Modern Literature
1950 - Present
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ML-4. Boyle, T. Coraghessan. THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE. NY: Viking, 1993. 1st edition. 476 pp. A comic novel about the health spa of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in Battle Creek, MI. Inscription of the front flyleaf. Very good in just jacket. $20.00
ML-5. Burke, James Lee. CADILLAC JUKEBOX. NY: Hyperion, 1996. 1st edition. 297 pp. A Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-6.. Burke, James Lee. JOLIE BLON'S BOUNCE. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 1st edition. 349 pp. Another Dave Robicheaux mystery. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-7. Burke, James Lee. PURPLE CANE ROAD. NY: Doubleday, 2000. 1st edition. 341 pp. Dave Robicheaux confronts his mother's past. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
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ML-9. Burroughs, William. NAKED LUNCH. NY: Grove Press, 1959. Third printing. 255 pp. An early edition in a dust jacket that is worn and a bit chipped. Very good. $65.00
ML-10. Chandler, Raymond. THE BIG SLEEP. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. 1st thus. 249 pp. A new trade edition of the classic detective story, illustrated with photographs by Lou Stoumen and an introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell Very good-near fine in dust jacket. $40.00
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Clark, William M. TALES OF CEDAR RIVER. NY: McKay, 1960.
1st edition. 214 pp. Maine fiction. Signed by the author on the front
flyleaf. Very good in a worn and chipped dust jacket. $20.00
ML-12. Cunningham, Jere. LOVE OBJECT. Santa Cruz: Scream/Press, 1985. 1st edition. #8/100, signed by the author. A near fine copy, slightly bumped at the top of the spine. $35.00
ML-13. Eastman, R.E. TOUGH SOD. Ithaca: American Agriculturalist, 1944. 1st edition. 246 pp., green cloth. A highly respected novel of country life. Very good in a worn dust jacket. $12.50
ML-14. Eastman, R.E. NOT WITH DREAMS. NY: Greenberg, 1954. 1st edition. 287 pp., blue cloth. Printed at the Cayuga Press in Ithaca, NY. Jacket design by Vic Stephen. Very good in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. $15.00
ML-15. Eaton, Anne Thaxter (ed.). WELCOME CHRISTMAS! NY: Viking Press, 1955. 1st edition. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. An anthology of holiday poetry. Inscribed on the half‑title page by the editor to noted librarian Frances Spain. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-16. Eggers, Dave. WHAT IS THE WHAT. San Francisco: McSweeney= s, 2006. 475 pp., decorated orange buckram. AN interesting novel, published by the author= s own small press. Near fine. $60.00
ML-17. Fairstein, Linda. THE BONE VAULT. NY: Scribners, 2003. 1st edition; uncorrected proof. 387 pp., light blue printed wrappers. Author's fifth Alexandra Cooper mystery novel. Very good. $20.00
ML-18. Fante, John. ASK THE DUST. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First trade edition thus. One of 750 trade copies in cloth with a clear acetate dust jacket. Reissue of a classic novel of Los Angeles first published in 1939, with a new preface by Charles Bukowski. Fine. $95.00
ML-19. Faulkner, William. THE REIVERS. NY: Random House, 1962. 1st edition. 305 pp., red cloth. A near fine copy with the price clipped on the dust jacket. $65.00
ML-20. Fletcher, Inglis. CORMORANT'S BROOD. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1959. 345 pp.. A novel of North Carolina in 1725. Dust jacket lightly worn along the edges. Very good. $20.00
ML-21. Foster, Jeanne Robert. NEIGHBORS OF YESTERDAY. Schenectady: Riedinger & Riedinger, 1963. 2nd edition. 12mo, 125 pp., decorated green cloth. Reprint of the edition published by Sherman, French in 1916. Foster grew up in Johnsburg in the Adirondacks, went to New York to become the model for the quintessential "Gibson Girl, "befriended the great artists and poets of the time, published a couple volumes of her own poetry, and spend her last years in Schenectady. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Very good. $50.00
