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Moses King Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899. A Companion Volume to King’s Handbook of New York City
$250.00
New York, NY, Boston, Mass.; Moses King, Bartlett & Company, 1899. SCARCE, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Light blue cloth covered boards with black and gilt title and decoration to front board and to spine. Minor wear to exterior includes bumping to spine ends and corners, browning to spine, and general rubbing. Minor browning to floral end papers. Interior hinges are starting though binding remains tight. Author’s inscription to second free end paper reads “To Rose Shuman with compliments of the author. June 17, 1899.” Several photos have writing next to them explaining who the person was or how the original owner knew them. Many have a faint “D” next to them, most likely to mark those who had died. Else is clean and bright. 616 pages. NY/090922
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SIGNED EXAMPLE OF "COWPOKE ABSURDISM"
Everett, Percival. GOD’S COUNTRY.
$1,500.00New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) First printing. The sixth novel by the author now best known for Erasure’ (basis for the film American Fiction) and his recent novel James, an award-winning retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. This was the first book in the publisher’s Callaloo series, dedicated to books by “writers of African descent, ” a “corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America’s westward expansion after the Civil War.” The NY Times review noted that it “starts sour, then abruptly turns into Cowpoke Absurdism, ending with an acute hallucination of blood, hate and magic. It’s worth the wait. The novel sears.” SIGNED on the title page. Hard to find in the first edition, and especially so signed and in this condition. 219 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
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the story of Moses Herzog
Bellow, Saul Herzog
$585.00New York: The Viking Press. 1964. Hardcover. 8vo., 341 pages. Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Signed by author on full title page. Light blue top stain. Clipped jacket with light wear at edges. Five small closed tears (less than 1/8″) Clean interior with no toning. Blue cloth with embossed title on front cover, silver gilt title on spine. This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him – he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend – Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. He writes unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, revealing his wry perception of the world around him, and the innermost secrets of his heart.
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Southern agrarian lit association copies
Warren, Robert Penn World Enough and Time, The Cave, All the King’s Men, Flood, Wilderness, Meet Me in the Green Glen, and four collections of poetry
$850.00Collection of eleven books written by Robert Penn Warren . Ten are inscribed to Peter Dzwonkoski. All on the FFEP From the collection of Brockport, NY poet William Heyen, with a signed note speaking to the provenance. Peter Dzwonkoski worked under famed bibliographer and archivist Donald Gallup at Yale’s Beinecke Library, then became Director of Rate Book and Special Collections at the University of Rochester. Over decades, he befriended many writers, oversaw exhibitions, published essays on books and book-collecting, delighted in book-talk. Before he passed, he sold much of his collection to friend and fellow collector, poet William Heyen, author of Depth of Field (1970), Noise in the Trees (1974), The Swastika Poems (1977), Long Island Light (1979), Erika: Poems of the Holocaust (1984), Crazy Horse In Stillness (1996), and Shoah Train (2003). Robert Penn Warren was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and poet and served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. He was also a professor at Yale University. Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (1942) This is Warren’s second published work. The only unsigned title in this collection. Previous owner’s name on bottom rear of dust jacket and on inner flap. Unpaginated. Unadorned stapled wrappers with lightly soiled printed dust jacket, now wrapped in protective cover. Selected Poems: New and Old 1923–1966 (1966)First edition. VG / VG World Enough and Time (1950) Kentucky is once again the background and integral part of this long novel, the story of Jeremiah Beaumont. The period — early 19th century, finds Kentucky still a frontier, with the inevitable conflicts between frontier viewpoints and those of an encroaching civilization. First edition. NF / VG The Cave (1959). The story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave. Early printing. Clipped dust jacket. VG / VG All the King’s Men (1963) Pulitzer Prize winning novel, later adapted to an Academy Award winning film. The dramatic and theatrical political rise and governorship of Willie Stark, based on Louisiana’s Huey Long. 1963 Time Inc. reprint. This edition is scarce with a signature, Inscribed on title page. Tight, square binding. Likely unread. NF. You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957–1960 (1960) After a decade away from writing poetry this book-length poem explores a shocking true crime: the murder committed by Lilburne Lewis, a relative of Thomas Jefferson. First edition, first printing. Owner’s name on FFEP; otherwise clean interior. Tight, square binding. VG / VG Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961). Wilderness remains a profoundly provocative meditation on the significance of the Civil War and the varieties of human experience.First edition. NF/NF Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964) Learning of the imminent annihilation of Fiddlersburg, Tennessee, writer Brad Tolliver, accompanied by screen director Yasha Jones, returns to the home town to find in his roots the immutable, creative self he had lost. First edition. VG+/VG+ Closed 1″ inch tear, one small chip and three smaller closed tears barely detract from the vibrant green dust jacket. Green cloth with gold gilt title on spine that is showing some wear to gilt. Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971) The frustrated wife of an invalid finds herself both attracted to and tormented by a live-in handyman with a criminal past, a former flame, and a wealthy, mysterious visitor. First edition. VG/VG With some bumping, a closed 1″ tear at rear and chipping to jacket at bottom spine edge. Selected Poems: 1923–1975 (1981)Franklin Library edition bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker. Signed on fly leaf by Warren. With Heyen’s signature on previous page.
