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1991ref. 581557New York: Samuel French 1991. Softcover. Very Good. 77pp. Stapled wrappers. Pages have light water wrinkle else a very good copy. Samuel French unknown books
1994ref. 587320Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert / Firefly Press 1994. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Measuring 8¼" x 10¾". Fine. One 50 copies printed at Firefly Press and Signed by Oates. William B. Ewert / Firefly Press unknown books
1994ref. 587328Concord: William B. Ewert 1994. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards stamped in gilt. Fine. One of 100 copies Signed by Oates and one of just of 25 copies bound in boards. A nice production printed letterpress as a keepsake commemorating an exhibit at the University of Rochester Library. William B. Ewert hardcover books
1980ref. 588352Iowa City Iowa: The Happy Press 1980. Softcover. Fine. No. 10. Small quarto. Various colored sheets stapled along the spine. Fine. An anthology of poems "cartoonized" by Dave Morice. This issue includes complete or partial poems by Darrell Gray Robert Browning Walter Savage Landor Gerard Manley Hopkins Joyce Holland Ben Jonson William Blake and David Gitin. The Happy Press unknown books
1975ref. 590658New York: The Vanguard Press 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Light foxing on the page edges else near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some toning. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
1978ref. 589791Lincoln: Penmaen Press 1978. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Edited by Joan Norris. Wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. Cloth and decorated paper over boards in slipcase. A touch of rubbing else fine. A collection of short stories. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by Tyler Oates and the other four stories' authors this copy in unnumbered. Penmaen Press hardcover books
1990ref. 593815Toronto: Exile Editions 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Exile Editions hardcover books
1991ref. 567856New York: Ticknor & Fields 1991. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Robert Atwan series editor. Fine. Ticknor & Fields unknown books
1987ref. 565905Northridge California: Lord John Press 1987. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Green cloth. Fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author. Lord John Press hardcover books
1986ref. 568814New York: E.P. Dutton 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in slightly spine-sunned else near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. 18 short stories including the title piece which was selected for the 1985 Best American Short Stories anthology. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
2002ref. 568991New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Briefly Inscribed by the author. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1994ref. 569338Concord: William B. Ewert 1994. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers lettered in gilt. One of 100 copies Signed by Oates this is copy 21 of 75 copies bound in wrappers there were also 25 bound in boards. Printed as a keepsake commemorating an exhibit at the University of Rochester Library. William B. Ewert unknown books
1941ref. 570719London: Secker & Warburg / Searchlight Books 1941. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Foreword by George Orwell. Small octavo. 127 1pp. Printed wrappers. Small neat owner name on first leaf stains mostly confined on front wrap very good. Secker & Warburg / Searchlight Books unknown books
1970ref. 574169New York: The American Place Theatre 1970. Softcover. Fine. Theater program. Play directed by Curt Dempster. Two small quarto sheets folded and stapled to make eight octavo pages. Illustrated with two portraits of Oates. Bottom corner very slightly curled else fine. The final page prints a full-page advertisement for Oates' The Wheel of Love. A very uncommon Oates item perhaps because it appears that the play was universally panned by critics. OCLC locates four copies of this program NYU SUNY Buffalo U Rochester U Alberta and three copies of what appear to be a mimeographed or spirit-duplicated script and we note another possible copy of this program and a few more manuscript versions in her papers at Syracuse. The American Place Theatre unknown books
1991ref. 574144New York: Dutton 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Spine mildly cocked else fine in fine dust jacket. Dutton hardcover books
1994ref. 579405Concord New Hampshire: William B. Ewert / Firefly Press 1994. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Measuring 8¼" x 10¾". Fine. One 50 copies printed at Firefly Press and Signed by Oates. William B. Ewert / Firefly Press unknown books
1976ref. 579535Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press 1976. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Measuring 11" x 17". Tips of corners a bit creased else fine. Copy 48 of 65 numbered copies Signed by Oates. Slow Loris Press unknown books
1970ref. 555349Lexington Virginia: Shenandoah 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume XXI Spring 1970 No. 3. Printed wrappers. Near fine with some bumping to the crown of the spine. Features "I was in Love" by Joyce Carol Oats "I Teach Out of Love" by Theodore Roethke two poems by Gunnar Ekelof translated by W.H. Auden as well as poetry by Daniel Hoffman Howard Nemerov J.V. Cunningham and more. Shenandoah unknown books
1985ref. 555368New York: Basic Books Inc 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 301pp. Tiny owner name on front fly and binding very slightly cocked near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with modest creasing along the topedge. Basic Books, Inc hardcover books
1988ref. 555906New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Later printing. Very good or better with some foxing on the cloth spine as well as a sporadic minor foxing throughout the interior in a lightly worn near fine dust jacket with a bit of interior toning. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
1868ref. 554278Bridgeton N.J.: Joyce Photographer 1868. Unbound. Fair. Carte d'visite. Albumen image with watercolor highlights provided by hand to the stockings belts shirts and caps. 2.5" x 3.75" on slightly larger thick card mount. Image of two seated baseball players; one with the letters "BS" on the bib front of his shirt; the other with an Old English "C" on his. Uncaptioned. Photographer name and address on verso. Only fair condition with the albumen image badly faded and the players' faces visible only with effort. Of most interest are the very early uniforms likely the carte is post-Civil War because of lack of a Civil War-era tax stamp; but almost certainly pre-1870. Joyce, Photographer unknown books
1997ref. 557500Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine. Third edition. Quarto. 956pp. Tiny owner name on front fly and cover just a bit splayed very near fine. Williams & Wilkins hardcover books
1969ref. 560820Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Foreword by A. Philip Randolph. 591pp. Some toning and a few creased pages else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear. The University of Michigan Press hardcover books
1989ref. 551765Eugene: University of Oregon 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. 150pp. Foxing on topedge wrappers rubbed near fine. Interview with Margaret Mead by Frank Anthony. Oral History: Ekoneskaka transcribed by James Salvator. Poetry by Kathleen Atkins Gigi Marks Elizabeth Rees Walter Pavlich Larry Beckett John de Stefano and Dana Sonnenschein. Fiction by Jerry Bumpus Susan Stark Sharon Lynn Pugh and Joyce Carol Oates. Letters stories essays and reviews by many others. University of Oregon unknown books
1997ref. 532808Philadelphia: Banshee Press 1997. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 47pp. Fine. Poems by Jared Carter Michael Waters Denise Duhamel Alan Britt Karen Blomain Joyce Odam David Kirby Joseph Farley Art Beck Ann Menebroker Kent Taylor Tom Devaney and Robert Peters. Banshee Press unknown books
