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1995rif. 217867New York: Everyman's Library Alfred A. Knopf 1995. First edition thus. Hardcover. 616 pages. A review copy with laid in slip that was sent to legendary literary and cultural critic John Leonard. A new edition of one of Bellow's best books. Features an introduction by Martin Amis. A clean and tight very near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket. Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1983rif. 1419506Spring Valley: Anthroposophic Press 1983. Hardcover. Octavo v xiii 125 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine green with red lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including offset age toning to the front and sparse edge wear with previous bookshop's label to the rear. Boards have very slight wear. Text block has slight wear including mild age toning to the edges. Shelved in Column A. 1419506. FP New Rockville Stock. Anthroposophic Press hardcover books
1975rif. 1386483New York NY: Viking 1975. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 487 pages. In Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Aged yellow spine with dark brown lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering is price-clipped has mild shelving wear staining along the front cover joint tearing along the front head joint corner and mild to moderate wear along the extremities. Boards have mild wear along the edges mild wear along the fore corners and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has bending wear along the hinges between the front and rear end a tear along the front end-page mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Saul Bellows on the front end-page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1386483. Special Collections - Downstairs. Viking hardcover books
1954rif. 216073New York: Reporter Publications Inc 1954. First edition. Softcover. An issue of this terrific but short lived men's fashion magazine. Features "At The Sign of Taurus" by Lawrence Chow an illustrated article on bullfighting as well as Barnaby Conrad's article "Matador." Also includes Vernon Young writing on Saul Steinberg and several other articles. An about good copy in wrappers with some moisture staining to the bottom corner of some of the early pages but otherwise a solid copy. Uncommon. Reporter Publications, Inc unknown books
1963rif. 216859Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1963. First edition. Softcover. 12 pages. The text of a lecture given by Bellow. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some light wear and some toning to the front cover. Internally a clean copy. Library of Congress unknown books
1973rif. 51653New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. First printing. Fine in fine jacket. First edition of the poet's only novel a semi-autobiographical story of addiction treatment and analysis left unfinished at the time of his death and published posthumously with his notes. 8'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Bright yellow endpapers. Black topstain. In original unclipped $6.95 dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson. 254 pages. Minor wear to jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
rif. 339997framed. Exceptional framed display featuring a large stylized personal inscription by acclaimed artist and longtime New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg accompanied by a colorful reproduction of one his illustrations dated 1965. Lower portion presents the inscription in black ink on Steinberg letterhead featuring a sweeping calligraphic flourish followed by the dedication: "for Ben & Dorothy Love from Saul ST Jan 95". The inscription is addressed to American writer and publisher Ben Sonnenberg 1936 - 2010 and his wife memoirist and biographer Dorothy Gallagher 1930 - 2024. Sonnenberg was the founder and editor of the influential literary quarterly Grand Street to which Steinberg was a frequent contributor. The upper portion features the 1965 illustration. Both pieces are presented in a silver gray frame with wide ivory matting 12.5 x 23". Very good condition. Saul Steinberg was among the twentieth century's most influential graphic artists internationally celebrated for his nearly six-decade association with The New Yorker. His imaginative work blurred the boundaries between fine art illustration handwriting and visual satire. His drawings have been exhibited internationally and are represented in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art. unknown books
1971rif. 214591Zurich Switzerland: Galerie Maeght 1971. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October through November 1971. Text in German by Manuel Gasser. Includes several two page color illustrations and many other black and white illustrations. A very good plus copy in wrappers that have some minor wear and from the library of the Marlborough Gallery library with their sticker to the front cover but otherwise free of marks. A nicely printed catalog and with an interesting provenance. Galerie Maeght unknown books
