Lot 369
North American literature, a quantity including
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Loos, Anita Gentlemen prefer blondes. London: Brentano's, [1926] With T.L.S. responding to request for autograph, 25 Sept. 1973, original two tone cloth, binding dampstained; [Idem] But gentlemen marry brunettes. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. With T.L.S., undated, original cloth-backed boards, worn; Bellow, Saul The victim. New York: Vanguard Press, 1947. First edition, original cloth, dustwrapper; Bellow, Saul The adventures of Augie March. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1954. Dustwrapper worn; Mailer, Norman The naked and the dead. London: A. Wingate, 1949. First U.K. edition, signed by the author on titlepage by longpen, original cloth, dustwrapper frayed with loss, hinges weak; O'Neill, Eugene Long day's journey into night. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition, 8vo, original buckram-backed cloth, dustwrapper very worn with loss; Gershwin, Ira Lyrics on several occasions. New York: A. Knopf, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper discoloured & rubbed; Steinbeck, John Cannery Row. London: Heinemann, 1945. First U.K. edition, original cloth, dustwrapper worn with loss; [Idem] Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friedi, 1937. First edition, second issue, original beige cloth, spine discoloured; Berryman, John Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. New York: Farrar &c., 1956. First edition, pictures by Ben Shahn, original boards, dustwrapper; [Idem] Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First U.K. edition, original cloth, dustwrapper lightly dust-soiled; [Idem] Berryman's sonnets. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. First U.K. edition, original cloth, dustwrapper; [Idem] Love and fame. London: Faber & Faber, 1971. First U.K. edition, original cloth, dustwrapper; Carver, Raymond Where I'm calling from. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First edition, number 137 of 250 copies signed by the author, original cloth in blue pictorial slip case; Wilbur, Richard Advice from the muse. Hatfield, MA, [n.d.] 8vo, one of 300 copies with hand-coloured woodcuts, signed by the author, black boards, dustwrapper; Atwood, Margaret The handmaid's tale. London: 1986. First UK edition, signed by Atwood, dustwrapper not price-clipped; Thurber, James Lanterns & lances. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. Price-clipped dustwrapper; Tevis, Walter S. The hustler. London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First UK edition, dustwrapper not price-clipped; Proulx, Annie Close range. New York: 1999. First edition, dustwrapper not price-clipped; Keillor, Garrison Pontoon. London: 2007. First UK edition, signed by Keillor, dustwrapper not price-clipped; and 8 others by Bellow (mostly U.K. editions), 2 by Norman Mailer (U.K. editions), 4 others by Berryman, 3 others by Carver, 17 others by Wilbur, 3 others by Atwood, 11 others by Thurber, 3 others by Proulx, 7 others by Keillor, and a quantity of others; sold not subject to return