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Lot 306
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022
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Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022
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[LITERATURE -- AMERICAN]. A group of 13 first edition works by Bellow, Caldwell, and Doctorow, including:
BELLOW, Saul. The Dean's December. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. -- CALDWELL, Erskine. Jenny by Nature. NY: Farrar, Strauss, & Cudahy, 1961. FIRST EDITION. -- CALDWELL. Kneel to the Rising Sun. L, 1936. FIRST EDITION. -- CALDWELL. A House in the Uplands. NY, 1946. FIRST EDITION. -- CALDWELL. All Night Long. NY, 1942. FIRST EDITION. -- CALDWELL. This Very Earth. NY, 1948. FIRST EDITION. -- CALDWELL. Jenny by Nature. NY, 1961. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. -- DOCTOROW, Edgar Lawrence. Billy Bathgate. New York: Random House, 1989. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY E.L. DOCTOROW. -- DOCTOROW. Loon Lake. New York: Random House, 1980. Publisher's blue cloth; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 325 of 350 copies SIGNED BY E.L. DOCTOROW. -- And 4 others. Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, many FIRST EDITIONS, all 8vo, condition generally fine.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto