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Badger Books | 99 SIGNED + 1

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Badger BooksPO Box 66WOOLLAHRA NSW 2025

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ABN 49 739 354 885

Prices in Australian dollars and include gst.

Free postage within Australia for all orders over $35.00 from this catalogue or from our webpage.

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Payment by Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, cheque and Paypal.Books are returnable for any reason within ten days with prior notification

THIRTY THOUSAND BOOKS on open shelves in Woollahra. Visitors welcome during business hours. Please telephone in advance.

We are always interested in purchasing single books or collections of the type contained in this catalogue.

December 2015

Front Cover: item 41 American Tabloid

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1. ABISH, WALTER. Eclipse Fever. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘... The memory man - nothing slips his mind. Terrifying.’ IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

2. ALL ABOARD. The Sway of the Grand Saloon by John Malcolm Brinnin. New York: Delacorte Press,1971. First American edition. The American poet’s history of the passenger ships crisscrossing the Atlantic between Europe and America, the old and new worlds, from 1818 to 1968. Histories of boats of all sizes and characters from all classes – staterooms to steerage – illustrations and a fair degree of Titanicana. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1973. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

3. ALPHABET. The Shaping of Our Alphabet by Frank Denman. New York: Knopf, 1955. First American edition. The illustrated evolution of type styles from the 14th century onwards. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Near fine in fine dustwrapper. $100.00

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4. ATWOOD, MARGARET. Power Politics. Toronto: Anansi, 1972. Reprint. Her eighth collection of poems in ten years during a revelatory period for Women’s Literature; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Pictorial wrappers. Owner’s signature dated 1976. Fine. $35.00

5. ATWOOD, MARGARET. Good Bones. London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First English edition. Twenty-seven idiosyncratic pieces: In love with Raymond Chandler, Gertrude talks back to Hamlet and Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00

6. ATWOOD, MARGARET. Alias Grace. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. A murder in 1843 and its aftermath. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Review copy with publisher’s slip tipped in. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

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7. BALLIETT, WHITNEY. New York Notes - a Journal of Jazz in the Seventies. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First American edition. Or really the first four years of the 1970s. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘who must be unique in his love of both Liebling and Miles’, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $200.00

8. BALLIETT, WHITNEY. Improvising - Sixteen Jazz Musicians and their Art. New York: Oxford University Press,1977. First American edition. Sixteen long pieces, many reworked from The New Yorker - including Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Pee Wee Russell and Buddy Rich - dedicated to William Shawn. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN NEW YORK IN 1978. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

9. BALLIETT, WHITNEY. American Singers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. First American edition. Twelve pieces including: Alberta Hunter, Blossom Dearie, Sylvia Syms, Tony Bennett and Mabel Mercer. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

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10. BANVILLE, JOHN. The Untouchable. London: Picador, 1997. First English edition. Anthony Blunt’s life; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

11. BECKETT, SAMUEL. Come and Go. London: Calder and Boyars,1967. First English edition. Between 121 and 127 words, depending on the translation, or three exactly equal segments of seven lines during which a character ...; written for, and dedicated to, John Calder, the publisher. #34/100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original buckram stamped in gold. Fine in publisher’s slipcase as issued. $2,000.00

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13. BLECHMAN, R.O. Onion Soup and Other Fables. New York: The Odyssey Press, 1964. First American edition. The Blechman world; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Near fine in dustwrapper worn around edges and lightly marked on front panel. $50.00

14. BLOW, SIMON. No Time to Grow - a Shattered Childhood. London: John Murray, 1999. First English edition. A childhood failed by privilege. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00

12. BERNHARD, SANDRA. Love, Love, and Love. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First American edition. Essays by the American actor and comedian published between her two volumes of autobiography. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00

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16. BOOKSELLING. The Bookseller’s Apprentice by George Talbot Goodspeed. Philadelphia, PA: Holmes Publishing Company, 1996. First edition. Goodspeed’s Bookshop in Boston from 1924-1975; INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER. Small bookplate, else fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

17. BOWLES, PAUL. Collected Stories 1939-1976. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First American edition. Thirty-nine stories collecting all of The Delicate Prey (1950), The Time of Friendship (1967) and Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977) and most concerned with civilisation’s struggle with older, more resourceful forces. #70/300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Purple cloth and patterned boards. Fine in transparent acetate dustwrapper as issued. MILLER A35C $350.00

