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Lot 400
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
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Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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[LITERATURE - AMERICAN]. A group of 27 works by American authors published before 1980, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:
1) ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Ben Logan's Triumph or The Boys of Boxwood Academy. New York: Cupples & Leon Co., 1908. (Lacking dust jacket.) FIRST EDITION.
2) BOWLES, Jane. The Collected Works of Jane Bowles. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
3) BOWLES, Paul. Up Above the World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
4) CHEEVER, John. The Wapshot Scandal. New York et al: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. FIRST EDITION.
5) CHEEVER, John. Falconer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY CHEEVER.
6) CHEEVER, John. The Stories of John Cheever. New York et al: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978. FIRST EDITION.
7) CRANE, Stephen. Maggie a Girl of the Streets. Sigmund Abeles, illustrator. Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. In slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1,458 of 2,000 copies, SIGNED BY ABELES.
8) DOS PASSOS, John. The Big Money. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY DOS PASSOS on the front free endpaper.
9) DOS PASSOS, John. Adventures of a Young Man. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. FIRST EDITION.
10) DOS PASSOS, John. Midcentury. Boston et al: Houghton Mifflin Company et al, 1961. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
11) FANTE, John. Dago Red. New York: Viking Press, 1940. FIRST EDITION.
12) FAULKNER, John. Men Working. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. FIRST EDITION.
13) FAULKNER, John. Dollar Cotton. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. FIRST EDITION.
14) GREY, Zane. The Hash Knife Outfit. New York et al: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. FIRST EDITION.
15) HELLER, Joseph. Something Happened. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. In slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 137 of 350 copies, SIGNED BY HELLER.
16) KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Steps. New York: Random House, 1968. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
17) KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Being There. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970. FIRST EDITION.
18) KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Cockpit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY KOSINSKI: "For Dan Everett, with every best wish, Jerzy Kosinski Fall 1975."
19) McGUANE, Thomas. The Sporting Club. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
20) PERCY, Walker. The Last Gentleman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
21) PRICE, Reynolds. The Names and Faces of Heroes. New York: Atheneum, 1963. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY PRICE.
22) PRICE, Reynolds. Generous Man. New York: Atheneum, 1966. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY PRICE.
23) STUART, Jesse. Come Gentle Spring. New York et al: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. FIRST EDITION.
24) UPDIKE, John. Of the Farm. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. FIRST EDITION.
25) SETON, Ernest Thompson. The Biography of a Grizzly. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1927. Later printing.
26) VIDAL, Gore. Burr. New York: Random House, 1973. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY VIDAL.
27) WARREN, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. New York: Random House, 1950. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY WARREN.
Together, 27 works in 27 volumes, all 8vo, all in original bindings and dust jackets as issued (except where noted), condition generally very good.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
This lot is located in Chicago.