Lot 432
DeLillo, Don
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Great Jones Street. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First printing, 8vo, loose typed autographed letter in franked envelope from DeLillo to Bruce Ritchie, in which DeLillo writes: "Instead of valuable first editions I have some 50c paperbacks I bought decades ago, and although they're probably worth less than 50c today, they do carry the power of memory...", original quarter cloth with red and pink metallic patterns to boards, dustwrapper not price-clipped but with some rubbing and edgewear, a small amount of writing to upper flap of dustwrapper; [Idem] Ratner's star. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition, 8vo, loose bookplate signed by DeLillo, quarter cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped, repaired closed tears to two final leaves; [Idem] Running dog. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition, 8vo, DeLillo's signature laid down to titlepage, quarter cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped; 'Birdwell, Cleo' [DeLillo, Don] Amazons. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. First edition, 8vo, DeLillo's signature laid-down to titlepage. quarter-cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped; [Idem] White noise. New York: Viking, 1985. First edition?, 8vo, loose bookplate signed by DeLillo, quarter cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped; [Idem] Libra. [Toronto?]: Lester & Orpen Denys, 1988. First edition, 8vo, quarter cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped; [Idem] Mao II. New York: Viking, 1991. First edition, 8vo, loose bookplate signed by DeLillo, quarter cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped, but with some damage and repair to spine; [Idem] Cosmopolis. New York: Scribner, 2003. First edition, 8vo, DeLillo's signature laid down to titlepage, loose autograph letter in franked envelope from DeLillo to Ritche, quarter cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped; and 13 others (21)