BOOKSELLER TO BOOKSELLER TO BOOKSELLER

15. BOOKSELLING. Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1959. First American edition. Beach’s memoir, INSCRIBED BY FRANCES STELOFF OF THE GOTHAM BOOK MART TO A THEN YOUNG AMERICAN BOOKSELLER FOR CHRISTMAS 1962. Very good in dustwrapper. $150.00

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19. BRODKEY, HAROLD. The Runaway Soul. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First English edition. The author’s long gestated first novel. LAID IN ARE TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED TO MORRIS LURIE. The first, 27 June 1992, re Lurie’s reading of this novel and the second, 30 August 1993, after Brodkey’s HIV diagnosis, ‘At the moment it’s killing me mostly by inches and with boredom and with a kind of inglorious dignity which I suppose is a form of dignity ...’ Fine in dustwrapper. $400.00

18. BRODKEY, HAROLD. Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First American edition. Eighteen stories, ten originally in The New Yorker. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘with exasperation and affection, more affection than exasperation’, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $300.00

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21. CARTER, ANGELA. Fireworks. London: Quartet, 1974. First English edition. Nine stories or “Profane Pieces”, the author’s first collection. INSCRIBED BY ANGELA CARTER. Remnants of mark to rear endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper. $150.00

20. BURNINGHAM, JOHN. Aldo. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First English edition. A young girl and her friend who gives the book its title and who happens to be a rabbit. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original pictorial boards. Promotional material re the author’s readings in Australia laid in. Fine. $35.00

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‘Well met in Melbourne’

22. CARVER, RAYMOND. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. First American edition. Twenty-two stories, written between 1960-1974, and the author’s first substantial trade publication; INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘well met in Melbourne’, BY THE AUTHOR IN 1985. And with his Port Angeles’ address and contact no. on a laid in page. Slight lean, else fine in dustwrapper. $1,500.00

‘It is enough to delight you with the report that the book that came with white-hot fever fled just as fast. I made the mistake of finishing it and then looking back at the first paragraph. ...’

23. CARVER, RAYMOND. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First American edition. Laid in is a typed letter, SIGNED FROM GORDON LISH TO MORRIS LURIE, 30 MARCH 1981, sending him this copy and regaling him with details of his recent adventures, tribulations and realizations. Fine in dustwrapper. $750.00

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25. CARVER, RAYMOND. Where Water Comes Together With Other Water. New York: Vintage, 1986. First paperback edition. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE, WITH GOOD WISHES AND ADMIRATION, BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $300.00

26. CARVER, RAYMOND. Fires. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1983. First American paperback edition. Essays (2), poems (50), stories (7) plus an afterword by Carver explaining, and giving the background to, this selection. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $250.00

24. CARVER, RAYMOND and TESS GALLAGHER. Dostoevsky - a Screenplay. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1985. First American paperback edition. Published back to back with King Dog by Ursula Le Guin. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE BY RAYMOND CARVER IN 1986. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $300.00

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28. CHEEVER, JOHN. The Wapshot Chronicle. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘... in memory of a pleasant afternoon in Ossining’. Very good in dustwrapper. $300.00

27. CARVER, RAYMOND. The Stories of Raymond Carver. London: Picador, 1985. First English edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DONNA POPPY, GOOGLE HER, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. All of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral; no comparable American edition. Pictorial wrappers. Pages evenly tanned, else fine. $300.00

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29. CHEEVER, JOHN. The Stories of John Cheever. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First American edition. Sixty-one stories; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Remnants of stain centre of foredge, else fine in dustwrapper. $200.00

30. COETZEE, J.M. Dusklands. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1974. First South African edition. J.M. Coetzee’s first book, SIGNED BY HIM. Short gift inscription, faint foxing to front and rear pastedowns and inside folds of dustwrapper, else fine in dustwrapper with a slight nick at the crown. $1,000.00

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31. COETZEE, J.M. The Life and Times of Michael K. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983. First South African edition. J.M. Coetzee’s first Booker winner. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Owner’s signature dated 1984, else fine in dustwrapper. $450.00

32. COETZEE, J.M. The Life and Times of Michael K. New York: The Viking Press, 1984. First American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $350.00

