CATALOG 87. MOSTLY NEW ARRIVALS. MARCH

2016.

******************************************************************************* Terms: All items subject to prior sale. All items are first editions unless otherwise noted. Selections may be reserved by phone or email. PAYMENT: Personal checks, major cards, money orders, cashier’s checks, bank wire, PayPal (to [email protected]). Normal terms to the trade. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. INSTITUTIONS: Will invoice to suit your requirements. SHIPPING: Free media mail, insured. Priority mail with insurance at cost. Overseas shipping at cost. Oversize, framed, or heavy items shipped at cost. SALES TAX: Washington state residents please add 8.7%. IMAGE(S) ON REQUEST. 1. Anonymous (J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz). THE BLACK BOX MURDER. By The Man Who Discovered The Murderer. In One Volume. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1890. Copyright edition. 16mo. The Collection of British Authors. Schwartz was a Dutch writer who wrote in English. He started his literary career in the years 18851888. In those years he published two collections of poems and two tragedies in verse. His British friend, Reginald Stanley Faber suggested he could write prose as well and Schwartz took the suggestion to heart. In 1889 he published two novels in English. The first was this book, a detective story. 288pp. Bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards with wear to the spine crown. Five bands to spine with decorations. A very good or better copy. $75.00

2. Banks, Iain M. FEERSUM ENDJINN. London: Orbit, (1994). First edition. Inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication. Winner of a British Science Fiction Association Award in the year of publication. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. $200.00 3. Banks, Iain M. THE STATE OF THE ART. Stories. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, (2004). First trade edition (by this publisher.) The title story is a Culture novella that features characters from other Banks novels, but is set on Earth in 1977. An additional Culture novel is included in this collection, as well as several other non-Culture stories. A fine copy in dust jacket. $125.00 4. Barnes, Julian. STARING AT THE SUN. A Novel. London: Cape, (1986). First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. This novel flashes between the extremes of enchantment and disenchantment, questioning where we might find our proper places as men and women in the coming century. The opening scene sets the mood: we are flying over the English Channel during the Battle of Britain in a Hurricane fighter plane as the sun begins to rise in the east. The pilot, Sgt. Thomas Prosser, makes a speedy descent towards his base in England; as he does, he drives ''the sun back below the horizon . . . as he looked towards the east he saw it rise again: the same sun coming up from the same place across the same sea.'' A fine copy in dust jacket. $75.00 5. Beckett, Samuel. HOW IT IS. London: Calder, (1964). Deluxe edition. "A" series, being 1/100 numbered copies, #51, bound in full vellum and signed by the author. This novel, a monologue by the narrator, recalls his life separated into three distinct periods. A fine copy, t.e.g. with tissue jacket and slipcase, as issued. $1,750.00 (SEE PIC) 6. Brautigan, Richard. THE TOKYO-MONTANA EXPRESS. A Novel. New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, (1980). First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. This novel contains 131 chapters which are short stories written by Brautigan from 1976 to 1978, during a period when he was dividing his time between Japan and his ranch house in Montana. Crisp, near new copy in dust jacket, virtually unopened. $450.00

7. Bukowski, Charles. ERECTIONS, EJACULATIONS, EXHIBITIONS AND GENERAL TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS. Edited by Gail Chiarrello. San Francisco: City Lights, (1972). First edition. A PBO (paperback original). Perfect bound in stiff white paper wrappers with white lettering across the front cover, over a photograph of Bukowski by Claude Powell. Lettered in black from head to tail on spine. Circa 5000 copies, published in April of 1972. Over 60 stories. 478pp. This copy is nearly fine with a long thin crease to front cover (hard to see). $500.00 8. Bukowski, Charles. PLAY THE PIANO LIKE A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT UNTIL THE FINGERS BEGIN TO BLEED A BIT. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies, #105. signed by Bukowski. This book introduces Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s, as he leads a life full of gambling and booze (but also finds love). A nearly fine copy in the original glassine jacket. $500.00 9. Carver, Raymond. AN EARLY TYPED LETTER SIGNED. Dated September 9, 1978. From Carver to the head of the Creative Writing Program at Roger Williams College. The letter concerns a reading Carver was about to give at the college on November 16. Carver suggests: "Rather than take the time and the like to get someone down here to do a photograph, I'm enclosing something done by a student some months ago. I'm a little embarrassed by the fact he made up some postcards (postcards!) out of the photo, but I'll send anyway as it's on heavy paper, etc" Carver goes on to give a list of his publications to date (just four), and awards and teaching positions held, etc. More than 200 words in all. Included are the original typed mailing envelope and the original advertisement (lettersized and printed on both sides) for the writing program at Roger Williams College for 1978-79, featuring Carver together with Frank Conroy and Lucien Stryk. The Carver photograph alluded to in the letter is reproduced on it. Near fine. $300.00 10. Churchill, Winston. WAR SPEECHES. 4 Volumes. The Unrelenting Struggle – The Dawn of Liberation – Victory – Secret Session Speeches. London: Cassell & Co, (1942-1946). 8vo. Modern three-quarter morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands, gold decorations and spine lettering. Near fine (light to moderate foxing on edges). The Lot: $650.00

