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[MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: Barbary Shore. London: Jonathan Cape. 1952. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Marilyn: A Biography. [New York]: Grosset & Dunlap Inc., 1973. (Blind stamp.) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Provenance: Library blind stamp(blind stamp). -- Ancient Evenings. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Harlot's Ghost. New York: Random House, 1991. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Time of Our Time. New York: Random House, 1998. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, most FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED BY MAILER where indicated, all in original cloth, cloth-backed boards, or boards, all in original dust jackets, condition generally fine.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS by Mailer, comprising: Barbary Shore. New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Co., Inc, 1951. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY MAILER. -- The Presidential Papers. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Dust jacket. [Laid in:] Autograph letter signed ("Dick Gomer") to Jonathan on Partisan Review letterhead. 4 November 1963; publisher's review copy notice slip. FIRST EDITION, Advance review copy, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 74 of 300 copies SIGNED BY MAILER. -- How the Wimp Won the War. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 68 of 275 copies SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED OR INSCRIBED BY MAILER, all in original boards, cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MCMURTRY, Larry (b. 1936). Terms of Endearment. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.8vo. Original brown cloth-backed boards (bottom edge of boards bumped, some light rubbing); original dust jacket (some light chipping, a few short tears, some minor soiling).  FIRST EDITION of McMurtry's novel. James L. Brooks adapted the novel to film in 1983 starring Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow, which won five academy awards in 1984.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ANDERSON, Sherwood (1876-1941). Perhaps Women. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931.  8vo. Half-title, engraved frontispiece. Original blue cloth gilt (very slight fading along top and bottom edge); original printed dust jacket (price-clipped and corners clipped, spine and folds slightly toned, short tear at foot of spine, otherwise bright). Provenance: Walter Balluege (signature); Marian Hunter's Books (bookseller's label).   FIRST EDITION of Anderson's collection of essays about how "modern industry and our money civilization have usurped the strength of man and rendered him impotent." (front flap). For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BURROUGHS, William S. (1914-1997). Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1959 [but 1962].8vo. Original cloth-backed black boards gilt, top edge stained black; original pictorial dust jacket (a few very tiny chips or tears along top edge, small crease at foot of rear panel, some other very minor creasing to rear panel, some light staining); folding case.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, one of 3,500 copies, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with price "$6.00" and no zip code in the publisher's address on rear panel. Maynard & Miles A2b.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891).  Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1846.8vo. Map of the Marquesas Islands bound before pg. [1]. (Lacking half-title and 16 pp. publisher's advertisements.) 19th-century half calf gilt, edges marbled (some rubbing and wear). FIRST EDITION OF MELVILLE'S FIRST BOOK, FIRST STATE of page 19 ('Pomarea'), published just prior to the first American edition of the same year entitled Typee. BAL 13652.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. London: John Murray, 1847.8vo. Frontispiece map. (Lacking 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end, a few leaves with light spotting). 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, edges marbled (some light rubbing or wear). Provenance: Joan Emlyn (armorial bookplate).FIRST EDITION, published in the same year as the first American edition (see next lot). BAL 13655 (State A of signature 'P' [no priority]).For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.8vo. Half-title printed in red, title-page printed in black and red; frontispiece map. (Some spotting throughout.) Later marbled boards with modern rebacking; slipcase.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, preceded by a London edition of the same year (see previous lot). BAL 13656.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Redburn: His First Voyage. New York: Harper, 1849.8vo. (Some spotting throughout.) Original publisher's purple cloth blocked in blind, spine gilt-lettered, yellow endpapers (some chipping with minor losses to spine ends, a few tiny holes at joints, some minor staining, some soiling to endpapers as often). Provenance: Will Harrison (19th-century signatures); Kyle W. Spangler (signatures).FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing, with extended advertisements at end, published in the same year as the first London edition. BAL 13660.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). White Jacket; or the World in a Man-of-War. New York: Harper, 1850.8vo. 6pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Some spotting as usual.) 20th-century half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt (joints starting, repairs to upper hinge). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, published in the same year as the first London edition. BAL 13662.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.8vo. 6pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Some spotting or staining as usual.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt laid over modern boards; folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second binding, following the London edition by a month and containing some thirty-five passages not present in the English edition. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Pierre; or, the Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852.8vo. (Some spotting, mostly marginal dampstain to several leaves.) Original publisher's slate blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, brown coated endpapers (some light wear to spine ends and corners, spine slightly browned, tiny hole to cloth lower cover, hinges starting, some paper remnants and scuffing on flyleaves);  morocco slipcase.FIRST EDITION. A large portion of the first edition of Pierre was destroyed in the 1853 fire at Harper & Brothers. BAL 13666.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1855.8vo. (A few pale stains.) 20th-century half blue morocco gilt, top edge gilt (some very slight rubbing to extremities); original publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth bound in; morocco folding case.FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the first cloth binding bound in. BAL 13667.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). The Piazza Tales. New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856.12mo.  7pp. publisher's advertisements at end. 20th-century leather gilt. FIRST EDITION, including the first book appearance of several of Melville's best-known short stories, including 'Bartleby, the Scrivener,' 'Benito Cereno,' and 'The Enchantadas" (all previously published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine).  BAL 13669.[With:] MELVILLE. "The Town-Ho's Story." In: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, June to November 1851. p.658-665. 8vo. 20th-century half morocco (worn).  For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.8vo. (Some light chipping or short marginal tears to first few leaves.) Original publisher's green blind-stamped cloth gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, endpapers renewed, some bubbling to cloth on sides); morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION of Melville's first book of poetry. BAL 13673. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870.8vo (188 x 130 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece and 15 plates by Ernest Griset. (Some very minor spotting to a few leaves.) Original black pictorial cloth decorated in red and gilt over beveled boards (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, repairs to hinges and a few corners). Provenance: May Seneple (signature, 1869); Alexander Day (bookseller's label). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, originally published serially in Fraser's Magazine from 1868-1869. Penzer pp.81-82.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.2 volumes, 8vo. Original green printed wrappers (extremities lightly rubbed, a few tiny splits to joints, discreet repairs to spine vol. II); custom folding case.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with printed price "Francs: 900" on back cover. Nabokov's controversial novel was rejected by American publishers, but was finally accepted by the avant-garde Olympia Press in Paris and published in this two-volume edition; it was not published in the U.S. and the U.K. until 1959. Lolita is ranked fourth on the Modern Library's list of 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. Juliar A28.1.1, issue a.[With:] NABOKOV. Lolita. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. Original cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Juliar A28.3. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[NATURAL HISTORY & TRAVEL]. A group of 5 works, comprising: LYTTON, Edward George Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton. Last Days of Pompeii. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. 3 volumes. Contemporary half brown morocco gilt. Provenance: William Forbes Morgan (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. -- DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni. The Viking Age. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 2 volumes. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MATTHIESSEN, Peter and Eliot Porter. The Tree Where Man Was Born. The African Experience. New York: E. P.  Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. Original cloth and dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- PETERSON, Roger Tory. The Field Guide Art of Roger Tory Peterson. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1990. 2 volumes, folio. Publisher's leather gilt. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY PETERSON -- ALEXANDER, Caroline. The Endurance. Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Later edition. -- Together, 5 works in 9 volumes, publisher's bindings as indicated, most FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally fine. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

NORRIS, Frank (1870-1902). McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Original publisher's red cloth decorated and lettered in white (slightly leaned, spine slightly soiled, slight rubbed with very slight wear).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with page 106 ending with the word "moment." This novel "depicts early San Francisco and--as though motivated by some Fabian influence--determines to conclude its plot in a macabre Death Valley setting." (Edwards, The Enduring Desert p.183). BAL 15031; McElrath A3; Zamorano 80, 58.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

O'BRIEN, Tim (b. 1946). Northern Lights. London: Marion Boyars, 1975. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on spine; original dust jacket (price-clipped).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of O'Brien's scarce second novel. A FINE COPY.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964). Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; original dust jacket (price-clipped, a few short tears repaired verso, some minor soiling or chipping, a few small abrasions rear panel).FIRST EDITION OF O'CONNOR'S FIRST BOOK.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[ORWELL, George (1903-1950) - AMERICAN EDITIONS]. A group of 3 works, comprising: Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. -Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all in original cloth and dust jackets, all FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally good. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

