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1953ref. 50829New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near fine with yellow top stain in a near fine dust jacket with $4.50 price intact. Signed by Bellow on the title page. First state dust jacket. The Viking Press hardcover
1953ref. 520First Edition First Printing Viking Press 1953. All First Edition points present including "Printed In The USA By The Vail-Ballou Press Inc." statement on copyright page. In very good condition clean and unmarkedsome fading to orange topstain spine straight and secure in a very good first edition dust jacket chipping at spine ends slight chipping at edges and corners $4.50 price intact on flap. Signed with "Good Wishes" by Saul Bellow in blue ink on front endpage. Viking hardcover
1972ref. SBBI-mon0000158965Random House USA Inc 1972. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Random House USA Inc paperback
1985ref. SBBI-mon0000142638Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1985. hardcover. Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd hardcover
1984ref. SBBI-mon0000097925HarperCollins 1984. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. HarperCollins paperback
ref. 53847Paris Maeght Éditeur 1973. 4° 27 S. zahlr. teilw. farb. Abb. 3 Originallithographien. Lose Bl. in Kart.-Mappe in Schmuckschuber. Rücken min. beschienen sonst tadell. Vorzugsausgabe Nr. 54/150 auf Vélin d’Arches. <Vom Künstler im Impressum signiert. Mit 3 Originallithographien S. 17 18-19 20. Text frz. 010 Paris, Maeght Éditeur, 1973 unknown
1959ref. 371297New York: Viking 1959. First Edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. First Edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Flat signed by Bellow on the title page. Viking unknown
1964ref. 100242London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1964. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed decorated orange wrappers. Author's name written on the front wrap still fine. Uncommon format of this National Book Award-winning novel by the Nobel laureate. Weidenfeld and Nicholson unknown
1964ref. 152478New York: The Viking Press 1964. First edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Signed by Saul Bellow on a page bound in. Founded over a century ago in 1900 the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf top grades of Nigerian moroccos and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. A novel complex compelling absurd and realistic Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. "A masterpiece" The New York Times. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language since Time's founding in 1923. The Viking Press hardcover
ref. 191Black and white silver gelatin print of novelist and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow. The photograph measures 11 inches by 14 inches. Signed by Saul Bellow on the photograph. The photograph was taken by renowned photographer Art Shay in October 1976 the same day the author heard that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Shay is a former Time-Life staff reporter who became a full-time photojournalist in the early fifties. More than 25000 of his photographs have since appeared in numerous publications including Life Time the New York Times Fortune and Sports Illustrated. His work has been much exhibited critically acclaimed and collected. He has won some twenty Art Director awards for distinguished photography as well as commendation for Life magazine's "Picture of the Year" in 1959. Signed and stamped by Shay on the verso. In fine condition. Matted and framed. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. unknown
1956ref. 142270New York: The Viking Press 1956. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' Irish Times. "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us step by step the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' New York Times. Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. The Viking Press unknown
1953ref. 1386456New York NY: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Printing First State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo 536 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition contained in a custom case with gilted lettering on the outside and a green velvet interior. Black spine with green orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$4.50" has moderate age-toning throughout a large tear from the front head edge to title moderate wear along the edges mild chipping along the head edges moderate wear along the extremities. Boards have stains on the rear board mild age-toning along the edges mild wear along the edges mild wear along the fore corners and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild adhesive wear along the pastedowns mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Saul Bellow on title page. Contains a loose "An Evening with Saul Bellow" pamphlet. DL consignment. Shelved Case 2. Saul Bellow was born June 10 1915 in Lachine Quebec to two Jewish Lithuanian immigrants arriving from the then Russian Empire. They moved to Chicago when he was young. Bellows rebelled against his parent's expectations by pursuing a love of writing born of a love of the Torah Shakespeare and the great Russian authors of the 1800's. Bellows wrote his first novel "Dangling Man" while serving in the merchant marines in World War II seeing it published in 1944. Bellows would write "The Adventures of Augie March" in 1953 while in teaching in Paris under a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The Adventures of Augie March" has been hailed for it's dispelling of the traditional idea of the American hero as the eponymous Augie while having many heroic qualities and every opportunity to succeed fails to do so as he has no clear goal for himself chasing an ever elusive "better fate". The novel has been named as one of the 100 best novels in the English language by "TIME" magazine and Modern Library. 1386456. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover
1944ref. 55082New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First printing. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket. First edition of Bellow's acclaimed first book the beginning of an auspicious career that culminated in the National Book Award Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes among numerous other accolades. Fellow Nobel winner J.M. Coetzee wrote of THE DANGLING MAN: "in it can be discerned the lonely humiliated clerks of Gogol and Dostoevsky brooding upon revenge; the Roquentin of Sartre's NAUSEA the scholar who undergoes a strange metaphysical experience that estranges him from the world; and the lonely young poet of Rilke's NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE." A nice copy of an important debut. 8'' x 4.75''. Original beige full cloth with red titles. In original unclipped $2.50 jacket. 192 pages. Spine moderately sunned; minor edgewear and rubbing. Book has slight lean. Some offsetting to endpapers. Else clean and sound. The Vanguard Press unknown