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34. (COOKE, SAM.) Dream Boogie by Peter Guralnick. Boston: Little Brown, 2005. First American edition. Or, ‘The Triumph of Sam Cooke’. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

35. COWLEY, MALCOLM. And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade - Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978. New York: Viking, 1978. First American edition. Encounters with American writers from the 1920s onwards. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Very good in fine dustwrapper. $60.00

33. COETZEE, J.M. Boyhood - Scenes from Provincial Life. London: Secker and Warburg, 1997. First English edition. Scenes from childhood; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $350.00

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37. DURCAN, PAUL. The Berlin Wall Cafe. London: The Harvill Press, 1995. Reprint. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BETTY CHURCHER AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY IN 1999. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00

38. EARLE, STEVE. Doghouse Roses. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. First American edition. Eleven stories by the singer, songwriter and actor. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

36. DIBDIN, MICHAEL. A Long Finish. London: Faber and Faber, 1998. First English edition. Aurelio Zen #6; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR; dedicated to Pat Kavanagh. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00

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40. ELLROY, JAMES. White Jazz. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First American edition. The final volume of the LA Quartet; the most elliptical of the author’s novels. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE BY JAMES ELLROY. Fine in dustwrapper designed by Chip Kidd. $100.00

41. ELLROY, JAMES. American Tabloid. New York: Knopf, 1995. First American edition. The first volume of the Underworld USA trilogy. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $150.00

39. ELLROY, JAMES. Brown’s Requiem. London: Allison and Busby, 1984. First English edition. First hardcover edition of James Ellroy’s first novel and INSCRIBED BY HIM TO MORRIS LURIE. Fine in dustwrapper. $350.00

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43. FRANZEN, JONATHAN. The Twenty-Seventh City. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1988. First American edition. The author’s first book. SIGNED BY JONATHAN FRANZEN. Fine in dustwrapper. $125.00

44. FRANZEN, JONATHAN. My Father’s Brain. London: Belmont Press, 2002. First English edition. First separate edition. Originally published in The New Yorker. #81/200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Franzen’s award winning memoir of his father’s death in the ‘slow motion way of Alzheimer’s’. Blue corrugated wrappers, sewn. Fine. $175.00

42. ELLROY, JAMES. My Dark Places. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First American edition. Ellroy’s default setting for a novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00

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46. (GUSTON, PHILIP.) Philip Guston’s Late Work by William Corbett. Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1994. First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO R.B. KITAJ, ‘This book about a painter who knew as you do now of what it is like to have great paintings reviled. All courage to you, with my admiration.’ Fine in dustwrapper. $175.00

47. HEANEY, SEAMUS. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First English edition. 195/300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original black cloth and grey boards, printed paper label on spine. All fine in publisher’s slipcase as issued. $600.00

45. GALLANT, MAVIS. Across the Bridge. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993. First Canadian edition. Eleven stories; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

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49. HUMPHREYS, JOSEPHINE. Rich In Love. New York: Viking, 1987. First American edition. The author’s second book, a coming of age novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Remainder mark bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper. $35.00

50. KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE. Boyhood Island. London: Harvill Secker, 2014. First English edition. My Struggle: 3. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a tipped-in publisher’s plate. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

48. HOMES, A.M. May We Be Forgiven. New York: Viking, 2012. First American edition. The author’s contribution to epic American family sagas. SIGNED BY A.M. HOMES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

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52. KOREN, EDWARD. Don’t Talk to Strange Bears. New York: Windmill Books, 1969. First American edition. The author’s first book INSCRIBED BY HIM TO MORRIS LURIE WITH A FULL PAGE DRAWING. Fine in dustwrapper with the remnants of a stain on the top corner of the rear panel. $300.00

53. LE GUIN, URSULA. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. First American edition. Seventeen stories. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

51. (KITAJ, R.B.) On Poetry and Poets by T.S. Eliot. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. First American edition. Sixteen essays on poets, movements and poetics; R.B. KITAJ’S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. $150.00

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55. LESSING, DORIS. Under My Skin. London: HarperCollins, 1994. First English edition. Volume one of the author’s autobiography: her childhood in Africa through to her arrival in London in 1949; SIGNED BY DORIS LESSING. Near fine in dustwrapper. $100.00

56. LETHEM, JONATHAN. The Fortress of Solitude. New York: Doubleday, 2003. First American edition. A coming of age novel: looking out from Brooklyn at the end of the 20th century. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