CAIN, James Mallahan (1892-1977). The Postman Always Rings Twice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.8vo. Original publisher's orange cloth (spine slightly soiled); original pictorial dust jacket (small hole on front panel near spine fold, some minor soiling, some light wear to corners and top edge). FIRST EDITION OF CAIN'S FIRST NOVEL, one of the most important crime novels of the 20th century, adapted for the 1946 film of the same name starting Lana Turner. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[PHOTOBOOKS]. MANN, Sally (b. 1951).  At Twelve. Portraits of Young Women. New York: Aperture, 1988.Folio. Numerous photographic reproductions. Original beige cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MANN. [With:]MANN, Sally. Immediate Family. New York: Aperture, 1992. Folio. Numerous photographic reproductions. Original light gray cloth; original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MANN. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[PHOTOBOOKS & ARTISTS' BOOKS]. A group of 7 photobooks and artists' books, comprising:  BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret and Sean Callahan, editor. The Photographs of Margaret Bourke White. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. FIRST EDITION. -- JAIN, Kelley. Nude Theory. New York: Lustrum, 1979. FIRST EDITION. -- ERTE and Marshall Lee, editor. Erte at Ninety. The Complete Graphics. The Complete Graphics. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. Later edition. -- STEINEM, Gloria. Marilyn. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. -- FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINEM. -- ERTE and Marshall Lee, editor. Erte. Art To Wear. The Complete Jewelry. New York: Dutton Studio Books, 1991. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.  -- MCDOWELL, Roddy. Double Exposure, Take Three. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MCDOWELL. -- CONNERY, Sean and Murray Grigor Being a Scot. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008. Slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Paper slip SIGNED BY CONNERY laid in. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, folio or 4to, all in original publisher's cloth or cloth-backed boards with dust jackets, most FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, signed or inscribed where indicated, condition generally fine. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[POLITICS - WORLD LEADERS]. A group of 3 works, comprising:TUTU, Desmond. The Rainbow People of God. The Making of a Peaceful Revolution. New York: Doubleday, 1984. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY TUTU. GORBACHEV, Mikhail. The August Coup. The Truth and the Lessons. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GORBACHEV. THATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Publisher's leather. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1,150 of 2,000 copies SIGNED BY THATCHER. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, all in original publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jackets except where indicated, ALL FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED OR INSCRIBED, condition generally fine.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.8vo. Original gilt-decorated two-toned cloth; dust jacket (some very minor retouching to background, a few tiny tears with japan tissue repairs verso); custom quarter morocco folding case with onlaid morocco and cloth design based on dust jacket. Provenance: Donald G. Drapkin (bookplate, his sale, Christie's, 29 June 2005, Lot 308). FIRST EDITION of Puzo's  novel which set in the violent realm of the Mafia underworld. It was the basis for the 1972 film starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Script, and Best Actor, and is considered the greatest mob movie of all time. THE VERY FINE DRAPKIN COPY. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

PYNCHON, Thomas (b. 1937). V. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1963.8vo. Half-title. Original printed wrappers, top edge stained blue (some overall fading and toning, lower wrapper neatly detached).ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the first edition (see next lot). For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

PYNCHON, Thomas (b. 1937). V. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1963.8vo. Half-title. Original publisher's blind- and silver-stamped lavender cloth (very minor fading to spine ends and board edges, small stain to fore-edge); original pictorial dust jacket (ca 6-in. closed tear to lower flap repaired verso, a few very short tears to spine ends and folds, some light rubbing); folding case. FIRST EDITION without "First Edition" note on copyright page, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET without the review blurbs added in later editions. Mead A1a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

PYNCHON, Thomas (b. 1937). The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.8vo. Original yellow cloth-backed gray pictorial boards, top edge stained blue; original printed dust jacket (very slight toning, short tear and crease to front panel. FIRST EDITION of Pynchon's second novel, winner of the 1967 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953). The Yearling. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.8vo. Numerous illustrations by Edward Shenton. Original cream cloth stamped in green; original pictorial dust jacket (some chipping and staining with minor losses, some overall soiling).  FIRST TRADE EDITION of Rawling's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. [With:]RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953). Cross Creek. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped in silver; original pictorial dust jacket (some chipping and toning to spine panel). Provenance: Mary and John Gibson (bookplate). FIRST EDITION.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ROBBINS, Tom (b. 1932). Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.8vo. Cloth-backed blue cloth stamped in blue, top edge stained blue; original dust jacket.  FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ROBBINS. A VERY FINE COPY.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). Breakfast at Tiffany's. New York: Random House, 1958.8vo. Original yellow cloth gilt, top edge stained gray (a few indentations to edges of rear board); original dust jacket (spine panel sunned, some minor soiling, some minor chipping with occasional small losses, a few short separations to folds). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated on copyright page), SIGNED BY CAPOTE. Capote's novella, adapted for the 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn, was published along with three other short stories: "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory."For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic, 2002. Later American edition, with number sequence starting with 60 on copyright page. In a later dust jacket with "Year 2" on the spine, and priced "22.95. SIGNED BY ROWLING on title-page. [With:] ROWLING. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., 2005. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED BY ROWLING on the title-page. [Also with:] ROWLING. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. New York, 2005. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A second copy.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.8vo. Original black cloth; original presumed first issue dust-jacket printed in red, black and yellow with cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover (price-clipped, some minor chipping repaired verso with retouching, some very minor rubbing); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Sold Christie's New York, 9 December 1993, Lot 49. FIRST EDITION. The novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes. 'The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices€”anger, contempt, self-pity€”but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54).For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961.8vo. Original cloth (minor spotting to sheet edges); original dust jacket (very slightly rubbed at spine ends, short closed tear rear panel, otherwise bright). Provenance: John M. Kays (signature). FIRST EDITION. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Ivanhoe. Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co. and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.3 volumes, 8vo (182 x 115 mm). Half titles, fly-titles. (Half-titles lacking in vol.II-III.) Later 20th-century quarter blue morocco gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, Provenance: Vilhelm Mattie? (signature); RB Irma Maltke? (gift inscription, 1915) FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with all the points identified by Worthington except vol.II lacks the half-title and vol.III lacks the half-title and 3pp. advertisements at end. Scott wrote Ivanhoe between July and November of 1819. The first printing of 12,000 copies was released in December 1819, and completely sold out in two weeks. Todd 140Aa; Worthington 8.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010). Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. London: W. H. Allen, 1958.8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; original pictorial dust jacket (discreet restoration to top portion of upper and lower joints and head of spine, some light overall soiling).  Provenance: City Book Shop (bookseller's label). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SILLITOE of his first novel adapted into a 1960 film directed by Karel Reisz and starring Albert Finney. [Laid in:] 2 autograph letters signed ("Alan Sillitoe") to A. Azzini, 1 August 1989, n.d. 2 pages, 8vo.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STANLEY, Henry Morton, Sir (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 146 mm). Portrait frontispieces, 3 folding maps in rear pockets (short tears along folds and edges, rear pockets torn at joints). 19th-century half brown morocco gilt, edges gilt (sunning to spine, slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance:  Publishers' and Booksellers' Protective Association (bookseller's label).  FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION of Stanley's account as leader of the controversial Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1886-1889) in the Congo. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cup of Gold. New York: McBride, 1929.8vo. Original yellow cloth lettered in black (endpapers renewed, spine slightly soiled, bottom edge rubbed); original pictorial dust jacket with corners clipped as issued and "$2.50" price present (verso lined with Japanese tissue, repairs verso to flap folds and edges, restored with portions recolored and some work in facsimile).  Provenance: Popular Fiction Lending Library (stamp on top edge partially effaced). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF STEINBECK'S FIRST BOOK, with the McBride imprint and "First Published, August 1929" on copyright page. In binding variant 1 with the unstained top edge and retaining the final blank. One of only approximately 2,500 copies of Steinbeck's scarce first novel, published right before the stock market crash, which tells the story of the life of pirate Henry Morgan. Goldstone & Payne A1a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. 8vo. Original publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth, top edge stained black (some minor fading to spine ends, very slightly leaned); original silver dust jacket lettered in blue with gold stars (some minor soiling, creasing or rubbing, chipping with small losses to spine ends and a few edges, slight rubbing primarily to folds). Provenance: Louis Paul (ca 1902-1970), American author and Steinbeck correspondent (presentation inscription, autograph note by Steinbeck tipped in, see below).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET.  PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK: "For Louis Paul: that I wish I could write as good as him, John Steinbeck, Los Gatos, 1936." Steinbeck adds a postscript:  "I wonder what will become of us now! And I could wish that this book might possibly give you as much pleasure as your wanting me to sign it gives me. J.S."  