Catalog 105, H-K
254. HALL, James W. Paper Products. NY: Norton (1990). A collection of short stories, which were published prior to his success with his Thorn mysteries but not collected until after that. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
255. -. Another copy. Light corner bumps; near fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
256. HANNAH, Barry. Airships. NY: Knopf, 1978. His third book and first collection of stories, widely considered a contemporary classic of the new Southern Gothic. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence, who became Hannah's publisher in 1986. Top edges sunned; near fine in a near fine spine- and edge-sunned dust jacket.
257. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. The front cover bears a typewritten notice declaring this book to be the "First Winner of the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award," sponsored by Esquire magazine and Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in wrappers.
258. HANNAH, Barry. Captain Maximus. NY: Knopf, 1985. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of stories. Wrappers lightly soiled; otherwise fine.
259. HARNACK, Curtis. Under My Wings Everything Prospers. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977. Signed by the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
260. HARRISON, Jim. Legends of the Fall, Revenge, The Man Who Gave Up His Name. (NY): Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1979). The one-volume trade edition of this collection of novellas, two of which have been made into movies. Fine in a fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author.
261. -. Same title. (NY): Delta (1994). A later printing of a later edition, issued after the release of the movie. This copy is inscribed by Harrison "to my fellow poet" to a fellow poet, with a humorous self-caricature overlooking the inscription and radiating like a sun. A nice literary association copy. Near fine in wrappers.
262. HASLAM, Gerald. Hawk Flights: Visions of the West. (Big Timber): Seven Buffaloes Press (1983). A collection of short stories of the contemporary West. Fine in wrappers.
263. HATHAWAY, Stephen. A Kind of Redemption. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. A collection of stories with Vietnam and the war as the focus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket blurbs by James Lee Burke, Richard Currey and Lee K. Abbott.
264. -. Another copy. Ex-library copy, neatly stamped as such on the top edge. Date stamped on rear pastedown; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with an unobtrusive crease on the front panel.
265. HAWKINS, Bobbie Louise. Almost Everything. Toronto/East Haven: Coach House Press/Long River (1982). A collection of her writings, "almost everything" that had been published previously, plus new stories. The hardcover issue, of which this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Fine in a mildly sunned, else fine dust jacket.
266. HAZZARD, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. NY: Knopf, 1963. The first American edition of her first book, a collection of stories. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very nice copy. Hazzard won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for her novel Transit of Venus.
267. HEINLEIN, Robert. Assignment in Eternity. Reading: Fantasy (1953). Unbound, uncut signatures of this collection of four long stories by this science fiction master, winner of virtually every major science fiction award, including a Lifetime Achievement award. An early book for him -- his first novel was in 1947, and he was prolific through the Sixties and Seventies and into the Eighties. A fine set. Presumably rare.
268. HELPRIN, Mark. Ellis Island and Other Stories. (NY): Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence (1981). His third book, a collection of stories that was nominated for the National Book Award. Fine in a very close to fine dust jacket with a couple of wrinkles at the spine base.
269. HEMPEL, Amy. Reasons to Live. NY: Knopf (1985). The uncorrected proof copy of her first book, a collection of stories. Fine in wrappers.
270. HERSEY, John. Fling. NY: Knopf, 1990. The first collection of short stories by the author of Hiroshima and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Bell for Adano. Inscribed by the author with a line from the text. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
271. HIGGINS, Aidan. Killachter Meadow. NY: Grove (1960). The first American edition of this Irish writer's first book, an Evergreen softcover original. Near fine in wrappers and inscribed by the author.
272. HOUSTON, Pam. Cowboys Are My Weakness. NY: Norton (1992). Her highly praised first book, a collection of stories, one of which was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1990. Reprinted a number of times and uncommon in the first printing. Slight bump to upper board; still fine in a fine dust jacket.
273. -. Same title, advance reading copy. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Scarce.
