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The Centaur (Signed First Edition)
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The Centaur (Signed First Edition)

by John Updike

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint foxing on the page block and endpapers. Jacket lightly toned on the spine and rear panels, with small chips on the spine ends (titling unaffected).
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Ceremony in Lone Tree (First Edition, review copy)

Ceremony in Lone Tree (First Edition, review copy)

by Wright Morris

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New York: Atheneum, 1960. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's laid-in material. Finalist for the 1960 National Book Award. Spine lean, light foxing to the top page edges, and light fading to the jacket text, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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The Child Buyer (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

The Child Buyer (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

by John Hersey (novel); Lee Minoff (screenwriter)

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New York: LaMarca Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1960 novel by John Hersey. A satire about the American educational system, in which a man tries to buy a smart young child with a difficult home life in order to utilize him in an experiment to engineer super-intelligent humans. Adaptation written by Lee Minoff, writer of the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine." Tan untitled agency wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Lee Minoff and novelist John Hersey. 147 leaves, with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads.
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Dog Soldiers (First UK Edition, Association copy, inscribed by the author to his bibliographer)
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Dog Soldiers (First UK Edition, Association copy, inscribed by the author to his bibliographer)

by Robert Stone

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London: Secker and Warburg, 1975. First UK Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED by the author to his bibliographer, Ken Lopez, on the title page: "For Ken Lopez / with best wishes / Robert Stone." Winner of the National Book Award and basis for the violent 1978 neo-noir film "Who'll Stop the Rain," directed by Karel Reisz and starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld. Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket spine panel moderately faded, with a small chip to the laminate at the bottom right corner of the front panel.
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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Signed First Edition)
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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Signed First Edition)

by Jean Valentine

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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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The Fixer (First Edition, author John Barth's copy)
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The Fixer (First Edition, author John Barth's copy)

by Bernard Malamud

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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1966. First Edition. First Edition. Copy belonging to noted postmodern writer John Barth, with a publisher's "With Compliments" slip laid in noting Barth's name and address. Basis for the 1968 film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Slight residue on the front endpaper where "With Compliments" slip was once adhered, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
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The Fixer (Original screenplay for the 1968 film)

The Fixer (Original screenplay for the 1968 film)

by Dirk Bogarde Alan Bates (starring); John Frankenheimer (director); Dalton Trumbo (screenwriter); Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith (starring)

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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder, he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960, the blacklisted Trumbo (one of the Hollywood Ten) began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood, after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers, dated September 7, 1967, with a credit for… Read More
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (Signed First Edition)

The Garden of Earthly Delights (Signed First Edition)

by Joyce Carol Oates

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New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "For Gunter -- / With best wishes / Joyce Carol Oates / 9-22-67." Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction (1968), and winner of the M.L. Rosenthal Award (1968). The author's second novel. First of the "Wonderland Quartet" novels, the others being "Expensive People" (1968), "them" (1969), and "Wonderland" (1971). Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Foxing to the page edges, slight fading to the extremities, faint splash to the top page edges. Jacket spine slightly faded, light shelfwear and foxing, and a long crease to the rear flap.
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Herzog (Signed First Edition)
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Herzog (Signed First Edition)

by Saul Bellow

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New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner label on front pastedown. Jacket with toning at spine and light edgewear, and a small price annotation in manuscript ink on the top corner of the front flap.
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Love Among the Cannibals (First Edition, review copy)

Love Among the Cannibals (First Edition, review copy)

by Wright Morris

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1957. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with slip laid in. Finalist for the National Book Award. Slight lean, and light foxing to the top page edges, else Fine and unread in an about Fine dust jacket.
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Sabbath's Theater (Advance Reading Copy)

Sabbath's Theater (Advance Reading Copy)

by Philip Roth

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy, preceding the First Edition. Winner of the National Book Award. Near Fine in publisher's wrappers.
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