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First American illustrated edition. Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway on the half-title to acquaintances in Ketchum, Idaho, that he met through his pal Lloyd "Pappy" Arnold: "To Priscilla and Vince, best always from their friend, Ernest Hemingway. Ketchum, 1961." Illustrated with drawings by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. A very attractive edition (the top edges are gilt) of this key title written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. The story centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. This book led to numerous accolades for Hemingway, including the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He also earned the Award of Merit Medal for the Novel from the American Academy of Letters that same year. Most prestigiously, the Nobel Prize in Literature came in 1954, "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and theSea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA.
Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Scribner's, 1960.
Price: $7,500.00
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE.
Maugham, W. Somerset
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
Price: $3,750.00
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This copy bears Herbert's presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: "For Lou Guzzo--fearless leader and friend--Frank Herbert." Guzzo was a Seattle journalist and television commentator as well as an art and theater critic for the Seattle Times. A scarce title especially inscribed.
DUNE MESSIAH.
Herbert, Frank
New York: Putnam, 1969.
Price: $1,850.00
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The deluxe hardbound edition being 1/50 (#6). This copy inscribed by Henry Miller to the poet Kenneth Patchen: "For Kenneth Patchen / Henry Miller." A book of Miller's watercolors with color illustrations. A wonderful association linking two writers who also like to paint.
TO PAINT IS TO LOVE AGAIN.
Miller, Henry
Alhambra: Cambria Books, 1960.
Price: $1,750.00
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First edition. Illustrated by Joe Krush. This copy INSCRIBED by Welty on the front endpaper to her good friends Pearl and Willie Spann: "For Willie and Miss Pearl / with lots of love / from Eudora / Christmas, 1953." Welty began writing The Ponder Heart in the late fall and early winter of 1952. In late January 1953 she took a draft to New York. The galley proofs for the New Yorker appearance of this work are dated 20 June 1953, with a projected publication date of "mid-November to mid December 1953." Harcourt Brace records indicate that its setting copy was Welty's corrected galleys of the New Yorker text, which she sent to Eugene Reynal at Harcourt on 8 September (although Robert Giroux had read a copy of a typescript earlier in the summer, writing her on 17 July 1953 how much he liked it). The Harcourt galleys were set September 21-25, 1953, and Welty made some minor revisions, partly at Giroux's suggestion; she returned corrected galleys on 29 September, and Giroux sent her page proofs on 20 October. On 2 November Giroux wrote again sending her photostats of the Krush drawings. On 11 December he sent her copies of the advance sheets so she could see how the drawings were aligned on the printed pages. He told her that bound books were due "next Friday," and on 17 December 1953 he sent her "airmail hot off the griddle today the first copy." The book's official publication date is 7 January 1954. The date of Welty's inscription, in this copy, suggests that it was one of the first copies received from the press, prior to publication. Lower tips bumped, else a nice copy in a clean dust jacket.
THE PONDER HEART.
Welty, Eudora
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954.
Price: $1,250.00
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MOMENTS PRESERVED. Eight Essays in PHotographs and Words.
Penn, Irving
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960).
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This copy is inscribed by Welty beneath the recipient's armorial bookplate; "with good wishes to Mrs. Jessie Dering Neill from Eudora Welty, Jackson, Mississippi, May 1944." Early Welty inscriptions are not often seen these days.
THE WIDE NET And Other Stories
Welty, Eudora
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943.
Price: $1,150.00
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A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES BY John Kennedy Toole
(Percy, Walker)
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1980.
Price: $850.00
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PORTRAITS by Bill Burke.
Carver, Raymond
New York: Ecco Press, 1987.
Price: $750.00
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CAR.
Crews, Harry
New York: William Morrow, 1972.
Price: $500.00
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THIS THING DON'T LEAD TO HEAVEN.
Crews, Harry
New York: William Morrow, 1970.
Price: $450.00
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KARATE IS A THING OF THE SPIRIT.
Crews, Harry
New York: William Morrow, 1971.
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Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Bill Henry / Edward Abbey." A wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind. Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico. Mis-spelling of Larry "MacMurtry" under blurb on front cover (as issued). Owner inscription under author's inscription. Small stain to page 78.
BEYOND THE WALL. Essays From the Outside.
Abbey, Edward
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984.
Price: $400.00
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Author's first book. Inscribed by Beagle on the front free endpaper and dated "17 January 1987." Mr. Rebeck has lived in the Yorkchester cemetary going on twenty years. Faithfully tended by a talkative and misanthropic raven, he has found this world more congenial than the one he left behind, and it doesn't surprise him particularly that he can see and talk to ghosts.
A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE.
Beagle, Peter S.
New York: Viking Press, 1960.
Price: $400.00
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Small 4to. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's complimentary copy (so rubberstamped on the front pastedown). This copy bears Stegner's inscription to a university professor and includes a quotation from De Voto; "Art is man determined / to die sane." B. De Voto. Two small erasures to back pastedown.
THE UNEASY CHAIR: A Biography of Bernard De Voto. Inscribed by Wallace Stegner.
Stegner, Wallace
Garden City: Doubleday, 1974.
Price: $400.00
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THE HAWK IS DYING.
Crews, Harry
New York: Knopf, 1973.
Price: $350.00
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THE GYPSY'S CURSE.
Crews, Harry
New York: Knopf, 1974.
Price: $350.00
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A CHILDHOOD: The Biography Of A Place.
Crews, Harry
New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
Price: $250.00
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SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE.
Styron, William
New York: Random House, 1960.
Price: $250.00
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THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PETER TAYLOR.
Taylor, Peter
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1969.
Price: $225.00
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