11. (Cocker, Joe) JOE COCKER – LIVE IN L.A. ORIGINAL PROOF. Single stiff thin cardboard sheet, illustrated with photographs of the artist in color (mostly red). Measuring approx. 25 x 14 inches. This album is a selection of the best live recordings of concerts performed by Joe Cocker in 1972 with The Chris Stainton Band. The electricity of live performance, which is the very essence of Joe Cocker, is captured on this album, providing a natural companion to his previous live classic MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN. $50.00 12. Coetzee, J. M. IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. A Novel. London: Secker and Warburg, (1977). First edition of the author's second book. "Stifling in the torpor of colonial South Africa, trapped with his serfs in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, child-bride of his foreman." A nearly fine copy with binding flaw to top of rear board in a nearly fine dust jacket with a new price sticker pasted over the printed price (with some offsetting to front endpaper opposite the sticker). $350.00 13. Coetzee, J. M. LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, (1983). First Edition. Winner of the Booker Prize. Printed and bound in the UK for Ravan Press. In a South Africa whose civil administration is collapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes, however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors. Near fine very clean copy with a tiny bump to bottom corner in a near fine jacket with one tiny scrape on the spine fold with a few wrinkles to the lamination on back panel. $300.00 14. (Comics). THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE. Volume 1. Selected by the Editors of The Comics Journal. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, (1990). First edition. One of 650 special copies signed by Bill Griffith and Matt Groening on a special bookplate glued to the illustrated front endpaper. Above this is the bookplate of Larry McMurtry. Contents include: Pictopia by Alan Moore, American Splendor Assaults the Media illustrated by Robert Crumb, Dead Dick by Art Spiegelman, Daily Strip by Bill Griffith, God’s Bosom by Jack

Jackson, The Saga of Frank Sinatra, Jr., by Josh Alan Friedman (brother of Drew Friedman), Chicago ’68 by Spain, plus two dozen more stories by Jules Feiffer, Matt Groening and Dave Sim. Black cloth with gold spine stamping. Fine in dust jacket. 122pp. $125.00 15. (Comics). THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE. Volume II. Seattle: Fantagraphics, (1990). First edition. 4to. One of 650 special copies signed by Beto, Xaime, and R. Crumb on a special bookplate glued to the illustrated front endpaper. Above this is the bookplate of Larry McMurtry. Includes: Uncle Bob’s Mid-Life Crisis by R. Crumb, For the Love of Carmen by Gilbert Hernandez, Busted by Joyce Farmer, Pa Ra Dox by Larry Gonick, The Final Curtain by Kim Deitch, By Way of Explanation by Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides, Dementia Praecox by Dan Clowes, and two dozen more stories and strips by Roz Chast, Mark Alan Stamaty, Sergio Aragones and Will Eisner. Fine copy in black cloth with gold spine stamping in a fine dust jacket. $150.00 16. Costello, Elvis. UNFAITHFUL MUSIC & Disappearing Ink. A Memoir. New York: Blue Rider Press, (2015). First edition. This copy signed by Costello on a bound-in sheet. An idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and before he was twenty-four took the popular music world by storm. This memoir, written by Costello, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best-known songs and the hits of tomorrow. 674pp, illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in dust jacket. $75.00 17. Doig, Ivan. BUCKING THE SUN. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First edition. One of 26 deluxe copies bound in full leather, a Chuckanut Edition, signed by the author, in the publisher's original slipcase. Around this eye-of-the-cyclone family swirls the epic that was Fort Peck and its cast of thousands -- con men and G-men, politicos and prostitutes, drawn by the workers who labored above, below and beside the river, through sweltering heat and winters so savage ice formed inside their shanties. And always, there is the