274. HUXLEY, Aldous. Two or Three Graces and Other Stories. London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. The third story collection by the author of Brave New World, among others. Slight mottling to the extremities of the cloth and the rear gutter, otherwise near fine in a dust jacket that is uniformly browned from acidification but otherwise crisp and near fine. Not the most well-constructed of his books from this period, this is nonetheless a remarkably nice example.
275. HUXLEY, Aldous. Brief Candles. NY: Fountain Press, 1930. A limited edition comprising four novellas. One of 842 copies, signed by Huxley. Very slight fraying at the spine crown, otherwise fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
276. IRVING, John. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. NY: Arcade (1996). The first American edition of this collection of stories and other short pieces, expanded from the British edition, which was published in 1993. Signed by the author. Irving has been notably reluctant to sign books in recent years, as his literary and commercial success have helped create a perhaps unwanted degree of celebrity for a quite private individual. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
277. -. Another copy. Faint smudge to foredge; else fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
278. (IRVING, John). "Weary Kingdom" in The Boston Review, Vol. 2, No. 1. (Cambridge): Boston Review, 1968. An early appearance in print for Irving, whose first novel came out in January, 1969. Folds rubbed, light cover creasing; near fine. Inscribed by William Ferguson who contributes twenty poems.
279. JACKSON, Shirley. The Lottery. NY: Farrar Straus, 1949. Her second, and most famous book, a collection of stories, including the title story -- a chilling classic of contemporary fiction that, when first published in The New Yorker, elicited more comments and letters than any story they had ever printed. In it Jackson exposes the dark underside of a society that is excessively concerned with appearances of normalcy, while in fact acting out a primitive, hideous, horrific ritual. Ownership signature of longtime editor and bibliophile, William Targ, dated in March of 1949. Dampstaining to the board edges; very good in a near fine, supplied, price-clipped dust jacket with several small abrasions on the spine.
280. JACKSON, Shirley. Just An Ordinary Day. NY: Bantam (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of previously unpublished and/or uncollected short stories by the author of The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House. Minor bump near spine base; else fine in wrappers.
281. JOHNSON, E. Pauline. The Moccasin Maker. Toronto: Briggs, 1913. Posthumously published collection -- one essay and eleven stories -- with an introduction and an appreciation of the author, in addition to Johnson's own writing. Johnson was a Canadian native writer, the preeminent native woman writer of her time, whose books stayed in print for decades and were reprinted dozens of times. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Owner name front flyleaf, otherwise a very fresh, bright, fine copy.
282. JONES, Thom. Cold Snap. Boston: Little Brown (1995). Second book, a collection of stories, by the author of The Pugilist at Rest, which was a National Book Award nominee. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
283. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. NY: Huebsch, 1916. The first American edition of his first collection of stories, bound from the sheets of the British edition, which was published in 1914. The entire edition consisted of 1250 copies, of which 504 were bound for the U.S. edition, with a cancel title page. An extremely scarce book, published when Joyce was virtually unknown in this country and preceding the publication of Ulysses by six years. Owner name front flyleaf; modest foxing to page edges; and a bit of sunning to the spine cloth. Very near fine, lacking the dust jacket. A very attractive copy of one of the high spots of 20th century Irish, and world, literature.
284. KANIN, Fay and Michael. Rashomon. NY: Random House (1959). The play, based on the stories of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and basis for one of the important films by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
285. KAPLAN, Johanna. Other People's Lives. NY: Knopf, 1975. Her first book, a collection of stories. Fine in a fine dust jacket and inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
286. KAWABATA, Yasunari. The Dancing Girl of Izu. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this collection of stories by the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize. Fine in wrappers.
287. KEILLOR, Garrison. Leaving Home. (NY): Viking (1987). The limited edition of this title, of which there were 750 copies for general trade distribution and 750 copies for Book-of-the-Month Club subscribers. Signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, in slipcase, as issued.
288. KERSH, Gerald. The Horrible Dummy. London: Heinemann (1944). Stories, with various themes, some of them, like the stories of Shirley Jackson, bordering on the supernatural. Bookplate front pastedown and pencilled ownership signature; otherwise about near fine in a very good, price-clipped and spine-tanned dust jacket with a couple water spots. A very nice copy of a fragile wartime book.