ML-22. Gallico, Paul. MRS. 'ARRIS GOES TO PARIS. GC: Doubleday, 1958. 1st edition. Light discoloration to the endpapers, but very good in a dust jacket with the price clipped. $10.00
ML-23. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. IN EVIL HOUR. NY: Harper & Row, 1979. 1st edition; 2nd issue. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00
ML-24. Gilmore, Mikal. SHOT IN THE HEART. NY: Bantam Doubleday, 1994. 1st edition; special bookseller's preview. 105 pp., pictorial paper-covered boards in a black cloth slip case. Preview edition; actually the revised proposal for the book that the author submitted to several publishers in 1991, the rights to which were purchased by Doubleday Bantam for publication in 1994. Fine. $40.00
ML-25. Grafton, Sue. A J@ IS FOR JUDGMENT. NY: Henry Holt, 1993. 1st edition. 288 pp., cloth spine, paper-covered boards. A Kinsey Milhone mystery. Small scrape on the top edge of the dust jacket. Near fine. $20.00
ML-26. Grafton, Sue. A Q@ IS FOR QUARRY. NY: Putnam, 2002. 1st edition. 385 pp, cloth spine, paper-covered boards. A mystery novel inspired by an unsolved murder case from 1969. Signed by the author on the half-title page. One small nick on the dust jacket, and part of the A Autographed Copy@ sticker is missing where a removal attempt was made. Near fine. $27.50
ML-27. Graham, Winston. THE WRECK OF THE GREY CAT. Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1958. 1st edition. 224 pp., black cloth. A Crime Club historical mystery. There is a green ink mark on the inner flap of the dust jacket, otherwise an attractive and very good copy. $20.00
ML-28. Hoffman, Alice. SECOND NATURE. NY: Putnam, 1994. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. $30.00
ML-29a. Horgan, Paul. GIVE ME POSSESSION. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. 1st edition. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-29b. Horgan, Paul. MEXICO BAY. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. 1st edition. Fine in dust jacket. $15.00
ML-30. Howard, Robert E. MARCHERS OF VALHALLA. West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, 1972. 1st edition. 121 pp. Illustrated by Robert Bruce Acheson. Includes "The Thunder-Rider." Two forgotten manuscripts discovered after the author's death in 1966. Near fine in dust jacket. $30.00
ML-31. Howard, Robert West (ed.) THIS IS THE SOUTH. NY: Rand McNally, 1959. 1st edition. 304 pp., green cloth. A collection of writings on many aspects of the south. Contributors include Harnett T. Kane, Hodding Carter, Thomas D. Clark, Jesse Stuart, and many others. Includes a list of all-time books about the south. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-32. Ishiguro, Kazuo. WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS. NY: Knopf, 2000. Advance reader's edition. 339 pp. New novel by the author of The Remains of the Day. Slight bump on the spine; near fine in wrappers. $15.00
ML-33. Irving, John. SETTING FREE THE BEARS. NY:
Random House, 1968. 1st edition. 335 pp. The author=
s first book, presenting some of the motifs which would continue in his later
works. Price clipped on the dust jacket, which is lightly worn. Very good.
$1,250.00
ML-34. Kinsella, W.P. BOX SOCIALS. NY: Ballantine Books, 1992.
225 pp., cloth spine, paper-covered boards. States "First American Edition" on
the copyright page, but the numbering begins with "2"; most dealers contend this
is a common practice with this publisher, and I am willing to agree. The
author's third novel, set in the 1940s, with many baseball references as usual.
Small bump on the lower rear edge, else near fine in dust jacket.
$25.00
.ML-35. Lomax, Alan. THE RAINBOW SIGN. NY: Duell,
Slaon and Pearce, 1959. 1st edition. 209 pp., orange cloth. Stories of two
singers, created from his taped interviews, that illustrate his "profound
conviction that the Southern Negro folk singer stands at the creative center of
American popular culture." Three stamps, pn both endpapers and the outer
edge, say "Women's Shelter Property," else very good in dust jacket.