river, restlessly eddying toward a tragedy that will entrap some and pardon others. A fine copy. $100.00 18. Dylan, Bob. ORIGINAL VINTAGE BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF BOB DYLAN & THE BAND by Peter Simon in Oakland, California, March of 1974. Measures approximately 12.5 inches x 18 5/8 inches. Hand-titled bottom right by Peter Simon then signed underneath by him. “Bob Dylan on tour with the Band in Oakland California March 1974.” Great image taken from behind the musicians and into the crowd. $500.00 (SEE PIC) 19. (Dylan, Bob). JUST LIKE A WOMAN. Original Poster by George Pennewell. Berkeley: The Print Mint, 1972. Measures 21 x 31 inches. (See photo on verso of catalog). Very good to near fine condition. $750.00 (SEE PIC) 20. Eugenides, Jeffrey. MIDDLESEX. A Novel. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (2002). First edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. A fine copy in dust jacket. $75.00 21. Farmer, Philip Jose. TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1986). Collectors edition bound in full leather. With a new introduction by Roger Zelazny and illustrated by Richard Powers. Winner of the Hugo Award (1972). The first book (of five) in the Riverworld series. The title is derived from the 7th of the "Holy Sonnets" by English poet John Donne: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go. A very good plus to near fine copy bound in full leather.

$50.00

22. Farmer, Philip Jose. THE MAGIC LABYRINTH. New York: Berkeley, (1980). First edition. The concluding chapter of the

Riverworld Series. The fourth and final volume of this magnificent saga. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. $50.00 23. Feiffer, Jules. THE COLLECTED WORKS. Volumes 1-3. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, (1988-1989-1992). First editions. 4to. Limited to 500 numbered copies, singed by the artist, with bookplates attached; #226, #355, and #372. Illustrated. Each book with Larry’s McMurtry’s bookplate to front pastedown. Each volume fine in dust jacket. The Lot: $300.00 24. Gaiman, Neil. THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE. A Novel. New York: Wm. Morrow, (2013). First edition. This short novel follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier. Voted Book of the Year for the British National Book Awards. Fine copy in dust jacket. $50.00 25. Gaskell, Mrs. COUSIN PHILLIS And Other Tales. In One Volume. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1867. Copyright edition. 16mo. Collection of British Authors (Vol. 891). One of the most popular of the Victorian novelists, Gaskell's short stories are no less attractive, and in the novella-length Cousin Phillis she wrote a masterpiece of the genre. 304pp. Nicely bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards with raised bands to spine and decorations. Ink mark (vertical) to title page. A solid very good copy. $75.00 26. Giger, H.R. GIGER'S ALIEN. A Large Print of the Cover of Giger's Alien. Las Vegas: Galerie Morpheus International, 1994. First edition thus. Matted with an inner opening of 19 x 21 inches. A spectacular image that shows why Giger (who was the major part of a group) won an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for their design work on the film Alien. One of the great iconic images in all of horror and science fiction films. Fine, matted. $200.00 27. (Graphic Novels) Brunetti, Ivan, Editor. GRAPHIC FICTION, CARTOONS, & TRUE STORIES. An Anthology. New Haven / London: Yale University Press, (2006). First edition. 4to. Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists

engaged in this world of change. These outstanding cartoonists, selected by Brunetti for their graphic sophistication and literary style, are both expanding and transforming the vocabulary of their genre. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. As gorgeously produced as Brunetti’s previous anthology of graphic fiction, this book does full justice to the creative work of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Gary Panter, and the other prominent or emerging comic artists who are currently at work at the cutting edge of their medium. 400 pages. Each page is fully illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. $50.00 28. Grass, Gunter. THE FLOUNDER. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: HBJ, (1977). First American edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. The key theme of the book is of Woman's historical contributions in both fact and fiction, ranging from the early goddesses of the Vistula, to the Grimm Brothers’ collected fairy tale, "The Fisherman and His Wife", to the novel’s contemporary women’s' libbers. The Flounder plays a central role as agent and provocateur in the cause of one or the other sexes throughout. A fine copy in dust jacket. $250.00 29. (Grateful Dead) GRATEFUL DEAD Original Production Artwork for a full color poster. IN THE DARK. Measuring approx. 19 x 13 inches. On the original CS10 art board and containing all the original overlays paste-ups and handwritten production notes. IN THE DARK is the 12th studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between January 6-13th, 1987, and was originally released on July 6, 1987. Most of the songs on this album had been played by the Dead since 1982 or 1983, which gave them a five-year edge on perfecting these songs for this album. $150.00 30. Gregory, Franklin. THE WHITE WOLF. New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. A story of the invasion of a peaceful Pennsylvania countryside by an unnatural monster. A classic werewolf horror novel. "The publishers advise you not to pick up this book unless the sun is shining or the lights are burning very brightly indeed!" Lending Library stamp to front endpaper, tape marks to green cloth, glue stains on verso of dust jacket. Still a decent reading copy . A very good copy in a similar dust jacket. $45.00