Of the 2,500 copies printed, only 1,650 were bound, and of those, only 650 sold.  Ballou later bought the remaining copies, and it has become the most popular of Steinbeck's three earliest novels.  A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. [Tipped in:] STEINBECK. Autograph note, to Louis Paul, n.d., n.p. In full: "Where'd you get hold of this. The double imprint B. W. & P. is very rare. Ballou tipped in his house information almost the day of publication. This super first edition I'm told is hard to get. I see that Shumlin has turned down my new playing novel. I grow more and more convinced that any book which gets by easily is a lousy book. It can almost be made axiomatic. Anyway I'll get this off."Steinbeck struck up a friendship with Louis Paul after reading his contribution to the O. Henry Prize Stories of 1934.  Steinbeck shares his endorsement of Paul in a 24 November 1937 letter to his literary agents Elizabeth Otis, Anne Laurie Williams and Mavis McIntosh: "I'm bringing you a new client. Louis Paul. He's a swell egg and you will like him. And he's well enough known so that it may not be hard to sell his stories. I like him immensely" (Steinbeck, A Life in Letters, p. 144, 1975). Goldstone & Payne A2a.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). To A God Unknown. New York: Robert Ballou, 1933.8vo. Original green cloth gilt-lettered on spine (spine slightly leaned with some fading, corners on upper board slightly bumped, some minor spotting to fore-edge); original pictorial dust jacket (chipping with minor losses to corners and spine ends, a few short closed tears, old price sticker rear flap, some toning along folds and edges); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Steinbeck's scarce third book.  Although 1498 copies were printed in September 1933, fewer than 600 copies were bound and sold.  Goldstone & Payne A3a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici-Friede, 1935. 8vo. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. Original pictorial wrappers by Ruth Gannett (a few short chips or tears); cloth folding case. Provenance: Jacques Levy (offered his sale, Sotheby's, 20 April 2012, Sale 8852, Lot 318).FIRST EDITION, issue in wrappers. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY with "Advance Complimentary Copy" stamp on front flyleaf.  Approximately 500 copies were bound in wrappers; according to Goldstone and Payne, no evidence has been found that copies bound in wrappers preceded the cloth-bound copies.  Goldstone & Payne A3a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.8vo. Original printed wrappers (small stain on front wrapper and very slight edgewear, otherwise fine). ADVANCE COPY OF THE FIRST TRADE EDITION in original wrappers. FIRST PRINTING stated on copyright.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici-Friede, 1936.8vo. Original orange cloth printed in black and red, top edge stained red; pictorial dust jacket (a few tears to rear panel and spine repaired verso with minor restoration and recoloring, some minor soiling or toning, small stain on lower flap fold). Provenance: Samuel Fisher Babbitt (bookplate). FIRST TRADE EDITION.  Steinbeck's novel about striking apple pickers "accomplishes in a strike novel what no writer has been able to accomplish before him: he dramatizes scenes from the front-line trenches of economic warfare in the essential terms of humanity" (jacket blurb). Goldstone & Payne A5b. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Saint Katy the Virgin. Mount Vernon, New York: The Golden Eagle Press for Covici-Friede, 1936.12mo. Original gold cloth-backed orange and gilt patterned boards, uncut (some slight rubbing to extremities, small loss to foot of upper joint). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 174 of 199 copies SIGNED BY STEINBECK and issued as a Christmas gift for "Friends of Covici-Friede."  In a January 1938 letter, Steinbeck remarks: "You know I had nothing at all to do with the printing or distribution of the St. Katy book. I have only one copy of it... [and] really don't know where you can get a copy but I have heard they are rare and expensive..." Goldstone & Payne A6a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937.8vo. Original beige cloth (bumped along top edge front board, some minor staining, slightly leaned); pictorial dust jacket [issue unknown] (price-clipped, tearing to lower joint and panel repaired verso, some light chipping at edges, some minor soiling). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, including the line "...and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula." on page 9, as well as the bullet between the 8s on page 88, but this copy with the top edge unstained rather than stained blue. Goldstone & Payne A7a.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939. 8vo. (A few tiny pale stains to the first few leaves.) Original pictorial beige cloth (some soiling to spine, minor spotting to endleaves); facsimile dust jacket; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, WITH STEINBECK'S SIGNATURE tipped to front free endpaper.  Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 for this novel. Goldstone & Payne A12a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945. 8vo. (Soft crease to a few leaves). Original blue wrappers lettered in black (spine slightly toned). FIRST EDITION, ISSUE IN WRAPPERS (probably the advance review issue). Goldstone & Payne A22a. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945. 8vo. (Half-title and first few leaves creased). Original publisher's buff cloth printed in blue, top edge stained blue; original pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping to corners and edges). Provenance: Bob Stricker (signature). FIRST EDITION, issue in cloth, in first issue binding. Goldstone & Payne A22b. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth; original pictorial dust jacket (a few short tears or slight chipping to edges, a few tiny stains rear panel, some minor toning). FIRST EDITION, trade issue. Elia Kazan's 1955 film of the same title was loosely based on the fourth and final part of Steinbeck's novel. Goldstone & Payne A32b. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968).  A group of 3 works, comprising: Once There Was a War. New York: Viking Press, 1958. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- The Winter of our Discontent. New York: Viking Press, 1961. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- Of Mice and Men--Cannery Row. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1967. Pictorial wrappers. Later edition, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK: "For Roger Rochlen: If you can get past that dreadful picture on the cover, nothing in this book can hurt you. In fact, by comparison, it seems quite good even to me. Good Luck, John Steinbeck." -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally good. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886.8vo. 1 p. publisher's advertisement at end. Modern half morocco gilt; original buff printed wrappers with date altered in ink from 1885 to 1886 bound in. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition which was published by Scribner four days earlier. Stevenson's novel was intended to be published in December 1885, but it was delayed until January 1886. "Like Shelley's Frankenstein, this is an updating of the Faust theme which speculates on the dangers of science out of control..." (Lilly 21).  McKay 348; Prideaux 17.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.8vo. Original maroon cloth gilt, top edge stained blue; original dust jacket (some minor chipping to corners with a few small losses, pale stain to front panel, some minor toning).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated on copyright page) of Capote's acclaimed true crime novel. SIGNED BY CAPOTE on front free endpaper.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). The Body Snatcher. New York: The Merriam Company, [1895].12mo. 4 illustrated plates. Original violet cloth decorated in dark purple (spine soiled, some rubbing to joints and spine ends, upper hinge starting). Provenance: Morton A. Mergentheim (bookplate, signature). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, published as #2 of Merriam's "Violet Series," and later adapted for the 1945 film starring Boris Karloff. Prideaux 131. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. 8vo. Half-title. (Repair to upper blank margin of title-page.) Original publisher's yellow cloth, lettered and ruled in orange-red, uncut (hinges discreetly reinforced, some minor spotting to top edge, some soiling, spine slightly darkened); folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE without advertisements, with the last page of text numbered 390 followed by an integral blank leaf. Stoker's "deeply sensational, exciting and interesting" novel (Charlotte Stoker) was described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as "the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years...there is never an anticlimax." Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction (1987), p. 187. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

THACKERAY, William (1811-1863). Vanity Fair. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.8vo (208 x 132 mm). Engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates, wood-engraved illustrations (some minor spotting to a few leaves). 20th-century half tan calf gilt stamp-signed by Morrell (darkening to spine and edges, hinges starting, some losses to spine with old repairs); slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, later issue with 'Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p.453 but without the heading on p.1 in rustic type or the suppressed woodcut of Lord Steyne on p. 336.  Grolier English 87; Van Duzer 231.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

TOLSTOY, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910). Anna Karenina. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886.8vo. 1p. publisher's advertisements at front, 4p. publisher's advertisements at end. Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped on spine and upper cover, floral endpapers (some light rubbing or wear to spine ends and extremities). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, EARLY PRINTING with Anna Karenina listed first on the advertisement leaf at front.  Tolstoy's work was first published in book form in Moscow in 1878. The present edition was issued in blonde, brown, blue and green cloth, with no established priority. [With:] TOLSTOY. War and Peace. Translated by Clara Bell. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886-1887. 4 volumes, comprising Vols. I & II, each in two parts (of 6, lacking Vol. II in two parts), 8vo. Publisher's advertisements at end of 3 volumes. Original publisher's brown cloth blocked in black and gilt. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Vol. I parts I and II. For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

TRAVEN B. (1882-1969). Treasure of the Sierra Madre. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935.8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping and creasing with small losses, front panel rubbed, price-clipped).FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Traven's novel following three gold prospectors who venture into the Sierra Madre mountains. Film director John Huston adapted this work into a 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart.[With:]TRAVEN, B. The Bridge in the Jungle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 8vo. Original green cloth, top edge stained red (spine sunned); original dust jacket (some minor creasing) . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949). The Polar Express. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.4to. Numerous illustrations. Original burgundy cloth stamped in silver; original pictorial dust jacket (1 1/2-inch closed tear, repaired verso to front panel). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Van Allsburg's classic story, for which he won the 1986 Caldecott Medal. Van Allsburg had previously won the Caldecott Medal in 1981 for another adored work, Jumanji.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com