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1 XMAS List: Highlights and New Arrivals Quill & Brush 1137 Sugarloaf Mountan Road, Dickerson, MD PHONE: FAX: HOME PAGE: Allen and Patricia Ahearn Elizabeth Fisher, Carl Hahn All books are American or British FIRST EDITIONS unless otherwise noted. Dustwrappers are present if stated. Returns may be made within 10 days for any reason. Post is paid if check accompanies order. We accept AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD and VISA, if you prefer to charge, but you will be billed for postage. Reciprocal dealer courtesies extended.

2 1. Abbey, Edward. THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. (1975). First edition. Radical environmental classic. Lower tips lightly bumped, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with a few lightly soiled, shallow creases in upper edge of rear panel. A very bright copy. $450. HIS FIRST BOOK 2. Agee, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. New Haven: Yale University, First edition of his first book. A book of poems published in the Yale series of Younger Poets with an introduction by Archibald MacLeish. Tiny bookplate on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap), subtle sunning to spine and edges, still a fine copy in bright, clean dustwrapper with slight darkening to spine and top edge of rear panel, and only very shallow chipping along the top edge. $ Barrie, J. M. PETER AND WENDY. New York: Scribner's Sons, First American edition. Illustrated with full-page monochrome plates by F.D. Bedford. Bound in gilt pictorial decorated green cloth. Published the same year as the English edition. Gilt pictorial spine just a bit faded and the barest of wear on corners, otherwise fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. $ Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. New York: Vanguard Press (1947). First edition. Faint, unavoidable offset to pastedowns (from binding) and minor edge rubbing, otherwise fine in priceclipped dustwrapper with slightly faded spine, white spine lettering tanned, a few chips, a few closed tears (with tape repair on verso) and some shallow damp staining to flap folds. Still, an attractive copy. $500. LARGE, BEAUTIFULLY DETAILED ENGRAVINGS 5. (Botanical). Sargent, Charles Sprague. THE SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America... Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., First edition of this monumental work, covering every species of tree native to North America (excluding Mexico). Folio volumes with each genus described and accompanied by numerous large, beautifully detailed engravings. Sargent ( ) not only describes the physical aspects, locations and ecological role of each species, but also their historical backgrounds, including those of the people who discovered and named them. The engravings were all done after the original drawings by Charles Edward Faxon ( ), an instructor of botany at the Bussey Institution at Harvard. He was appointed assistant director of the Arnold Arboretum by Sargent, where he was in charge of the library and herbarium. Sargent graduated from Harvard University before serving in the Civil War. He became professor of horticulture at Harvard, and was later appointed Arnold Professor of Arboriculture, a position he held until his death. He was the founder and first director of the Arnold Arboretum, which, due largely to his efforts, now houses one of the finest collections of botanicals in the United States. 740 engraved plates. Complete in 14 volumes. All volumes in the original publisher boards with spine labels. The spines are a little tanned or aged and a few corners bumped but certainly minimal. The best conditioned of this complete 14-volume set we have seen. $7, Burroughs, William S. PANTAPON ROSE. (Charleston, WV: Univ. of Charleston, 1995). First edition. Lyrics for the song "Pantapon Rose," written in January Based on a character who appears in several of Burroughs's books, a whore who "occasionally had some Pantapon to sell." Number 18 of 60 SIGNED, numbered broadsides printed in burgundy on tan paper (8.5 x 10.75") and laid into a folded, printed portfolio cover together with the colophon page. Housed in publisher's black envelope (printed in white). Fine as issued, and scarce. $ Bush, George H. W. Valdez, David GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH: A Photographic Profile. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press (1997). First edition. One of 1,250 SIGNED copies. Signed by both the former President and the compiler, David Valdez. Oversize, about 11 x 11 inches. Photographs from his birth in 1924 until he left office in 1993, tracing his life and careers. Color and blackand-white photos. Nice production. Dark blue cloth in dark blue cloth slipcase with Presidential seal. As issued without dustwrapper. As new. $1, Capote, Truman. IN COLD BLOOD: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Random House (1965). First edition. His most famous book. The issue with the SIGNED tipped-in leaf. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor edgewear and one small closed tear on back cover. $1, Capote, Truman. MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS. New York: Random House (1980). First edition. One of 350 SIGNED, numbered copies issued without dustwrapper in slipcase. Cloth spine very lightly faded, in reddish brown paper-covered slipcase which is fine. $ Cary, Joyce. THE HORSE'S MOUTH: A Novel. New York: Harper & Bros. (1944). First American edition. SIGNED and dated 1949 by the author. Perhaps his most famous book, the final volume in his "First Trilogy." Very light offset to endpapers, otherwise fine in bright dust jacket with minor edge wear and a few closed creased tears. $750.

3 11. Catlin, George. THE NORTH AMERICAN IN- DIANS. Edinburgh: John Grant, First of this edition. Two volumes. 58 letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of Indians in North America, written during eight years travel among the wildest tribes, from Catlin attempted to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of animals, villages, games, etc. Includes 400 illustrations in black-and-white, engraved from the author's original paintings. With a folding, colored map of Indian localities in Vol 1, and map of United States Indian frontier in Vol 2, as called for. Original dark red cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in pictorial gilt and black on the covers; top edge gilt. A very nice set, with minor wear on corners & spine ends, and some minor foxing on endpapers (all other pages free of foxing and bright). Bookplates in each volume of Cecil William Kaye. $1, Christie, Agatha. THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co-mpany, The second A- merican edition of her first book. As Christie collectors may know, the 1920 American first edition and subsequent first English edition sell for $50,000 or more in dust jacket; even without a jacket, they go for $5,000 to $10,000. So, this edition--with its pictorial front panel the same as on the original edition's--is a reasonable alternative. The publication date, 1926, appears on the title page. The book is very good to fine; in a dust jacket chipped on spine ends and corners, but with no lettering affected. $3, Conkling, Roscoe and Margaret THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, First edition. Three volumes in all. Butterfield's instructions, "nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!" The first overland postal service from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast; its organization and operation. Two volumes, 412 and 446 pages including index; plus an Atlas with 77 plates and three large folding maps. Uniform, original red cloth bindings a bit faded on spines, but still readable. Very good to fine condition. Bookplates of author Duane Cummins in each volume. $1, Conroy, Pat. THE BOO. Verona, VA: McClure Press (1970). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Conroy's four years at the Citadel where Lt. Colonel Nugent Courvoisie, "The Boo," was in charge of meting out punishment to the young men accused of breaking Citadel law. Conroy was later involved in establishing a scholarship fund in the Boo's name. A fine copy in blue cloth with white lettering; in a fine white dustwrapper with only the barest soiling and two tiny closed tears. $2, Conroy, Pat. THE GREAT SANTINI. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. His first novel, and in our humble opinion a great book, made into a wonderful movie with Robert Duval as Santini (not all our friends appreciated it as much as we). Red dot on bottom page edges, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with a few unobtrusive nicks but without any foxing on the back, which is usually found with this title. $ Coolidge, Susan. NINE LITTLE GOSLINGS. Boston: Roberts Brothers, First edition. By Sarah Chauncy Woolsey, written under the pseudonym "Susan Coolidge." Coolidge first gained popularity for her "Katy Did" series in 1872; the series--a greater literary influence in England than in the United States--has since been recognized as a precursor to the popular British girls' school stories that proliferated in the twentieth century. Nine stories with nursery-rhyme titles: "Goosey, Goosey Gander," "Little Bo-Peep," "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," etc. Illustrated throughout at chapter headings, and with a full-page frontis drawing. Gift inscription dated 1875, spine ends, hinges and corners showing wear, and black endpapers with a few small skinned marks, but still very good. This 1875, first printing seems scarce. $500. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF HIS FIRST BOOK 17. Crews, Harry. THE GOSPEL SINGER. New York: Wm. Morrow