54. LEONARD, JOHN. Private Lives in the Imperial City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First American edition. Collects sixty-nine of Leonard’s ‘Private Lives’ pieces, originally published in The New York Times. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

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58. LIMERICKS. Limericks Down Under by Alan Benjamin and Cyril Pearl. Melbourne: Hutchinson Australia, 1984. First Australian edition. Arranged by state, indexed by location; and INSCRIBED BY ALAN BENJAMIN TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘... The first man alive who thought there was a book in it’, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine. $45.00

59. LISH, GORDON. Peru. New York: Dutton, 1986. First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘Here, sweetheart, this should cost you but I guess it already has. Gordon Lish, 21 Dec 1985’. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

57. LETHEM, JONATHAN. You Don’t Love Me Yet. New York: Doubleday, 2007. First American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00

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61. MCCARTHY, CORMAC. All the Pretty Horses. London: Picador, 1993. First English edition. The Border Trilogy Vol.1. Endorsements by Saul Bellow, Jim Harrison, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen on the rear panel of the dustwrapper and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON A TIPPED-IN PLATE. Fine in dustwrapper. $400.00

62. MACGREGOR, NEIL. A History of the World in 100 Objects. London: Allen Lane, 2011. Reprint. An impossible project attempted and, for many, achieved; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BETTY CHURCHER, ‘with admiration, affection and gratitude’; from one member of the Blockbuster family to another. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

60. LOW, DAVID. With All Faults. London: The Amate Press, 1973. First English edition. INSCRIBED ‘MEA CULPA’ ON THE HALF-TITLE BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $75.00

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64. (MARVIN, LEE.) Lee - a Romance by Pamela Marvin. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First English edition. Lee Marvin’s wife’s memoir; foreword by John Boorman and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00

65. MATHEWS, HARRY and TREVOR WINKFIELD. The Way Home. New York: The Grenfell Press, 1988. First American edition. #25/75 NUMBERED COPIES (TOTAL EDITION 90CC.) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND TREVOR WINKFIELD, THE ARTIST. Printed at the Grenfell Press on Arches 88, bound by Claudia Cohen, the type cast by Michael Bixler. Four full page illustrations and numerous decorations throughout by Winkfield. Original black cloth with illustrated paper label. Fine in original glassine dustwrapper which is nicked around the edges. Prospectus laid in. $200.00

63. MACKLIN, ROBERT. War Babies - a Memoir. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus Books, 2004. First Australian edition. Growing up in suburban Brisbane during the 1940s and 1950s; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BETTY CHURCHER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00

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67. MILLETT, KATE. Sita. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1977. First American edition. After Flying. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Near fine in fine dustwrapper. $45.00

68. MILLETT, KATE. A.D. - A Memoir. New York: Norton, 1995. First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A NOTE THAT THIS IS A ‘first edition Author’s copy mailed from Cape’. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00

66. MAXWELL, WILLIAM. The Outermost Dream. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First American edition. Essays and reviews from The New Yorker, subjects include: ‘diaries’, Alberto Giacometti, E.M.Forster and Alexandria, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury. LAID IS A TYPED NOTE, SIGNED BY MAXWELL TO MORRIS LURIE, most re Sylvia Townsend Warner, discounting any connection between her and Borges and ending that ‘Margaret Thatcher happened to England. Alas.’ Review copy. Fine in dustwrapper with publisher’s promotional slip laid in. $300.00

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70. MODJESKA, DRUSILLA.Secrets by Drusilla Modjeska, Amanda Lohrey and Robert Dessaix. Sydney: Macmillan, 1997. First Australian edition. Three long pieces; SIGNED BY THE THREE AUTHORS. Spots of foxing to top edge, slight lean. Very good in dustwrapper. $75.00

71. MOSLEY, NICHOLAS. Hopeful Monsters. London: Minerva, 1993. Reprint. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE BY THE AUTHOR; AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED LAID IN FROM MOSLEY TO LURIE, 15 JULY 1994, ‘finding novels harder and harder to write and wondering what autobiographies would be like.’ Pictorial wrappers. Very good. $85.00

69. MONEY, JOHN. The Impresario. London: The Bodley Head, 1959. First English edition. The author’s first book, INSCRIBED BY HIM, and concerned with an ex-soldier’s relationship with his stepson. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

