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Twentieth Century Fiction -- Rechy to Swift
1894. Reed, Kit. The ballad of T. Rantula, a novel. Boston, Little, Brown and Company [c1979]. Fine in very lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. $ 15.00 1901. Renek, Morris. Heck, a novel. New York, A Harper's Magazine Press Book [c1971]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Advance reading copy. Special ABA Preview Edition. $ 15.00 1902. Renek, Morris. Heck, a novel. New York, Harper's Magazine Press Book [c1971]. Price inked out on dust jacket flap, ink-stamped name on endpaper. Otherwise fine in dust jacket. First edition. Blurb by Daniel Fuchs. $ 15.00 1904. Renek, Morris. Siam Miami. [New York] The Macmillan Company [c1969]. Printed wrappers. Small stain on front wrapper, otherwise near fine. Advance reading copy. Blurbs by Erskine Caldwell, Richard Elman, Seymour Krim. $ 15.00 1909. Richard, Mark. The ice at the bottom of the world: stories. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Fine in white printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Author's first book. Winner of the 1990 Hemingway Foundation Award. $ 75.00 1910. Richard, Mark. The ice at the bottom of the world: stories. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with photograph and Knopf News laid in. Richard received the 1990 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best new fiction. $ 55.00 330. Richard, Mark. The ice at the bottom of the world. London, Jonathan Cape [1990]. Fine in fine price- clipped dust jacket. First English edition. Southern author's first book. Richard received the 1990 Ernest Hemingway Award for best new fiction. $ 35.00 331. Richard, Mark. The ice at the bottom of the world. London, Jonathan Cape [1990]. Upper corners bumped, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. First English edition. $ 25.00 332. Richards, Thomas. Zero tolerance. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [c1997]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Author's first book. Vietnam War novel. $ 20.00 1914. Richler, Mordecai. The incomparable Atuk. [Toronto] McClelland and Steven Limited [c1963]. Fine in lightly soiled white dust jacket with several closed tears. First Canadian edition. Canadian author. Dust jacket design by Len Deighton. $ 55.00 1919. Robinson, Jill. Dr. Rocksinger and the age of longing. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Mark on bottom edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First edition. Blurb by Ann Beattie. $ 15.00 1920. Robinson, Roxana. Asking for love and other stories. New York, Random House [c1996]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Blurbs by Alice Munro, Mary Gordon, Susan Cheever, George Plimpton, Chris Case. $ 25.00 1922. Robison, Mary. Believe them: stories. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Near fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. American short-story writers since World War II. $ 17.50 1923. Rogers, Lettie Hamlett. Birthright. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1957. Fine in printed wrappers. Advance copy in dust jacket of printed book. Southern author. Gray, Literature of memory. $ 30.00 1924. Rogers, Thomas. At the shores. New York, Simon and Schuster [1980]. Fine in very lightly soiled yellow printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proofs. $ 50.00 1928. Rogers, Thomas. The pursuit of happiness, a novel. London, The Bodley Head [1969]. Dust jacket has a short closed tear and a few chips along top edge. First English edition. Author's first book. Blurbs by Philip Roth, William Trevor. $ 40.00 1931. Rogin, Gilbert. What happens next? a novel. New York, Random House [c1971]. Near fine in dust jacket creased along top edge. First edition. Author's second book. $ 20.00 1933. Roper, Robert. Cuervo tales. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1993. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Blurbs by Thomas McGuane, Kate Braverman. $ 22.50 1934. Roper, Robert. Mexico days, a novel. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson [c1989]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs. $ 25.00 1935. Roper, Robert. Royo County. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1973. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first novel. Blurbs by Cynthia Buchanan, L. J. Davis. $ 30.00 335. Roper, Robert. Royo County. [London] Andre Deutsch [1974]. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. First English edition. Author's first novel. The author was the recipient of the 1972 Wallace Stegner Fellowship. $ 35.00 1943. Ross, Maggie. The gasteropod. New York, The Viking Press [1969]. Fine in lightly chipped dust jacket with closed short tears. First American edition. Author's first book. $ 15.00 1944. Ross, Sinclair. Sawbones memorial. [Toronto] McClelland and Stewart Limited [c1974]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with short closed tear on back panel. First edition. Canadian author. The annotated bibliography of Canada's major authors, v. 3. $ 50.00 1948. Roth, Philip. Portnoy's complaint. New York, Random House [c1969]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 45.00 1952. Rubens, Bernice. Mr. Wakefield's crusade. New York, Delacorte Press [c1985]. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. British novelists since 1960. $ 25.00 1960. Rumaker, Michael. Gringos and other stories. New York, Grove Press, Inc. [c1966]. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. Published earlier in England as Exit 3. $ 25.00 1962. Rush, Norman. Mating. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first novel. By the author of Whites. $ 40.00 1963. Rush, Norman. Whites: stories. London, Heinemann [1986]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition (see note below). Author's first book. Ahearn, Book collecting, 1995 edition lists this edition before the American. $ 100.00 339. Russ, Joanna. Picnic on paradise. [London] Macdonald [1969]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First English and first hardcover edition. Author's first book. Author included in Reginald, Science fiction. 1968 Nebula finalist. Blurbs by Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson. $ 100.00 1975. Salamanca, J. R. Lilith. London, Heinemann [1962]. Near fine in near fine jacket with two closed tears at base of backstrip. First English edition. Blurbs by Orville Prescott, Gilbert Highet. $ 40.00 1977. Salas, Floyd. Tattoo the wicked cross. New York, Grove Press, Inc. [c1967]. Fine. Advance copy in dust jacket of published book. Author's first book. Chicano writers, 1st series. $ 50.00 1982. Salter, James. Dusk and other stories. London, Jonathan Cape [1990]. Lightly bumped at head and foot of backstrip and upper corners. Otherwise fine in dust jacket with light marks on front panel. First English edition. Blurb by John Irving. $ 35.00 1983. Salter, James. Dusk and other stories. London, Jonathan Cape [1990]. Fine in dust jacket. First English edition. Blurb by John Irving. $ 45.00 342. Salzman, Mark. The soloist. [London] Bloomsbury [1994]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First English edition. $ 20.00 343. Sanchez, Thomas. Rabbit Boss. London, Secker & Warburg [1974]. Book label residue on dust jacket front flap, top of the spine bumped. Otherwise near fine in price-clipped dust jacket. First English edition. Author's first book. $ 50.00 1988. Sandlin, Tim. Skipped parts. New York, Henry Holt and Company [c1991]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Blurbs by W. P. Kinsella. $ 25.00 1989. Sandor, Marjorie. A night of music. New York, The Ecco Press [c1989]. Very fine in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with Ecco Press News laid in. Author's first book. Blurb by Guy Davenport. $ 40.00 1993. Savage, Thomas. Midnight line: a novel. Boston, Little, Brown and Company [c1976]. Mark from sticker removal on front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in dust jacket with a few chips. First edition. Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. $ 20.00 1995. Savage, Thomas. Trust in chariots. New York, Random House [c1961]. Very good in dust jacket with light rubbing along edges. First edition. Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. $ 20.00 1997. Saxton, Alexander. Bright web in the darkness. New York, St. Martin's Press [c1958]. Near fine in dust jacket chipped at top and bottom of backstrip. No mention of first edition. $ 15.00 2000. Schinto, Jeanne. Shadow bands: stories. Princeton, Ontario Review Press [1988]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected bound galleys. Author's first book. Review material laid in. $ 25.00 2002. Schmidt, Arno. The Egghead Republic, a short novel from the Horse Latitudes. London, Boston, Marion Boyars [1979]. Fine in dust jacket. First English-language edition. Translation of Die Gelehrtenrepublik. Contemporary German fiction writers, 1st series. Translated by Michael Horovitz. $ 30.00 2003. Schmidt, Arno. The Egghead Republic, a short novel from the horse latitudes. London, Boston, Marion Boyars [1979]. Evidence of sticker removal on front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in lightly rubbed white dust jacket. First English-language edition. English translation by Michael Horovitz. Contemporary German fiction writers, 1st series. $ 20.00 2012. Schwamm, Ellen. How he saved her. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Mark from sticker removal on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. $ 25.00 2013. Schwamm, Ellen. How he saved her. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Lower corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 15.00 2016. Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Acquainted with the night and other stories. New York [etc.] Harper & Row, Publishers [c1984]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first short story collection. $ 20.00 2017. Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Balancing acts. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1982. Fine in dust jacket. First English edition. $ 20.00 2018. Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Rough strife. New York, Harper & Row, Publishers [c1980]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first book. Blurbs by Rosellen Brown, Joyce Carol Oates. $ 35.00 347. Scott, Joanna. My Parmacheene belle. London, The Bodley Head [1988]. Fine in dust jacket with lightly rubbed rear panel. First English edition. Author's first novel. $ 35.00 2023. Scott, Joanna. Various antidotes: stories. New York, Henry Holt and Company [1994]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first short story collection. Blurbs by Paul West, Bradford Morrow, Maureen Howard, Guy Davenport, Robert Olen Butler, Robert. Coover. $ 25.00 2025. Secreast, Donald. The rat becomes light: stories. New York, Harper & Row, Publishers [c1990]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Harper & Row news sheet laid in. Southern author's first book. Blurbs by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Fred Chappell, John Barth. $ 25.00 2027. Seignolle, Claude. The accursed: two diabolical tales. Translated by Bernard Wall. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. [1967]. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Barron, Horror literature (English edition). $ 45.00 353. Settle, Mary Lee. The killing ground. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux [1982]. Fine in dust jacket lightly rumpled along top edge. First edition. Blurb by Walker Percy. The fifth volume of The Beulah Quintet. $ 25.00 2037. Sexson, Lynda. Margaret of the imperfections: stories. New York, Persea Books [c1988]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected bound galleys. Review material laid in. Author's first book of fiction. $ 27.50 2039. Shacochis, Bob. Easy in the islands: stories. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. [c1985]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first book. Blurbs by Barry Hannah, Joy Williams, James Alan McPherson, Robert Stone. Winner of the 1985 National Book Award. $ 75.00 2049. Sharpe, Tom. Wilt on high. New York, Random House [1985]. Fine in printed wrappers. Advance proofs (uncorrected) of first American edition. British novelists since 1960. $ 30.00 2050. Sharpe, Tom. Wilt on high. New York, Random House [c1984]. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. South African author. $ 25.00 2051. Shaw, Irwin. Rich man, poor man. [n.p., n.p., c1970]. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with closed tear. Taiwanese piracy. $ 15.00 2052. Shaw, Irwin. The top of the hill. New York, Delacorte press [c1979]. Very good in dust jacket. Taiwanese piracy. $ 15.00 359. Sheckley, Robert. Draconian New York. New York, Forge / A Tom Doherty Associates Book [1996]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Blurbs by J. G. Ballard, Harlan Ellison. Detective fiction. $ 15.00 2054. Sheed, Wilfrid. The hack. New York, The Macmillan Company [c1963]. Fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket with chips along edges. No mention of first edition (as in First printings of American authors). First American edition. $ 25.00 2055. Sheed, Wilfrid. Max Jamison, a novel. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1970]. Fine in lightly rubbed white dust jacket with creased front flap. First edition. Published in England as The critic. $ 15.00 2057. Sheed, Wilfrid. A middle class education, a novel. London, Cassell [1961]. Fine in lightly darkened and lightly soiled printed wrappers. Proof copy of first English edition of author's first novel. $ 50.00 2058. Sheed, Wilfrid. Office politics, a novel. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1966]. Fine in printed wrappers. Paperbound preview edition of 1,000 copies not for sale. $ 25.00 2059. Sheed, Wilfrid. People will always be kind. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1973]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 20.00 2061. Shepard, Jim. Lights out in the reptile house, a novel. New York, London, W. W. Norton & Company [c1990]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Norton Book News laid in. Blurbs by Charles Baxter, Richard Howard. $ 27.50 2063. Shetzline, David. DeFord. New York, Random House [c1968]. Mark of sticker removal on front pastedown. Otherwise fine in dust jacket with several snags. First edition. Author's first book. Blurb by Thomas Pynchon. $ 20.00 2064. Shetzline, David. Heckletooth 3, a novel. New York, Random House [c1969]. Fine in very lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. $ 20.00 2065. Shivers, Louise. Here to get my baby out of jail. New York, Random House [c1983]. Fine in dust jacket with single small closed tear. First edition. Author's first book. Blurbs by Erskine Caldwell, Mary Gordon, Eudora Welty. $ 40.00 2066. Shivers, Louise. Here to get my baby out of jail. London, Collins, 1983. Fine in dust jacket. First English edition. Southern author's first novel. Blurbs by Eudora Welty, Mary Gordon. $ 35.00 2068. Short stories. [Spring Valley, CA] Helix House Publishers, c1975]. Fine in printed wrappers. First edition. Helix anthology, v. 1. By Jerry Bumpus, Elizabeth Chater, Charles Brashers, Rick De Marinis. $ 25.00 2069. Shreve, Susan Richards. Children of power. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. [1979]. Printed wrappers. Stamped "Released" on front free endpaper. Special advance edition. Blurbs by John Irving, John Gardner, Gail Godwin, John Casey, etc. $ 35.00 2070. Shulman, Alix Kates. On the stroll. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Covers rubbed on bottom edge, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket. First edition. $ 15.00 2075. Silverberg, Robert. Tom O'Bedlam. New York, Donald I. Fine, Inc. [c1985]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected proofs. Reginald, Science fiction. Twentieth-Century American science-fiction writers. $ 30.00 2076. Silverberg, Robert. The world inside. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Ink name on front free endpaper. Otherwise near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. First edition. Reginald, Science fiction. $ 20.00 362. Simpson, Helen. Four bare legs in a bed. New York, Harmony Books [c1990]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition. Blurb by Ruth Rendell. Author on 1993 Best of young British novelists list. This book was the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Author's first book. Short stories. $ 25.00 363. Simpson, Mona. Anywhere but here. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Reviewer's notes lightly pencilled in throughout. Otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition. Author's first book. Author included in the Granta list of the twenty best young American novelists. Review copy with review slip laid in (name--presumably the reviewer's--in ink on review slip). Blurbs by Walker Percy, Louise Erdrich, David Bradley, Alice Munro, Jay McInerney, John Ashbery, Mary Robison, Jayne Anne Phillips. $ 50.00 2087. Sims, George. The terrible door. New York, Horizon Press [1964]. Fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. First American edition. Author's first novel. Hubin, Crime fiction. $ 35.00 2096. Slow Loris reader 3. [Pittsburgh, Slow Loris Reader, c1979]. ine in printed wrappers. First edition. $ 15.00 2097. Small, David. The river in winter. New York, W. W. Norton & Company [1987]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Review material laid in. Author's second novel. $ 25.00 2101. Smith, Charlie. Canaan, a novel. New York, Simon and Schuster [c1984]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author's first novel. Blurbs by James Dickey, Barry Hannah, Reynolds Price, George Plimpton. $ 100.00 2102. Smith, Charlie. The lives of the dead, a novel. New York [etc.] Linden Press / Simon & Schuster [c1990]. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Also designated as limited edition, special advance reader's copy. Southern author. $ 30.00 2106. Smith, Lee. Family linen. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons [c1985]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author. $ 25.00 365. Smith, Lee. News of the spirit. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons [c1997]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Southern author. Short stories. $ 20.00 2111. Smith, Mark. Smoke Street. New York, William Morrow, 1984. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 15.00 2112. Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone. Lament for a silver-eyed woman. New York, William Morrow [c1987]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected bound galleys. $ 20.00 366. Smith, Vern E. The Jones men. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson [1975]. Fine in near fine dust jacket. First English edition. Black author's first novel. Author included in Hubin, Crime fiction. $ 35.00 2118. Solomon, Barbara Probst. Arriving where we started. New York, Harper & Row, Publishers [c1972]. Name and place in ink on front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in a dust jacket with a few small chips. First edition. Blurbs by Steven Marcus, Clancy Sigal, Jakov Lind, Harvey Swados. $ 15.00 2120. Sommer, Scott. Hazzard's Head. New York, Poseidon Press [c1985]. Fine in printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proofs. $ 20.00 2121. Sommer, Scott. Hazzard's head. New York, Poseidon Press [c1985]. Mark on bottom edge. Otherwise fine in dust jacket creased at top of back panel. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. $ 15.00 2122. Sommer, Scott. Hazzard's Head. New York, Poseidon Press [c1985]. Fine in very lightly soiled white dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. Blurb by Jay McInerney. $ 15.00 2123. Sommer, Scott. Last resort, a novel. New York, Random House [c1982]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 25.00 2124. Sommer, Scott. Lifetime. New York, Random House [c1981]. Printed wrappers (some dampstaining and rumpling, stains on top edge). Uncorrected page proof. $ 15.00 2128. Sonenberg, Maya. Cartographies. [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press [c1989]. Printed wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected manuscript. Author's first book. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1989. Press Book News laid in. $ 30.00 370. Sosnowski, David. Rapture. New York, Villard [c1996]. Fine in printed wrappers. Advance reader's edition (also designated as uncorrected proofs). Author's first novel. $ 15.00 371. Sound of rattles and clappers, a collection of new California Indian writing. Edited by Greg Sarris. Tucson & London, The University of Arizona Press [c1994]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. $ 25.00 2132. Spackman, W. M. A difference of design. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with paperclip marks. First edition. Review copy with review material laid in. $ 17.50 2134. Spanidou, Irini. God's snake. New York, London, W. W. Norton & Company [1986]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof. Author's first book. Publisher's information sheets laid in. $ 20.00 2142. Spencer, Elizabeth. Jack of diamonds and other stories. [New York] Viking [1988]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author. Blurbs by Alice Munro, George Garrett, Shirley Hazzard, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Richard Wilbur, Hilma Wolitzer. $ 25.00 2143. Spencer, Elizabeth. Knights & dragons. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company [c1965]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author. American novelists since World War II, 2nd series. Contemporary novelists, 3rd edition. $ 45.00 2144. Spencer, Elizabeth. Knights & dragons, a novel. New York [etc.] McGraw-Hill Book Company [c1965]. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. First edition. American novelists since World War II, 2nd series. Author included in Gray, Literature of memory. $ 40.00 2146. Spencer, Elizabeth. The light in the piazza. London, Melbourne, Toronto, Heinemann [1961]. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. First English edition. Blurbs by Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty. Southern author. Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. $ 50.00 2148. Spencer, Elizabeth. No place for an angel, a novel. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company [c1967]. Fine in dust jacket lightly chipped at foot of backstrip. First edition. Southern author. $ 30.00 2149. Spencer, Elizabeth. Ship Island and other stories. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company [c1968]. Near fine in dust jacket lightly chipped at extremities. First edition. Southern author. $ 25.00 2150. Spencer, Scott. Endless love. ew York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket with a light chalk mark across the front panel. First edition. $ 20.00 2151. Spencer, Scott. Endless love. London, Jonathan Cape [c1979]. Printed wrappers lightly rubbed along edges, otherwise near fine. Uncorrected proof of first English edition. In tall format. $ 50.00 2153. Spencer, Scott. Secret anniversaries. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Fine in printed wrappers. Publisher's information sheets stapled to inside front wrapper. Uncorrected proof. $ 35.00 2154. Spencer, Scott. Secret anniversaries. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 25.00 2156. Spencer, Scott. Waking the dead. London, Jonathan Cape [c1986]. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit rumpled and soiled, otherwise very good. Uncorrected proof of first English edition. $ 25.00 2162. Stark, Sharon Sheehe. The dealers' yard and other stories. New York, William Morrow [c1985]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first book. Blurbs by John Updike, Anne Tyler, Tim O'Brien, Bobbie Ann Mason, etc. $ 40.00 375. Stead, Christina. The puzzleheaded girl: four novellas. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [c1967]. Tan cloth lightly darkened at edges. In lightly soiled white dust jacket. First edition. $ 25.00 2166. Steadman, Mark. Angel child, a novel. [Atlanta] Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. [1987]. Fine in printed wrappers. Advance reading copy. Uncorrected proofs. Southern author. American novelists since World War II, 2nd series. $ 17.50 2167. Steadman, Mark. Angel child, a novel. [Atlanta] Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. [c1987]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author. Blurb by Josephine Humphreys. $ 15.00 2168. Steadman, Mark. McAfee County, a chronicle. New York [etc.], Holt, Rinehart and Winston [c1971]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Advance complimentary copy. Southern author's first book. $ 30.00 2171. Steele, Max. Debby. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers [c1950]. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket with a few small chips. First edition. Southern author's first book. Blurbs by Katherine Anne Porter, Glenway Wescott, etc. $ 35.00 2172. Steele, Max. The hat of my mother: stories. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1988. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author. Blurb by George Plimpton. $ 17.50 2174. Stegner, Wallace. The woman on the wall. London, Hammond, Hammond & Company [1952]. Near fine in darkened dust jacket missing a number of pieces. First English edition. Colberg, Stegner A10.2. American novelists, 1910-1945. $ 75.00 2175. Steinbach, Meredith. Here lies the water, a novel. [Chicago] Another Chicago Press [c1990]. Fine in printed wrappers. Uncorrected proofs. $ 15.00 2181. Steinbeck, John. The moon is down, a novel. London, Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd. [1942]. Bright, attractive brownish-orange copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. First English edition. $ 75.00 2186. Stern, Daniel. Twice upon a time: stories. New York, London, W. W. Norton & Company [c1992]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. $ 20.00 2187. Stern, Steve. Lazar Malkin enters heaven: stories. [New York] Viking [1987]. Fine in printed wrappers. Unrevised and unpublished proofs. Blurb by Gordon Lish. $ 30.00 2191. Stevens, William. The cannibal isle, a novel. Boston, Little, Brown and Company [c1971]. Printed wrappers. Tear at foot of backstrip, otherwise very good. Uncorrected page proofs. $ 15.00 2196. Stevens, William. The peddler. London, Heinemann [1967]. Near fine in lightly soiled and marked jacket chipped at top of backstrip. First English edition. Author's first book. $ 15.00 2197. Stewart, Fred Mustard. The Mephisto waltz. London, Michael Joseph [1969]. Fine in dust jacket. First English edition. Author's first book. Reginald, Science fiction. $ 35.00 376. Stollman, Aryeh Lev. The far Euphrates. New York, Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 1997. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Author's first novel. Blurbs by Judith Rossner, Rebecca Goldstein, J. D. McClatchy, Jamaica Kincaid. $ 15.00 377. Stone Wall book of short fictions. Edited by Robert Coover and Kent Dixon. Iowa City [The Stone Wall Press] 1973. Fine in blue cloth, printed paper label on the front cover. First edition. One of 325 copies. Printing & the mind of Merker 55. $ 100.00 378. Stone, Robert. Children of light. [London] Andre Deutsch [c1986]. Near fine in rubbed dust jacket with chips at upper flap folds. First edition, preceding American publication by a week. Lopez and Chaney / Robert Stone A4a. $ 75.00 2203. Storey, David. A temporary life. [London] Allen Lane [1973]. Name, place, and date in ink on front endpaper. Otherwise fine in dust jacket. First edition. $ 35.00 2205. Stories from the Transatlantic Review. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [c1970]. ear fine in lightly darkened white dust jacket. First edition. Edited by Joseph F. McCrindle. Includes Alan Sillitoe, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor, Paul Bowles, John McPhee, and many others. $ 35.00 2206. Stories: Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, William Maxwell. New York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy [1956]. Very good in price-clipped, lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. First edition. $ 40.00 2208. Stowe, Rebecca. Not the end of the world. New York, Pantheon Books [c1991]. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. Author's first novel. Blurb by Joan Didion. $ 25.00 379. Strauss, Botho. Couples, passersby. Translated by Roslyn Theobald. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press [1996]. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition. $ 15.00 2213. Strong, Jonathan. Ourselves, a novel. Boston, Little, Brown and Company [c1971]. Fine in dust jacket chipped along top and bottom edges with several closed tears. First edition. Author's second book. Author included in Contemporary gay American novelists. $ 15.00 2216. Stuart, Jesse. Foretaste of glory. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. Near fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. Contemporary novelists, 3rd edition. American novelists, 1910-1945. Author included in Gray, Literature of memory. $ 45.00 2217. Sturdivant, Walter. The trip back, a novel. New York, Simon and Schuster [c1971]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Southern author's first book. Blurb by Walker Percy. $ 25.00 2219. Sueskind, Patrick. The pigeon. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Fine in dust jacket. First American edition. By the author of Perfume. $ 25.00 2223. Sukenick, Ronald. Long talking bad conditions blues. New York, Fiction Collective [c1979]. Fine in lightly marked dust jacket. First edition. $ 15.00 2226. Sumner, Cid Ricketts. But the morning will come, a novel. Indianapolis, New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [c1949]. Name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in chipped jacket. First edition. Southern author. Deals with the Southern race situation. $ 25.00 2228. Sumner, Melanie. Polite society. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Author's first book. Blurbs by Jill McCorkle, Jayne Anne Phillips, Elizabeth Spencer, Leslie Epstein. Southern author. $ 30.00 2230. Svendsen, Linda. Marine life. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1992]. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. Canadian author's first work of fiction. Blurbs by Alice Munro, Hilma Wolitzer. $ 25.00 2231. Swados, Harvey. Celebration, a novel. New York, Simon and Schuster [c1974]. Fine in printed wrappers. Advance reading copy. T.l.s. from Henry Robbins to Brock Brower laid in. American novelists since World War II. $ 25.00 2232. Swados, Harvey. Celebration; a novel. New York, Simon and Schuster [c1974]. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise fine in dust jacket lightly chipped at top of backstrip. First edition. $ 15.00 2233. Swados, Harvey. Nights in the gardens of Brooklyn; the collected stories. [New York] Viking [1986]. Fine in printed wrappers. Unrevised and unpublished proofs. Confidential. $ 30.00 2235. Swados, Harvey. On the line. Boston, Little, Brown and Company [c1957]. Very good in jacket internally strengthened with tape and lightly chipped. First edition. $ 25.00 2237. Swados, Harvey. A story for Teddy--and others. New York, Simon and Schuster [c1965]. Fine in lightly soiled white dust jacket. First edition. $ 17.50 2239. Swift, Graham. Ever after. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Return line on fore-edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First American edition. $ 15.00 2240. Swift, Graham. Ever after [opening chapter from the novel]. [New York, Alfred A. Knopf, c1992]. Fine in printed wrappers, in lightly worn box. Boxed with excerpts from novels by Peter Carey and Cristina Garcia. $ 35.00 381. Swift, Graham. Last orders. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Remainder line on top edge, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition. Blurbs by Salman Rushdie, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Michael Herr. Booker Prize winner. Author included in Contemporary novelists, 6th edition. $ 20.00 2242. Swift, Graham. Out of this world. New York [etc.] Poseidon Press [c1988]. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First American edition. Blurbs by Paul Pickering, Allan Massie, Philip Howard. $ 17.50 382. Symons, Julian. Playing happy families. [New York] The Mysterious Press, Published by Warner Books, A Time Warner Company [1995]. Fine in dust jacket with closed tear on back panel. First American edition. $ 15.00
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