4 & Co., First edition of the author's first book. Book collector's bookplate SIGNED by the author, laid in. The book is as new and the dustwrapper has the barest wear AND the dark blue endpapers are not faded or mottled. The only copy we have ever handled in this condition. $2, Crumley, James. THE WRONG CASE. New York: Random House (1975). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST MYSTERY. His second and, to our mind, still his best book. INSCRIBED, "Dear... 'Thanks old buddy' James Crumley." Tiny dig on front cover (binding error) and Random remainder "house" on bottom edge, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with a few light creases. $450. FIRST ISSUE OF DARWIN S FIRST BOOK uniformally bound in nineteenth century, half leather with marbled boards, endpapers and page edges, with the third volume (Darwin's) brighter than the rest. Half-title page in volume III only. Some wear and minor reinforcing of bindings, marbeled boards of the Appendix to Vol. II somewhat scuffed, spine lettering faded but readable; some staining and foxing to text pages and plates. Altogether, a nice set. $15, Darwin, Charles. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: By Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, First edition, only issue. The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century. Only 1250 copies of the first edition were printed, and this copy is one of the earliest ones, with the earliest ads (June 1859). Arguably "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman) and "the most important single work in science" (Dibner 199). "What the dropping of the first atomic bomb was to the twentieth century, the publication of Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES was to the nineteenth century. Battle lines were drawn on both religious and scientific grounds" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Printing and the Mind of Man 344. Freeman 373, binding variant a, no priority established. With one folding table and 32 pp. ads. A fine copy in the original green blind-and-gilt stamped cloth; spine area reinforced with new matching cloth behind, and with new linen hinges added. In specially made, velvet-lined, clamshell box with rounded leather spine, raised bands and leather spine labels. $175, Darwin, Charles, Robert FitzRoy and Phillip Parker King. NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGES OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE. London: Henry Colburn, First edition. The five years of the second of these voyages were among the most important, if not the most important, years in Darwin's intellectual life as they prepared him for his lifework. The narratives of these expeditions--conducted between the years 1826 and describe the examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Four volumes, including the Appendix to Volume II. Volume I contains King's account of the expedition in the Adventure made between 1826 and 1830, surveying the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In Vol. II (and the appendix volume), Capt. Fitzroy provides the narrative of the Beagle's second voyage, between 1831 and 1836 to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Volume III, the Darwin volume, constitutes the first issue of Darwin's first book, which was also issued separately later the same year as JOURNAL OF THE RESEARCHES INTO THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES. The large (loose) map of South America intended for Vol. I is in a pocket at the rear of Vol. III, and is in very good condition. One chart of South America is bound in Volume I (as called for). High-quality images of the other 7 loose maps/charts provided. The four volumes are 21. Darwin, Charles. "On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants": In the Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol IX, Nos. 33 & 34. London: The Linnean Society, The original publication of this work, constituting the first 118 pages of the 128 page journal (Freeman 833). A rare item that was followed by two offprints and an enlarged published version in Fragile paper covers, which appear to have been reattached, are a little soiled and aged, but still very good, especially considering the age and fragility of this item. Housed in specially made clamshell box with leather spine. $7, Darwin, Charles. "On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants." London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green The first offprint from the original publication of this work in The Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol IX, Nos. 33 & 34. Freeman (834) describes this as the first offprint with publisher as above, and with the further publishers Williams & Norgate (couldn't get it all in) and he states there is no comma after Roberts which is true here. This copy matches the description except that Freeman states the cover has "[Price Four Shillings]" on title page, and this copy does not have that

5 line. Pagination: cover as title page, [2] with title, contents and text, and plain back cover. A rare item followed by another offprint (with a different publisher), and an enlarged published version in Front cover worn on edges and with few tiny holes. Plain back cover with some foxing which has offset to last page, otherwise very good. Covers a little soiled and aged but still very good in specially made clamshell box with leather spine. $5, , Candolle thanks Darwin for sending EXPRESSION, "which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule" and "criticizes F. Galton's HEREDITARY GENUIS [1869] for neglecting environmental influence" (Darwin Correspondence Project). According to Freeman in CHARLES DARWIN: A COMPANION (1978), Darwin sent a first of ORIGINS to de Candolle; Candolle visited Darwin at Down House at least once; and Candole's GEOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE RAISSONEE "was very important to [Darwin] in his study of cultivated plants. A bright copy, bumped at the top of the rear cover, but otherwise nearly fine. $20,000. WORK IN WHICH THE WORD EVOLUTION FIRST APPEARS 23. Darwin, Charles. THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX. London: John Murray, First edition, second issue, with "When" as first word, page 297, volume one; and with the list of works-- versus errata--on the verso of the title leaf, volume two. Darwin's most famous work after ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, and the one in which the word evolution first appears--on page 2 of the first volume--before its appearance in the sixth edition of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES the following year. (Freeman). Original polished green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated on the spines, decorated in blind on the covers. Corners a bit rubbed and spine ends very lightly frayed, with spine of volume one worn more than that of volume two. $3,000. PRESENTATION COPYTO BOTANIST ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE 24. Darwin, Charles. THE EXPRES- SION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS: With Photographic and Other Illustrations. London: John Murray, First edition, second issue, with misprint p.208, "htat." Seven photographic plates (3 of which are folding) numbered with Arabic numerals--the probable earliest state of the plates (Freeman 1142). PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED ON THE FIRST BLANK PAGE, "From the Author," presumably by one of the publisher's clerks. Darwin often requested his books be sent to colleagues by the publisher on his behalf: "You can write from the author on the first page if you please" (C. Darwin in a letter to the publisher of CORAL REEFS). This copy with a label typed in French on the front pastedown indicating it is from the library of DE CANDOLLE. Alphonse de Candolle was a widely respected Swiss botanical taxonomist with whom Darwin corresponded over the course of several decades. In a letter from Candolle to Darwin dated Jan, 14, 25. DeLillo, Don. AMERICANA. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in dustwrapper with just a few spots of foxing on verso. $500. SIGNED FIRST BOOK 26. Dos Passos, John. ONE MAN'S INITIATION London: George Allen (1920). First edition of the author's first book. SIGNED "John Dos Passos/ Aug 31 - '40." There were 1,250 set of sheets: 750 for this edition, with the remaining 500 copies shipped to Doran for the U.S. edition. "Second" state with unbroken "d" and the word "flat" perfect on page 35, line 32--although not necessarily issued after the first state in all cases, as the sheets were used at random (including those sent to the U.S.). Pale-blue mesh cloth shows barest edgewear; in a very nice dust jacket, with spine just slightly tanned and spine ends very slightly worn. Scarce in nice jacket and signed. $2, Doves Press. PERVIGILIUM VENERIS. Hammersmith: Doves Press, First thus. Title page printed in red with text in red and black. Original gilt stamped vellum by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press. One of 150 copies. There were also 12 copies on vellum. Latin pastoral poem of unknown authorship, a hymn to love composed in the earliest centuries A.D. Covers a little bowed but still fine, in specially made, plain slipcase. $500. SCARCE ENGLISH EDITION 28. Dreiser, Theodore. SISTER CARRIE. London: Heinemann, First U. K. edition of his first book which

