The Lost Generation Gertrude Stein coined the term in 1924 to refer to the young American writers who had worn the uniform in the First World War. She told Hemingway: That s what you are. That s what you all are. All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death " Hemingway popularized the term by using it as an epigraph for his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. However, he later wrote to his editor Max Perkins that the "point of the book" was not so much about a generation being lost, but that "the earth abideth forever"; he believed the characters in the novel may have been battered but were not lost. In his 1964 memoir of his years in Paris, A Moveable Feast, Hemingway wrote: I tried to balance Miss Stein s quotation with one from Ecclesiastes I thought who is calling who a lost generation? the hell with her lost-generation talk and all the dirty, easy labels Gertrude is nice, But she does talk a lot of rot sometimes. Critic Malcolm Cowley, himself of that generation of American writers, proposes the term World War I Generation to describe American writers born in the 15 years from 1891 to 1905 who came of age during the First War and who started publishing their first books in the 1920 s and 1930 s. An early leader of that group is F. Scott Fitzgerald who defined a literary generation as:.by a generation I mean that reaction against the fathers. It is distinguished by a set of ideas, inherited in moderated form from the madmen and outlaws of the generation before; if it is a real generation it has its own leaders and spokesmen, and it draws into its orbit those born just before it and just after. Cowley compiled a list of 385 names of American writers in this age bracket who distinguished themselves in all literary fields. In fiction, poetry, and drama alone, these writers collected 19 Pulitzers, 10 National Book Awards, and 5 Nobel Prizes for Literature. Cowley judges the period and the works created to have been a second flowering of American literature--the first American Renaissance having been the 1850 s & 1860 s graced by Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne and Thoreau. Another critic, Van Wyck Brooks said the WW I generation was the most dramatic period in American literature. We have chosen to represent this second flowering of American writing in this catalog with the work of 24 authors categorized as follows. Of course, this is just a sampling. We have many more First Editions of the Lost Generation in stock. The Early American Trinity: Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound The Paris Big 3: Hemingway, Fitzgerald & John Dos Passos Mystery Masters: Dashiell Hammett & John M. Cain Other Masters: Faulkner, Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, John Marquand & Thomas Wolfe Three Poets, A Humorist & A Critic: Hart Crane, EE Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, James Thurber & Edmund Wilson The Younger Set: Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, John O Hara, James Farrell & Robert Penn Warren The Lost Generation writers have had an impact on the next generation of American writers, and are highly valued by collectors. Norman Mailer entered Harvard intending to become an engineer, but decided to be a writer after spending a summer vacation reading James T. Farrell, Dos Passos and Steinbeck. In Christie s May 2000 auction, a collector paid $248,000 for Hemingway s autographed handwritten draft of his short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. In June last year, F. Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby sold for $180,000 at Bonham s auction house in New York.
Peter Ackroyd. Ezra Pound and His World Thames and Hudson, London, 1980. The Early American Trinity First Edition Signed & Dated by Peter Ackroyd. Very Good/Near Fine. With 111 illustrations & photos of Pound's life. Brown cloth with bright gilt decoration on front and title lettering on spine. Bumped and cloth slightly worn through at bottom edge of spine. Hemingway wrote of Pound: Ezra Pound was always a good friend and he was always doing things for people Ezra was the most generous writer I have ever known and the most disinterested. He helped poets, painters, sculptors and prose writers Anyone who has seen the facsimile manuscript edition of T.S Eliot s The Wasteland with Pound s editing notes, will agree. $120 The Yale Review. Yale University Press New Haven, 1989. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Issue dedicated to T.S. Eliot, including 5 poets reviewing his poems. $25 David Newton-Demolina. The Literary Criticism of T. S. Eliot: New Essays Athlone Press, UK, 1977. Fine/Fine. Essays probe Eliot s influence as a literary critic. $50 Janet Hobhouse. Everybody Who Was Anybody G.P. Putnam, New York, 1975. First American Edition. With black & white photographs and color plates of paintings. Bio of Gertrude Stein who knew everybody in Paris in the 1920 s, including Hemingway. It was easy to get into the habit of stopping at 27 rue de Fleurus late in the afternoon for the warmth and the great pictures and the conversation. Often Miss Stein would have no guests and she was always very friendly. In the three or four years that we were good friends I cannot remember Gertrude Stein ever speaking well of any writer who had not written favorably about her work or done something to advance her career --from Hemingway s Paris memoirs, A Moveable Feast. $30