31. Harrison, Jim and Ted Kooser. BRAIDED CREEK. A Conversation in Poetry. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, (2003). First Edition. #117 of 250 numbered copies signed by both poets in the two-tone cloth binding (green and black). Longtime friends and poets Harrison and Kooser always exchanged poems in their correspondence. After Kooser was diagnosed with cancer, the nature of their correspondence changed. "After the cancer Ted's poetry became overwhelmingly vivid. Then we decided why not correspond in short poems, because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other." This book is the result. A host of subjects emerge; the nature of time, the natural world, aging, friendship, love and eros. There is also humor, sometimes dark, camaraderie, and abundant wisdom. The poets decided to remain silent over who wrote which poem. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of both authors. A fine copy. $200.00 32. Harrison, Jim. JUST BEFORE DARK. Collected Nonfiction. Livingston: Clark City Press, (1991). First Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author. A fine copy in cloth and marbled boards with the publisher's matching slipcase. Issued without dust jacket. $150.00 33. Harrison, Jim. DALVA. A Novel. New York: EP Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, (1988). First Edition. Laid into this copy is a pre-publication excerpt from this book, 12pp, numbered (116) and signed by Jim Harrison with a letter (copy) from the publisher laid in, dated January 7, 1988, explaining the excerpt (on EP Dutton letterhead) and signed by Seymour Lawrence. Also laid in is a full page illustration, in color, of the front of the finished dust jacket, printed on photo quality stock (verso is blank). A major novel that paints an unsentimental portrait of a part-Indian farmer's daughter from a writer who remains fiercely committed to the great outdoors. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight yellowing to the extremities. $300.00 34. Harrison, Jim. THE DAVENPORT LUNAR ECLIPSE. A Broadside. From After Ikkyu and Other Poems. Boston: Shamhala Publications, 2004. First Edition. Reprinted by arrangement with Shamhala Publications, Boston (1996). A Broadside. Measures 14 x 10 inches. The "Diner" edition. This is one of 20 for individual sale,

with the line of copyright information at the bottom. Those without the copyright info were printed in a larger edition to accompany broadsides by others. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur, and close friend of the author. Fine copy. $150.00 35. (Harrison, Jim). STONECARVER by Diana Guest. Photographs By Christian Odasso. Comments by Diana Guest, Raymond Charmet, Marion Pike, and Jim Harrison. Livingston: Clark City Press, (1993). First Edition. 4to. Features an essay by Harrison about the 10-day stay he had at Diana Guest's house and studio, and how seeing her art, stone carvings of animals, affected him, and his ideas and thoughts on the natural world.133 plates, in color, of these stone carvings. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer (Conversations With Hunter S Thompson), raconteur, and close friend of Harrison. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. $150.00 36. Hawkins, Paula. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. First edition (published 1/13/2015) of this psychological thriller told from the point of view of three women: Rachel, Anna and Megan. A major best-seller with the film rights purchased by DreamWorks. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. $125.00 37. Hoffman, Abbie. WOODSTOCK NATION. A Talk Rock Album. New York: Vintage Books, (1969). First paperback edition. A near fine copy (small ink math equation to bottom of page 1). Illustrated. $40.00 38. Hogarth, Burne. THE ARCANE EYE OF HOGARTH. Sketchbook. Seattle: Fantagraphics, (1992). First edition thus. 4to. One of 100 special numbered copies signed by the author on a special bookplate glued to the front endpaper. Above this is the bookplate of Larry McMurtry. “You see throughout these pages, as in Hogarth’s perhaps greatest work, Dynamic Light and Shade, brooding presences—bodies leaping like flames, advancing like panthers”. Black cloth with large illustration to front cover in silver, a fine copy in dust jacket. $150.00 39. (Irish Writers). FACES IN A BOOKSHOP. Irish Literary Portraits. Introduction by Gerald Dawe. Galway: Kennys of Galway, 1990. First edition. 4to. To mark their fiftieth anniversary, Kennys of