2013rif. 215076Munich and German: Galerie Sabine Knust and Anton Kern Gallery 2013. First edition. Softcover. 58 pages. Published in conjunction a couple of exhibitions. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and biographical and bibliographical information. A fine copy in die-cut French style wrappers. Galerie Sabine Knust and Anton Kern Gallery unknown books
1967rif. 311657New York: Viking 1967. First edition. 487pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Lacks jacket near fine. First edition. 487pp. 8vo. Inscribed "For Roslyn Targ with every good wish Saul Bellow." Targ was a successful literary agent who represented Bellow as well as Samuel Beckett Italo Calvino Henry Miller and Henry Roth among others. Burgess 99 p.110 Viking unknown books
1946rif. 55084London: John Lehmann 1946. First printing. Near fine in a very good plus jacket. First UK 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." An important debut. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original full yellow cloth. In original unclipped 8s. 6d. pictorial jacket designed by Robert Medley. 192 pages. Jacket spine toned some rubbing and soiling to rear panel. Book has tiny lean a few small bumps. Overall bright and sound. John Lehmann unknown books
1975rif. 55095London: Secker & Warburg 1975. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. First UK edition of Bellow's Pulitzer-winning roman à clef. Heavily based on his friendship with poet Delmore Schwartz HUMBOLDT'S GIFT was specifically cited by the Nobel Committee when it awarded Bellow the prize the following year. 8.5'' x 5''. Original full black cloth. In original unclipped 4.90 net printed jacket. 488 pages. Minor rubbing touches of shelfwear. A few small bumps at extremities. Else clean and sound. Secker & Warburg unknown books
1947rif. 55106New York: Vanguard Press 1947. First edition. Very good. Rare advance copy of the Nobel winner's second book. VICTIM follows the acclaim and success of Bellow's first novel THE DANGLING MAN. At the time V.S. Pritchett in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS said: "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation." Bound from gathered signatures of the trade edition and issued in small numbers for review before publication a rare format of an important book from this major writer. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original plain paper perfectbound hand-titled wrappers over brad-bound signatures. 296 pages. Some soil shelfwear. Creasing toning to spine. Faint foxing to endpapers. Else sound. Vanguard Press unknown books
1970rif. 55077New York: Viking Press 1970. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Signed first printing of this National Book Award-winning novel from the Pulitzer and Nobel winner. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter speckled blue cloth over blue boards. In original unclipped $6.95 typographic jacket designed by Mel Williamson. Blue endpapers. 6 314 pages. Signed by Bellow on the title page. Minor toning to spine. Else sharp and tight. Viking Press unknown books
1975rif. 55094New York: The Viking Press 1975. First edition. Very good. Advance reading copy of Bellow's Pulitzer-winning roman à clef. Heavily based on his friendship with poet Delmore Schwartz HUMBOLDT'S GIFT was specifically cited by the Nobel Committee when it awarded Bellow the prize the following year. 9'' x 5.5''. Originalyellow printed wrappers. 488 pages. Publisher's review slip and promotional flyer loosely laid in. Spine toned. Edgewear some mild soil. Overall sound. The Viking Press unknown books
1975rif. 55093New York: The Viking Press 1975. First edition. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Signed first printing of Bellow's Pulitzer-winning roman à clef. Heavily based on his friendship with poet Delmore Schwartz HUMBOLDT'S GIFT was specifically cited by the Nobel Committee when it awarded Bellow the prize the following year. 9'' x 5.5''. Original quarter yellow cloth over yellow boards. In original unclipped $10.00 yellow printed jacket designed by Mel Williamson. Mustard endpapers. 488 pages. Signed by Bellow on publisher's tipped-in leaf. Minor rubbing to front panel of jacket some shallow creases to same likely production error. Fainting sunning to spine. Pages lightly toned. Else clean and sharp. The Viking Press unknown books
1968rif. 55075New York: Viking Press 1968. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. Signed first printing of this collection of six dark and comic short stories from the Pulitzer and Nobel winner. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter beige cloth over blue boards. In original unclipped $5.00 typographic jacket designed by Mel Williamson. Blue endpapers. 6 184 2 pages. Signed by Bellow on the title page. Minor toning to spine. Else sharp and tight. Viking Press unknown books
