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301. SALTER, James. Dusk. Berkeley: North Point, 1988. A collection of stories, his first; winner of the PEN Faulkner Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and signed by the author. Salter's memoir, Burning the Days, was published to great critical acclaim a couple of years ago. He has the reputation of being a "writer's writer" -- one who is admired even more by his peers than by the public at large or even the critics. This title bears a short, glowing blurb from John Irving.
302. SAYLES, John. Union Dues. Boston: Little Brown (1977). Sayles's second novel, a coming-of-age book set in the late Sixties during the Vietnam War protests. Signed by the author. Light foxing to page edges and very slight splaying to boards; a near fine copy of this cheaply made, perfectbound book, in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing, as usual, and one edge tear. Nominated for the National Book Award. Books signed by Sayles are somewhat uncommon.
303. SAYLES, John. Prison. Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1991. A broadside excerpt from Los Gusanos, printed on the occasion of a reading by the author. 7 1/2" x 13 3/4". Fine. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the author.
304. -. Another copy, unsigned. Matted. Fine.
305. SEXTON, Anne. All My Pretty Ones. Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1962. Her second book, which, like her first, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was nominated for the National Book Award. Fine in a near fine dust jacket rubbed at the edges and folds. With a Compliments of the Publisher card laid in.
306. SEXTON, Anne. Live or Die. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Her third collection of poems. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Sexton's intimate, autobiographical writing opened up new possibilities of self-examination and self-expression for a generation of women -- both writers and readers -- coming of age in the Sixties. Her suicide in 1974 came to be viewed in retrospect, like Sylvia Plath's, as both a political act and a reflection of the urgency and authenticity of her artistic impulse. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
307. SHIELDS, Carol. The Stone Diaries. (NY): Viking (1994). The first American edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which also won Canada's Governor General's Award -- the highest literary prize given in that country -- as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orange Prize. Also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Signed by the author on the title page in 1995. Shields has also proudly added the words "the Pulitzer Prize." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
308. SHIELDS, Carol. Dressing Up for the Carnival. (n.p.): Viking (2000). The advance reading copy of her latest collection of stories, due out in May. Fine in wrappers.
309. SILKO, Leslie Marmon. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. NY: Simon & Schuster (1996). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of essays on Native American life today, the first book of nonfiction by the author of Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. Fine in wrappers.
310. SIMPSON, Mona. "Absence has qualities..." Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1992. A broadside excerpt from The Lost Father, printed on the occasion of a reading by the author. 6 1/2" x 12 3/4". Signed by the author. Fine.
311. SMILEY, Jane. At Paradise Gate. NY: Simon & Schuster (1981). The uncorrected proof copy of her second novel. Near fine in tall wrappers. Scarce. Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres, which was made into a well-received movie.
312. SMILEY, Jane. Horse Heaven. NY: Knopf, 2000. The uncorrected proof copy of her new book, which has an announced first printing of 150,000 copies. Fine in wrappers with dust jacket art stapled inside the front cover.
313. SONTAG, Susan. Death Kit. NY: FSG (1967). The uncorrected proof copy of her second novel. Copiously annotated -- sometimes quite critically, other times effusively -- by novelist Frederick Tuten, who reviewed the book. Spiralbound; very good in wrappers. An extremely scarce proof, and a remarkable copy of it, which shows the attention of a close reading given by a careful novelist and critic.
314. STEADMAN, Ralph. The Dogs Bodies Portfolio. [Lexington]: Petro III Graphics, 2000. Portfolio. One of 70 copies of this portfolio containing the book Dogs Bodies (London: Abelard-Schumann, 1970), fine in stapled wrappers; and an original two-color silkscreen, "Ink Hound," 8 1/2" x 9 7/8". Each is signed by the artist. Fine, in ribbon-tied portfolio.
315. STEADMAN, Ralph. The King. [Lexington]: [Petro III Graphics] [2000]. Steadman, most famous as the artist who illustrated Hunter Thompson's underground classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, does Elvis -- an image of a disembodied head chomping on a guitar. One of only 43 copies. Signed by the artist. 22" x 30". Rolled, else fine.
316. STEADMAN, Ralph. Lono's Marlin Mask. [Lexington]: [Petro III Graphics] [2000]. Steadman takes the Hunter Thompson character he portrayed so effectively in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and gives him a marlin mask based on Thompson and Steadman's trip to Hawaii, where Lono found fear and loathing every bit as strange and intense as he had found in Las Vegas. One of 77 copies. Signed by the artist. 30" x 22". Rolled, else fine.