Galway (a bookshop and art gallery) organized an exhibition of portraits of Irish writers by contemporary artists. Depicted are; Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, Liam O'Flaherty, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, Brian Moore, James Joyce, J.P. Donleavy and many more. 163pp with index. Bound in black leather, fine copy in a fine dust jacket. $75.00 40. Jeffers, Robinson. THE CALIFORNIANS. With An Introduction By William Everson. n.p.: Cayucos Books, 1971. First edition thus. 8vo. Being one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by William Everson on a limitation page bound in. 163pp, bound in quarter cloth and paper over boards. Near fine copy in the original acetate dust jacket. $250.00 41. Kittredge, William. HOLE IN THE SKY. A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1992. First edition. Inscribed in the year of publication. The author tells of his childhood, and the Warner Valley Stock Company. The story of a great pioneer family's decline and fall, and of a childhood dream that turned into an adulthood of dislocation and loss, the end of a way of life. But it is also the author's account of coming to terms with this complex inheritance and to a new, deeper, understanding of both himself and the West. A fine copy in dust jacket. $50.00 42. Landacre, Paul. FOREST GIRL. An AAA Woodcut. Measuring 8.5 x 6 inches. Unframed but matted (tape hinged at top). Signed and dated in the plate, 1936. With the original AAA label to rear: “This print is an original woodcut made by me and printed with my approval and under my direction. It is in every respect the equivalent in quality of those prints issued by me in limited editons and sold at comparatively high prices. Its low price is made possible by the edition being neither pencil signed nor arbitrarily limited. Paul Landacre. American Artists Group. New York”. Fine condition. A stunner. $500.00 (SEE PIC) 43. Mailer, Norman. A TRANSIT TO NARCISSUS. A Facsimile of the Original Typescript With an Introduction by the Author. New York: Howard Fertig, 1978. First edition. Thick 4to. Written by Mailer at the age of twenty while awaiting induction into the Army, and some three years before he began writing The Naked and the Dead. 700+

pages. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

$125.00

44. Matthews, Jason. RED SPARROW. A Novel. New York: Scribner's, (2013). First edition. A startling debut. Jason Matthews is a 33-year veteran of the C.I.A. who, according to the press release, “served in multiple overseas locations and engaged in clandestine collection of national-security intelligence.” A classic spy thriller. Rare wrap-around band present with a blurb by Nelson DeMille. 433 pages. A fine copy in dust jacket. $125.00 45. McFee, William. REFLECTIONS OF MARSYAS. Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press, 1933. First edition. 4to. #208 of 300 signed copies. This special copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to George W Keating, who was responsible for creating the Keating Collection of manuscripts and other memorabilia associated with the novelist Joseph Conrad, which is now held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and is generally regarded as the finest Conrad collection in the world. Keating is also known as the author of *A Conrad Memorial Library*, a lavishly illustrated and annotated catalogue of his collection that was published by Doubleday in 1929. The long inscription takes up the entire page. Also signed by the author on page 43. Hardbound in patterned paper boards with wrap-around paper label. A very good copy. $200.00 46. McGuane, Thomas. THE SPORTING CLUB. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. First edition. Author's first book. Two old friends strike up an old feud filled with dangerous games on the vast preserve of their hunting club in this rollicking story of boyhood rivalries pushed to the limit. Fine crisp copy, with the publisher's reply card laid in, in a fine jacket. $300.00 47. McGuane, Thomas. THE BUSHWHACKED PIANO. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition. Author's second book. Fine in a nearly fine jacket, sticker ghost over front flap price. $200.00 48. McKuen, Rod. THE UNKNOWN WAR. A Original Screenplay. A Documentary. Two Volumes. First edition. 4to. Two volumes bound in full leather. McKuen supervised the script of this landmark