$50.00
ML-36. McMurtry, Larry. THE DESERT ROSE. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
First edition. One of 250 numbered and signed copies. Red cloth in a red cloth
slip case. A fine copy, still in the original shrink wrap, with a tag from the
Scribner Book Store. $195.00
ML-37. McPhee, John. THE CONTROL OF NATURE. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. 1st edition. 272 pp. The struggle against natural forces in Louisiana, Iceland, and Los Angeles. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-38. McPhee, John. IN SUSPECT TERRAIN. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. 1st edition. 210 pp. The second book in his series on geological matters.. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-39. McPhee, John. IRONS IN THE FIRE. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. 216 pp. Essays. Fine in dust jacket. $17.50
ML-40. McPhee, John. LOOKING FOR A SHIP. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1990. 1ST edition. 242 pp. Adventures in the modern merchant marine. A personal favorite. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-41. McPhee, John. RISING FROM THE PLAINS. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. 1st edition. More on roadside geology. Includes a promotional bookmark for the book. Fine in dust jacket. $20.00
ML-42. Milne, A.A. THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER ROBIN. NY: E.P. Dutton, 1958. 1st edition. 235 pp., decorated blue cloth. The complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, with new color illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Price clipped on the dust jacket. Very good. $65.00
ML-43. Mishima, Yukio. RUNAWAY HORSES. NY: Knopf, 1973. 1st American edition. The second part of the Sea of Fertility cycle of novels. Very good in dust jacket. $25.00
ML-44. Moody, Rick. PURPLE AMERICA. Boston: Little Brown, 1997. 1st edition. Advance reading copy in wrappers. A novel by the author of The Ice Storm. Near fine. $20.00
ML-45. Murdoch, Iris. THE UNICORN. NY: Viking, 1963. 1st American edition. Very good in a dust jacket worn at the edges. $17.50
ML-46. Nabokov, Vladimir. ADA. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1969. 1st edition. 589 pp. Inscription on the front flyleaf, else very good in dust jacket. $25.00
ML-47. Nabokov, Vladimir. KING, QUEEN, KNAVE. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 1st edition. 253 pp. Near fine in dust jacket. $15.00
ML-48. O'Hara, Frank. THE SELECTED POEMS OF FRANK O= HARA. NY: Knopf, 1974. 1st edition. 233 pp., tan cloth. Edited by Donald Allen. Near fine in dust jacket. $35.00
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ML-51. Pentacost, Hugh. DEATH AFTER BREAKFAST. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1978. 1st edition. 188 pp., red cloth. A Pierre Chambrun mystery, and a Red Badge Novel of Suspense. Near fine in dust jacket, with just a hint of wear. $15.00
ML-52. Pentacost, Hugh. THE JUDAS FREAK. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1974. 1st edition. 184 pp., yellow cloth. A Julian Quist mystery, and a Red Badge Novel of Suspense. Very good in dust jacket, with only minor wear. $15.00
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ML-55. Rothenberg, Jerome. The Absence of Mirrors. Signed broadside poem, one of 26
copies. NP, nd (1980s). 11"x17", stiff paper, red and white design with black
lettering. Fine. $25.00
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ML-57. Shreve, Anita. THE WEIGHT OF WATER. Boston: Little Brown, 1997. 1st edition. Advance copy, uncorrected proof. Near fine. $20.00
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ML-59. Steinbeck, John. THE MOON IS DOWN. NY: Viking Press, 1942. 1st edition; 2nd issue (no misplaced period on p. 112, line 11). Blue cloth. Very good in a rubbed dust jacket. $17.50
ML-60. Sykes, Gerald (ed.).. ALIENATION: THE CULTURAL CLIMATE OF OUR TIME. NY: George Braziller, 1964. 1st edition. Two volumes. Blue cloth, slip case. Selections from a variety of writers in all literary genres. Very good. $30.00
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ML-63. Tatum, Edith. IN A CHINESE GARDEN AND OTHER POEMS. Dallas: The Kaleidograph Press, 1937. 1st edition. An Alabama poet who also wrote Patterans and The Awakening of Iseult. Signed by the author, and also inscribed by her daughter. Very good in a worn and sunned dust jacket. $25.00
ML-64. Updike, John. GOLF DREAMS. NY: Knopf, 1996. 1st edition. 201 pp. Writings from 1958 on. Inscription of the front flyleaf; very good in a lightly worn dust jacket with the price clipped. $20.00
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ML-66. Van Gulik, Robert. THE CHINESE BELL MURDERS. NY: Harper & Row, 1983. Reissue; 1st thus. One of the popular Judge Dee mysteries.15 illustrations by the author. Near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
ML-67. Van Gulik, Robert. THE CHINESE GOLD MURDERS. NY: Harper & Row, 1983. Reissue; 1st thus. 10 plates drawn by the author in the Chinese style. Near fine in dust jacket. $25.00
ML-68. Vidal,
Gore. IN A YELLOW WOOD. NY: E.P. Dutton, 1947. 1st edition. 216 pp.,
black cloth. Author= s second book.
The half-title page bears an inscription from the author to New York critic and
writer Walter Matthews (whose signature is on the front flyleaf):
A Walt - this is my answer to our
night-long talk - am I wrong? Gore 6-47" A very good copy in a worn and chipped
dust jacket, with an excellent inscription and association. $325.00
ML-69. Vidal, Gore. KALKI. NY: Random House, 1978. 1st edition. 255 pp. Signed by Vidal on the half-title page. Light crease on the inner flap of the dust jacket; near fine. $35.00
ML-70 Wilson, Colin. THE OUTSIDER. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. 1st edition. 288 pp. Author's highly regarded first book. Very good in a lightly worn dust jacket. $35.00
ML-71. Wilson, Edmund. A PIECE OF MY MIND. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. 1st edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a couple small chips on the top edge. $20.00
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