1966rif. 622315Boston / Quincey Massachusetts: Boston University / South Shore Mental Health Center 1966. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. vii 84pp. Owner name of a noted American psychologist who has also penned the subject along the upper joint. Front cover a bit toned at the edges rear cover with a couple of nicks and a creased corner very good or better. Boston University / South Shore Mental Health Center unknown books
1975rif. 608514New York: The Viking Press 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked spine bumped corners and a stain on the rear board bottom edge thus very good in a very good dust jacket with internal staining and tiny tears. The Viking Press hardcover books
1995rif. 608700New York: New Yorker Magazine Inc 1995. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. LXXII No. 2. Front cover illustrated by Rea Irvin. Quarto. 272pp. Stapled wrappers. Wraps lightly rubbed a few bumps along the edges and spine very good. Includes contributions by Saul Steinberg John Updike Dorothy Parker and others. New Yorker Magazine, Inc unknown books
1946rif. 614651Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. IV No. 12. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers tanned with moderate wear and soil a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing a "condensation" from Era Bell Thompsons's American Daughter an important memoir of Black life in Iowa and North Dakota later recognized for its excellence and republished in the Sixties. This issue also prints the recurring articles "How I Beat Jim Crow" and "If I Were an Negro" the former by Charles Clinton Spaulding the longtime President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company at the time of publication the largest Black-owned business in America and the latter by activist and author of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer Saul Alinsky and further titled "Beware the Liberals." This issue also with a four-page insert bound in advertising the NEW Negro Digest in full color as well as the articles "Who is a Negro The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White" by Herbert Asbury condensed from Collier's; "A Southerner Looks at the South" by Hodding Carter condensed from The New York Times; "Acid Test of America" by Clare Booth Luce condensed from Today's Woman; "The Harlem Nobody Knows" by Bucklin Moon condensed from Glamour; and the recurring article "My Favorite War Hero" this month penned by Herbert M. Frisby who was a war correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon. Negro Digest Publishing Company unknown books
1984rif. 600160New York: Harper & Row 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small stains on foredge tiny remainder mark on bottom edge thus very good in about fine dust jacket. Harper & Row hardcover books
1975rif. 604587New York: The Viking Press 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Light wear topedge a trifle foxed and foredge with a small light stain not affecting the interior very good or better in a toned and soiled near very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears and a later price label on the upper flap. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Viking Press hardcover books
1950rif. 604776New York: Cowles Magazines Inc. 1950. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. 1 No. 2. Edited by Fleur Cowles. Folio. 120pp. Heavily illustrated. Illustrated wrappers with a die-cut front cover revealing an illustration by Antoni Clavé. Wraps toned and moderately soiled light edgewear tipped-in page between pages 18 and 21 has been torn out resulting in gutter damage on the opposing 2 leaves very good overall. The second issue of this art and literary magazine with contributions by Saul Steinberg Ann Chidester Cecelia Ager and others. Cowles Magazines, Inc.) unknown books
1975rif. 596390New York: The Viking Press 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Pages lightly age-toned small paperclip impression at top of first few pages near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine faint soil and minor edgewear. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A bright copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
1991rif. 581822New York: Albondocani Press 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards. Prospectus laid in. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by Bellow. Albondocani Press hardcover books
1958rif. 586220Paris: Paris Review 1958. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Cover art by Steinberg. Illustrated in black and white. Pictorial wrappers. Small soil spot on title page creases on the spine near fine. Includes the first appearance of "The Art of Fiction XXII" an interview with Henry Green conducted by Terry Southern and reproduces a page of Henry Green manuscript in holograph facsimile. Additional contributions by Philip Roth V.S. Naipaul Evelyn Shefner Niccolo Tucci Vanni Jacques Villon Philip Larkin James Merrill Helen Pinkerton Allen Grossman and many more. Paris Review unknown books