6 was suppressed in the U. S. Pictorial cloth mildly faded on spine, faint stain on rear board, free endpapers show unavoidable darkening (from binding), bookseller blindstamp on front endpaper, and outer corner of first few pages gently creased. Still, a very attractive copy of a scarce book. $1, Eliot, T. S. THE WASTE LAND. Richmond, Surrey: Hogarth Press, First British edition of his most influential book. Handprinted by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at their press in an edition of about 460 copies. The label is bordered with asterisks: one of three variants which Gallup thought were "used, apparently simultaneously." Bradley considered this the first state. Original blue marbled-paper boards, with white paper title label to upper board printed in black. The spine is a bit faded and has been repaired professionally, which is not uncommon. Issued without a dust jacket. $4, Eliot, T. S. ASH WEDNESDAY. New York/London: The Fountain Press/Faber & Faber, First edition. Number 14 of 600 copies SIGNED by Eliot. The front endpaper has a few tiny spots, otherwise very fine in slipcase. Nicest copy we've seen in years. $ Fante, John. ASK THE DUST. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, First of this edition with a new preface by Charles Bukowski. Originally published in 1939 and called by the L. A. Times a "masterwork on Los Angeles." One of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. Review copy with slip laid in. Also includes publisher's "New Titles" brochure advertising this and other titles, and a separate 4-page leaflet reprinting in total Bukowski's preface, which would be a Bukowski "A" item in our opinion. Fine in plain unchipped acetate jacket, as issued, showing just a bit of aging. $1, Farrell, James T. JUDGMENT DAY. New York: Vanguard Press, First edition. The third book in his STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY. First state with "thay" for "they" p.218, line 3. Fine in dustwrapper with wear to edges, particularly the spine edges. Still, nice and bright. $500. SIGNED BY FAULKNER, A STUNNING COPY 33. Faulkner, William. GO DOWN, MOSES: And Other Stories. New York: Random House (1942). First edition, limited issue. Number 99 of only 100 copies SIGNED by Faulkner. Issued without a dust jacket or slipcase. Fine, in custom case. A stunning copy. $27, Faulkner, William. GO DOWN, MOSES: and Other Stories. New York: Random House (1942). First edition. The variant in red cloth. Few light foxed marks on endpapers, otherwise fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with shows edgewear but only minute chipping. $1, Findley, Timothy. THE LAST OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE. Toronto: General Publishing (1967). First edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED to his "Uncle Doug": "I dropped in to see Father and I thought perhaps you might enjoy my signing this - my first novel. Best wishes Tif / Timothy Findley Covington [?] October 10,1967." There is offset to the front endpaper where the inscription is written, otherwise fine in price-clipped dustwrapper. $ Fitzgerald, F. Scott. THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. New York: Scribner's Sons, First edition. The author's first book, which established him on the Roaring Twenties scene. Lacking the rare dustwrapper, but it would be hard to find a nicer copy. The top front corner has a tiny worn spot, otherwise fine and bright, with the pages clean, endpapers white and gilt spine lettering as nice as we ve had in years. $4, Forester, C. S. TWO AND TWENTY. New York: D. Appleton & Co., First U. S. edition. The story of a pugilist-poet who has foregone his medical career. Close to fine in lavender-colored cloth with gold lettering, which, as you can imagine, doesn't hold up well. In dust jacket, with professional repair primarily on folds. Very scarce in dust jacket. $1,250. SIGNED NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 38. Gaddis, William. J R: A NOVEL. New York: Alfred Knopf, First edition. The winner of the National Book Award for fiction. SIGNED on the half title page. Review copy with slip laid in. Novelist, essayist and critic Doris Grumbach's copy with her initials in pencil at bottom of front endpaper. Fine in dustwrapper. $ Gardner, Erle Stanley. THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP. A Perry Mason Story. New York: William Morrow and Company, First edition. Endpapers lightly offset near hinge and small name stamp on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with very light rubbing, light edgewear and some chipping to spine ends and tips (not affecting any lettering). A bright, attractive copy of a scarce book. $ Ginsberg, Allen. WALES - A VISITATION JULY 29TH (London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968). First edition. Copy number 25 of 100 SIGNED,

7 NUMBERED copies. Fine in dustwrapper and original glassine. Includes 45 RPM record of Ginsberg reading the poem, which appears to be unplayed. A beautiful copy of a scarce item. $600. INSCRIBED BY GREENE TO HIS ACCOUNTANT 41. Greene, Graham. DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA: Or, THE BOMB PARTY. London: Bodley Head (1980). First edition, first issue with "leave alone" p.(9):4. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Greene to A.J. Cheshire, his accountant. Near fine in a priceclipped dustwrapper. $1,000. EARLY WORK 42. Gurganus, Allan. "Drug Abuse" in RAMA PIPIEN, The Peoplesmedia Digest. Newcastle, Calif.: Substance, First edition. October/November issue: Rama Pipien's "Autumn Collection," including Gurganus's "Drug Abuse," a six-panel comic strip. Back cover states "Second Printing," which seems odd as we've never seen a journal state that. At any rate, a rare item, INSCRIBED "To Rolland [Comstock] - The only detective who's ever found this -- Yours--Allan Gurganus " Also includes Jane Fonda and John (and Yoko) Lennon, among others. Blue, stapled paperwraps, printed in black, 62 pages. "Dup" handwritten on front cover, light shelfwear, otherwise fine. Publisher's subscription pleas laid in. $ Hardy, Thomas. THE TRUMPET-MAJOR. New York: Henry Holt and Company, First U.S. edition. Number 118 in Holt's "Leisure Hour" series. Pictorial, burnt-orange colored cover shows minor soiling and edgewear, but still a very nice copy. $ Harrison, Jim. PLAIN SONG. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. (1965). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED on the title page. Very light foxing to pastedowns, otherwise near fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with faint soiling and one inconspicuous tear (bottom rear panel, near flap fold). Few pages still unopened. $ Harrison, Jim. A GOOD DAY TO DIE: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster (1973). First edition of his relatively scarce, second book. Barely perceptible foxing to page top edge, otherwise a fine, bright copy in equally nice dustwrapper with a touch of very minor shelf wear to base of spine. Quite attractive. $ Hemingway, Ernest, introduction. KIKI'S MEMOIRS: Kiki of Montparnesse. Paris: Edward Titus/Black Manikin Press, First edition. Stiff paperwraps with printed wraparound band. Hemingway introduction. Issued in plain glassine wrapper and unprinted, cardboard mailing slipcase. There are three small areas on cover that appear to be lightly foxed, otherwise, the book is fine. The printed wrap-around band has one small chip at fold and a bit of fading on the side facing the opening of the cardboard slipcase (which is complete, square, but has some darkening of the top edge and is lightly soiled). The glassine wrapper has split down one side and some edges are rough. An attractive copy. $ Hemingway, Ernest. WINNER TAKE NOTHING. New York: Scribner's Sons, First edition. His third collection of stories, fourteen in total with nine being published for the first time. The book itself is very fine with the gold labels bright and shiny, with the only drawback a bookplate stamped on front end paper. The black first-issue dustwrapper (with quote from Laurence Stallings' review of Death in the Afternoon) has had some minor professional repair and is bright and unfaded. $1, Hemingway, Ernest. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, First edition. Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with slight edgewear at corners and spine ends. $2, Hemingway, Ernest. THE FIFTH COLUMN: and the First Forty-Nine Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, First edition. Includes Hemingway's first full-length play, THE FIFTH COLUMN, as well as the first book appearance for four of the forty-nine stories. Fine in dustwrapper with very slight edgewear and spine a bit darkened. Nice copy of this title. $2, Hillenbrand, Laura. SEABISCUIT: An American Legend. New York: Random House (2001). First edition. SIGNED by author. One of the surprise bestsellers of recent years. Seabiscuit, although undersized, was one of the most electrifying and popular horses in sports history; and one of the biggest stories of it united the country in that depression era. Basis for the film starring Toby McGuire, Jeff Bridges, and Chris Cooper, which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards. Fine in first dust jacket

8 without the audio book reference and with price of $ $ Hillerman, Tony. THE GHOSTWAY: The Door into Darkness. (San Diego): D[ennis] McM[illan], (1984). First edition. One of 300 SIGNED numbered copies. The true first edition, preceding the Harper edition. A Jim Chee mystery. Fine in dustwrapper. $ Hillerman, Tony. THE GHOSTWAY. New York: Harper & Row (1985). First trade edition, preceded by a limited edition issued by Dennis McMillan. SIGNED by Hillerman on half-title page and with a full-page SIGNED drawing by Ernie Franklin as a frontispiece on the formerly blank page facing the title page. Fine in dustwrapper and specially made slipcase. $600. MOVIE SOURCE -- SIGNED 53. Hilton, James. KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR. London: Ernest Benn Limited (1933). First edition. SIGNED by the author, "Sincerely James Hilton," on previous owner's bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Because he can pass as a Russian, an Englishman, played by Robert Donat in the 1937 film, is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in He becomes imprisoned as a revolutionary in Siberia until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra, played by Marlene Detrich. The book is fine and clean and the dust jacket is very nice with only tiny chips on corners and the spine tanned. Scarce in a nice dust jacket. $750. SCARCE IN HARDBACK; THE ONLY ONE ON THE 'NET 54. Hurston, Zora Neale. (Alice Walker). I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I'M LAUGHING: And Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive. (Old Westbury): The Feminist Press, (1979). First edition. A Hurston reader edited and with a five-page introductory dedication and 17- page afterword by Alice Walker; and an introduction by Mary Helen Washington. Published simultaneously in paperwraps making the hardback very scarce, bordering on rare. Fine in a price-clipped, white, pictorial dustwrapper with a few tiny chips and closed tears and the pink title letters on spine a little faded but still very clear. The only copy on the net. $ Isherwood, Christopher. GOODBYE TO BERLIN. New York: Random House, First American edition produced from English sheets. A collection of stories including "Sally Bowles." It is one of Cyril Connolly's 100 key books (Modern Movement #86). It was also the basis for numerous plays and the movie "Cabaret," directed by Bob Fosse and with Joel Gray as the Master of Ceremonies, reprising his role in the 1987 stage production. Also starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York. Professional repair to back hinge where the paper had split, otherwise a fine bright copy with the barest wear, in dust jacket with minor repair on corners and spine ends. Nice copy. $ Isherwood, Christopher. PRATER VIOLET. London: Methuen & Co. (1946). First U. K. edition, preceded by the U. S. in INSCRIBED "For Reginald Addyes-Scott, with best wishes from Christopher Isherwood/ July 1946." Isherwood's story of the making of the title film and his exploration of the personalities involved. The purple in the cloth cover of the book offset to the back panel of the dust jacket and the cover shows minor wear, otherwise very good or better in dustwrapper. $ Jackson, Shirley. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. London: Michael Joseph (1960). First U. K. edition. Certainly one of her best and, if we may say, most haunting books. Very fine in dustwrapper. An almost new copy with only a hint of soiling on white back panel. The basis for the 1960's film and a 1999 remake starring Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta- Jones. $ James, Henry. THE EUROPEANS: A Sketch. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., First U.S. edition. Although title page states 1879, actually published in October 1878, just one month after the London edition. This copy in dark green cloth boards (also issued in bright green and terra-cotta). Minor rubbing to spine ends and one tiny nick at head of spine, otherwise a fine, bright copy. $ Joyce, James. ULYSSES. Hamburg -Paris Bologna: Odyssey Press, First of this edition: "Issued by Odyssey Press December The present volume may be regarded as the defintitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request, by Stuart Gilbert." Two volumes, 792 pages. Plain wraps printed in red. Spine a little darkened, top of volume two has first few pages creased and very minor wear on corners. Very good copy of this fragile set. $ Kafka, Franz. AMERIKA. Norfolk: New Directions (1940). First U. S. edition of his first English translation. Bookplate on front pastedown, unavoidable offset (from binding glue) at inner hinges, one corner very lightly bumped, otherwise fine in dustwrapper

