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Lot 193

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, title foil-stamped in silver to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, original flame design dust-jacket, minor soiling to jacket, with darkening to the spine, publisher's flaw at p 19/20 mistrimmed.Provenance: H.W. Higginson (pencil inscription to endpaper dated 'May '55').FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, FIRST BINDING of Fleming's third novel, printed on thinner paper with misprint to p 10. The third James Bond title, and widely considered to be the best. Gilbert A3a(1.1).

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Lot 194

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.Diamonds are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth ruled in blind in a diamond pattern, with silver diamond decoration to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, original pictorial dust-jacket, small stain to fore-edge of page edges, corresponding small stain to fore-edge of rear panel of jacket.Provenance: 'Hazelden' (ink notation to endpaper).'We're both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town.'FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, with 'Boofy' to p 134. A very nice copy of the fourth Bond book. Gilbert A4a(1.1).

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Lot 195

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. 8vo. Publisher's plain black cloth, lettered in silver to spine, original pictorial dust jacket designed by Pat Marriot, some tiny chips to corner, and upper panel, dampstain to rear panel. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, IN FIRST ISSUE JACKET. While the novel's sex and violence encountered harsh criticism in the U.K., the U.S. response was much kinder, where it was called 'the most artfully bold, dizzyingly poised thriller of the decade' (James Sandoe in The New York Herald Tribune). Unsurprisingly, Hollywood saw it similarly, and Dr. No became the first of the Bond novels to be made into a film in 1962, starring Sean Connery as the dapper spy. Gilbert A6a(1.1).

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Lot 196

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, (1959). 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with blind-stamped skull design to upper cover, coins in the eyes stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, original dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, some repair to cloth at joints, small stain at lower gutter, minor chipping to corners of jacket.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE JACKET, binding in the second state without 3 mm indentation to upper left of skull. Cited by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939 (Ninety-nine Novels, 1984). Gilbert A7a(1.2)

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Lot 197

FLEMING, IAN. 1908-1964.8 James Bond novels: 1. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. FIRST EDITION. Gilbert A5a.2. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Staining to jacket spine. Gilbert A8a(1.1). 3. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Gilbert A9a(1.1). 4. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. FIRST EDITION, primary title page, with spurious signature of the author. Gilbert A10a(1.1).5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Gilbert A11a(1.1).6. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Gilbert A12a(1.1).7. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST EDITION, second binding (c). Gilbert A13a(1.4).8. Octopussy, and the Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Gilbert A14a(1.1).All in publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jackets. Minor wear to corners of jackets, otherwise fine, except where noted. All FIRST EDITIONS of Fleming's much-celebrated James Bond novels.

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Lot 200

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.North of Boston. London: David Nutt, (1914). 8vo. Publisher's olive green cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, blind-rule to upper cover, custom green cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase, small plate removed from upper corner paste-down, fine.Provenance: Author's presentation copy to Paul Lemperley (holograph note laid-in), sold his sale, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, January 4, 1940; Frederic Dannay (his sale, Christie's New York, December 16, 1983, lot 146). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, FIRST BINDING, PRESENTATION COPY FOR PAUL LEMPERLEY, inscribed by Frost (without Lemperley's name), 'With real regard, / Robert Frost / May 15, 1915,' with two tiny corrections by the author on p 11, lines 4 and 11, and an autograph note signed by Lemperley with initials describing the binding and corrections. Paul Lemperley was a noted Cleveland book-collector and Rowfant Club member: his copy of Frost's New Hampshire bears the authorial inscription, 'My friend since my first book.'A fine association copy of the author's second major book. Crane A3(A).

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Lot 204

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.3 signed works: 1. Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. 2 volumes. 4to. Wood-engraved decorations by Thomas W. Nason. Denim cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION number 1267 of 1500 copies signed by frost, Nason, and designer Bruce Rogers. 2. Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949. New York: Henry Holt, 1949. Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth; original slipcase. Title with short marginal tear. LIMITED EDITION, number 304 of 500 copies SIGNED by Frost. 3. From Snow to Snow. New York: Henry Holt, 1936. Original silver lettered cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Frost 'For the Mayor' and dated 1937.

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Lot 205

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.A collection of signed, limited editions: New Hampshire. 1923. Number 230 pf 350. * A Witness Tree. 1942. Number 645 of 735. Slipcase. * A Masque of Reason. 1945. Number 235 pf 800. * Steeple Bush. 1947. Number 167 of 751. Slipcase. * A Masque of Mercy. 1947. Number 690 of 750. * Hard Not to be King. 1951. Number 117 of 300. * Aforesaid. 1954. Number 308 of 650. Slipcase. * New Hampshire. New Dresden Press, 1955. First separate edition. Number 121 of 750. * In the Clearing. 1962. Number 1087 of 1,500. Slipcase. WITH: Steeple Bush. 1947. Trade hardcover, signed on the free front endpaper: 'Robert Frost. Breadloaf, 1947.Most fine with minor wear, first title covers rubbed, Aforesaid slipcase dampstained, not affecting book.

