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Lot 277

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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[LITERATURE -- 1990s]. A group of 28 works of literature published in the 1990s, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, MANY SIGNED, comprising:


1) ALLISON, Dorothy. Cavedweller. New York: Dutton, 1998. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ALLISON. 

2) BAKER, Nicholson. The Fermata. New York: Random House, 1994. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BAKER. 

3) BAUSCH, Richard. Rebel Powers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1993. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY BAUSCH. 

4) BERGER, Thomas. Robert Crews. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1994. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY BERGER. 

5) BYATT, A.S. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories. New York: Random House, 1994. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY BYATT. 

6) BYATT, A.S. Elementals.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. SIGNED BY BYATT. 

7) CAO, Lan. Monkey Bridge. New York: Viking, 1997. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY CAO. 

8) COVINO, Michael. The Negative. New York: Viking, 1993. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY COVINO.

9) CRACE, Jim. Signals of Distress. New York: Viking, 1994. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY CRACE. 

10) CREWS, Harry. Scar Lover. New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY CREWS. 

11) DICKEY, James. To the White Sea. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. FIRST EDITION. 

12) DOYLE, Roddy. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. New York: Viking, 1993. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DOYLE. 

13) FRIEDMAN, Kinky. The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FRIEDMAN. 

14) GILCHRIST, Ellen. Starcarbon. London: Faber & Faber, 1994. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY GILCHRIST. 

15) GITLIN, Todd. The Murder of Albert Einstein. New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1992. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY GITLIN. 

16) GOULART, Ron. Groucho Marx, Master Detective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY GOULART. 

17) GRAHAM, Robert and BATY, Keith. Elvis: The Novel. London: The Do-Not Press, 1997. Publisher's printed wraps. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY GRAHAM AND BATY. 

18) GRAY, Spaulding. Impossible Vacation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GRAY: "Hope you enjoy." 

19) HARRISON, Kathryn. Exposure. New York: Random House, 1993. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY HARRISON. 

20) HUGHES, Sean. The Grey Area. London: Pavilion Books, 1995. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HUGHES on front free endpaper: "Lots of love." 

21) JONES, Louis B. Particles and Luck. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY JONES. 

22) LEYNER, Mark. Et Tu, Babe. New York: Harmony Books, 1992. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LEYNER. 

23) MCCLANAHAN, Ed. A Congress of Wonders. Washington: Counterpoint, 1996. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MCCLANAHAN. 

24) RUSHDIE, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. London: Granta Books, 1990. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. SIGNED BY RUSHDIE on bookplate. 

25) SILKO, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBEED BY SILKO.

-And 3 others. Together, 28 works in 28 volumes, all 8vo, all in original cloth and publisher’s dust jackets (except where indicated), condition generally very fine. 

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