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10 inscribed John Hersey association copies
Hersey, John The Wall, Marmot Drive, A Single Pebble, Child Buyer, Too Far to Walk, Under the Eye of the Storm, Letter to the Alumni, and The Conspiracy (inscribed)
$775.00Collection of ten books written by John Hersey. Inscribed to Peter Dzwonkoski. All in Hersey’s inimitable style, on the title page. From the collection of Brockport, NY poet William Heyen. All include a note from Heyen regarding the provenance. Peter Dzwonkoski worked under famed bibliographer and archivist Donald Gallup at Yale’s Beinecke Library, then became Director of Rate Book and Special Collections at the University of Rochester. Over decades, he befriended many writers, oversaw exhibitions, published essays on books and book-collecting, delighted in book-talk. Before he passed, he sold much of his collection to friend and fellow collector, poet William Heyen, author of Depth of Field (1970), Noise in the Trees (1974), The Swastika Poems (1977), Long Island Light (1979), Erika: Poems of the Holocaust (1984), Crazy Horse In Stillness (1996), and Shoah Train (2003). John Hersey is often cited as the father of ‘New Journalism’. The Wall (1950) A novel about events in the Warsaw ghetto from November 1939, with the German occupation, to May 1943, when the last houses in the ghetto were razed. The Wall won the Daroff Memorial Fiction Award of the Jewish Book Council of America and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. It was dramatized by Millard Lampell, produced at the Billy Rose Theater in New York in the early 1960’s and filmed for television by CBS in 1982. Stated first edition. NF / VG+ Marmot Drive (1953) This novel deals with events on two summer days in an out-of-the-way Connecticut village related to the decision of the villagers of Tunxis to launch their long-debated drive to rid a nearby valley of an infestation of marmots. But the drive is merely the catalyst. Its tensions and rigors release a storm of impulses and long-hidden traits in the people involved, so that in the end the natural drama is engulfed by the human drama.Stated first edition. NF / VG+ A Single Pebble (1956) A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river’s gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze — until the interplay of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic climax.Mass market paperback. Later printing. VG+ Child Buyer (1960) The novel is primarily a satire on the school system, although it also posits questions about intelligence, the validity of intelligence/personality tests, and the efficacy of attempts to quantify humanity. One of its major themes is corruption.Alfred A. Knopf, First US edition. NF / NFHamish Hamilton, First UK edition. NF / NF Too Far to Walk (1966) Is there anywhere a young man so dull he would not sell his soul for experience? In this striking new novel, quite different from anything he has written before, John Hersey probes deeply, but with rich humor, into the aimlessness, boredom, and rebellion of a group of undergraduates in a New England college.Clipped dust jacket, now in Brodart. Stated first edition. VG+ / VG+ Under the Eye of the Storm (1967) Two married couples aboard a small boat are besieged by a hurricane. The owner, Dr. Tom Medlar, a liver specialist disenchanted with his healing art, has weekend guests with him on the Harmony. Flicker Hamden, a crack computer-think-man, is inclined to see everything in terms of programming potential, even the mystique of sail, which is heresy to the fussy, meticulous Medlar.Stated first edition. NF / NF Letter to the Alumni (1970) He wrote this letter in response to the trial of the Black Panthers in New Haven, Connecticut and the sociopolitical turmoil gripping the United States at the time during the Civil Rights movement. Stated first edition NF / NF The Conspiracy (1972) Nero’s secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor’s life. Once a promising and gifted friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca, Nero has bloodied himself and grown fat on power. Crass, mediocre men–the military & the secret police–now have his ear. While he and his court give themselves to pleasures increasingly perverse & dissipated, the secret police close in on the conspiracy of the men of letters.Alfred A. Knopf, First US edition. NF / NFHamish Hamilton, First UK edition. NF / NF
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