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Lot 206

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.Collection of early books, mostly signed, all in original binding: 1. Collected Poems. 1930. Publisher's buckram cloth, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 1000 copies, SIGNED by Frost on the half-title.2. West-Running Brook. 1928. Publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper boards, lacking slipcase, number 736 of 1000 copies SIGNED by Frost at the colophon, and by J.J. Lankes beneath each of his 3 illustrations.3. A Further Range. 1936. Publisher's cloth, slipcase, number 702 of 803 copies SIGNED by Frost.WITH: A Boy's Will. Holt, 1915. Lacking dust-jacket. First American edition, FIRST ISSUE. * Mountain Interval. 1916. Lacking dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. * A Way Out. 1928. Number 182 of 485, SIGNED by Frost. * Collected Poems. 1930. FIRST TRADE EDITION, FINE IN JACKET. * A Further Range. 1936. Later printing in jacket, SIGNED by Frost. * Collected Poems... 1939. 1939. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frost, 'Mt Auburn St/ Boston.'

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Lot 207

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.The Return of the Native. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. 3 volumes. 8vo. Half-title, map frontispiece by Hardy in vol 1. Publisher's cloth, upper cover and spine decoratively stamped in black and gilt, spines lettered in gilt and blind, lower cover with double-rule border in blind, custom cloth chemise and morocco backed box, minor rubbing at joints, light foxing to endpapers.FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, Purdy's primary binding. Controversial upon publication for its frank treatment of sexuality, Hardy's classic tragedy and its proud and unconventional heroine, Eustacia Vye, are now considered one of his best. A clean, bright copy. Purdy, pp 24-72. Sadleir 1113 (binding B).

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Lot 208

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.The Trumpet Major. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. 3 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, initial blanks. Publisher's red cloth, front covers pictorially stamped in black, spines in black and gilt, lower covers with triple-rule in blind. custom cloth drop-back box. Spines lightly faded, minor rubbing to gilt.FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, SECONDARY BINDING, which Purdy notes is scarcer than the primary binding. The Trumpet-Major first appeared in 12 monthly parts of Good Words for 1880. The cover features an encampment in the top panel and a mill on the lower panel and follows the author's own design. Hardy also specified the exact shade of red he wanted, a bright sanguine which accords well with the most drastic change that Hardy made to the book edition from the serial: the allusion to the future death of the trumpet major 'upon one of the bloody battle-fields of Spain.' Purdy, pp 31-35; Sadleir 1115.

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Lot 210

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1886. 2 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, single ad leaf at end of vol 1, and 2 leaves in vol 2 (as called for by Purdy). Publisher's smooth blue cloth, stamped in black, spines titled in gilt, gray floral endpapers. Light rubbing to joints, chip to lower inner corner of many pages in vol 1, small burn hole to pp 189/190. Washed out inscription dated 1888 to half-title.FIRST BOOK EDITION, 758 copies printed, of which 600 were bound at publication. According to critic Albert Guerard, [the main character] 'Henchard ... stands at the very summit of his creator's achievement; his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction. He takes his place at once with certain towering and possessed figures of Melville, Hawthorne, and Dostoevsky' (Thomas Hardy: The Novels and Stories, New York: 1949). Purdy, pp 50-54; Sadleir 1111.

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Lot 211

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. [London]: James R.Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891. 3 volumes. 8vo. Half-titles, vols 2 & 3 with final blanks, and vol 2 with initial blank, as called for. Publisher's brown cloth, with gilt honeysuckle design by Charles Ricketts, spines decoratively titled in gilt, modern cloth drop-back box. Minor rubbing to covers, spines lightly cocked.Provenance: Alfred & G. Ivy Clark (etched bookplate).FIRST BOOK EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, a very nice copy of one of Hardy's greatest novels. When it appeared in serial form, two scenes were removed from the serial publication by the editor, necessitating changes in plot including the introduction of a mock marriage. For the book edition, Hardy was able to 'piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together' (Purdy, p 67). Banned and much-discussed at the time of publication for its frank sexuality, Hardy's tragic portrayal of 'a pure woman' trapped by the mores of Victorian society still stands today as one of the most important English novels. Purdy, pp 67-78; Sadleir 1114.

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Lot 212

HARDY, THOMAS. 1840-1928.The Dynasts. London: MacMillan & Co, Limited, 1903-1908. 3 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, publisher's decorated 'TH' monogram to upper covers, spines lettered in gilt, lacking dust-jackets, spines very lightly faded.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of volume one, the usual second state of volume two (with cancel title, no known copy of the first state in an English binding), embossed 'PRESENTATION COPY' stamps to all three title pages, and REVIEW SLIP laid in to volume one. According to George Orwell, writing in the midst of another war in 1942, Hardy 'set free his genius' to write a 'grandiose and rather evil vision of armies marching and counter-marching through the mists, and men dying by hundreds of thousands in the Russian snows, and all for absolutely nothing' (Tribune, September 18, 1942). Purdy, pp 119-135.

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Lot 214

HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER. 1948-1908.Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton, 1881. 8vo. Frontispiece, 7 illustrations and illustrations in text after Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, 8 pp advertisements at rear. Publisher's cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black, patterned endpapers, minor wear to cloth, newspaper article pasted to verso of final textual leaf.WITH: Autograph Letter signed ('Joel Chandler Harris'), 1 p, 108 x 137 mm, on The Constitution letterhead, Atlanta, GA, May 28, 1883, to The World offices asking for two copies of the issue 'containing a notice of the June Century,' light soiling.Provenance: E. Laffam (ownership name); St. Pancras House Improvement Society (stamps to endpapers).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'presumptive' to p 9, and no mention of the work in ads. A clean copy of Harris's retelling of African-American folk-tales and myths, with an Autograph Letter Signed from Harris laid in. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Parley to Penrod pp 56-57.

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Lot 215

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. 1804-1864.Fanshawe, A Tale. Boston: Marsh & Capen, 1828. 12mo. Publisher's muslin backed boards, spine label lacking, spine skillfully repaired, light dampstain to upper corner, endpaper, lessening through first 5 leaves, Provenance: Lizzie H. Coe (ink inscription, dated 'Cayuga, Ill/ 1885); sold Christies, New York, May 17, 1989, lot 70. HAWTHORNE'S EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE FIRST BOOK, published anonymously and actively suppressed by Hawthorne in his lifetime. Written while he was still a student at Bowdoin, Fanshawe was published soon after his graduation. Both Hawthorne's sister and the publisher report that Hawthorne instructed them not to associate him with the book. However, according to Clark, ''Although Hawthorne later suppressed knowledge of the existence of Fanshawe, the scarcity of this work results primarily from destruction in a warehouse fire of the publisher's inventory.' BAL 7570; Clark A1.1.

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Lot 223

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Exiles. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1918. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed slate green paper-covered boards, blind-stamped upper cover, spine gilt lettered, publishers dust jacket. Small nick to edge of upper cover, light darkening and rubbing to edges; dust jacket with skillful restoration to spine and folds.Provenance: The Sunwise Turn, Inc. (bookseller's label on back paste-down, see below); William Pieper (small label at back and morocco bookplate?). FIRST EDITION, American issue published simultaneously with the English edition, featuring the rare dust jacket stating: 'A play in three acts that belongs on the shelf with Ibsen and Hauptmann.' The Sunwise Turn, Inc. 'A Modern Bookshop,' is one of the first women owned bookshops in America. It was a bookstore, gallery space, publisher (briefly considering publishing Ulysses) and gathering place for contemporary authors, founded by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke in 1916 and operated until 1927. Slocum and Cahoon A15; see Madge Jenison, Sunwise Turn, A Human Comedy of Bookselling, New York, 1923; See Huw Osborne, editor, The Rise of the Modern Bookshop, Burlington, 2015, p 32.

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Lot 224

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, gilt triangle decoration to front cover, border stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, custom cloth box, abrasion to front cover.FIRST BOOK EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 619 of 800 copies signed by Joyce on the colophon. By his own count, Joyce spent more than 1200 hours on ALP 'on which I am prepared to stake everything' (Letter to Harriet Weaver, October 8, 1927). Regarded as the most lyrical section of what would become Finnegans Wake, 'Anna Livia' had 'an undoubted influence on 'The Revolution of the Word' (Connolly Modern Movement 87). Slocum & Cahoon A32.

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Lot 225

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from A Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: The Fountain Press, 1930. Folio. Title printed in green and black, initials and headlines printed in green. Publisher's printed wrappers, uncut, glassine dustwrapper, custom cloth slipcase, minor chipping to lower spine corner, small chip to glassine at upper corner, tanning to spine.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 73 of 100 copies signed by Joyce in pencil, and printed on hand-made iridescent Japan, from a total edition of 685. Jack Kahane, the 'dirty books' publisher the Obelisk Press, approached Joyce in 1929 about publishing something from his 'Work in Progress,' a portion of which had appeared in Transitions earlier that year. Introduced through Sylvia Beach, Kahane, who was known to refer to Joyce simply as 'God,' paid Joyce 50,000 francs and published the 5000-word fragment with 'touching reverence and incomparable luxury' (Kahane, Memoirs of a Booklegger, p 29). The section forms chapter 3 of book III in what eventually became Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon A41.