John Dos Passos. Century s Ebb:The Thirteen Chronicle Gambit, Boston, 1975. Stated First Printing Signed & Dated by Author's wife, Betty Dos Passos. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Jacket original price intact. $250 The Paris Big 3 John Dos Passos. The Best of Times;An Informal Memoir New American Library, New York, 1966. First Edition. Fine/Fine. In this memoir, Dos Passos describes his time spent with Hemingway in Paris in the 20 s: I did enjoy going to the day bicycle races with him. French sporting events had for me a special comical air that I enjoyed. We would collect a quantity of wine and cheeses and crunchy rolls, a pot of pate and perhaps a cold chicken, and sit up in the gallery. Hem knew all the statistics and the names of the riders. His enthusiasm was catching, but he tended to make a business of it while I just liked to eat and drink and enjoy the show. $30 John Dos Passos. Orient Express Harper & Brothers, New York, 1927. Stated First Edition. Very Good/No DJ. With 8 Illustrations in color from paintings by the Author. Pages & endpapers tanned. Owner name on flyleaf. Binding slightly cracked. A collection of Dos Passos essays about his travels to Constantinople, to Batum, and then through Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan by train and boat. $150 Barry Maine. Dos Passos The Critical Heritage Routledge, Chapman & Hall, London, 1988 First Edition. Fine/Fine. Dos Passos called himself a chronicler of American life writing novels, history, biographies, plays, poems and much travel literature. He was a charter member of the American literary set in 1920 s Paris including driving an ambulance at the French front during WW I. $22
Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bells Tolls Scribner, New York, 1940. Ernest Hemingway. Islands in the Stream Scribner, New York, 1929. First Edition, First Printing with "A-9.70 (V)" printed on copyright page. Fine green cloth with gilt Hemingway signature stamped on cover. Like new Dust Jacket. The novel was the first Hemingway work published posthumously. The manuscript was found by his last wife, Mary after his death. The author had started a sea trilogy as early as 1950, and had actually separately published one of the stories as The Old Man and The Sea in 1952. Mary and Scribner then combined the two unpublished stories with a fourth unpublished sea short story under the current title in 1970. $360 First Issue with letter "A" on copyright page. Very Good Plus/ Near Fine. In 1937 Hemingway contracted with the North American Newspaper Alliance to report on the Spanish Civil War. From his front line reporting experience, he wrote this story of a young American attached to a republican guerilla unit as an explosives expert. He wrote the novel in 18 months in Cuba, Wyoming and Idaho. The book was an instant best seller, and is considered, along with The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and his short stories, as the master at his best. Both party candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election agree. Obama named the book as "one of the three books that have inspired him; and John McCain said the book is his all-time favorite. A bipartisan endorsement. $2100 Ernest Hemingway. Essay: The Art of the Short Story The Paris Review, Paris, 1981. Ernest Hemingway. The Dangerous Summer Scribner, New York, 1985. First Edition Thus. Introduction by James A. Michener. Fine/Fine. Includes black & white bullfight photos. The author s last book, edited from a 75,000 word manuscript written in 1959-1960 on assignment for LIFE Magazine which describes the rivalry between bullfighters Dominguin and Ordonez. Dominguin came out of retirement to challenge the younger Ordonez. Most definitely worth two ears, a hoof and the tail. $60 25th Anniversary Double Issue contains: Essay by Ernest Hemingway "The Art of the Short Story"; Fiction by Raymond Carver, William Faulkner, William H. Gass, Terry Southern; Drawings by David Hockney; and Poetry by John Ashberry, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Anne Sexton and many others. $30
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Scribner, New York, 1952. First Edition. First Issue with publisher colophon and letter "A" on copyright page. Near Fine with Fine First State dust jacket. Bright artwork on front of DJ. Original light blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Original $3.00 price intact. Written in Cuba in 1951 and published the following year, this novella was the last major work of fiction Hemingway wrote and published in his lifetime. The story recounts an epic battle of wills between an old, experienced fisherman and a giant marlin-- the largest catch of his life. The book was featured in Life Magazine, and five million copies of the magazine were sold in two days. The novella received the Pulitzer Prize in 1952, and was cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. "No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in.... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things" Ernest Hemingway. $1900 Madelaine Hemingway Miller. Ernie; Hemingway Sister Sunny Remembers Crown, New York, 1975. Ernest Hemingway. The Garden of Eden Scribner, New York, 1986. Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. Hemingway started the novel in 1946 and worked on it for 15 years. It was first published 25 years after his death. $60 First Edition. Very Good Plus/ Very Good. With 130 Hemingway family photos. $25 Ernest Hemingway. Interview in The Paris Review 18 Paris Review, Paris, 1958. Fifth Anniversary Issue includes: Interview with Ernest Hemingway, Short Story by Philip Roth, Drawing by Giacometti and Poetry by W.S. Merwin, Louis Simpson, W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Bly and others. $65
