[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED First Editions by Auster, Ballard, and Caldwell, prices reduced

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Price reduced:     Was $125,      Now $75

AUSTER, Paul. THE ART OF HUNGER. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1992). 
First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. One of 300 numbered and SIGNED 
copies of this collection of essays and interviews. Fine in a Fine 
dustwrapper. (#005824)        $75.00

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AUSTER, Paul. THE LOCKED ROOM. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, (1986). First 
Edition. The third volume of his New York trilogy. This copy contains 
the colophon page for the lettered issue of 26 copies but is neither 
signed nor lettered there. However, it is SIGNED by the author on the 
title page. Small area of the dark blue front endpaper with minor 
discoloration from the erasure of ink numbers. Still Fine in a Fine 
dustwrapper. (#015263)        $275.00

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Price reduced:     Was $250,      Now $150

BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]. LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT AND OTHER 
STORIES. London: Jonathan Cape, (1976). First Edition. Uncorrected proof 
in red wraps decorated with the publisher's logo of an early science 
fiction title by the author of CRASH. SIGNED by the author on the title 
page. Sunning and some wrinkling to the backstrip. Near Fine. 
(#012650)        $150.00

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CALDWELL, Erskine. JENNY BY NATURE. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 
(1961). First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Caldwell on the front 
endpaper to newspaperman Tom Curtiss dated Paris 1961 "Because I like to 
read what you write." About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor 
wear, a couple of small stains, and a sunned spine. (#010673)        $100.00

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CALDWELL, Erskine. JOURNEYMAN. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. New 
Edition. Uncommon edition of this novel about preacher Semon Dye, a 
rascal with a g-ft of gab, an eye for women, and a taste for liquor. 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to 
newspaperman Tom Curtiss with good wishes in Paris on the "Last day of 
April 1972." About Fine in a price-clipped Very Good dustwrapper. 
(#010672)        $75.00

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Price reduced:     Was $350,      Now $200

CALDWELL, Erskine. PLACE CALLED ESTHERVILLE. New York: Duell, Sloan & 
Pearce, (1949). First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 
half-title page to Ralph D. Hartman "with all good wishes." Fine in a 
Near Fine dustwrapper with minor wear at tips. Lovely copy. (#010065)    
     $200.00

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