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Lot 226

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.3 titles: 1. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934. Publisher's cloth printed in red and black, dust jacket. Slight toning to cloth, toning to spine and a few small tears in jacket. FIRST AUTHORIZED AMERICAN EDITION, with reprint of U.S. District Court decision regarding the ban of the work, and the first appearance of Ernst Reichl's bold typographic jacket design. Slocum & Cahoon A212. Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking Press, 1939. Publisher's cloth, jacket printed in red and blue on white. Jacket spine sunned, slightly soiled, with a few chips. FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION. Slocum & Cahoon A47.3. Anna Livia Plurabelle: Fragment of Work in Progress. London: Faber & Faber, [1930]. Publisher's cloth titled in gilt. Lacking original glassine jacket, slight spotting. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of this chapter, a fragment of what would later become Finnegan's Wake, printed as part of series, 'Criterion Miscellany No.15.' Slocum & Cahoon 33.

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Lot 227

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.Carrie. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, original pictorial dust-jacket, minor wear at corners of jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF KING'S FIRST NOVEL, INSCRIBED by King to title page, and dated December 12, 1995, with code P6 to gutter of p 199. A clean bright copy of an important first novel, the basis for the 1976 classic starring Sissy Spacek in the title role.

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Lot 228

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.Carrie. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974. 8vo. Publisher's original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, original pictorial dust-jacket, light wear at corners.SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, first printing with code 'P6' in gutter of p 199.

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Lot 229

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.Carrie. London: New English Library, 1974. 8vo. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, light wear at the corners.FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A bright copy of a scarce issue.

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Lot 230

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.CHONG, VINCENT. Illustrator. The Shining. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2013. 4to. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's suede folding case, lettered in gilt.DELUXE EDITION, number 464 of 750 copies, signed by King at the colophon, and by Chong on an inserted illustrated leaf. With the pamphlet including Chong's sketches and the original jacket art before letters (650 x 252 mm). Fine.WITH: 1. Danse Macabre. NY: Everest House, 1981. Publisher's cloth, glassine, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 230 of 250 copies, signed at the colophon. Fine. 2. Cujo. NY: Mysterious Press, 1981. Publisher's cloth, acetate, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 339 of 750 signed at the colophon. Fine.3. Skeleton Crew. Santa Cruz: Scream Press, 1985. 4to. Publisher's cloth, original illustrated dust-jacket and slipcase. DELUXE EDITION, number 231 of 1000 copies signed by King and illustrator J.K. Potter. With folding poster laid-in at rear. Fine.

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Lot 231

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.Firestarter. Huntington Woods, Phantasia Press, 1980. 8vo. Publisher's blue leatherette, lettered in silver, original wraparound pictorial dust-jacket by Michael Whelan, publisher's blue paper-covered card slipcase, fine.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 270 of 725 copies signed by King and dated 'July 6, 1980.' Nominated for the Locus Award, Balrog Award and the British Fantasy Award when it was published, Firestarter was made into the 1984 film starring Drew Barrymore, Heather Lcklear, Martin Sheen and George C. Scott. A fine copy in slipcase.

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Lot 232

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.The complete Dark Tower series in the deluxe issue, 10 books in 13 volumes, all in publisher's cloth with original pictorial dust-jackets and slipcases: 1. The Gunslinger. 1982. Number 229 of 500 copies SIGNED by King and Michael Whelan. 2. The Drawing of the Three. 1987. Number 594 of 850 copies SIGNED by King and Phil Hale.3. The Waste Lands. 1991. Number 229 of 1250 copies SIGNED by King and Ned Dameron.4. Wizard and Glass. 2 volumes. 1997. Number 268 of 1250 copies signed by King and Dave McKean.5. Wolves of the Calla. 2 volumes. 2003. Number 1252 of 1350 copies signed by King and Bernie Wrightson.6. Song of Susannah. 2004. Number 1252 of 1400 copies signed by King and Darrel Anderson.7. The Dark Tower. 2 volumes. 2004. Number 1252 of 1500 copies signed by King and Michael Whelan.8. Little Sisters of Eleuria. 2008. Number 745 of 1250 signed by King and Whelan. 9. The Wind Through the Keyhole. 2012. Number 561 of 800 copies signed by King and Jae Lee.WITH: Vincent, Bev. The Road to the Dark Tower. Cemetery Dance, 2005. Number 934 of 1000 copies signed by Bev Vincent.FINE COPIES OF THE COMPLETE DARK TOWER SERIES. Nominated multiple times for the Locus Award and winner of the 2005 British Fantasy Award for best novel (for The Dark Tower), the acclaimed series began with The Gunslinger in 1982, with the main part of the series ending with book VII in 2004. Little Sisters of Eleuria first appeared as a precursor to the Dark Tower cycle in 1998, and was republished by King in 2009 with a revised edition of the original Gunslinger. In 2012, Grant issued The Wind in the Key Hole, the eighth novel in the series which takes place between volumes 4 and 5. A beautiful, complete set of King's Magnum Opus, an 'imposing example of pure storytelling' (Bill Sheehan, The Washington Post, 2007).

