MODERN liTERATURE

177 AUDEN, W. H. 1p. Autographed letter signed, dated July 16, [1973], with original hand written envelope post marked July 16, 1973 from Kirchstetten, Austria. Auden apologizes that he “cannot write about what critics may say about me because I never read them.” Creased to center, otherwise fine. $400-600

178 BEATON, CECIL My Bolivian Aunt. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.

8vo, original red cloth-backed boards, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by author to f.f.e.p. Closed tear to top of jacket and two inch tear to back of jacket; otherwise fine. $100-200

179 BRADBURY, RAY The Golden Apples of the Sun. London: Rupert HartDavis, 1959.

8vo, original blue cloth-backed boards, unclipped dust jacket. Later edition. Inscribed by author to Eric Ambler and his wife. Very minor wear and soiling to dust jacket; otherwise fine. $100-200

180 BURGESS, ANTHONY 1p. Typed letter signed boldly in red marker, dated December 18, 1972, on CUNY - City College of New York letterhead declining an invitation to review a book. Burgess tells a fellow writer, “I fear indeed that I’m not an expert on anything any more - this is the result of working in the field of the ‘commercial’ novel.” Creased in horizontal quadrants; otherwise fine. $100-200

181 CATHER, WILLA SIBERT April Twilights. Boston: Richard G. Badger/Gorham Press, 1903.

8vo, original boards, printed paper labels to front cover and spine. First edition of the author’s first book, with book plate of Andrew Hasell Lance tipped-in front pastedown, presentation inscribed from Isabella McClurg to f.f.e.p.. Apart from the author’s revised edition, which she published in 1923, this was Cather’s only collection of verse. Minor foxing to endpapers; wear to boards; otherwise fine. $300-500

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183 FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT Tender is the Night: A Romance. New York: Scribner’s, 1934.

8vo, original blue cloth-backed boards with blind-stamped single-rule frame, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing with “A” and printer’s device on copyright page. Front jacket flap in the first issue state with the three quoted blurbs by T. S. Eliot, H. L. Mencken and Paul Rosenfeld on the front flap. Fitzgerald’s last completed novel published during his lifetime. First printing copies in the original jacket are exceedingly rare. Bruccoli A15.I.a. Jacket expertly repaired; minor soiling to spine and extremities of jacket; otherwise fine. $5,000-7,000

184 FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT This Side of Paradise. New York: Scribner’s, 1920.

8vo, original green blind-stamped cloth boards, slipcase. First edition, ninth printing (October, 1920). Bruccoli, A5.I.i. Boldly signed to the f.f.e.p. “Most Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald.” A very fine copy in facsimile first edition dust jacket. $3,000-5,000

185 GREENE, GRAHAM The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann, 1955.

8vo, blue cloth-backed boards, gilt title to spine, dust jacket, publisher’s wraparound. First English edition. Minor spotting to top edge; spine slightly sunned; otherwise fine. $200-400

186 GRISHAM, JOHN A Time to Kill. New York: Wynwood Press, 1989.

8vo, dust jacket, publisher’s quarter cloth, unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by Grisham on the half title to Gary Silber, husband of the photographer who provided Grisham’s portrait for the dust jacket, “To Gary Silber - A new friend. I hope you enjoy it. John Grisham. 1-25-90.” Typed letter signed by photographer, Marion Vance, laid in. Small crease to endpaper; chip to top of dust jacket; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000 187 HALEY, ALEX A Different Kind of Christmas. New York: Doubleday, (November, 1988).

8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to the f.f.e.p. and dated December 10, 1988. First edition. Together with four first edition African Americana books, including Tales, by LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka), (New York, 1967), The Negro Protest: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, edited by Kenneth Clark, (Boston, 1963), Pillar of Fair: America in the King Years, by Taylor Branch, (New York, 1998), and Chronicles of Black Protest, edited by Bradford Chambers, (Mentor, 1969). $150-250

188 HELLER, JOSEPH Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.

8vo, original blue cloth, white-stamped spine title in pictorial dust jacket with $5.95 on lower front flap. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joseph Heller on the f.f.e.p. Very minor closed tears to jacket at the foot of the spine and very minor chipping to top edge of rear flap of dust jacket; otherwise fine. $1,500-2,500

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189 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST A Farewell to Arms. New York: Scribner’s, 1929.