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73. (O’HARA, FRANK.) Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters by Marjorie Perloff. New York: George Braziller, 1977. First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DONALD ALLEN, one of two dedicatees of the study which follows O’Hara from Harvard to his action poems. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a crease on the rear panel. $350.00

74. OLDS, SHARON. Blood, Tin, Straw. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First American paper edition. The poet’s sixth collection. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $175.00

72. NAIPAUL, V.S. India - A Million Mutinies Now. London: William Heinemann, 1990. First English edition. Naipaul pays his ancestors’ homeland another visit. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $150.00

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76. PARSONS, LOUELLA. The Gay Illiterate. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1944. First American edition. Author’s compliments slip, with publication date of 7th January 1944, laid in. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FRANCES WHITING. Fine in very good dustwrapper. $200.00

75. OLDS, SHARON. The Unswept Room. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First American edition. Olds’ seventh collection. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO EDMUND [WHITE] AND MICHAEL [CARROLL]. Fine in dustwrapper. $250.00

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77. POWELL, ANTHONY. A Question of Upbringing. London: William Heinemann, 1951. First English edition. A Dance to the Music of Time #1. LAID IN IS AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY ANTHONY POWELL TO MORRIS LURIE, 22 MAY 1992, ‘... but I’m afraid I long ago had to make a rule to sign books only for people I had met in the flesh. Sorry.’ Fine in dustwrapper darkened on the perimeter of the rear panel. $3,000.00

78. RANKIN, IAN. The Black Book. London: Orion Books, 1993. First English edition. John Rebus #5; tartan noir. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Review copy with local publisher’s slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper. $125.00

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79. (SCHWARTZ, DELMORE AND JOHN BERRYMAN.) New Directions in Prose and Poetry, edited by James Laughlin. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First American edition.A staking out of positions anthology containing first appearances in English of Brecht’s Mother Courage, Ezra Pound’s “Augment of the Novel”, Vladimir Nabokov’s “Hodassevich: A Note and Translations”; other contributions by Franz Kafka, André Breton, Edouard Dujardin, Wright Morris (photographs), Julien Gracq, Hugh MacDiarmid, and many others, INCLUDING DELMORE SCHWARTZ AND JOHN BERRYMAN WHO HAVE BOTH SIGNED THIS COPY; 730pp. Followed by “Literary Information”: Trade advertisements for Accent, Fantasy, Horizon, Diogenes, Decision, Hamlet Vol.II by Henry Miller and Michael Fraenkel, Twice a Year, Print, The Harvard Advocate, Sur, Story, most strands of the New Directions’ catalogue and similar East Coast publishers; a micro survey of American small press publishing, in elegant advertisements, on the eve of that country’s entry into World War Two, 35pp. Near fine in fine dustwrapper. $600.00

80. ST AUBYN, EDWARD. Mother’s Milk. London: Picador, 2006. First English edition. The fourth, and best, Patrick Melrose novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00

81. (SANTAMARIA, B.A.) Orthodoxy - the American Spectator Anniversary Anthology, edited by R. Emmet Tyrrell Jr. New York: Harper and Row, 1987. An anthology celebrating 20 years of The American Spectator; 70+ pieces. THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY B.A. SANTAMARIA, ‘... With my deepest gratitude for all that you have to done to help us ...’ Fine in very good dustwrapper faded around the spine. $85.00

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82. SHIELDS, CAROL. The Republic of Love. London: Fourth Estate, 1992. First English edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1993. Small tape bleed mark on front free endpaper where publisher’s slip has been removed, near fine in fine dustwrapper. $75.00

83. SHIELDS, CAROL. The Stone Diaries. London: Fourth Estate, 1993. First English edition. Review copy with local publisher’s promotional material laid in. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $125.00

84. SPAIN. Ten Centuries of Spanish Poetry, edited by Eleanor L. Turnbull. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955. First American edition. Over 150 poems across the centuries; parallel text. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED FROM THE EDITOR LAID IN. Brief inscription, else fine in near fine dustwrapper. $50.00

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85. (STREHLOW, T.G.H.) The Outlines of Mythology by Lewis Spence. London: Watts and Co. 1944. First English edition. T.G.H. STREHLOW’S COPY, WITH HIS SIGNATURE, AT DUNTROON, APRIL 1945. Near fine in very good dustwrapper missing a small piece at the crown of the spine. $45.00