9 showing light edge wear and a bit of fading at spine. $ Kennedy, William. THE ALBANY CYCLE: LEGS, BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME & IRONWEED. New York: Coward, McCann/Viking (1975/78/83). First editions of author's trilogy set in his home town of Albany. All three volumes are SIGNED by Kennedy. The books are all in fine condition. The first title's dust jacket shows very light aging on spine and a few tiny chips and small closed tears; the second, one of our favorites of his books, shows minor rubbing on corners and spine ends and two short closed tears, and the third dust jacket is fine. After being turned down by many publishers, the 3rd volume, IRONWEED, won the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Critics Circle award. This copy with the error p.205:22, "perceivced" for "perceived" but it seems to be in all copies (shows up as late as the fifth printing). $1, Kerouac, Jack. THE DHARMA BUMS. New York: Viking Press, First edition. Pastedowns lightly foxed, slight offset to endpapers, otherwise near fine in dustwrapper with a small creased closed tear at top of back panel, minor chips at corners and spine ends, and the rubbing to black portions that seems to be evident on the vast majority of copies. $ Kerouac, Jack. EXCERPTS FROM VISIONS OF CODY. (New York: New Directions, (1959). First edition. A 120-page excerpt from the novel. One of 750 SIGNED numbered copies. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Purple spine cloth just a bit faded, otherwise fine in plain acetate wrapper, as it was issued, but this isn't the original. $2, King, Stephen. THE SHINING. New York: Doubleday & Co., First edition. His third book, made into one of his most memorable movies by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson. The barest wear on top of cloth spine, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with the spine just a bit faded and very minor wear on spine ends. $ King, Stephen, intro., Mary Shelley. FRANKENSTEIN: Or the Modern Prometheus. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., First of this edition with illustrations by Bernie Wrightson and an introduction by King. One of 500 copies SIGNED by King and Wrightson. Nice production with full -page black-and-white illustrations. Bound in black cloth with gold-and-blue illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Fine, as issued, without dust jacket in plain papercovered slipcase with the barest wear. $ Leonard, Elmore. FIFTY-TWO PICK UP. New York: Delacorte Press (1974). First edition. SIGNED by author. An early mystery and his first to be set in Detroit. A fine copy in dust jacket, and scarce in this condition. $ Lewis, Sinclair. DODSWORTH. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1929). First edition in the first-issue dustwrapper without reviews on front flap. Basis for the 1936 film written by Lewis and Sidney Howard and starring Walter Huston, Mary Astor, David Niven, et al. Fine in dustwrapper very slightly darkened at spine, with tiny chips at corners, and splits in front spine fold and flap fold neatly repaired with archival tape on verso. A bright, lovely copy and scarce thus. $1,750. A SIGNED CONNOLLY Lewis, Wyndham. TARR. London: The Egoist Ltd., First U.K. edition; preceded by the U.S. edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper and dated Number 29 on Cyril Connolly's list of 100 key books from 1880 to 1950, THE MODERN MOVEMENT. Spine a little wrinkled and small repair at top, otherwise very good with lettering bright. Lacking the dustwrapper, but scarce signed. $ MacDonald, John D. THE EMPTY COPPER SEA A Travis McGee Novel. Philadelphia/New York: Lippincott (1978). First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Emily/ John D Mac Donald/ 17 Nov '78." Light foxing on edges and one corner slightly bumped, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with light rubbing on corners and spine ends. $500. SCARCE INSCRIBED 70. MacDonald, John D. BARRIER ISLAND. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Captain Roo - Any friend of T. McGee is a friend of mine! Best regards/ John D. MacDonald/ 19 Aug '86." A novel about a land swindle in the fragile islands off the Mississippi River. Fine in a bright white dustwrapper. His last book and scarce inscribed. $ Mailer, Norman. THE WHITE NEGRO: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster. (San Francisco): City Lights Books (1957). First edition, presumed second printing with front cover price 50 cents; the first is priced 35 cents and is rare. In fact, the second is scarce as one sees the presumably third printing--priced 75 cents--the most often. SIGNED BY MAILER. In this essay, originally published in "Dissent" magazine. Mailer took on the complicated subject of race

10 relations. The wave of young white people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s were so enamored of jazz and swing music that they adopted the black culture as their own. They would associate mainly with black people, distancing themselves from white society. This movement gave rise to the hipster of the 1940s, the beats of the 1950s, and the hippie of the 1960s. Black-andwhite, stapled paperwraps with mild aging to white portions, a fine copy of this title which shows up with more wear in most cases. $500. SCARCE CONTEMPORARILY INSCRIBED COPY 72. Marquand, John P. THE LATE GEORGE APLEY: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., First edition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. INSCRIBED, "For Henry T. Brown Jr with kindest regards, John P. Marquand." Also includes two typed letters to Brown signed by Marquand: one saying he can send the books, and one apologizing for getting his name wrong. Brown, a famous book collector, always went by H. Tatnall Brown. The letters are tipped to the endpaper and verso of half-title page (across from title page). First printing, with "Lovely Pearl" on the first line of page 19, as we think it is in all first printings. Our COLLECTED BOOKS stated the first issue had "Pretty Pearl," based on the FPAA entry, but we're convinced now that only later printings have "Pretty Pearl." It would seem illogical to change "Lovely Pearl" for the second issue, then change back to "Pretty Pearl" for future printings. We believe the issue point is not valid. We asked Broccoli about the point in his FPAA entry, but he could not explain where it came from. Faint vertical lines on some pages, as usual for this title, otherwise very good to fine in dustwrapper with small professional repair at top of spine and to a few tiny chips. A very nice copy of an unaccountably scarce book, and particularly so with what would appear to be an early inscription, as both letters are dated in April $3, Matthiessen, Peter. RADITZER: A Novel. New York: Viking, First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Allen & Joan/ With many thanks & love Peter." His fourth book, a short novel. Allen Deloach (addressed envelope laid in) was a small press publisher most remembered for his beat publication INTREPID. Fine in priceclipped dustwrapper with only minor wear on corners and spine ends. $ McCarthy, Cormac. CHILD OF GOD. New York: Random House (1973). First edition. The author's third book. Faint mark from small bookplate removed from front endpaper. Fine in dustwrapper with the barest wear and the red lettering on spine just a bit faded. $850. VARIANT BINDING 75. McMurtry, Larry. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. New York: Dial Press, First edition. His third book, which he and Peter Bogdanovich turned into the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning movie. It launched the careers of several actors including Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman. Fine in cloth boards stamped in silver on spine. Normally the book is stamped in red. This is the second copy we've had in silver. The dust jacket has the barest wear, with the spine just a bit darkened and two small tape (?) marks at bottom of back flap. $ McMurtry, Larry. MOVING ON A Novel. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1971). Scarce first U. K. edition. Nice association copy. INSCRIBED by the author to Doris Grumbach, "For Doris -- This is when I began to feel I was writing a trilogy. It was so long I discouraged most readers right away. My best Larry." Near fine in a clipped (but price still intact) dustwrapper with a few closed tears and light soiling. $ McMurtry, Larry. LONESOME DOVE. NY: Simon & Schuster (1985). First edition. Advance uncorrected proof of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel made into a very good miniseries. A fine copy of this large, fragile production in yellow paperwraps. Scarce in this condition. $ Mencken, H. L. PREJUDICES: Sixth Series. New York: Knopf (1927). First edition. One of 50 SIGNED numbered copies (numbered 1-50). Printed on Japan vellum. Bound in vellum-like boards stamped in gilt. Pages (v-vi) a cancel correcting table of contents. There were also 140 signed numbered copies in a different binding. Top edge gilt and other edges uncut. A fine clean copy in original slipcase with the barest wear and a tiny stain on one corner. We think it would be hard to find a better copy. $2,500. A NICE COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST FAMOUS BOOK 79. Merton, Thomas. THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN. New York: Harcourt, Brace (1948). First edition. His autobiography covering his life before and after he entered a Trappist monastery at age 26. Evelyn Waugh says of it, "May well prove to be of permanent interest in the history of religious experience." In the first-issue binding in white cloth and in the first-issue dust jacket with photo on rear panel captioned: "Author is second from the left." The later issue in black cloth and with photo cropped and captioned "Author on the left," is relatively common. Both state "first edition," but the first issue in decent shape is very scarce, if not rare. The white cloth is somewhat soiled but still very good and the dust jacket has

11 three small chips, a few small closed tears and very minor wear on corners and spine ends. A nice copy of the author's most famous book. $1, Moore, Marianne. THE COMPLETE POEMS OF MAR- IANNE MOORE. NY: Viking Press (1967). First edition. INSCRIBED by Moore, "For Mr. And Mrs. Targ/ Such kindness so affects I could shed tears. November 3, 1967." William Targ lived a long life beginning and ending his career as a bookseller and had a long career in publishing. Fine in dustwrapper with minor soiling, spine a bit darkened and one very small chip. $ Morrison, Toni. THE BLUEST EYE. New York: Holt, Rinehart (1970). First edition of Morrison's scarce first book. She went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for "The Beloved" in 1988 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in This is a nice copy of the book with just a bit of fading at top and bottom of cloth spine, but the silver spine lettering still bright; in a bright unchipped dust jacket with just 2 light creases in the front flap fold. It's not immediately noticeable but there are 20 pages with instances of underlining (a few are just a word but most are 1 or 2 lines). Four of the pages are noticeably marked: pp have several lines underlined, a few passages marked in the margin, and a circle around a few lines; pp have passages marked in the margins and 20 or so lines underlined. $2, O'Brian, Patrick. TESTIMONIES. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1952). First American edition of his second book and first published in the U.S. The English title was THREE BEAR WITNESS. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Very good with cover edges slightly rubbed and light soiling on page edges; in a price-clipped dustwrapper with rubbing, soiling, chipping and a few closed tears. $ O'Brian, Patrick. THE WALKER: And Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace (1955). First edition. Preceding the U.K. edition which was published in 1956 as LYING IN THE SUN with slightly different content. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine with light soiling on page edges; in a bright dustwrapper with spine slightly sunned and light soiling. $600. FIRST JACK AUBREY NOVEL 84. O'Brian, Patrick. MASTER AND COMMANDER. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1969). First edition of the first Aubrey/Maturin novel, preceding the English edition. The dark blue cloth is faded on front bottom corners of both front and rear covers, which we assume was a water stain although nothing appears on the dust jacket, otherwise fine in a bright, fine price-clipped dustwrapper with only the barest wear. Even with the one fault, a beautiful copy of this scarce book $1, O'Connor, Flannery. WISE BLOOD. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1952). First edition of the author's first book. Certainly a strong "Southern Gothic" novel that can be read many different ways including one that pictures the South after World War II when the rural and city were clashing, and tentrevival preachers encountered big city marketing. Fine in white dustwrapper with some light rubbing and minor professional repair in a few small areas. $2,500. CONTEMPORARY INSCRIPTION 86. O'Hara, John. HELLBOX. New York: Random House (1947). First edition. INSCRIBED, "To Bob Kriendler -- I'll write them as long as you collect them --- I hope. John O'Hara 11 July 1947." Kriendler was a U.S. Attorney in New York City, and perhaps related to the Kriendlers of the 21 Club. Fine in dust jacket with quarter-inch chip at top of spine (but otherwise near fine). $1,000. PAINE'S POLITICAL WRITINGS 87. Paine, Tom. RECUEIL DES DIVERS ECRITS. Paris: Chez F. Buisson, First edition. A collection of Paine's political writings, translated from the English. Engraved frontis. 336 pages. Contemporary leather with decorations on spine and leather label, marbled endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown, cover somewhat worn otherwise about very good, with book plate of Victor Morine. Scarce. $ Parkman, Francis. THE CAL- IFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL. New York: George P. Putnam, First edition, second printing, with terminal advertisement pages numbered 1 through 6 and 8, and battered type on pages 436 and 437. One of 500 copies. There were 1,000 copies in the first printing. Parkman traveled to Fort Laramie where he joined a band of Sioux and went with them to the Black Hills and then on to the Oregon Trail. One of the classic overland narratives, and Parkman's most popular work. Listed in the Grolier 100 and

12 Printing and the Mind of Man (514). One signature a little loose, minor foxing (primarily on first and last few pages), edges of spine and corners worn, spine a little sunned, and front hinge cracked. Still, with faults as noted, an intact copy in original cloth. $2,000. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 89. Percy, Walker. THE MOVIEGOER. New York: Knopf, First edition of the author's first book, and arguably his best. Winner of the National Book Award. IN- SCRIBED, "For Doug - -- with thanks & best wishes Walker Percy June 16, 1988." The recipient was a schoolmate of Percy's daughter. The story of Binx Bolling, an alienated young man seeking a meaning for his existence. The book is fine, in a dust jacket with some minor wear on spine ends and corners and a small closed tear. Still, nice for this black jacket which never seems to hold up well. $6, Peters, Elizabeth. THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS. NY: Dodd, Mead, and Co. (1981). First edition. SIGNED by author, Barbara Mertz, as "Elizabeth Peters." Second Amelia Peabody mystery. Cloth spine lettering very lightly rubbed, otherwise fine in wrap-around dust jacket with small closed tear on front fold and the barest wear at top of spine. $ Porter, Katherine Anne. FLOWERING JUDAS: And Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1935). First printing of this expanded edition, INSCRIBED to novelist and critic Doris Grumbach: "For Doris/ From Katherine Anne./ Happy past that is past, and happily remembered- with one long talk - November " Both authors lived in the Washington D.C. area for a number of years. The same title was published in a limited edition of only 600 copies in Minor cover wear, otherwise very good to fine in dustwrapper with chips on corners and spine ends, but still very good. $450. BOOK INTO FILM 92. Portis, Charles. TRUE GRIT. New York: Simon & Schuster (1968). First edition. An uncorrected proof in tall, yellow, printed wraps--not the glossy pictorial reader's issue. Basis for the film starring John Wayne as old Rooster Cogburn. Wayne received his only Oscar for this film, in which he helps avenge the death of a young girl's father. Reportedly, Wayne chased costar Dennis Hopper around Paramount with a loaded gun and Hopper had to hide in Glen Campbell's dressing room until Wayne cooled down. The film also starred Kim Darby and Robert Duvall. Very minor soiling to yellow wraps and name written on plain back cover, otherwise very good or better. Scarce. $ Powell, Dawn. SUNDAY, MONDAY AND ALWAYS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition of her first book of stories. Powell was born in Ohio and came to New York as a member of the Red Cross in She married and stayed in the city all her life. These stories concern New York and its environs and those who pass a lifetime in the city, never really becoming New Yorkers until they go back to the provinces. Priestly said of Powell: "She was undervalued both here (England) and on your side. Her best work was a mixture of humour, genuine sentiment---and very shrewd and sharp satire.---she did not pretend to be a genius. She made the best use of a real and enjoyable talent." Minor bump to top front edge of board, otherwise very good to fine in very good dustwrapper with minor wear on corners and spine ends and one small closed tear at top of back panel. $600. SCARCE REVIEW COPY 94. Pynchon, Thomas. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW. New York: Viking Press (1973). First edition of this National Book Award winner, which is also one of Anthony Burgess's best 99 novels since Review slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper with a light crease at top edge, otherwise fine. Scarce in this condition with review slip. $1, Ransome, Arthur. THE BIG SIX. London: Jonathan Cape (1940). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper with the spine just a bit faded. $ Rhodes, Eugene Manlove. STEPSONS OF LIGHT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. A young boy is implicated in the brutal murder of two of the most prominent citizens in town. A very good to fine copy in a nice bright dust jacket with minute chipping on corners and top of spine. $ Rowling, J. K. THE HARRY POTTER SERIES: The Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, and The Deathly Hallow. (New York): Scholastic Press ( ). First American editions of all seven volumes of the Harry Potter series--the series that became a world-wide sensation. Ms. Rowling may have done more to promote reading among youth than anyone else in the world. Illustrations by Mary GrandPre. SORCERER'S STONE, which