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned A.L. Burt, New York, 1922. Third Printing, March, April 1922. Very Good Plus green cloth with bright gilt letter titles on front and spine. Pages tanned with age but clean and tight. No dust jacket. Fitzgerald s second novel paints a portrait of the social elite during the Jazz Age. Its account of the complexities of marriage is thought to be based on the Author s challenging marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald. $75 F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1978. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Contains 2078 entries ranging in length for one word to hundred plus word passages which provide insight into how he wrote his novels and stories. $24 F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald. Bits of Paradise: 21 Uncollected Stories Scribner, New York, 1973. First Edition. Stories selected by Matthew J. Bruccoli with the assistance of Fitzgerald's daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Includes 11 previously uncollected stories by F. Scott and all of Zelda Fitzgerald's stories. Near Fine/Near Fine. $50 Francis Kroll Ring. Against the Current; As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. Creative Arts Book Co., Berkeley, 1985. First Edition Inscribed by Author. Ring was Fitzgerald's secretary in Hollywood during the last two years of his life. Foreword by A. Scott Berg. Fine/Fine. $50
Mystery Masters Dashiell Hammett, Dead Yellow Woman Lawrence E. Spivak/Jonathan Press, New York, 1947. First Edition Thus. Six Stories selected, edited and introduced by Ellery Queen. Very Good Plus/No DJ. Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley. He gave murder back to the kind of people who do it for a reason, not just to provide a corpse; and with means at hand, not with hand wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. Raymond Chandler $200 Dashiell Hammett. The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories Lawrence E. Spivak, Bestseller Mystery No. B50.New York, 1944. First Edition Paperback. A collection of 7 stories with an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Very Good/No DJ. It was Hammett -- as much as contemporaries like Sherwood Anderson, Frank Norris and even Ernest Hemingway -- who created a truly American voice in literature; a bold, unflinching hard-boiled tone that, as Raymond Chandler once put it, could be made to say anything. January Magazine Review. $180 Dashiell Hammett. The Continental OP Lawrence E. Spivak, New York, 1945. First Edition Thus. Very Good Plus paperback digest. A collection of 4 stories, introduced by Ellery Queen. Hammett's first short story appeared in the magazine Black Mask in 1923. Under a pseudonym, Hammett introduced a short, overweight, unnamed detective employed by the Continental Detective Agency, who became known as The Continental Op. In 36 stories between 1923 and 1930, featuring the tough and dedicated Op, Hammett gave shape to the first believable detective hero in American fiction. Drawing on his own experiences working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, Hammett created a private eye, whose methods of detection are completely convincing, and whose personality is multidimensional. $150
James M.Cain. Rainbow s End, Mason Charter New York, 1975. James M.Cain. The Magician s Wife Dial Press, New York, 1965. Stated First Printing. Very Good/ Very Good Dust Jacket with original price ($3.95) intact. A story of two illicit lovers who plot to murder the woman's husband, and the consequences of their actions. The novel has some of the Cain's best hardboiled writing, and moves swiftly and with excitement. $75 Stated First Printing. Near Fine blue cloth with gold title lettering on spine. Bumped at bottom of spine. Near Fine Dust Jacket with original $7.95 price intact. Cain was a journalist, screenwriter, and novelist - identified with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as a central member of the hard-boiled school of crime fiction. However, Cain's own opinion was: "I belong to no school, hard-boiled or otherwise". Raymond Chandler called him "a Proust in greasy overalls". The novel is about a bank heist gone awry. $55 James M.Cain. Past All Dishonor Knopf, New York, 1946. Stated First Edition. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Red cloth with gilt spine title lettering. Endpages tanned. Price intact dust jacket--chipped at spine top and top edge of back cover. Cain at his suspenseful peak: a young Confederate spy in Virginia City, Nevada is the hero; passion & murder are the ingredients. $120 James M.Cain. Double Indemnity Avon Murder Mystery Monthly, New York, 1943. Murder Mystery Monthly No. 16. Digest size. First Thus. First separate appearance edition. First publication was in Liberty Magazine in 1936. Second appearance was in Three of a Kind which collected 3 short novels. Softcover dampstained in top corner. Pages tanned. A tale of an adulterous couple who try to commit the perfect insurance murder. "I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort."--cain in preface to Double Indemnity. The story was filmed by Billy Wilder (1944), who hired Raymond Chandler to write the script. Cain also participated in story conferences. $75