8vo, quarter vellum over light green cloth boards, original slipcase with pastedown limitation page, black morocco and gilt spine label. Limited edition, number 321 of 510 copies signed by Hemingway. The only work of Hemingway’s to be issued in a signed limited edition form. Hanneman A8b. Case split at the top edge; wear to slipcase; minor soiling to vellum; otherwise fine. $6,000-8,000

190 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST A Farewell to Arms. New York: Scribner’s, 1929.

8vo, original black cloth-backed boards, printed gold labels on front cover and spine, custom quarter leather slipcase and matching chemise. First edition, a later printing. Presentation copy to Father L. M. Daughtery, inscribed by the author in ink on the half-title. Very minor spotting to some pages; minor fraying to spine ends; rubbing to labels; otherwise fine in a fine chemise and slipcase. $2,000-4,000

191 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Death in the Afternoon. New York: Scribner’s, 1932.

8vo, original black gilt-stamped cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing with “A” on the copyright page. Signed by Hemingway to the half-title. Wear to dust jacket with minor tape repair to verso; rubbing to boards; hinges starting with f.f.e.p. slightly detached; otherwise fine. $8,000-12,000

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192 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST In Our Time. Stories. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.

8vo, original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, gilt geometric design on upper cover, in custom 3/4 black morocco clamshell case, rare original light gray dust jacket with blurbs by several writers unclipped. First edition of Hemingway’s first book published in the U. S., dust jacket priced $2.00. Inscribed on the title page, “To Arthur Moss, with Best Wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” Hanneman 3a. Dust jacket expertly restored to verso of inner spine; otherwise fine. $25,000-30,000

193 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner’s, 1926.

8vo, original black cloth with gold paper labels on front board and spine. In rare original dust jacket designed by Cleonike Damianakes with misprint “IN OUR TIMES,” drawing of Hemingway by John Blomshield, dated Paris, 1925, and Hemingway’s facsimile signature, unclipped with $2.00 on front flap. First edition, first issue with “stoppped” on page 181. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; dust jacket expertly repaired at spine with verso reinforced; some light browning; minor rubbing to label; otherwise fine. $25,000-30,000

194 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Winner Take Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933.

8vo, black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black on the front cover and spine, red top stain. First edition, first printing with Scribner’s “A” and printer’s device on copyright page. Rubbing to jacket with a small one inch chip to back panel; minor loss to top of the spine; slight toning to inner flaps; otherwise fine. $300-500

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195 HUGHES, LANGSTON An archive of Langston Hughes material, circa 1935-1941, consisting of autographed and typed correspondence, poems, essays and prose works sent to Miss Thyra J. Edwards (1997-1953). A very accomplished social worker living in Chicago, Miss Edwards first met Langston Hughes when both were boarding at the Abraham Lincoln Center, a settlement house still functioning on the city’s south side.

Highlights of the archive include typed and handwritten personal letters between Hughes and Miss Edwards, typed poems and prose with Hughes’s commentary either hand written or typed at the bottom and a typed article, “What the Negro Wants.” Hughes sent Edwards the poems and essays to read on air, writing his own commentary and recommendations both typed and hand written within the margins.

Contents of the archive include the following: 15 typescript poems, six of which have personal commentary to Thyra Edwards, four of those being holographic: Southern Negro Speaks; Let’s See Some Changes Made; This Puzzles Me; Domestic Happenings (Subject to Change Without Notice); Why Such a Difference?; Explain It, Please; America’s Young Black Joe; Love Again Blues, The Mitchell Case, Ballad of Sam Solomon, Rarin’ to Fight, NAACP, Negro: Everywhere, Three Songs About Lynching: Silhouette (With Violins), Flight (With Oboe and Flute), Lynching Song (With Trumpets); Merry-Go-Round. One typescript for a radio broadcast of Guest of Honor, by Langston Hughes and Ed Walsh. 3pp. Two typescript prose works, comprising Mother and Child. 3pp. Signed, “Salud, Thyra!” and Harlem Sweeties. 2pp. One typescript article, What the Negro Wants. An Article. 6pp. Three typed letters signed and two autographed letters signed by Langston Hughes to Thyra Edwards. Also together with research and materials relating to the Abraham Lincoln Center.