13 is scarce, has all the correct first-issue points: "J.K. Rowling" on the spine of the book and jacket; the Guardian review on back of the dust jacket; "First American edition, October 1998" and correct number line on the copyright page; binding of purple diamond-embossed boards with red cloth spine and black endpapers; "Harry Potter" in raised gold lettering on the front panel of the dust jacket; no "Year 1" on spine of jacket; and the barcodes on rear panel of the dust jacket have white backgrounds, with the numbers "51695" present above smaller barcode. The dust jacket is price-clipped, but as it has all the other points, it is the right jacket. (The Publisher's Weekly blurb didn't replace the Guardian blurb until later printings.) "Christmas 1998" written on half-title of first book, otherwise all of the books are fine in dust jackets. $3,000. RARE PROOF 98. Salinger, J. D. RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS AND SEYMOUR AN INTRODUCTION. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (1963). First edition. A common book, but this, the uncorrected proof is rare. Spiral bound in paperwraps. Near fine with covers just lightly soiled. $3,500. RARE PROOF 99. Sandburg, Carl. ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. (1952). First edition. An uncorrected advance review copy sent out by Harcourt in plain tan wraps with their label on the front cover announcing the publication date, price, etc. Measures 8 1/2 x 11 inches, and 3 inches thick. Printed on one side only. It's double spaced and obviously from the manuscript. They couldn't have printed many of these, so we would think it is actually rare. The bottom outside corner of the rear cover appears to have been damp stained--it is reinforced with matching paper inside (not noticeable at first), as are the last several pages, pp The covers are lightly soiled with a touch of rubbing, still, very good or better considering the age, fragility and size of this volume. $500. THE "MAGNUM OPUS" EDITION 100. Scott, Walter. WAVERLEY NOVELS: Volumes I Edinburgh Cadell & Co., volumes, issued once a month beginning June 1829, each introduced by the author, and revised and extensively annotated by him. First editions thus. Scott's "magnum opus"--his own final, authorized versions of each work herein. In the original red cloth bindings with paper labels printed in black. 12mo (small volumes, measuring approximately 4 1/2 by 7 1/4). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and title vignette. A few spine labels mildly chipped, some foxing to first and last few leaves, and tissue guards missing here and there. Remarkably, thirteen of the volumes are nearly fine, with the spines still retaining the original red color, but the rest are faded to tan, resulting in a slightly "uneven" appearance. Still, a nice set, especially in the original bindings. $2,000. SENDAK'S FIRST BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS 101. (Sendak, Maurice) Maxwell Eidenoff and Hyman Ruchlis. ATOMICS FOR THE MILLIONS. New York: Whittlesey House (1947). First edition. First issue with the patterned endpapers, $3.50 price on both flaps of dustjacket, and statement of paper quality on copyright page. Small gift inscription dated 1947 on dedication page, otherwise a fine copy with clean dark blue cloth in a bright, unfaded dust jacket with minor chipping and small creased tears on corners and spine ends. Sendak's first book illustrations, done for his High School science teacher, Hyman Ruchlis. $ Seuss, Dr. DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK. NY: Random House (1962). First edition. Small gift inscription on front pastedown, otherwise fine with only the barest wear on corners in "295/295" dust jacket with two small inverted "V" chips close to spine, one at top and one at bottom of back cover. The back cover has the correct lists of books, as called for in Younger/Hirsch (30). Nice copy. $ Shakespeare, William. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. London: Macmillan and Co, The Cambridge Shakespeare. Complete in nine volumes with preface by William Aldis Wright. Contemporary half leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and designs in spine compartments, top edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Sir Ernest Graham Little, a medical doctor. Edges a bit worn, but still very good condition overall. $1, Sheridan, P. H. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN. NY: Charles L. Webster & Co., First edition. Two volumes. General Sheridan's Civil War memoirs, with two frontispieces of him: as a Second Lieutenant, and as a Lieutenant General. Illustrated and with maps, including folding maps. Grant transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Original dark green cloth bindings with bright gilt pictorial covers depicting the general on horseback. Spine a bit dull but overall in very good condition.

14 Bookplates of author Duane Cummins on endpapers. $ Spillane, Mickey. I, THE JURY. New York: E. P. Dutton, First edition of the author's first book. SIGNED on a bookplate tipped to front endpaper. This book (as well as most of his others) is among the most widely translated books of all time, and among the best-selling mysteries worldwide. Spillane is famous for bringing to the hard-boiled mystery novel a degree of sex and violence previously unknown in the genre. Minor offsets on endpapers and pastedown, otherwise fine in unrestored black dustwrapper with minor chipping on corners and spine ends, minor edgewear and a few closed tears. Even with defects, a nice bright copy and scarce in this condition. $3, Spillane, Mickey. MY GUN IS QUICK. New York: E.P. Dutton, First edition. The author's second book. SIGNED on a generic bookplate, ringed with open books, tipped to front endpaper. A fine copy in dustwrapper with minor wear at bottom of spine, but the barest wear otherwise. Scarce in this condition--a very attractive copy. $2, Spillane, Mickey. VEN- GEANCE IS MINE. New York: E. P. Dutton, First edition. The author's third book. SIGNED on a bookplate tipped to front endpaper. Review copy, with slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper with minor wear at corners and a little chipping at top of spine. A nice bright copy. $2, Spillane, Mickey. KISS ME, DEADLY. New York: E. P. Dutton, First edition. SIGNED by Spillane on bookplate tipped to front endpaper. Faint mark to top corner of front endpaper, small skinned spot on front pastedown (under the dust jacket flap), otherwise very good or better in dust jacket with minor wear on corners and spine ends, and inconspicuous faint stain and small hole near bottom of the rear flap fold. A nice copy. $ Stegner, Wallace. ON A DARKLING PLAIN. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1940). First edition. His second book. INSCRIBED, "For... with gratitude for his understanding and appreciation. Wallace Stegner." Laid in is a TLS from Stegner, dated April 26, 1940, (instructing the recipient to send the book) and the hand-addressed envelope postmarked April 30, Near fine in attractive, price-clipped dustwrapper with very minor wear and tiny chips to corners and spine ends. $4, Stegner, Wallace. THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNT-AIN. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1943). First edition. One of Stegner's most famous novels dealing with the search for easy living during tough times in the West. Very good with only minor cover wear including a bump and two tiny tears (rear board); in slightly edgeworn and aged dustwrapper with internal tape repair to spine ends and one corner. $ Steinbeck, John. TO A GOD UNKNOWN. New York: Robert O. Ballou (1933). First edition. First issue, one of 598 copies published by Ballou. The remaining sheets were used for the 1935 Covici-Friede edition. His fourth book and second novel. It took him 5 years to complete this mythical tale, which is still powerful reading. Green cloth with only the barest wear and black top stain. Fine, in nice dust jacket with a small spot of tape residue stain at top of back panel and very minor rubbing and tiny chips on corners and spine ends. An attractive copy of a scarce book in dust jacket. $6, Steinbeck, John. TORTILLA FLAT. New York: Covici Friede (1935). First edition. His fourth novel based in Monterey where the paisanos live on Tortilla Flat having a very good, unproductive time, which the respectable citizens deplore. Published during the Depression in a relatively small run of 4,000 copies, it was the author's first popular book. Cover lightly soiled and bookplate under front flap, otherwise very good or better in lighly soiled dustwrapper with tiny chips on corners and spine ends (which have been backed with tape) and blue portion of spine faded but lettering still readable. Even with the faults, an acceptable copy of a scarce book. $4, Steinbeck, John. CUP OF GOLD A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History. New York: Covici Friede (1936). Author's first book. The second issue of the Covici edition, in blue cloth. The first edition was published by McBride in The first Covici issue was in red and used the left-over McBride sheets. Preface for the new edition by Lewis Gannett, "Renegade Founder of the Society for the Abolition of Unnecessary Prefaces." The book is bright and clean and very fine in dustwrapper with a few tiny chips and the spine just slightly darkened. $600.