Henry Miller. My Bike & Other Friends Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1978. First Edition. Volume II of the Author s Book of Friends. Near Fine Trade Paperback/No DJ. In 1973, Miller started rendering homage to his Paris and Big Sur friends by writing short portraits. This second volume includes 8 portraits, including one of his eternal friend, his bike. $30 Other Masters Katherine Anne Porter. Pale Horse, Pale Rider The Southern Review, LSU, Baton Rouge, 1938. First Appearance of Katherine Anne Porter's short story, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider". Issue also contains Poetry by Delmore Schwartz, and a book review by James T. Farrell of "White Mule" by William Carlos Williams. Very good wrappers. $50 William Faulkner. Requiem for a Nun Random House, New York, 1959. Near Fine/Near Fine. This play version of the Author's 15th novel was published 8 years after the novel first appeared. Black cloth with bright gilt titles on front and spine. $50 William Faulkner. Father Abraham Random House, New York, 1984. Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. Reproduced from a 1926 twenty-four page manuscript which is the earliest attempt by Faulkner to start a novel finally published in 1940 as The Hamlet. $30 William Faulkner. Mayday University of Notre Dame Press, London, 1978. First Trade Edition of a Faulkner fable the author hand-lettered, illustrated and bound in 1926 as a gift to a woman he wished to marry. Color plates of the only Faulkner watercolors known to exist. Fine/Near Fine. Owner bookplate. $40
John P. Marquand. Sincerely, Willis Wayde Little, Brown, Boston, 1955. Stated First Edition. Signed by Author on flyleaf. Very Good beige tan cloth with gilt decoration stamped on front cover. Very Good Dust Jacket with original price ($2.75) intact. One of the Pulitzer-winning author s last novels. Wayde rises from being the son of a factory engineer to the CEO of a major industrial conglomerate. $50 Thornton Wilder. The Woman of Andros Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1930. First Edition. Good/Very Good Plus. Wilder's third novel. Wilder collected 3 Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award for his novels and plays. $150 John P. Marquand. So Little Time Little, Brown, Boston, 1943. Stated First Edition. Signed by Author on flyleaf. Very Good beige tan cloth with gilt decoration stamped on front cover. Very Good Dust Jacket with original price ($2.75) intact. The American social and political scene on the eve of World War II. $90 Thomas Wolfe. Mannerhouse:A Play in a Prologue and Three Acts Harper & Brothers, New York, 1948. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. Wolfe set out to be a playwright. This is one of the three plays he wrote, probably in 1926--3 years before publication of his first novel. $65
Clive Fisher. Hart Crane, A Life Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002. First Edition with photos. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bumped at top corner of spine. Critic Malcolm Cowley, who knew Crane well in Paris in the 20 s, has described the process by which the poet wrote his poems: Crane chose or was chosen by the subject. Next he made a collection of words and phrases that might be used in the poem. He found the words in diverse places the subway, speakeasies or even rereading Melville and Whitman. Forming the words into a pattern, could then take days, weeks, months or years. But creation could only happen at the right moment usually stimulated by wine, a cigar, or sex. $20 Archibald MacLeish. Herakles: A Play in Verse Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/VeryGood. A gold-plated MacLeish resume: Hotchkiss, Yale, Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones, Harvard Law, WW I artillery captain, Paris expat in the '20's, 3 Pulitzer Prizes and Librarian of Congress--among other accomplishements. $35 Three Poets, A Humorist & A Critic This Quarter, Vol V, No. 2, Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932. The "little magazine" This Quarter first appeared in January 1925, and was dedicated to Ezra Pound. It published early works by H. D., Kay Boyle, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams and many other American writers of the First World War generation. The magazine attracted a good deal of attention because of its fresh critical stance. This December 1932 issue contains an E.E. Cummings drawing and the first appearance of short stories by James T. Farrell and Samuel Beckett. $110 James Thurber. 92 Stories Avenel, New York, 1985. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. With original drawings by Thurber. Dust Jacket decorated with colored Thurber drawings. Thurber: With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraph. $25 Edmund Wilson. The Thirties, From Notebooks & Diaries of the Period Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980. Stated First Printing. Fine/Fine. Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel. Edel: "...speaks of the plunge from the 1920s into the 1930s--the toboggan slide...from affluence to penury". Many critics consider Wilson the preeminent American man of letters of the 20th century. $45
Erskine Caldwell. God s Little Acre Modern Library, New York, c. 1947. Circa 1947 printing or earlier as publisher's label on front inside flap states: "As of April 15. 1947, the price of The Modern Library in U.S.A. is $1.25 a copy." New foreword by the Author. Near Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket with darkened spine and small tear at top edge of front cover. Critics saw Caldwell as a literary realist and sociologist, whose works painted a naturalistic portrait of rural poverty. Caldwell once explained that his aim was "describing to the best of my ability the aspirations and despair of the people I wrote about". Part of the publicity for this book came from the fact that the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice tried to have it banned for its sexuality. Erskine took the case to court and won. The 1958 film version starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray, and Michael Landon, was promoted as: "Rousing, rollicking and ribald, God's Little Acre is a rustic revel with the kick of Georgian mule. $70 Erskine Caldwell. Tragic Ground Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1944. First Edition. A wartime book. Very Good Plus grey cloth with dark green title lettering on spine. Very Good Dust Jacket with original price ($2.50) intact. An interviewer asked Caldwell how he began to write a book. Caldwell: I begin with the first sentence. After that things take their own course. $90 Also: 1st UK Edition, Falcon Press, London, 1947 $50 The Younger Set Erskine Caldwell. Georgia Boy Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1943. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Author: "For Edward S. Lewis, What are you going to do with this one if it out sells your and my fondest expectations? Erskine Caldwell". Caldwell told an interviewer that this novel was his favorite. Caldwell: Georgia Boy is the most complete book I have ever written. It has everything, sociology, economics. I believe it will holdup longer than any other book I have written or any other book anyone else has ever written for that matter! I goes into people more. $150 Erskine Caldwell. Jenny by Nature Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1961. Stated First Printing. Signed by Author. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket soiled on back and spine tanned. Faulkner considered Caldwell to rank in the top 5 writers of his generation(the other 4: Wolfe, Dos Passos, Hemingway, and, of course, Faulkner himself). Saul Bellow thought Caldwell should have won the Nobel. $150
John Steinbeck. The Long Valley Viking, New York, 1938. First Edition ("First Published in September 1938"). First State. Near Fine biege cloth over light orange boards. Near Fine Dust Jacket with minor chipping of spine top and bottom edges. Original Price ($2.50) intact. A collection of 12 short stories set in the Author s birthplace, Salinas, California. $1200 John Steinbeck. East of Eden Viking, New York, 1952. Stated First Edition. Very Good Plus bright green cloth. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with original $4.50 price intact. According to his last wife, Steinbeck considered this to be his magnum opus. He claimed: "It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years. I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this." The story was made into a stage play, a Japanese opera, and a movie starring James Dean, filmed in Marfa, Texas. By chance, my wife and I spent one night in the James Dean Room at the Paisano Hotel, Marfa last summer. $1700 John Steinbeck. The Moon is Down Viking, New York, 1942. First Edition--states "First Published in March 1942". Second Issue. Fine blue cloth with silver lettering spine title. Near Fine Dust Jacket. Steinbeck wrote this propaganda novella at the request of the OSS (WW II predecessor to the CIA), to motivate the resistance movement in France and the other Nazi occupied countries. It was published in every European language in 92 different editions, and the US government awarded the author a thank you medal. $450 John Steinbeck. Tortilla Flat Viking, New York, 1947. First Illustrated Edition (October 1947) with 17 reproductions of color paintings by Peggy Worthington. Near Fine beige cloth with color seagulls painting pasted on front. Colorful illustrations covering front and rear endpapers. Near Fine Dust Jacket. The Author s 5th novel and first clear success. Wisdom On Drinking Wine from Tortilla Flat: Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversations. Two inches further down, sweetly sad memory. Three inches more, thoughts of old and satisfactory lovers. An inch, thoughts of bitter lovers. Bottom of the first jug, general and undirected sadness. Shoulder of the second jug, black, unholy despondency. Two fingers down, a song of death or longing. A thumb, every other song each one knows. The graduations stop here, for the trail splits and there is no certainty. From this point anything can happen. $385