1966rif. 592462Paris: Maeght Editeur 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition trade issue. Text in French by Michel Butor and Harld Rosenberg. Photographs by Inge Morath. Oblong quarto. Covers very lightly toned a few tiny bumps along the edges covers a bit wrinkled small booksellers ticket on the title page about near fine overall in a lightly toned near fine clear acetate dust jacket housed in a near fine slipcase with a bit of wear along the edges. Maeght Editeur hardcover books
1984rif. 567581New York: Harper & Row 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Harper & Row hardcover books
1975rif. 581713New York: The Viking Press 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Pages slightly age-toned else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny dots on the front panel slight toning on the spine and a touch of wrinkling. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A decent copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
1930rif. 562099Boston: Bruce Humphries 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Metallic patterned paper over boards with printed paper labels. Light wear at the corners and spine ends else fine in an evenly toned very good dust jacket with a bit of shallow chipping along the topedge. Briefly Inscribed on the front fly. A nicely produced volume of poetry. Saul was Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Bruce Humphries hardcover books
1994rif. 567374New York: Viking 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 327pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of articles lectures essays travel pieces and an "Autobiography of Ideas." Bellow won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature. Viking hardcover books
1959rif. 551234New York: Viking Press 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition first issue. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bellow's seriocomic novel of an eccentric American millionaire on a quest in Africa. A lovely copy and very scarce in this condition. Small book label of author Larry McMurtry and his neat pencil signature dated in 1964. Viking Press hardcover books
1971rif. 547748New York: Random House 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 360pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine tiny tears and rubbing. Advance Review Copy with publisher's laid laid in. A documentary analysis of America's racial history and why it has been kept hidden. Random House hardcover books
1953rif. 470537Paris: Maeght 1953. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. Nos. 53-54. Illustrated by Saul Steinberg. Folio. 24pp. Text in French. Three unsewn gatherings in printed wrappers. Wrappers with modest toning and a bit of wear including a small chip on the lower panel and two small abrasions on the cover one minorly affecting the manuscript date some staining along the spine very good in a modestly worn and toned very good unprinted dust jacket with a couple of short tears a tiny piece of tape on each flap and "Steinberg" inked on the spine. Boldly Inscribed in Steinberg's inimitable flowing script on the cover: "To Ann and Paul with Love Saul Paris 1953." Published in 1953 on the occasion of Steinberg's first Paris exhibition. Maeght unknown books
1970rif. 500004New York: The Viking Press 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tiny stain on the rear pastedown light spotting on the topstain near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears and small scuff marks on the rear panel. Winner of the National Book Award. The Viking Press hardcover books
1954rif. 511125New York: The New York Public Library 1954. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 45pp. Green printed wrappers stapled. Edges of wrappers lightly age-toned short tear on topedge on front wrapper one-inch linear chip on rear wrapper topedge else very good. Contains essays about Irish bibliography including chapters devoted to W.B. Yeats "The Winged Image: A Note on Birds in Yeats's Poems" James Stephens "A Descriptive Record of James Stephens' Contributions to Sinn Fein" etc. The New York Public Library unknown books
1989rif. 530775New York: Vintage 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. xvii 235pp. Trade paperback. Edges of interior panels lightly toned top corner of cover slightly splitting near fine. Vintage unknown books
1973rif. 459506New York: International Universities Press 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing. Thick octavo. 903pp. Small owner's name else fine in a fine dustwrapper. International Universities Press hardcover books
1939rif. 445522New york: The New American Library 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. 186pp. Age-toning and foxing on the pages and wrappers with light edge wear very good. The living thoughts of America's Architect of Freedom. A title in the "Mentor Book" series. The New American Library unknown books
1971rif. 442225Chicago: American Library Association 1971. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. 169pp. Ex-library with the usual markings lacking the title page and half-title page corner clipped foxing on page edges good in a near fine dust jacket with spine sunned. American Library Association hardcover books
1965rif. 443338New York: Signet Book / New American Library 1965. Softcover. Good. Complete and unabridged. Mass market paperback. Pages age-toned spine and corners creased small pen mark on front wrapper good only. Signet Book / New American Library unknown books