15 114. Steinbeck, John. IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. New York: Covici Freide (1936). First edition. Small name under flap on pastedown, otherwise a fine clean square copy in the yellow cloth; in a nice dustwrapper, a little darkened on spine and with a few small closed tears and tiny chips and creases at top of spine. Still, a very nice copy of one of his better works on labor and strikes. $3, Steinbeck, John. OF MICE AND MEN: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Covici Friede (1937). First edition. Bookplate on front pastedown and blue top edge fading, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper just slightly faded on spine and with very minor wear on corners and spine ends and one very small hole at fold on back panel. $1, Stevens, Wallace. HARMONIUM. New York: Knopf, First edition of the author's first book. The third issue in blue cloth. There were about 500 in the first issue of checkered boards, 215 in the second issue (stripes), and an estimated 750 in this last binding of blue cloth. The blue cloth is just a bit darkened on top edge, otherwise a fine copy with spine label very nice. In the rare dust jacket with chipping to corners and spine ends (1/2 to 1") but no lettering affected. Spine a little darkened. Still, a nice copy of a seminal book. $3, Stevens, Wallace. THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR: And Other Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition. A few areas of dark foxing on yellow cloth, otherwise fine in second-issue dust jacket with "conjunctions," versus the first-issue with "conjunctioning." The jacket is darkened on spine and foxed on verso of spine which shows through. Otherwise, it has only minimal wear. $ Stevens, Wallace. COLUM- BIA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT. Morningside Heights: (Columbia University) First edition. The one hundred and ninety-eighth annual commencement program, June 5, Commencement program SIGNED by Wallace Stevens. Mr. Stevens received a Doctor of Letters honorary degree from the University. Little aging but still very good to fine in white stapled wraps. $ Trollope, Anthony. PHINEAS FINN: The Irish Member. London: Virtue, First edition. Two volumes. Original light green cloth with blind-stamped design and gilt lettering, pale yellow endpapers, untrimmed. Twenty inserted woodengraved illustrations by J. E. Millais. Very good with covers and gilt bright, minor wear on edges, light rubbing, very slight soiling on endpapers and small bookplate on front pastedown. Small oval stamp of the Mechanics Institute on title page of volume 2 and on one internal page. No other markings. $2, Twain, Mark. AUTO- GRAPHED CARD. A 3 x 5 card in Twain's hand. "May 13 / Allright, my dear / Brooks: just have it / copied for me & send bill / for the same & I'll / be very much obliged. / Yrs Ever Mark." The only Brooks we can think of whose life overlaps Twain's would be historian Brooks Adams, the grandson of John Quincey Adams. He referred to himself more than once as "an unusable man" and "a crank" who very few people could bear to have about. Sounds like someone Twain would have liked. On Twain's personal notecard, with "SLC" monogram. Judging from the ink and the color of the monogram, the card probably dates from between 1878 and It was pasted at one time and the blank verso has a little glue residue on one side. Aged but nice condition. $1, Updike, John. THE MAGIC FLUTE: Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New York: Knopf (1962). First edition. SIGNED by the author "John Updike Beverly Farms, MA." Mozart's last opera, adapted for children by Updike and illustrated by Warren Chappell. One of Updike's hardest first editions to locate in nice condition. In the pictorial Gibraltar binding (noted on back cover) with light blue-green border, which was issued simultaneously with the trade edition, and without dustwrapper. Very minor rubbing but still in fine condition. Unusual for Updike to note his hometown when signing. $ Updike, John. THE RING: With Musical Themes by Richard Wagner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1964). First edition. SIGNED by the author, "John Updike Beverly Farms, MA." Adapted and Illustrated by John Updike and Warren Chappell. The Gibraltar edition in pictorial dark green boards with very light rubbing to tips, otherwise a fine copy, as issued without dustwrapper, and scarce thus. This issue was published simultaneously with the Knopf trade edition in cloth and dustwrapper and the Knopf orange pictorial boards edition, also issued without dustwrapper (although it's possible the orange came later.) Unusual for Updike to note his hometown when signing. $ Vonnegut, Kurt [Jr.]. MISSING IN ACTION. Lexington: Petro III Graphics First edition. One of 100 SIGNED numbered copies bound by Walt Bartholomew, Sylph Publications, Tucson, in brown Nigerian goatskin and marbled paper with full Record Basalt cloth slipcase. A letter to his

16 parents telling of his ordeals after capture in December 1944, and a forced march to Limberg, 60 miles without water, food, or sleep. They were locked up without sanitation and strafed by the Royal Air Force, killing 150. Moved to a P. O. W. camp in Muhlburg to do hard labor without medical attention or clothes and little food. Evacuated to Hellexisdorf until war end when Russian planes strafed killing fourteen. Stole a team and wagon and got to American lines. Letter was dated May 29, 1945 and is signed by Vonnegut with a self-portrait dated May 29, Also bound in is a signed "Kilgore Trout" drawing. Beautiful production. As new. There were also 26 signed lettered copies with a separate signed print laid in. $1, White, E. B. STUART LITTLE. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers (1945). First edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. A classic children's book made into a popular movie. A fine, bright copy in dust jacket with some small chips and minor wear including a paperclip impression at top of back panel. Still, an attractive copy of this title. $1,250. NICE ASSOCIATION 125. Work, John W. (E. Franklin Frazier) AMERICAN NEGRO SONGS AND SPIRITUALS. New York: Crown Publishers (1940). First edition. INSCRIBED, "To Marie and E. Franklin Frazier with affection and esteem from their friend. John W. Work." Work attended Julliard School of Music, and received degrees in music from Columbia and Yale. He taught music education and theory at Fisk University for thirty-nine years. In 1946, he became the director of the Jubilee Singers and reorganized the group into an ensemble of mixed voices. He and Frazier became friends when Frazier was the research professor of sociology at Fisk University ( ) where he published a series of articles on African American life and his Ph.D. dissertation, "The Negro Family in Chicago" (1932). Critics claimed that it was the most important study since "The Philadelphia Negro" was published by William Du Bois in Frazier moved to head the sociology department at Howard University in While in this post he published his most important work, "The Negro Family in the United States" (1939). The book was an analysis of the history of the African American family since the 18th century. His most controversial book was his study of the African American middle class, "Black Bourgeoisie" (1957). Although many musicians did not consider black folk songs to have musical credence, this book by Work helped to establish the Negro folk song as a musical form, making it an invaluable contribution to musicology. It contains 230 religious and secular songs, as well as the origins and nature of the various types of black folk songs. The light green cloth is a bit faded but otherwise very good to fine in dust jacket which has been professionally repaired on folds where it had separated. Nice period jacket and a very good association copy. $750. VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED 126. Wyndham, John. THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS. London: Michael Joseph (1957). First edition. Basis for the movie "Village of the Damned." Very good or better with offset on endpapers and light soiling on page edges; in a nice but agedarkened dustwrapper with spine slightly tanned and light soiling. Scarce. $500. Happy Holidays From All of Us at Quill and Brush Wishing you and yours a healthy & happy New Year! Allen, Pat, Beth Patsy and Carl