John Steinbeck. The Pearl Viking, New York, 1947. First Edition, December 1947. Fine brown cloth with decorative black ink line drawing on cover. Fine, Second Issue Dust Jacket (Steinbeck is looking to his right in photo on rear cover). Original Price ($2) intact. Small dealer label glued to rear endpaper. The story is based on a Mexican folk tale. The novella was illustrated with drawings by José Clemente Orozco, a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals featuring the theme of human suffering. Steinbeck s version was adapted to the screen in the US, Mexico, Australia and India. $330 John Steinbeck. The Wayward Bus Viking, New York, 1947. First Edition, February 1947. Near Fine reddish-brown cloth. Near Fine Dust Jacket with minor wear at spine edges and corners. Original Price ($2.75) intact. Published in 1947, the novel recounts the attempts of its characters (and America) to adjust to life in the immediate postwar era. Publishers Weekly listed the novel as #6 on its bestsellers tally for that year. $350. John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men Covici-Friede, New York, 1937. First Edition. First Issue (only 2500 printed). Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket with minor chipping at top and bottom edges of spine. Original Price ($2) intact. One of the author s early California novels, which tells the story of two migrant workers during the Great Depression. This was Steinbeck's first attempt at writing in the form of novel-play. Structured in three acts of two chapters each, the author intended it to be both a novella and a script for a play a novel that could be played from its lines, or a play that could be read like a novel. The story has been adapted several times for movies and stage plays. $3800 John Steinbeck. Cannery Row Viking, New York, 1945. Stated First Edition. Fine First Issue with bright, buff/light mustard cloth with grey cross lines on cover. Fine Dust Jacket with color illustration of a cannery on the cover. One of the author s 16 novels, Cannery Row is a story of a grocer, a marine biologist and a bum which takes place on a street lined with sardine factories since renamed after the novel. As described in the opening paragraph: "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. The book was adapted as both a stage play and movie. Steinbeck in his lifetime collected numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer and Nobelhhhh Prizes. $2700 In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. --John Steinbeck
John O Hara. The Farmers Hotel Random House, New York, 1951. Stated First Printing. Very Good blue cloth with black signature stamped on front. Small black smudge on front cloth. Very Good Dust Jacket with original price ($2) intact. Minor tears on top edge. Owner bookplate. $60 John O Hara. Hellbox Random House, New York, 1947. Stated First Printing. Very Good black cloth with silver lettering. Endpapers tanned. Owner bookplate. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with original price ($2.50) intact. $60 John O Hara. Pipe Night Duel, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1945. John O Hara. A Family Party Cresset Press, London, 1957. John O Hara. A Family Party Random House, New York, 1956. Very Good red cloth with black spine title. Very Good Dust Jacket with 1 inch chip missing from top spine edge. Collection of 25 stories. As reviewed by Time: In the typical John O Hara story, a character wants something, needs something or works for something a date, a job, a reconciliation and is at the point of getting it when everything goes wrong, the tables are turned, his friend becomes his enemy, his girl laughs at him or somebody punches him on the nose. $75 First UK Edition. Near Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket age spotted on the rear. A novella first published in Collier s Magazine. $30 Stated First Printing (August 1956). Signed by Author on title page. Near Fine with Very Good Dust Jacket with $195 price intact. Critic Brendan Gill ranked O Hara as "among the greatest short-story writers in English " and credited him with helping "to invent what the world came to call the New Yorker short story." $150
James T. Farrell. The Silence of History Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1963. James T. Farrell. Truth and Myth About America Rand School Press, New York, 1949. First Edition Pamphlet Signed by Author. Near Fine/No DJ as published. Text of a speech Farrell delivered on April 30, 1949 at the Sorbonne. $60 Stated First Edition Inscribed & Dated by Author. Very Good--spine darkened and paged tanned. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with original price intact. A story about an aspiring writer and Chicago university student who loses his Catholic faith and way. $80 Robert Penn Warren. Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980 Random House, New York, 1981. Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. Author Awarded 3 Pulitzers for poetry and the novel. $45 Robert Penn Warren. At Heaven s Gate New Directions, New York, 1985. First Paperback Edition Signed by Author. His 2nd novel. Near Fine/No DJ. $230 James T. Farrell. When Time Was Born. The Smith/Horizon Press, New York, 1966. Limited First Edition Signed by the Author. Near Fine black cloth with decorative design on front and back covers. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket, price clipped. A prose poem rewrite of the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. Single handedly, Farrell accomplishes what a collaboration of dozens of bishops and scholars achieved in the King James Version. $160