86. STONE, ROBERT. Outerbridge Reach. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1992. First American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Extremities lightly foxed, else fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

87. SURFING. Surfing Photographs from the Sixties and Seventies by John Witzig. Woollahra, NSW: Queen Street Fine Art, 2007. First Australian edition. Ninety-five colour and sepia reproductions, many full page; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. $50.00

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88. SWIFT, GRAHAM. Out of This World. London: Viking, 1988. First English edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

89. THAMES. Thames - an Anthology of River Poems compiled by Anna Adams. London: Enitharmon Press, 1999. First English edition. William Blake, T.S.Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Stevie Smith, Rudyard Kipling and many others on the least commonplace of rivers. Preface by Iain Sinclair; AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED FROM STEPHEN STUART-SMITH, THE PUBLISHER, TO ANTHONY ASTBURY, FOUNDER OF THE GREVILLE PRESS, LAID IN. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $60.00

90. THESIGER, WILFRED. The Life of My Choice. London: Collins, 1987. First English edition. The author’s autobiography: keeping the twentieth century at arm’s length. SIGNED BY WILFRED THESIGER. Fine in dustwrapper. $450.00

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92. TITUS, EZRA. Toe Hopping Actified. London: Orange Cornet Press, 2008. First English edition. A longer story by the late writer most of whose stories are available online at http://www.ezratitus.com/. Plain wrappers, sewn with printed label. Fine. $50.00

91. THESIGER, WILFRED. My Kenya Days. London: HarperCollins, 1994. First English edition. From his first visit in 1960; illustrated; and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Two faint spots on title page, else fine in dustwrapper. $350.00

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93. VIDAL, GORE. Myra Breckinridge. London: Anthony Blond, 1968. First English edition. The American text was trimmed to cross the Atlantic, notably during Rusty’s medical examination by Myra; AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED BY VIDAL TO LEON DRUCKER, LONDON BOOKSELLER, ‘I expected to make cuts not so much to avoid proseuction as to dramatize for reviewers, if no one else, the present timidity of English publishers ... Off the record, as we say, I think that the book will probably be prosecuted even in its current edition, and the thought of all the fuss depresses me profoundly.’ Fine in near fine dustwrapper. $350.00

94. VONNEGUT, KURT. Hocus Pocus. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. First English edition. Prison novel, of sorts, in the then near future of 2001. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Slight foxing to top of prelims and inside folds of dustwrapper, else fine in dustwrapper. $200.00

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95. WALCOTT, DEREK. Omeros. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First American edition. The Odyssey in the Caribbean; INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1996. Fine in dustwrapper. $200.00

96. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories. Ithaca, NY: The Dragon Press, 1932. First American edition. ‘[The Knife of the Times] is all about people I knew in the town, portraits of people who were my friends. I was impressed by the picture of the times, depression years, the plight of the poor ... I wrote it down as I saw it. The times - that was the knife that was killing them.’ – I Wanted to Write a Poem. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Faint offsetting to prelims from dustwrapper flaps, else fine in dustwrapper. 500 copies. $1,500.00

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97. WINTON, TIM. Dirt Music. Sydney: Picador, 2001. First Australian edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00

98. WITTING, AMY. Beauty is the Straw. North Ryde, NSW: Collins Angus and Robertson, 1991. First Australian edition. Poems first published in journals, newspapers, and Amy Witting’s own Travel Diary. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, ‘For ______ and a walled garden in Chiang Mai’. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $100.00

99. WORLD WAR ONE. Up the Line to Death, edited by Brian Gardner. London: Methuen, 1967. Reprint. Ralph Richardson’s copy. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH TO SIR RALPH RICHARDSON, ‘My dear Ralphie, I cannot tell you how tremendously thrilled I am that you are playing Sir Edward. It will mean such an enormous amount to the picture. Thank you so much, Dickie A. Oh! What a Lovely War. ... Brighton April 1968.’ Richardson played Sir Edward Gray in Attenborough’s movie version of Joan Littlewood’s musical history of World War One. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear fold. $250.00

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100. WORLD WAR ONE. The First World War by John Keegan. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1999. First American edition. History of the War and its endless repercussions. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $75.00