1964ref. 204661New York: Roger Stevens 1964. Few chips and nicks excellent copies. Two vols; 4to 145pp & 160pp bolt bound in printed leatherette wrappers of the Hart Stenographic Bureau. Two distinct and textually variant versions of Bellow's only full-length play upon which he labored relentlessly drafting and re-drafting to the annoyance of his collaborators. The play centers on the character of a retired Jewish comedian reflecting on his life. Intriguingly one of the present scripts numbered "1" in the top corner of the title leaf has Milton Berle's name and two telephone numbers penciled to the same leaf. The final version of the play was published as "The Last Analysis. Roger Stevens unknown
1947ref. 34235New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bellow. Lovely example of the First edition of the author's second book. Signed by Bellow at the top of the title-page in black ink. First edition. 8vo. 294pp. black cloth lettered in light blue to spine top edge stained blue. A fine copy in dustwrapper price-clipped showing minimal use; The delicate powder blue dustwrapper just a bit faded and toning at the spine a couple of short closed tears. Protected in mylar. By far a better than usual example of this important Burgess 99 Novel. The Vanguard Press hardcover
1959ref. 371297New York: Viking 1959. First Edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. First Edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Flat signed by Bellow on the title page. Viking unknown books
1964ref. 100242London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1964. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed decorated orange wrappers. Author's name written on the front wrap still fine. Uncommon format of this National Book Award-winning novel by the Nobel laureate. Weidenfeld and Nicholson unknown books
1953ref. 1386456New York NY: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Printing First State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo 536 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition contained in a custom case with gilted lettering on the outside and a green velvet interior. Black spine with green orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$4.50" has moderate age-toning throughout a large tear from the front head edge to title moderate wear along the edges mild chipping along the head edges moderate wear along the extremities. Boards have stains on the rear board mild age-toning along the edges mild wear along the edges mild wear along the fore corners and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild adhesive wear along the pastedowns mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Saul Bellow on title page. Contains a loose "An Evening with Saul Bellow" pamphlet. DL consignment. Shelved Case 2. Saul Bellow was born June 10 1915 in Lachine Quebec to two Jewish Lithuanian immigrants arriving from the then Russian Empire. They moved to Chicago when he was young. Bellows rebelled against his parent's expectations by pursuing a love of writing born of a love of the Torah Shakespeare and the great Russian authors of the 1800's. Bellows wrote his first novel "Dangling Man" while serving in the merchant marines in World War II seeing it published in 1944. Bellows would write "The Adventures of Augie March" in 1953 while in teaching in Paris under a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The Adventures of Augie March" has been hailed for it's dispelling of the traditional idea of the American hero as the eponymous Augie while having many heroic qualities and every opportunity to succeed fails to do so as he has no clear goal for himself chasing an ever elusive "better fate". The novel has been named as one of the 100 best novels in the English language by "TIME" magazine and Modern Library. 1386456. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover books
1944ref. 55082New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First printing. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket. First edition of Bellow's acclaimed first book the beginning of an auspicious career that culminated in the National Book Award Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes among numerous other accolades. Fellow Nobel winner J.M. Coetzee wrote of THE DANGLING MAN: "in it can be discerned the lonely humiliated clerks of Gogol and Dostoevsky brooding upon revenge; the Roquentin of Sartre's NAUSEA the scholar who undergoes a strange metaphysical experience that estranges him from the world; and the lonely young poet of Rilke's NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE." A nice copy of an important debut. 8'' x 4.75''. Original beige full cloth with red titles. In original unclipped $2.50 jacket. 192 pages. Spine moderately sunned; minor edgewear and rubbing. Book has slight lean. Some offsetting to endpapers. Else clean and sound. The Vanguard Press unknown books
ref. 22016New York: Simon and Schuster 1987. First edition early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Richard A. Ware One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully Allan Bloom September 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. “The Closing of the American Mind is brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep so witty and so thoughtful so outrageous and so sensible so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary book” William Kristol The Wall Street Journal. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923. Simon and Schuster hardcover
1957ref. 142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's Specially bound copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's Specially bound copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1990ref. 14219HEYNE WILHELM 1990. 1. softcover. 2313 HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1944ref. 017368Vanguard 1944. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$2.50 On Bottom Flap. First Edition. Rare In This Condition. The Author's First Book. Excellent Fresh Copy Ownership Small Stamp Front Paste Down. Vanguard Hardcover