289. KERSH, Gerald. Sad Road to the Sea. London: Heinemann (1947). A collection of short stories produced under conditions of strict economy in the early postwar years and thus quite fragile -- thin boards, cheap paper, etc. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
290. (KESEY, Ken). "McMurphy and the Machine" in Stanford Short Stories 1962. Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1962. A collection edited by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft. Kesey's excerpt is from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Larry McMurtry contributes "Leaving Cheyenne," an excerpt from his second novel, then in progress. Fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A beautiful copy of an early book appearance for both Kesey and McMurtry.
291. KINCAID, Jamaica. At the Bottom of the River. NY: FSG (1983). The highly praised first book, a collection of stories, by this Caribbean author. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
292. (KINGSOLVER, Barbara). "Quality Time" in The Single Mother's Companion. Essays and Stories by Women. (Seattle): Seal Press, 1994. An advance reading excerpt printing eight of the chapters from the finished book. Anne Lamott contributes "Operating Instructions." Fine in wrappers.
293. KINSELLA, W.P. Dance Me Outside. (Canada): (Oberon) (1977). The hardcover edition of the author's first book, a collection of stories set on a Canadian Indian reserve. In a series of books, Kinsella has used an actual locale and populated it with fictional characters to create as memorable a sequence of tales as Faulkner did with Yoknapatawpha County or Gabriel García Márquez with Macondo. According to the author, who has kept close track of his bibliography, only 250 copies were issued of this title in hardcover, 50 of which went to Canadian libraries. Faint edge-spotting; else fine in a near fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
294. -. Same title. The issue in wrappers. Trace rubbing to folds; else fine.
295. -. Another copy of the issue in wrappers. Near fine.
296. -. Same title. A later printing. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in wrappers. The later printings mention his later titles in the text on the rear cover, otherwise they are indistinguishable from the firsts.
297. -. Same title. Boston: Godine, 1986. The first American edition. Remainder mark; else fine in a very good dust jacket. The American edition was published almost a decade after the original edition, after the success of Kinsella's baseball novel, Shoeless Joe.
298. KINSELLA, W.P. Born Indian. (Canada): (Oberon) (1981). The hardcover edition of the fourth book by the author of the award-winning Shoeless Joe, a collection of Indian stories set on the Hobbema Reserve, the setting of two of his earlier books. While all of Kinsella's hardcover editions from Oberon are uncommon -- with print runs that are said to have been in the low hundreds -- this is the title that, other than his first book, seems the scarcest. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A flawless copy of one of his most difficult books; inscribed by the author on the title page.
299. -. Same title. This is the issue in wrappers. Near fine.
300. KINSELLA, W.P. The Moccasin Telegraph. (Ontario): Penguin (1983). A collection of Indian stories. Paperback original. Signed by the author. Pages browning with age; near fine in wrappers. Surprisingly scarce.
301. KINSELLA, W.P. Five Stories. (Vancouver): (Hoffer/Tanks) (1986). The trade edition of this collection, published by William Hoffer and with illustrations by Carel Moiseiwitsch. Bumped at base of spine, otherwise fine in wrappers, and signed by the author.
302. KINSELLA, W.P. Red Wolf, Red Wolf. Toronto: Collins (1987). A collection of stories, this being the true first edition, which preceded U.S. publication by several years. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
303. KITTREDGE, William. We Are Not in This Together. Port Townsend: Graywolf, 1984. One of 50 numbered copies of this collection of stories edited and with an introduction by Raymond Carver. This was a "homemade" limited edition, using copies from the hardcover trade edition, with the limitation and copy number simply handwritten on the title page, where the book was signed by Kittredge and Carver. An edition that provides a nice link between Carver, one of the finest short story writers of an era and Kittredge, a writer who is considered one of the most insightful chroniclers of the contemporary American West and who gained considerable literary recognition and substantial commercial success after this volume was published. Fine in a fine dust jacket.