Refer to department or website for a full listing of contents of the archive. $3,000-5,000

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196 HUXLEY, ALDUS Brave New World. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932.

8vo, blue cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering and design to spine, top stain, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Some foxing to jacket; spine ends and corners rubbed; top stain faded; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

197 JONES, JAMES From Here to Eternity. New York: Scribner’s, 1951.

8vo, black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing with Scribner’s “A” and printer’s device on copyright page. No. 465 of a presentation edition signed by Jones to the limitation page. Minor toning to edges of dust jacket; otherwise fine. $300-500

198 LEE, HARPER To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.

8vo, original black cloth spine, pictorial dust jacket. The Thirty-fifth Anniversary Edition, signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. Fine. $400-600 199 LEE, HARPER To Kill a Mockingbird. London: Heinemann, 1960.

8vo, red cloth-backed boards, white title to spine, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First English edition. Signed by the author, “With best wishes, Harper Lee,” to the f.f.e.p. Manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; minor wear to edges of dust jacket; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000

200 LEE, HARPER To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960.

8vo, original green cloth-backed spine over brown boards, dust jacket. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket with Truman Capote’s blurb in green to front flap and Capote portrait of Harper Lee on rear panel. Minor toning to flaps; pressed crease to front of dust jacket; otherwise fine. $4,000-6,000

201 LEE, HARPER A typed excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird, signed by Harper Lee. Text is the first four paragraphs of the book, beginning the following sentence: “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” $200-400

202 MALAMUD, BERNARD The Natural. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1952).

8vo, original blue cloth, title in gilt to spine, unclipped dust jacket, top stain. First edition. Signed. Minor wear to dust jacket at edges; otherwise fine. $1,500-2,500 203 MCMURTRY, LARRY Lonesome Dove. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1985).

8vo, black cloth spine over black boards, pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author to the f.f.e.p. First edition, first printing, with complete number line on copyright page. Fine. $300-500

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8vo, tan cloth-backed boards, red lettering to spine, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to the f.f.e.p. Minor wear to the edges of the jacket; otherwise fine. $400-600

205 MITCHELL, MARGARET Gone With the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

8vo, original grey cloth, unclipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Wear to dust jacket with minor loss; otherwise fine. $3,000-5,000

206 NABOKOV, VLADIMIR Lolita. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1955).

2 vols. 12mo, publisher’s green printed wrappers with “900 francs” to rear cover of each volume. First edition, first issue. Housed in a custom wooden box with a copper engraving and artist’s proof of “Lolita”. Minor wear to wrappers; otherwise fine in a fine presentation. $3,000-5,000

207 RAND, AYN Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957.

8vo, publisher’s green cloth-backed boards, spine and front cover stamped in gilt, in original dust jacket priced $6.95 and dated “10/57” on front flap, top edge tinted blue. First edition, first printing. Together with The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, later printing, in pictorial dust jacket (Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943). $400-600

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208 RAND, AYN The Fountainhead. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1947.

8vo, black cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine, original pale blue-green dust jacket with eight other books listed on the front flap. First English edition. Previous owner presentation signature to f.f.e.p.; wear to edges and extremities of dust jacket with some closed tears at spine ends; otherwise fine. $400-600

209 RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN The Yearling. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938.

8vo, tan cloth-backed boards with green illustration and lettering to front board and spine, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing with Scribner’s “A” and printer’s device on copyright page. Minor soiling to boards; some edgewear to dust jacket; otherwise fine. $100-200

210 SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.

8vo, original black cloth, gilt title to spine, unclipped dust jacket. First edition. First issue dust jacket with original “$3.00” printed price present and the photo credit of Salinger’s portrait by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel. Minor wear to jacket with some loss at the corners and to the head of the spine; previous owner’s inscription to f.f.e.p.; ex-libris tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $2,500-3,500

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211 SANDBURG, CARL An archive of Carl Sandburg material, circa 1911-1912. The lot consists of four holographic poems and 42 (including duplicates of some poems) typescript poems, including 15 unique poems believed to be either unpublished or in variant forms. Many of the poems have holographic titles and/or edits, and the lot also contains a holographic Stephen Crane poem in Sandburg’s hand. Acquired from a descendant of a woman (Miss Madge Mathe, secretary to Daniel Hoan, city attorney), who Sandburg requested to make typed copies for literary submissions.