1964rif. 55078New York: Viking 1964. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. Signed first printing of one of Bellow's best-known and most acclaimed works in excellent condition. A semi-autobiographical novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction HERZOG was named as one of the 100 best English language novels by TIME in 2010. Decidedly uncommon in this condition. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original dark blue speckled cloth. In original unclipped $5.75 pictorial jacket designed by Mel Williamson. 344 pages. Signed by Bellow on front free endpaper. Faint toning to spine. Minor chip to lower corner front flap. A few tiny spots soil to fore-edge. Touches of offsetting to endpapers. Else bright clean and sharp. Viking unknown books
1944rif. 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
1965rif. 55081New York: Viking Press 1965. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket. Signed first edition review copy of the Nobel and Pulitzer winner's only play. 8'' x 5.25''. Original quarter black cloth over grey paper boards white. In original unclipped $3.50 photographic jacket. Orange topstain. x 118 pages. Publisher's review slip loosely laid in. Signed by Bellow on the front free endpaper. Some mild toning to extremities of jacket. Else clean and sharp. Viking Press unknown books
2000rif. 55300New York: Viking 2000. First edition. Fine in a fine jacket. Signed first printing of the Nobel winner's final novel. Praised by Martin Amis who wrote of Bellow's autobiographical novel: "RAVELSTEIN is . a masterpiece with no analogues." Coming near the end of the great writer's life it is one of his more difficult bellow titles to find signed. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter brown paper over beige boards. In original unclipped $24.95 color pictorial jacket designed by Richard Dunkley. Signed by Bellow on the title page. 6 234 pages. Harvard Bookstore "Signed by the Author" sticker on front panel. Else bright and sharp. Viking unknown books
1965rif. 55107London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson 1965. Very good. Uncorrected proof copy of the second UK edition of the Nobel winner's second book. VICTIM follows the acclaim and success of Bellow's first novel THE DANGLING MAN. At the time V.S. Pritchett in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS said: "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation." A scarce format of an important book from this major writer. 7.75'' x 5''. Original orange publisher printed wrappers. 264 pages. Some toning edgewear. Overall sound. Weindenfeld and Nicolson unknown books
2003rif. 212346Los Angeles CA New York and Chicago IL: Manny Silverman Gallery Lennon Weinberg Inc. and Thomas McCormick Gallery 2003. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 12 through May 24 2003 at Manny Silverman Gallery and April 24 through May 31 2003 at Lennon Weinberg Inc and May 2 through June 7 2003 at Thomas McCormick Gallery. Features an essay by Klaus Kertess and the text of Saul Ostrow's interview with Goldberg. Includes 18 color illustrations a list of previous exhibitions selected bibliography and a list of public collections. A fine copy in wrappers. Manny Silverman Gallery, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., and Thomas McCormick Gallery unknown books
1998rif. 846501998. Los Angeles: HBO Pictures 1998. iii 129 ff. Los Angeles: HBO Pictures 1998. iii 129 ff. An Unproduced Screenplay Based on the Memoir of an Important 20th-Century Civil Rights Lawyer Janson Saul C. Kinoy Arthur 1920-2003. Rights on Trial. Based on the Book by Arthur Kinoy. Revised Draft September 28 1998. Los Angeles: HBO Pictures 1998. iii 129 ff. Xerographically duplicated typescript bound in stiff glossy HBO wrappers with two metal brads title and date written on left edge of text block. Light soiling and some shelfwear to exterior occasional brief editorial notes and markings in ink to text. Very good. $500. Written by attorney and screenwriter Saul C. Janson this screenplay adapts Arthur Kinoy's memoir Rights on Trial: The Odyssey of a People's Lawyer 1983. Best known for his defense of accused spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg he also argued cases before the Supreme Court and founded the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Public Interest Law Center of New Jersey the Mass Party Organizing Committee and the Women's Rights Law Reporter. unknown books
1945rif. 207230New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce 1945. Hardcover. Early printing. Another terrific collection of black and white cartoons/drawings from this important American artist who is well known for his work for the New Yorker. A close to near fine copy in brown cloth boards with a small pencil date to the front free endpaper the top two inches of the half title page have been trimmed and from the library of Lucas Samaras with estate stamp to the half title page some other minor wear. No dust jacket. A somewhat uncommon early book from Steinberg with an interesting provenance. Duell, Sloan & Pearce unknown books
