” and “The Buttondown Terror of David Duke.”$300.00NY: Morrow, 1971. First edition. 218 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Crews’ fourth novel.$500.00[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1981). First edition. 31 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else fine in marbled paper-covered boards with printed cover (lightly foxed) and spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies for the use of the author and publisher SIGNED by Crews.
$1,000.00[Sherman Oaks]: D’Ambrosio, 1986. First edition. 57 pp. Fine in elaborate binding and publisher’s clamshell box with printed spine label. One of 50 numbered copies largely on Mouette handmade paper SIGNED by D’Ambrosio. Additionally INSCRIBED by Stuart, “for David / with appreciation / Gloria Stuart” and by D’Ambrosio,. “To David - with best wishes - / Joe D’Ambrosio / ‘88.”
$450.00London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. First edition. 256 pp. Very light foxing to the least leaf, else very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light chipping to top edge and crown, and an internally mended tear to the rear panel near the spine. An early collection of Dahl stories.$250.00Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press (1979). First edition. 185 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine. Davenport's least common trade title. Crane A11.a1.$200.00NY: Samuel French, 1926. First edition. 138 pp. Inked initials to front cover, light wear to base and crown of spine. In all, near fine in printed wrappers. The loosely adapted source for Danny Kaye’s first movie, “Up in Arms,” in which he portrayed a hypochondriacal G.I. The play itself is based on a 1922 novel by E.J. Rath.$250.00NY: Grove Press (1975). First US edition. 265 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Sam Flores. Winner of the 1973 Prix Médicis.
$450.00NY: Museum of Modern Art (1976). First edition. 110 pp. Fine in full leatherette with inset cover illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. Introductory essay by John Szarkowski. Forty-eight color reproductions. The first one-man show of color photographs ever presented by the Museum of Modern Art. A Roth 101 title.$500.00NY: Random House (1939). First trade edition, first issue. 339 pp. Light soiling to bottom edge, else very near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with several short edge-tears and wear to base and crown of spine.
$200.00NY: Equinox, 1932. First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Illustrated with four drawings by Albert Heckman. Original very good unprinted mailing envelope (split along two sides) accompanies. Number one of the “Equinox Quarters.” Peterson C17a.
$45.00NY: Spiral Press/Random House (1951). First printing of this edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with integral printed dust jacket.
$450.00Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press [1970]. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. First edition; an offprint from MOSAIC III:4. INSCRIBED by Fowles inside the front cover, “Allen [McGuire] / One of a very limited / number - twenty-five if / I remember / John Fowles.”$1,000.00Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First edition, Roman numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Lacks the unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 26 copies SIGNED by Fowles, “I, fuge... / John Fowles / 7 June 1983.”
$500.00NY: Knopf, 1975. Uncorrected proof. 725 pp. “10” penned to spine, else near fine in printed red wrappers. Publication information taped to front cover, promotional flyer stapled to verso, with a bit of a rust stain from the staple. Laid-in is a holograph note, “Geoff Wolff / 1,500 words / Deadline: Sept. 1” and a printed slip providing essentially the same information, but spelling out “Geoffrey Wolff.” An uncommon proof. Gaddis’ second novel, winner of the 1976 National Book Award.$850.00NY: Harcourt, Brace (1955). Uncorrected proof. 956 pp. A small scuff along the bottom edge of the rear panel, else near fine in printed wrappers.$350.00Decatur: Wisteria Press, 1995. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 20 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with leather spine. Fine elaborate publisher’s clamshell case. Frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser. One of 26 lettered copies on Twinrocker paper SIGNED by Gibbons and Moser, and accompanied by a loose SIGNED copy of the Moser print.$450.00NY: Random House (1935) . First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 331 pp. Fine in full black moire silk. Very good publisher’s slipcase with two short splits and light edgewear. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Dorothy Bussy. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Gide.$250.00Paris: NRF (1924). First edition. Three volumes, each near fine in printed wrappers with slight leans to spines. One of 550 numbered copies on Van Gelder paper.
$450.00NY: St. Martin's (1987). First US edition. 501 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some very light edgewear. Goddard’s first novel, nominated for the Booker Prize. Promotional flyer laid in.
$750.00NY: Doubleday (1996). First US edition. xxix + 769 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. This edition based on the translation by Georges Peronansky and Tatjana Varsavsky. SIGNED by Gorbachev on the title page.
$150.00Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press (1982). First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Gordon on the title page. Halftone photographs and text combined and stretched.$250.00NY: Dutton, 1929. First US edition. 269 pp. Very near fine in full green cloth with black lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Green’s second novel.$450.00London: Bodley Head (1980). First edition, first issue. 139 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, “For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene.”$450.00London: Bodley Head (1961). First edition. 123 pp. Light foxing to fore-edge, else near fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, “For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene.”
$2,500.00London: Bodley Head (1966). First edition. 313 pp. Light foxing to fore-edge, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel and light wear to crown. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, “For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene.” Based on the Haiti of Duvalier, who was not pleased. Source for the film of the same title starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, and Peter Ustinov.
$125.00Durham: Friends of the Library, NCWC (1981). First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with just a bit of rust to the staples. One of fifty numbered copies SIGNED by Gurganus. His first book.
$350.00Madrid & Palma de Mallorca: Papeles de Son Armadans (1962). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [18 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. A section of Hawkes’ first novel, THE CANNIBAL. Translated into Spanish by Jorge A. Franco Irizarri with his introduction. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Hawkes.$200.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1994). Uncorrected proof. 464 pp. Near fine in printed yellow wrappers with a small pressure-dent to the front cover, and a little wrinkle at spine. Promotion sticker on front cover. INSCRIBED by Heller on the title page, “To David, / Good luck with / this one -- for both of / us. Joseph Heller.”
$750.00Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. First edition. 249 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to base and crown, and sunning to red lettering on spine. First novel by Himes, in much better condition than normally encountered.