series of World War II and the epic battles of the Russian front. The series is hosted by Burt Lancaster and had 20 episodes, each one ran 48 minutes. The footage was edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war, 22 June 1941, to the Soviet entry into Berlin in May 1945. McKuen also wrote the score. This landmark TV series captured both the gripping detail and the epic sweep of Hitler’s brutal invasion and the four-year battles that followed. The series was pulled from television prematurely due to viewer complaints following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The remaining episodes have never been seen, making the show legendary in WWII history circles and inspiring a number of smaller scale knock-offs over the past decades. Both leather bound volumes in nearly fine condition. From the estate of Rod McKuen. $350.00 49. Murakami, Haruki. 1Q 84. In Two Volumes. Books 1 & 2, and Book 3. London: Harvill Secker, (2011). First editions in English. First published in Japan in three volumes in 2009-10. This novel quickly became a sensation, with its first printing selling out the day of publication (and reaching sales of one million within a month). This is the first English language edition, in two volumes, with the first two volumes, Books 1 & 2 translated by Jay Rubin and the third book translated by Philip Gabriel. Published in the UK and the U.S. on October 25, 2011. An excerpt from the novel, "Town of Cats" appeared in the September 5, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine. A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of selfdiscovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s 1984. Fine copies bound in black cloth with gilt decoration, in fine jackets. $125.00 50. (Music, Contemporary). A VISUAL HISTORY OF THE SEVENINCH RECORD. 45 RPM. Edited by Spencer Drate. New York: MJF Books, (2002). First edition. Whatever you want to call them, they revolutionized the record industry. Born out of an intense rivalry between two giants, Columbia (who introduced the 33 1/3 LP in 1948) and RCA (who countered with the 45 a year later), these records became the alternative to 78s and eventually the favorite of DJs and rock fans—until they were pushed off the shelves by CDs in the 1980s, only to rebound in the 1990s as the vinyl home of the underground/garage band scene. Each page illustrated, and with a discography. A fine copy in dust jacket. $40.00

51. (Music, Contemporary). BLOWIN’ HOT AND COOL. Jazz and Its Critics by John Gennari. Chicago: Chicago University Press, (2006). First edition. A warm and generous critique of jazz. 480pp. With Notes and Index. A fine copy in dust jacket. $35.00 52. (Music, Contemporary) John McMillian Presents BEATLES vs STONES. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition. Illustrated from photographs. 300pp, with index. With the sophistication of a historian, the storytelling skills of a journalist, and the passion of a fan, the author explores the relationship between two of the greatest rock and roll bands of our time. A fine copy in dust jacket. $40.00 53. Norman, Howard. THE WOE SHIRT. Caribbean Folk Tales. Paule Barton as Translated by Howard A Norman. Drawings by Norman Laliberte. Lincoln: Penmaen Press, Ltd, (1980). First edition. 4to. One of 100 numbered copies, this copy, #86, is signed by Howard Allan Norman and Michael McCurdy, who designed the book. But not signed by Norman Laliberte, who illustrated the book (one of about 30 thus). Bound in 1/4 green cloth with green and white decorated paper boards. (Note: The dust jacket on this copy appears to be from the trade edition, different ISBN on the front flap) A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. $125.00 54. O'Brien, John. LEAVING LAS VEGAS. Wichita: Watermark Press, 1990. First edition. This first novel was the basis for the big screen film (1995). Unfortunately, the author was a suicide two weeks after learning that this book was to be made into a movie. The film won an Academy Award for Best Actor (Nicholas Cage) and was nominated for 3 other Oscars. The story of an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking and arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera (Elizabeth Shue). A fine copy in dust jacket. $300.00 55. Pelecanos, George P. HELL TO PAY. A Derek Strange Novel. Tucson: Dennis McMillan, (2002). First Edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. A fine copy in dust jacket with publisher's slipcase. $75.00