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Lot 233

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.The complete Dark Tower series in 7 volumes, first trade editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, all in fine condition:The Gunslinger. 1982. * The Drawing of the Three. 1987. * The Waste Lands. 1991. * Wizard and Glass. 1997. * Wolves of the Calla. 2003. * Song of Susannah. 2004. * The Dark Tower. 2004. WITH: The Wind Through the Keyhole. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012. Publisher's cloth, slipcase, sealed in original shrink-wrap plastic. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 with 6 color plates.

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Lot 238

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.Eyes of the Dragon. Bangor, ME: Philtrum Press, 1984. Folio. Publisher's quarter black cloth and red hand-painted paper boards, matching slipcase. Light wear and one small scuff to slipcase, otherwise fine.INSCRIBED, LIMITED EDITION, RED-NUMBERED ISSUE, number 241 of 250, from a total edition of 1,250. The first 250, numbered in red ink, were for private distribution, and often found inscribed, as is the case here, where King writes on the title page: 'For Jim French / Hope you'll like this little story, and I also hope you have the happiest holiday season ever / With best, Stephen King, 12/6/84.'

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DRYDEN, JOHN. 1631-1700.Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem [WITH: The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel]. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681-82. Folio (300 x 190 mm and 350 x 220 mm). Part 1 without initial blank, bound in early 20th century half morocco, the second part stitched and uncut, title and final leaf slightly worn. Loose in a cloth case. FIRST EDITION, 1st issue of Part 1; part 2 in the second state with Fleet St added to imprimatur, and 12 lines on the final leaf. Macdonald 12a/15a. Wing D-2212/D-2350. Provenance: Part I Robert S. Pirie (bookplate); Part II, Belmont Corn and Robert S. Pirie (bookplates).WITH: The Medall. A satire against sedition. London: J. Tonson, 1682. Small 4to. Modern green half morocco. Provenance: Winston Henry Hagen (Bookplate); Robert S. Pirie (Bookplate). Wing D-2311; Macdonald 13 Aii. A fine group of three of Dryden's political satires, all from the Pirie Library. Dryden wrote this political verse at the request of Charles II, using biblical allegory to describe the political situation regarding the arrest of the Earl of Shaftesbury for treason, his imprisonment in the Tower of London and his acquittal after his trial in 1681. Part 1 appeared anonymously describing the arrest and trial while part 2 was published a year later, although largely written by Nahum Tate, it was revised by Dryden, and included his satirical portraits of Thomas Shadwell and Elkanah Settle. Dryden's political stance brought about a slew of anti-Dryden sentiment, most couched in verse!

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Lot 243

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.3 signed and limited books from the Lord John Press, Northridge, CA: 1. Dolan's Cadillac. 1989. Publisher's morocco-backed marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 247 of 250 copies signed by King to the half-title.2. Dolan's Cadillac. 1989. Publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper boards with multiplied Cadillac design, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, number 199 of 1000 copies signed by King to the half-title.3. Lord John Signatures. 1991. Publisher's blue morocco-backed grey cloth, stamped in blue, spine lettered in gilt. DELUXE ISSUE, number 100 of 150 copies (of 576 total), signed by King at the end of his introduction, and additionally signed by Ray Bradbury; James Crumley; Richard Ford; Jim Harrison; Harry Crews; Thomas McGuane; Ursula LeGuin; Norman Mailer; Richard Matheson; Edna O'Brien; Eudora Welty; Richard Yates; William Everson, and Gerald Ford, among others.

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Lot 245

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.The Green Mile. London: Penguin Books, 1996. 6 volumes. Illustrations at front of each part by Mark Edward Geyer. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Fine.FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, EACH SIGNED by King on the title page. First appearing in this form in six serialized parts, The Green Mile was published simultaneously in the U.S. by Signet, and by Penguin in the U.K. The story was nominated for a Bram Stoker award in 1997, and was later adapted to the screen by Frank Darabont, earning four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

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Lot 246

KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.The Green Mile. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2006. Publisher's blue morocco and cloth, matching cloth-covered slipcase. Slight fading to edges of slipcase, otherwise fine.LIMITED, FIRST SEPARATE HARDCOVER EDITION, number 120 of 148 numbered copies, of a total edition of 200. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page in Volume I.

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Lot 261

MCCARTHY, CORMAC. B.1933.No Country for Old Men. New Orleans: B. E. Trice, 2005. 8vo. Publisher's half-burgundy morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, original slipcase with author's facsimile signature in gilt to upper panel, fine, unopened.'Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got something that means the world to you it's all the more likely it'll get took away.'FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 67 of 75 copies signed at the colophon and issued in deluxe binding. Taking its title from Yeats, McCarthy's novel is dark, violent, and brilliant, and was translated to an award-winning film by the Coen Brothers in 2007.

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Lot 262

MCCARTHY, CORMAC. B.1933.Four signed editions: 1. No Country for Old Men. New Orleans: Trice, 2005. Publisher's quarter calf with gilt spine titles, marbled boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 325 copies signed. 2. Cities of the Plain. New Orleans: Trice, 1998. Publisher's quarter calf with gilt spine titles, slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 92 of 325 copies signed. 3. The Stonemason. 1994. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 261 of 350 copies signed. 4. The Gardener's Son. 1996. Publisher's cloth; slipcase. FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, number 119 of 350 copies signed.

