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371. SALTER, James. Solo Faces. Boston: Little Brown (1979). Uncorrected proof copy of his fifth book, a novel about scaling peaks, both external and internal. A few notations on rear cover; else fine in wrappers. Salter's memoir, Burning the Days, has just been published to extraordinary critical acclaim. His story collection, Dusk, won the PEN Faulkner Award in 1989.
372. SALTER, James. Sheridan Lord, 1926-1994. (NY): (Glenn Horowitz) (1995). A touching tribute to the artist Sheridan Lord, spoken at his memorial service in August, 1994, by his longtime friend, Salter. A limited edition, this being one of 200 copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
373. SAYLES, John. Pride of the Bimbos. Boston: Little Brown (1975). The uncorrected proof copy of the scarce first book, a baseball novel, by this author who is more well-known as a filmmaker than as a writer, although his books have received substantial critical praise. Sayles directed the film Eight Men Out about the Chicago "Black Sox" scandal. His novel Union Dues was nominated for a National Book Award. This copy belonged to author Dan Wakefield and bears his ownership signature on the front cover. Laid in is a letter from the publisher soliciting a "puff" from Wakefield and telling him he would like Sayles, "a great big cheerful galoot and a tremendous yarner." Paperclip imprint and rust first couple pages; else fine in wrappers.
374. SETH, Vikram. Mappings. (n.p.): (n.p.) (1980). The author's very scarce first book, a collection of poems, which he published himself while studying at Stanford University, after he had been a Fellow in Wallace Stegner's Creative Writing Workshop. One of 150 copies, signed by the author. Trace rubbing along the spine; fine in stapled wrappers. Very uncommon.
375. SETTLE, Mary Lee. All the Brave Promises. NY: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1966). Nonfiction; an account of the author's time serving with the women's auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in Britain during World War II. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence: "For Sam/ & the deep comfort/ of the double bed/ after the hurly burly/ of the literary chaise/ lounge/ Much love/ Mary Lee." Fading to spine cloth; near fine in a very good dust jacket with one chip and wear at the spine extremities. Settle won the National Book Award for her novel, Blood Ties, and her Beulah Quintet is considered one of the major accomplishments in historical fiction of the past half-century.
376. SILKO, Leslie Marmon and MARMON, Lee. Rain. (NY): Whitney Museum, 1996. An attractive limited edition, with text by Silko and photographs tipped in by Silko and her father, Lee Marmon. Printed at Grenfell Press and bound by Claudia Cohen, the edition was limited to 130 numbered copies signed by the author and photographer and also includes a signed print by Lee Marmon. Quarto in wrappers, with photograph in a paper sleeve. Fine in slipcase. List:
377. SIMON, Rachel. Little Nightmares, Little Dreams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. The publisher's copy, bound in leather with raised bands, gilt stamping, t.e.g. and marbled endpapers. Fine.
378. (SITWELL, Edith). A Book of the Winter. London: Macmillan, 1950. An anthology of poetry and prose compiled by Sitwell. Very near fine in a mildly spine-tanned dust jacket. Inscribed by Sitwell to Theodore Roethke. A nice literary association.
379. SNYDER, Gary. Riprap. (Ashland): Origin Press, 1959. His first book, a collection of poems printed in Japan and published in an edition of 500 copies in paste papers, sewn Japanese style. Snyder's poetry has spanned the era from the Beat generation, when his references to Japanese and Chinese culture and poets were esoteric, to the present day, when there has been such a cross-fertilization of cultures that references to haiku or the game of Go are completely accessible to the mainstream. Snyder himself was instrumental in creating the links to bridge that cultural gap, which is one of the lasting contributions of the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. A fine copy, signed by the author.
380. SNYDER, Gary. Myths & Texts. (NY): Totem/Corinth (1960). The first issue of his second book. One of 1100 copies, this copy signed by the author in the year of publication. Previous owner name; near fine in stapled wrappers.
381. SNYDER, Gary. Earth House Hold. (NY): New Directions (1969). Essays on spirituality and the natural world. The title of the collection is a play on the root meanings of the word "ecology." Trace shelfwear to the cloth at the spine extremities; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with mild foxing on the flaps. A very nice copy of a title whose fragile jacket often chips and tears.
382. SNYDER, Gary. Manzanita. Bolinas: Four Season, 1972. One of 1000 copies, this copy is inscribed by Snyder to poet William Everson, an excellent literary association. Fine in stapled wrappers.
383. SNYDER, Gary. Good Wild Sacred. (Madley): Five Seasons, 1984. One of 65 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers, in sleeve.
384. (SNYDER, Gary). "A Stone Garden" in Japan: Theme and Variations. Rutland/Tokyo: Tuttle (1959). Snyder's first book appearance, in this anthology of unpublished poems about Japan by American writers. One of 1250 hardbound copies. Lengthy gift inscription; spine-faded; else near fine without dust jacket, as issued, in a worn cardboard slipcase, about very good. An uncommon item: we have not had it before and Tuttle, the publisher, jointly issued its books in Japan and the U.S. It is likely that many of the copies of this book were sold in Japan and never made it to the U.S.
A Long Sun of Susan Sontag, Many Signed
385. SONTAG, Susan. The Benefactor. NY: FS&C (1963). First book, a novel, by this writer and intellectual who has become more noted, over the years, for her essays and criticism. Pastedowns faded; else fine in a very good, spine-sunned jacket stained at the lower edge of the rear panel. Signed by the author.
386. SONTAG, Susan. Against Interpretation. NY: FSG (1966). Her second book and first of nonfiction, a collection of her critical essays from 1961-1965. Page edges darkening; very near fine in like dust jacket.
387. SONTAG, Susan. Death Kit. NY: FSG (1967). Her third book and second novel. Signed by the author. A bit of fraying to the crown; else fine in a near fine dust jacket rubbed at the corners and folds, and light lamination peeling there. Still, a nice copy.
388. SONTAG, Susan. Trip to Hanoi. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1968). Sontag, an "intellectual" but not an "activist" at that time, describes her trip in terms of a growing radicalization which began prior to her going to Vietnam. Only published in wrappers. Overall darkening; marginal notations throughout; very good.
389. SONTAG, Susan. Styles of Radical Will. NY: FSG (1969). Essays. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
390. SONTAG, Susan. Duet for Cannibals. NY: FSG (1970). A screenplay, Sontag's first, for a film she wrote, directed and debuted at Cannes in 1969. A hint of darkening to crown; still fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. One of her least common titles.
391. -. Another copy, unsigned. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
392. SONTAG, Susan. Brother Carl. NY: FSG (1974). The screenplay for her second film, which premiered at Cannes in 1971. Signed by the author. Fine in a lightly dust-soiled, else fine dust jacket. Another uncommon title.
393. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in tall wrappers.
394. SONTAG, Susan. On Photography. NY: FSG (1977). "A progress of essays, about the meaning and career of photographs." and a landmark collection. This copy is inscribed by the author in 1990. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a surprise bestseller. Small smudge at rear joint; else fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate edge creasing. Bound in gray cloth with gray endpapers.
395. -. Another copy, unsigned. Bound in black with white endpapers. Gift inscription first blank; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
396. SONTAG, Susan. Illness as Metaphor. NY: FSG (1978). Review copy. Slight foxing to top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author in 1980. An important essay by one of the leading American intellectuals of our time.
397. -. Another copy. Again, slight foxing to top edge; else fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with a small gutter tear on the rear spine-fold. Signed by the author.
398. SONTAG, Susan. I, Etcetera. NY: FSG (1978). Her first collection of short fiction, written over the period 1963-1977. Very near fine in like dust jacket and signed by the author.
399. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in tall wrappers.
400. SONTAG, Susan. Under the Sign of Saturn. NY: FSG (1980). Another collection of essays. Remainder stripe; else fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
401. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in tall wrappers.
402. SONTAG, Susan. A Susan Sontag Reader. NY: FSG (1982). The limited edition of this title, one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
403. -. Same title, the trade edition. Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick. Mild edge-sunning to cloth; else fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the crown. Signed by the author.
404. - . Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
405. SONTAG, Susan. AIDS and Its Metaphors. NY: FSG (1989). An extended essay on the disease, updating her earlier volume Illness as Metaphor. This is the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers.
406. SONTAG, Susan. The Volcano Lover. NY: FSG, 1992. Advance reading copy of her first novel in many years and a significant departure for her, in that it is a novel of ideas couched in the form of a historical romance. Reportedly, the prepublication copies of this book contain significant differences from the final published text. Fine in wrappers.
407. (SONTAG, Susan). ARTAUD, Antonin. Antonin Artaud. Selected Writings. NY: FSG (1976). Edited and with an introduction by Sontag. Near fine in wrappers and inscribed by Sontag in 1982. No indication of there having been a hardcover edition.
408. (SONTAG, Susan). BARTHES, Roland. A Barthes Reader. NY: Hill & Wang (1982). The uncorrected proof copy of this collection edited and with a 30+ page introduction by Sontag. This is the second issue proof, as there was also a set issued in tall wrappers which did not include the Sontag introduction. Slight dust-soiling to wrappers; else fine.
409. (SONTAG, Susan). WALSER, Robert. Selected Stories. NY: FSG (1982). A collection of stories by this Swiss contemporary of Kafka and Hesse. With a foreword by Sontag. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket and signed by Sontag.
410. -. Another copy, unsigned. This is a review copy. Fine in a fine dust jacket with review slip laid in.
411. STEGNER, Wallace. On a Darkling Plain. NY: Harcourt Brace (1940). The scarce third book by the writer who, more than any other, helped define the literature of the American West as a field unto itself, with regional particularities as strong as those that had earlier defined Southern literature as a distinctive genre. Stegner went on to found and direct the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University and his graduates included such writers as Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Wendell Berry, Tillie Olsen, Ed McClanahan and a host of others. For many of them, Stegner was a both a teacher and mentor, as well as being a productive and accomplished writer in his own right. Stegner's first trade publication was a novella that won a Redbook magazine writing contest, and was evidently published in larger numbers than a first book would normally have been. By consensus, his scarcest trade publication is Fire and Ice, the title that follows this one and had a first printing estimated at 2000-2500 copies. This book likely had a slightly larger first printing than that but is nearly as scarce, and turns up considerably less often than his first book, Remembering Laughter. This copy has very light fraying to the cloth at the extremities, a bit of darkening to the endpages at the hinges; otherwise a fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some fading to the spine and chipping to the extremities and is inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand. In a custom clamshell box. A scarce book in any condition, especially in dust jacket, and extremely uncommon signed.
412. STEGNER, Wallace. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs. NY: Random House (1992). The last book published while he was alive, a collection of essays on "Living and Writing in the West"--by the writer who more than any other helped make Western writing a legitimate genre unto itself. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
413. STEVENS, April. Angel Angel. (NY): Viking (1995). A well-received first novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and signed by the author. Dust jacket blurbs by Madison Smartt Bell, Rosellen Brown and Eileen Simpson.
414. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. His first book, a novel of drifters in New Orleans in the early Sixties caught up in the web of a quasi-religious political machine. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel of the year as well as a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very slight tanning and rubbing to the spine, but very little fading. Signed by the author.
415. STONE, Robert. Bear and His Daughter. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. The uncorrected proof copy of his highly praised first collection of stories, spanning the years 1969 to the present. Fine in wrappers.
416. -. Same title, trade edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Signed by the author.