56. (Pynchon, Thomas). THE FICTIONAL LABYRINTHS OF THOMAS PYNCHON by David Seed. Iowa City: Iowa City Press, 1988. First edition. David Seed, lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, gives this lucidly written study, a careful and detailed reading of all of Pynchon's fiction from the early short stories to Gravity's Rainbow. 268 pages with index. A fine copy in jacket. $25.00 57. (Pynchon, Thomas). SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS. Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary World by Peter L. Cooper. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. First edition. 238 pages, including index. Pynchon's novels are examined against the backdrop of contemporary fiction, while sharing the general interest of the counter-realists in labyrinthine plots, intricate fantasies, and selfmade realities. A very readable study. Fine in dust jacket. $30.00 58. Quinn, Spencer. DOG ON IT – THEREBY HANGS A TALE – TO FETCH A THIEF – THE DOG WHO KNEW TOO MUCH -- A FISTFUL OF COLLARS. Five volumes. New York: Atria Books, (2009-2012). First editions. The first five Chet and Bernie Mysteries. All near fine copies in near fine dust jackets. Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-hisluck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school (“I’d been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn’t remember exactly, although blood was involved”), but he’s a detective through and through. The Lot: $75.00 59. Rajaniemi, Hannu. THE QUANTUM THIEF. New York: Tor, (2010). First American edition. First edition of the author’s first book, as well as the first novel in a trilogy featuring Jean le Flambeur. A breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyperadvanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild. But for all its wonders, this book is also a story powered by the very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge. Fine in dust jacket. $75.00 60. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. CROSS CREEK. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942. First edition. With the “A” but without the Scribner seal, and with the front flap price of $2.50 (in red). The

author’s autobiographical account of her relationships with her neighbors and her beloved Florida hammocks. A fine copy in dust jacket. $500.00 61. Robinson, Kim Stanley. THE MARS TRILOGY. 3 Volumes. Red Mars, Green Mars, & Blue Mars. London: Harper Collins, 1992, 1993, 1996. First editions. This trilogy is considered to be the author's magnum opus. The books follow the colonization of Mars and later, the entire solar system, complete with the technological, moral, social and political evolution that accompanies it, spanning 200 years of future history. Red Mars is signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication ("thanks for the RM interview...") and won a Nebula Award, Green Mars is not signed, but won a Hugo Award, Blue Mars is signed. The UK editions precede the American editions. All copies are near fine with a few 1/16 of an inch corner creases in near fine dust jackets. $450.00 62. Sheckley, Robert. DRAMOCLES. An Intergalactic Soap Opera. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE. Circa 1983. First edition. Approx 400pp, 16mo and 4to, being the working draft of Dramocles, housed in the author's original folder with story and character notes scribbled throughout. Consisting of (approx): 71pp of early draft, 50pp of possible scenes, bits and characterizations, 53pp + 170pp of drafts, 70pp of (old notes) drafts, including mss charts, outlines, structure plotting, and mss slips he used (ala James Joyce). Robert Sheckley, 1928-2005, was a Hugo and Nebula nominated author whose clever and often absurdist sci-fi novels attracted a wide audience. Includes a first edition of the finished book, F/F signed by the author. A remarkable archive, a chance to recreate how a novel is written, from notecards to finished product. Very good to near fine. $750.00 63. Silko, Leslie Marmon. ALMANAC OF THE DEAD. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991). First edition. Uncorrected proof. The author's overly ambitious 763pp novel that "dramatizes the long, often desperate, struggle of the native peoples in the Americas to hold on to the core of their culture, their way of seeing, their way of believing, and their way of being". A near fine copy bound in the original yellow perfect bound printed wrappers (small stain to top edge). $175.00 64. Silko, Leslie Marmon. ALMANAC OF THE DEAD. A Novel. New

York: Simon & Schuster, (1991). First edition. This copy is signed by the author on the title page and dated "April 16, 1995" adding "Tucson." Laid in is the publisher's review slip that gives the publication date and price, and a 5 x 7 black and white publicity photo of the author with a dog that is signed in red ink by Silko who adds the date, "4-16-95" and place "Tucson." Finally, a slick, color cover, staple-bound 9-page pre-publication pamphlet is laid in, signed by Silko and dated "4-16-95, Tucson." A nearly fine copy in a fine dust jacket. $125.00 65. (Silko, Leslie Marmon). STORIES SOUTHWEST. A Sharing of Perceptive New Fiction As Eight Writers Address a Region. Prescott: Prescott College Press, 1973. First edition. Edited by A. Wilber Stevens (who also writes the foreword). Silko is one of the eight writers who contributes unpublished writings about the Southwest. Her contribution is "A Geronimo Story." This predates her first published book by one year. Perfect bound in the original printed wrappers, as issued. 108pp. Very good plus copy. $75.00 66. Smith, Patti. ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR PRINT AD. Original production artwork for a full page Music & Media ad for Patti Smith People have the Power. Measuring 16x11. On the original CS10 art board and containing all the original overlays paste-ups and handwritten production notes. $150.00 67. Smith, Patti. M TRAIN. New York: Knopf, 2015. First edition. Signed by the author on a tipped in sheet. Patti’s mental trains of thought carry her into reveries on subjects as wide-ranging as her passionate appetite for detective stories and her surprising membership in an elite scientific society devoted to the subject of continental drift. She travels far afield geographically, too, in this memoir, making pilgrimages to the homes and graves of beloved writers and artists — among them, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo and Jean Genet. But, ultimately, it's the local stops on M Train that make the most profound impressions here. Illustrated from duotone photographs (55). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. $75.00 68. Steadman, Ralph. AMERICA. Seattle: Fantagraphics, (1989). First edition thus. Oblong 8vo. #361/500 copies signed by Steadman on an illustrated bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. Underneath is the small bookplate of Larry McMurtry. “In the black heart of the