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MCCARTHY, CORMAC. B.1933.10 first editions, all fine in dust-jackets (except where noted): 1. No Country for Old Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Publisher's advance copy, with tipped-in flyleaf, SIGNED in pencil by the author. 2-4. The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain.. 1992-1998. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 5. Child of God. 1973. First edition. Tape stain to endpapers.6. The Orchard Keeper. 1965. First edition. Dampstain to jacket, library stamp. 7. The Stonemason. 1994. First edition.8. The Road. 2006. First edition.9. The Gardener's Son. 1996. First edition.10. 'The Dark Waters,' in Sewanee Review, volume LXXIII, number 2, Spring 1965. Publisher's printed wrappers. An excerpt from The Orchard Keeper and the first appearance of McCarthy's work in the literary press.

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MCMURTRY, LARRY. B.1936.In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 8vo. Publisher's suede-backed tan paper boards, upper cover lettered in blind against black blocking, spine lettered in black and titled in gilt on black morocco spine label, publisher's cloth slipcase with facsimile signature stamped in black, light rubbing to joints.Provenance: Roy Walton (inscribed by the author).FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED by McMurtry to half-title, and numbered 243 of 250 copies, this one additionally inscribed by McMurtry.

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MCMURTRY, LARRY. B.1936.In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas. Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 8vo. Publisher's original yellow cloth, author's facsimile signature stamped in black to upper cover, printed paper spine label, original black and tan dust-jacket, fine.FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with 'skycrapers' for 'skyscrapers' to p 105, line 12, among other errors. Reportedly, McMurtry had all copies of the error ridden printing withdrawn and they were destroyed, with 15 managing to survive. Although, APG notes 'seems more common.' Still a FINE COPY of a legendary rarity.

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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.Lustra. London: Elkin Mathews, [1916]. 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 'EP' device designed by Edmund Dulac to title page. Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in blue, uncut and unopened, custom cloth chemise and slipcase, with morocco title label, minor soiling.Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, March 29, 1977, lot 231). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED BY POUND IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, dated 'Oct 1916' in pencil, number 45 of 200 unabridged copies, hand-numbered by pound to colophon on title page. After a dispute with his publisher Elkin Mathews over sexually charged language, Lustra was printed in an edition of 200 copies containing an 'unabridged' text in September 1916; the 'abridged' trade edition was 800 copies. Cyril Connolly called Lustra Pound's 'first volume of truly modern work' ('The Break-Through in Modern Verse,' London Magazine, 1961). Gallup A11a; Connolly Modern Movement 35.

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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.Eliot, T.S., Editor. Selected Poems. London: Faber & Gwyer, (1928). 8vo. Publisher's vellum-backed blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, some soiling to spine.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 24 of 100 copies signed on the colophon. Edited by Eliot, the 1928 Selected Poems became the primary text on which all of the primary Pound collections were based. In his selection and his introduction, Eliot attempted to popularize Pound and essentially market Pound to 'an audience he had systematically insulted since 1914' (Hugh Witemeyer, Ezra Pound Encyclopedia, 2005). Gallup A30b.

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POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972.A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. 8vo. Decorative initials by Dorothy Shakespear. Publisher's buckram cloth, lettered in red, spine and margins lightly toned. Provenance: Purchased from Newbegins Bookshop, San Francisco (bookseller's ticket, with manuscript note dated 11/15/30).FIRST EDITION of this extended Cantos, number 41 of 200 copies, beautifully printed by François Bernouard for Nancy Cunard's Hours Press on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M. R. V. Paper. 'It is in the minutiae—in the minute organization of the words and their relationships in a composition that the seriousness and value of a work of writing exist—not in the sentiments, ideas, schemes portrayed ... (W.C. Williams, 'A Draft of XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound,' Selected Essays, 1954). Gallup A31a.

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RESTORATION DRAMA AND POETRY.DRYDEN, JOHN. 1631-1700. All for Love: or, the World well lost. A Tragedy ... and Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's stile. London, 'In the Savoy': Thomas Newcomb, for Henry Herringman, 1678. 8vo (220 x 1700 mm). Without the 4pp preface b1-4, and with the prologue placed after the title. Lightly browned and spotted throughout, several quires with a water mark affecting upper part of the leaf. Early 20th century half calf with green cloth boards, upper cover with title lettered in gilt. Slightly browned. Wing D-2229; MacDonald 82a. Provenance: Robert Hoe (leather book-label on front paste down). WITH: two other copies of this edition, one an ex-library copy without the prologue or preface, and with upper title shaved with loss of letters, and the second the Foyle copy, with the prologue bound after the Epistle Dedicatory, and with the preface b1-4.FIRST EDITION of one of the finest revisions of a Shakespearean play, and often considered as Dryden's own best play; WITH: other late 17th century poetical works by Dryden, from the Pirie Collection: The Hind and the Panther. A Poem. 1687. * Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem. 1692. * Three poems upon the death of Oliver Lord Protector. 1659 * Another, the reprint of 1682.

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SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1917. 8vo. Errata slip pasted to contents page. Original grey paper boards, printed paper title label to spine, original grey paper dust-jacket, some foxing to endpapers and page edges, wear to corners of jacket, with light staining along spine and upper margin front panel, foxed to verso.FIRST EDITION of author's first major collection of war poetry. Edwin Muir said of Sassoon's war poems: 'They are effective because of the moderation they observe in the midst of furious indignation and pity ... their force lies in their impersonality, which sets down with indignant economy the shame and horror of war.' Keynes A15a.

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SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. London: William Heinemann, 1919. 12mo. Publisher's red cloth, printed title labels to upper cover and spine designed by William Nicholson, original orange dust-jacket, ruled and lettered in red, cloth lightly faded at margins, offsetting to endpapers, minor foxing.FIRST EDITION, including the first trade appearance of 12 poems, and collecting 64 more of his most powerful from previous works. In many ways, his most complete comment on the war. Keynes A20.

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SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.NICHOLSON, WILLIAM. Illustrator. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1929). 8vo. 7 plates, illustrations and endpapers by William Nicholson. Publisher's vellum, lettered and decorated in red and gray, top edge gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, with inner glassine wrapper, light wear to corners of jacket.FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 216 of 300 copies signed by Sassoon and Nicholson. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY.

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SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.FREEDMAN, BARNETT. Illustrator. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1931). 8vo. 15 color plates by Barnett Freedman. Publisher's pictorial parchment-covered cloth, untrimmed, top edge gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, publisher's pictorial slipcase, minor chipping to vellum at spine ends, minor wear to slipcase.FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 226 of 320 copies signed by the author and artist. A bright copy, in the scarce slipcase.

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SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. 1886-1967.Four books: 1. Heart's Journey. New York and London: Crosby Gaige/William Heinemann, 1927. Publisher's cloth backed boards, paper spine label, printed dust jacket. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION of 590 unnumbered copies, SIGNED on the title page.2. Picture Show. [Cambridge]: Privately printed, 1919. Publisher's textured brown boards, printed paper lettering piece on upper board. Rubbed and soiled, some browning to edges. With original prospectus/order form loosely inserted.Provenance: Evelyn Henry Tschudi Broadwood (bookplate and ownership inscription).3. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Sunned. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 216 of 750. 4. Counter Attack and Other Poems. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1918. Publisher's textured brown boards, printed paper lettering piece on upper board. Minor soiling to boards, very light dampstaining at gutter on some leaves, lacking jacket. First America edition.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Cup of Gold. A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in blue, blue topstain, original pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket, some fading to spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF STEINBECK'S FIRST BOOK. Steinbeck was only 27 years old when he wrote Cup of Gold, his fictionalized life of Sir Henry Morgan. He later reflected that 'the book was an immature experiment written for the purpose of getting all the wise cracks (known by sophomores as epigrams) and all the autobiographical material (which hounds us until we get it said) out of my system. And I really did not intend to publish it. The book accompanied its purgative purpose. I am no more concerned with myself very much. I can write about other people...' (A Life in Letters, p 17). Goldstone & Payne A1a.

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Lot 287

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, black topstain, all other edges untrimmed, publisher's silver dust jacket printed in blue with gold stars. Spine cloth slightly darkened, minor wear to edges of jacket, light rubbing.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of only 650 copies sold. The remainder of the approximately 1000 bound copies and 850 unbound copies were sold to Robert O. Ballou later in the same year and issued in an altered form. 'The most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing' (Moore, The Novels of John Steinbeck: A First Critical Study). A terrific, bright copy. Goldstone & Payne A2a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial endpapers, original just jacket, all designed by Mahlon Blaine, jacket lightly chipped at corners.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 598 copies bound and sold. Steinbeck worked on the novel for five years, and 'may have learned more about crafting long fiction from it than anything else he worked on during that period.' A bright, clean copy of a scarce issue. Goldstone & Payne A3a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, [1935]. 8vo. Publisher's original pictorial wrappers, utilizing original printed jacket designed by Ruth Gannett, custom cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase, jacket lightly soiled, minor wear to extremities.FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE ISSUE, of 500 copies presumably for promotional purposes. Loosely structured as a modern Arthurian legend, Tortilla Flat was Steinbeck's first book to be set in the Monterrey peninsula, and his first inarguable commercial and critical success. Goldstone & Payne A4a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede, 1936. 8vo. Original gray cloth, black cloth spine, titled in gilt, publisher's glassine dust-jacket, original card slipcase with printed title label, small chip to upper spine on glassine, light wear to slipcase.FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISSUE, number 78 of 99 copies signed on the colophon page. Called by critic James Woodress 'perhaps the best strike novel ever written,' In Dubious Battle is Steinbeck's first novel to explore the world of agriculture, which he would mine so richly later in his career. A fine copy in original jacket and slipcase of one of Steinbeck's best novels.

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Lot 291

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede, (1936). 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth, ruled in red, and lettered in black, original pictorial dust-jacket, lightly rubbed at joints, with small closed tear in bottom margin.FIRST TRADE EDITION. A bright copy in jacket. Goldstone-Payne A5b.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Saint Katy the Virgin. New York: Covici Friede, 1936. 12mo. Publisher's gilt cloth spine over decorated boards highlighted in gilt, spine printed in red, cellophane jacket.FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY STEINBECK at the colophon, number 82 of 199 copies. Originally written while a student at Stanford and remaining a favorite of the author, Steinbeck finally convinced Pascal Covici to issue it as a limited edition in 1936. Goldstone & Payne A6a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, [1937]. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in orange and black, pictorial dust jacket, custom tan. Small closed tears to upper margin of jacket, with discreet tape repair to verso.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the Steinbeck classic. An attractive copy. Goldstone & Payne A7.a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. 8vo. Publisher's flexible oatmeal cloth, ruled in grey, with a red pony device to the upper cover, spine lettered in red, publisher's card slipcase, spine lettered in black, and hand-numbered '13' in red, spine lettering faded, some soiling to covers, offsetting to endpapers, chipping to slipcase.Provenance: Harold C. Patterson (bookplate).FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, number 13 of 699 copies, signed by Steinbeck to the title page, with slipcase with matching number. Originally issued in only this limited edition, at a price of $10.00, with the country in a depression, The Red Pony did not receive much critical attention until it appeared in The Long Valley the following year and was called 'almost miraculously good' (Lewis Gannett) and 'a heart-breakingly true picture of childhood' (Clifton Fadiman). Goldstone & Payne A9a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Long Valley. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. 8vo. Publisher's oatmeal-cloth backed brown-cloth boards, spine lettered in brown, red topstain, original pictorial dust-jacket by Elmer Hader, lightly rubbed at the joints.FIRST EDITION. A bright clean copy of Steinbeck's story collection set in his beloved Salinas Valley, containing the first collect appearance of many of his most important stories, 'The Chrysanthemums,' 'Flight,' 'The Snake,' and adding 'The Leader of the People' as a kind of coda to 'The Red Pony.' Goldstone & Payne A11a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team. New York: The Viking Press, 1942. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, decorated and lettered in black and white, original pictorial dust-jacket, lightly chipped at the corners.Provenance Edmund Wilson, critic (1895-1972, presentation inscription).FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK TO THE FRONT FLY: 'Mr. Wilson, Many thanks for your lucid thoughts and interest in my work, John Steinbeck.' Likely to critic Edmund Wilson, who in 1941 had written The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists, including a chapter devoted to Steinbeck, the stiffness reflecting Wilson's rather harsh treatment of Steinbeck's work there. The Holmes Collection has a copy of an offprint from another 1941 article inscribed to Wilson, '... perhaps the attic, but not the back room.' A clean bright copy, with an interesting provenance. Goldstone & Payne A18a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.How Edith McGillcuddy Met RLS. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club [Printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1942. 4to. Decorative hand-colored lettering to title-page, initial word of text and pagination, facsimile Steinbeck letter on blue background. Publisher's black-cloth backed patterned paper boards, printed red paper label decorated and titled in gilt to upper cover, and spine label titled in gilt, original plain green dust-jacket numbered '75' to front panel, minor foxing to leaves, fading to jacket.Provenance: Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr (morocco book label). FIRST EDITION, WITH RARE COMPLETE MATCHING DUST-JACKET, number 75 of 152 copies. A nice Steinbeck rarity with California provenance. Goldstone-Payne A20s.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The First Watch. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press for Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn, 1947. 12mo. Publisher's printed buff wrappers, hand ties, original publisher's plain cream envelope, numbered '5' in the corner, envelope lightly soiled.A FINE COPY FROM THE FIRST 10 FOR STEINBECK, WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE, number 5 of 60 copies printed for Steinbeck and for Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn for presentation, Christmas 1947, the first 10 reserved for Steinbeck. A charming letter from Steinbeck to Arnold Gingrich, and extended thank you for a watch, couched in a story of Steinbeck's unfulfilled expectation of a watch for his successive graduations in junior high, high school, and finally from Stanford (from which he never graduated). Goldstone & Payne A26a.

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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, printed red spine label, lettered in gilt, page edges red, original faux wood card slipcase, lacking glassine, rubbing to spine, and slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED BY STEINBECK at the colophon, and limited to 1500 copies. When Steinbeck completed the manuscript of East of Eden, he had it delivered to his editor Pascal Covici in a mahogany box, with a letter that would be adapted for the dedication, in part: 'Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts—the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.' Goldstone & Payne A32a.

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