Together with Sandburg’s writings are a series of dated envelopes addressed to Sandburg at Brisbane Hall, when the author was working for the Mayor of Milwaukee, along with rejection slips from American Magazine, The Independent, Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, Crowell (signed by Crowell), and McClurg. A number of the poems appear to have never been published, as indicated below. Moreover, a number of the more familiar poems, some of which appeared in Chicago Poems, (New York, 1916), are variants of their final published forms.

The following poems in the archive appear to be unpublished: Ways of the Sea, In the Shadows, Vespers, Mists (not Mist), The First Star, We Will Meet Again, Four O’Clock in the Summer and From the Shore (known title of a different poem).

The following poems in the archive appear to be variants of published poems: The Harbor (variant of Milwaukee Harbor), At a Window, Broadway, Plowboy, The Hammer, Between Two Hills (variant of Impressions), and February.

Refer to department or website for complete contents of the archive. Unpublished poems will be released in full upon appointment only. $8,000-12,000

212 SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD One page. Autographed note signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” dated December 9th, 1913, comprising a list of books and a request to send said books to 10 Adelphi Terrace W. C. Request sent to Hugh Rees, the booksellers of Regent Street, London. Addressed and postmarked with hand written envelope on verso. The list includes a variety of titles, including Montessori Principles and Practice, by G. P. Culverwell, The Future of the Theatre, by John Palmer and The Comedy of Manners, by John Palmer. Matted and framed in a double window frame with a photograph of Bernard Shaw. $150-250

213 SINCLAIR, UPTON The Jungle. New York: The Jungle Publishing Company, (1906).

8vo, green cloth with cover pictorial in black and white, lettering in white on front cover and spine. First edition. With “Sustainer’s Edition” (“Published February, 1906”) on front pastedown. Wear to boards with fading to spine and front cover; hinges starting; manuscript ex-libris to front endpapers; minor foxing; otherwise fine. $100-200

214 TOOLE, JOHN KENNEDY A Confederacy of Dunces. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

8vo, original beige cloth lettered in black, dust jacket. First edition, first issue with Walker Percy review on rear panel and no Sun Times review. Signed by Walker Percy to the title page. In fine condition with no interior or exterior flaws. $1,000-2,000

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215 WARREN, ROBERT PENN All the King’s Men. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1946).

8vo, red cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket. First edition in a first issue dust jacket with Sinclair Lewis blurb on the back panel rather than the flap. Minor closed tears to jacket; otherwise fine. $600-800

216 WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE Battle of Angels. Murray, UT: Pharos, 1945.

Thin 8vo, printed paper wraps, in custom chemise and slipcase. Signed by Williams to the half-title. Wear to wraps with some loss and soiling at the edges and spine; otherwise fine. $600-800

217 WODEHOUSE, P.G. Fish Preferred. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1929.

8vo, original brown cloth, yellow lettering, dust jacket. First edition. Dust jacket chipped along top edges with some loss at spine head; jacket with some soiling; hinges starting slightly; otherwise fine. $100-200 218 WOLFE, TOM The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1979.

8vo, original light gray cloth, dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by Wolfe to the f.f.e.p. Near fine dust jacket with closed tear to top front panel; otherwise fine. $200-400

219 WOUK, HERMAN The Caine Mutiny. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951.

8vo, original blue cloth, spine lettered in white, dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title, “to Gareth L. Pawlowski, with the author’s sincere good wishes, Herman Wouk,” dated July 2, 1970. Also with hand written note from the author to Mr. Pawlauski laid in. Minor wear to edges of dust jacket; some soiling to rear panel; otherwise fine. $400-600