317. STEADMAN, Ralph. Lost Chapter. [Lexington]: [Joe Petro III] [2000]. A stylized portrait of a crazed Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps Steadman's most famous subject. One of 53 copies. Signed by the artist. 15" x 22". Rolled, else fine.
318. STEINBECK, John. To a God Unknown. NY: Ballou (1933). First edition, first issue of Steinbeck's third novel -- only 598 copies of this issue were bound and sold. Steinbeck's second novel, The Pastures of Heaven, published the year before, was his first to focus on his native California, the subject of most of his best writing. This novel was the second, and anticipated his later success with such volumes as Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize and is recognized as one of the great American novels of all time. The spine cloth is sunned in the pattern of the dust jacket; otherwise this is a fine copy in a dust jacket that has had a tiny bit of professional restoration at the spine crown and upper corners. A beautiful copy of one of Steinbeck's scarcest titles.
319. STEINBECK, John. Travels with Charley. NY: Viking, 1962. One of Steinbeck's last books, a touching memoir of his travels with his poodle, "in search of America," published the year he won the Nobel Prize. Signed by the author. This copy belonged to a CBS producer who was in Steinbeck's publisher's office the day Steinbeck heard he won the Nobel Prize; the book was signed that day. Near fine in a good, chipped and internally tape-repaired dust jacket.
320. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. London: Bodley Head (1968). The first British edition of Stone's first book, which won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and a William Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. Filmed as WUSA, with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins, with a screenplay by Stone and Judith Rascoe. A very uncommon edition, with a single printing estimated to have been 1000 copies. This British edition reprints a glowing blurb by Wallace Stegner, with a hilarious misprint: instead of printing that "Stone writes like a bird, like an angel . . . like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars," this edition has Stegner saying that Stone was "like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stairs" -- a very different image, to be sure. This is a fine copy in a spine-sunned dust jacket.
321. STONE, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1974). His second novel, winner of the National Book Award and one of the best novels to link the impact of the Vietnam war on American society in the Sixties to the dark side of that era -- the official corruption and the underside of the drug experiences of a generation. Filmed as Who'll Stop the Rain, starring Nick Nolte, whose character, Ray Hicks, is based in part on Neal Cassady, friend and collaborator with Stone's longtime friend, Ken Kesey, as one of the Merry Pranksters of 1960s counterculture legend. Signed by the author. Light mottling to cloth; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
322. -. Another copy, also signed by the author. Slightly concave spine; still about fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with an internal tape mend and a small bit of unprofessional color added to the base of the spine.
323. STONE, Robert. A Flag for Sunrise. NY: Knopf, 1981. His third book, a tale of political and moral corruption, set in a fictional Central American country. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction; a National Book Award and PEN Faulkner Award nominee and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Erasure front flyleaf, else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with two tiny edge nicks. Signed by the author.
324. STONE, Robert. Children of Light. (London): Andre Deutsch (1986). The first British edition of Stone's fourth book, a novel of Hollywood that, according to some reports, draws on his experiences with the filming of Who'll Stop the Rain, the adaptation of Dog Soldiers, for which he worked on the screenplay. Children of Light involves a drink- and drug-riddled writer-actor and a schizophrenic Hollywood starlet, and has overtones of both King Lear and Kate Chopin's The Awakening. This edition had a first printing of 4000 copies, one-tenth the size of the American printing, and was issued a week earlier than the American edition, making it the true first. This copy has the small red "volcano" on Luanne's (?) shoulder in the dust jacket photograph, as we have seen several times (no priority established with those lacking the printer's flaw). Fine in dust jacket.
325. - Same title, the first American edition. NY: Knopf, 1986. Signed by the author. A bit of sunning to the board edges; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
326. STONE, Robert. "Carefully, he examined his imagined positions..." Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1992. A broadside excerpt from Outerbridge Reach, and the first published broadside of Stone's writings. Approximately 6 1/2" x 13 1/2". Fine. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the author.
327. STYRON, William. Mr. Jefferson and Our Times. [Winston-Salem]: Stuart Wright (1984). A talk given by Styron -- the award-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice, among others. Published as a limited edition of only 75 copies, of which this is one of 15 numbered copies signed by the author. Saddle-stitched wrappers; fine in dust jacket. Rare.