Nixon era, legendary British cartoonist Ralph Steadman prowled America like a walking open nerve, overwhelmed by the barrage of impressions. Where Freud fainted, Steadman stayed wide awake, in a state of amazement and terror. Hunter S Thompson says, “I think (what shocks him is) the lack of that traditional British attempt to cover up the warts, or explain them away somehow. In America, we decorate the warts—sell them, cultivate them…” Fine copy in a clean, dust jacket with a scratch or two to the rear panel). $175.00 69. Stephenson, Neal. REAMDE. A Novel. New York: William Morrow, (2011). First edition. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. This techno-thriller, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe. Topics covered range from online activities including gold farming and social networking to the criminal methods of the Russian mafia and Islamic terrorists. 1056 pages. A fine copy in dust jacket. $75.00 70. Taylor, D. J. BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE. The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (2009). First American edition. The modern obsession with celebrity began with the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Drawing on the virtuosic and often wrenching writings of the Bright Young People themselves, the biographer and novelist D. J. Taylor has produced an enthralling account of an age of fleeting brilliance. A fine copy in dust jacket. $30.00 71. Vance, Jack. STAR KING. London: Dennis Dobson, (1966). First UK edition (and first hardback edition). Signed by Vance on the title page. Star Kings are a race of non-humans who characteristically disguise themselves as humans, but humans with a difference. Power alone is their goal, a goal that is sought no matter what the price in ordinary 'human life'. A very good plus copy in a very good jacket with some irregular sunning at the top of the front panel. $75.00 72. Vance, Jack. THE PALACE OF LOVE. London: Dennis Dobson, (1968). First UK edition (and first hardback edition). Signed by the

author on the title page. Book three of the Demon Princes series. A very good copy in brown cloth (small hole, from erasure (?) to last page not affecting text) in a near fine clipped jacket (with price sticker). $50.00 73. Vance, Jack. THE DEMON PRINCES. Volume Two. New York: Tor, (1997). First edition. Contains, The Face, and The Book of Dreams. Signed by Vance, in a shaky hand, on the half-title page. A near fine copy, wear to spine crown, in a near fine jacket. $75.00 74. WWII BOMBER JACKET ART. A Collection of 4 Photographs measuring approximately 8 x 10 inches, and one measuring 5 x 7 inches (a duplicate of one of the larger photographs). Official U.S. Air Force prints, with corresponding ink-stamps, descriptive texts and filing notations on the versos. Minor creasing and edgewear, otherwise near fine. GRIN ‘N BARE IT (with smaller dup) – DER GROSSARSCHOOGEL(?) – TANTALIZING TAKEOFF – BELLE O’ THE BRAWL. The LOT: $125.00 (SEE PIC) ********* END VISIT US LIVE on Saturday April 23, 2016 to celebrate WORLD BOOK & COPYRIGHT DAY in the Madison Room of the Sorrento Hotel downtown Seattle, WA. From 2-8pm, our PNW Chapter Members of the ABAA will be appraising/pricing books, maps and prints for FREE. All welcome (limited to 3 items each). VISIT US LIVE AT THE ROSE CITY BOOK FAIR in Portland, OR on June 3 & 4, 2016. For more info: http://www.pdxbooks.org/rose-city-used-book-fair/ VISIT US LIVE AT THE SEATTLE BOOK FAIR October 8 & 9, 2016 to be held at the Exhibition Hall at Seattle Center. For more info: www.seattlebookfair.com NOTES: