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*Neruda, Pablo*. *A New Decade Poems 1958-1967* [*Signed*]. New York: Grove
Press, Inc., 1969. First American edition. A Very Good + or better copy of
the first American edition (mild wear to spine extremities and to board
bottoms), in a Very Good + dust jacket (two short closed tears to top of
rear panel, one near the spine panel and repaired with tape to the dust
jacket's verso / interior, mild soil to white rear panel, short crease mark
and small push at top of front flap, very minor wear), SIGNED BY PABLO
NERUDA on the title page -- in his usual green ink symbolizing Hope; a full
decade of Neruda's Poetry.  Declared by Gabriel García Márquez to be "the
greatest poet of the 20th century in any language", Neruda won the 1971
Nobel Prize in Literature for "a poetry that with the action of an
elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams". Signed
copies of Neruda's works are rather uncommon, signed copies of his trade
editions quite so, and signed copies of his trade editions in English
translation are great scarcities. A Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY PABLO
NERUDA. Very Good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#00002890)   *WAS
$3,500.

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*Available to the List for $1,500*.


*Theodorakis, Mikis; Seferis, George; Warner, Rex; Quinn, Anthony; Bates,
Alan*. *Zorba's Dance* [Association Copy *Signed by Mikis Theodorakis,
George Seferis, Anthony Quinn, and Alan Bates*]. London: Robbins Music
Corporation, Ltd, 1965. First edition. A Fine copy of the first edition,
first printing of musical score for the song "Zorba's Dance" (a touch of
age toning, a bit of edge wrinkling primarily at the corners) by Mikis
Theodorakis, SIGNED BY MIKIS THEODORAKIS, GEORGE SEFERIS (in Greek, TO REX
WARNER), ANTHONY QUINN, and ALAN BATES, comprised of the covers and 4 pages
of music composed by Theodorakis for the movie "Zorba the Greek", starring
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, and Irene Papas, and featuring the song. The
front cover reproduces a photograph (or still) showing Anthony Quinn (who
played Zorba in the movie) and Alan Bates (who played Basil) doing the
dance that Zorba taught to Basil. George Seferis signed at the top of the
front cover to his fellow author, dear friend, and frequent translator, Rex
Warner, and Alan Bates signed the front cover above his arm in the cover
photograph. Anthony Quinn signed on the first page of the musical score,
above the song's title, and Mikis Theodorakis, the composer, signed at the
head of the score's 4th, and final, page. Composer, song writer, author,
playwright, poet, philosopher, and activist, Mikis Theodorakis, wrote the
music for the film Zorba the Greek (1964), as well as for Z (1969), for
Serpico (1973), and for 17 other movies. He also composed numerous
symphonies and the scores of numerous ballets, operas, and musicals. [Based
on two traditional Cretan songs, "Armenohorianos Syrtos" and "Kritiko
syrtaki" and written especially for the movie "Zorba's Dance" rapidly
gained worldwide popularity and the catching tune continues to be played in
Greek tavernas. The recording of it made by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass (which they called "Zorba the Greek") reached number 11 on the
Billboard chart, and a version recorded by Marcello Minerbi reached number
6 on the August, 1965 UK singles chart.] Born in Crete and a friend of
George Seferis, Lawrence Durrell, Rex Warner, and Nikos Kazantzakis (who
authored the novel "Zorba the Greek"), Theodorakis shared with those
authors their great fascination with Crete, and, along with along Seferis
and Kazantzakis, was a fierce opponent of the oppression imposed by the
dictators who ruled Greece through much of the 1960's. A Greek Diplomat and
Ambassador to the UK, and one of the Twentieth Century's most important
Greek Poets, George Seferis won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his
eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world
of culture", making him the first Greek ever to have received the Prize.
Copies of the music offered here are quite rare to the market and this
remarkable Association copy SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER MIKIS THEODORAKIS, BY
GEORGE SEFERIS, one of Greece's most important 20th Century Poets and the
first Greek winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1963), to his good
friend, frequent translator, and fellow author Rex Warner, and FURTHER
SIGNED BY ANTHONY QUINN and by ALAN BATES, the principal stars of the movie
which brought Kazantzakis to worldwide fame and which was the high water
mark of Quinn's career, is RARE INDEED. Fine. Wrappers. (#00003291)   *WAS
$3,250.00*
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Available to the List for $1,500

Pound, Ezra*. *Pavannes and Divisions* [*Signed Association Copy*]. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918. First edition. A Very Good copy of the first
edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue cloth, SIGNED BY
EZRA POUND on the title page with a device drawn by him below his
signature; a collection of sketches and essays, some of which were earlier
published in various periodicals. This copy is in Very Good condition, with
wear to the corners and edges, and to the spine, and the with the spine
lettering rather rubbed. The internal condition of the book is Very Good +
or better. (This copy lacks the quite scarce and brittle dust jacket.)
Having a marvelous Provenance, this copy belonged to John M. Lundoff whose
bookplate resides on the front free endpaper and then to the American actor
Jack Palance. American expatriate poet Ezra Pound left America and worked
in London and Paris as the foreign editor of several American magazines. As
such, Pound was responsible for the publication of T. S. Eliot's "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and for the serialization of James
Joyce's Ulysses. Of him, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "He defends [his friends]
when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. ... He
writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets
publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they
claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them
from suicide." In 1925, disillusioned with England due to the carnage of
World War I, which he blamed on usury and international capitalism, Pound
relocated to Italy where he later embraced Mussolini's fascism, vocalized
support for Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by Oswald Mosley
(founder of the British Union of Fascists).  During World War II Pound,
paid by Italy, made hundreds of radio broadcasts critical of the United
States and, as a result thereof, American forces arrested him for treason
in 1945. For one 25-day period, Pound was held outdoors in a 6' x 6' cage
which Pound said triggered a mental breakdown. Thus unfit to be tried for
treason, Pound spent the next 12 years in a Washington D.C. psychiatric
hospital. This copy belonged to John M. Lundoff, an American fascist and
the Chairman of the National Renaissance Program ("NRP") in Brooklyn, New
York. The NRP issued propaganda rehashing Hitler's speeches and published
the National Renaissance Program Bulletin in one issue of which Lundoff
asked the youth of America to choose between "parliamentary democracy with
its empty promises and discord or the clear, brave, and youthful Fascist
principles outlined here."  This copy then switched sides, so to speak, and
became the property of the actor Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Jack
Palahniuk), a full-blooded Ukrainian born in America, who served in the
United States Air Force during World War II while Pound was denouncing
America. The bookplate from the 2006 auction of much of Palance's personal
property is affixed to the front free endpaper. While signed copies of
Pound's limited editions abound, signed copies of his trade publications
are, in our experience, considerably less common and signed copies of the
book offered here are hen's teeth. A Very Good copy of a book quite
difficult to find SIGNED BY EZRA POUND. QUITE SCARCE. Very Good. Hardcover.
(#00003449)   *WAS   $3,250.00*

*Available to the List for $1,500
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*Lewis, Sinclair*; *Lewis, Lloyd*. *Jayhawker A Play in Three Acts* [*Signed
by Sinclair Lewis*]. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935.
First edition. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing
(spine ends pushed with some tiny fraying, slight amount of fading to the
board edges and spine head as is usual for this title), in a Very Good dust
jacket (chip to the spine head with an associated tear, small chips to the
spine tail and ends of the flap folds, age toning to the edges of the flaps
and rear panel, corner-clipped by the Publisher but not price-clipped and
showing the price at $2.00 -- all unsurprising for this jacket which often
is found worn), SIGNED BY SINCLAIR LEWIS on the title page; Sinclair Lewis'
debut (and only) published Play, a joint effort by Sinclair Lewis and by
Lloyd Lewis, the then drama critic for the Chicago Daily News and a Civil
War history specialist. Sinclair Lewis won the 1930 Nobel Prize in
Literature for "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his
ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters", making
him the first author from the United States to win the Prize. Declared by
Sinclair Lewis Bibliographer Stephen Pastore to be "...perhaps the scarcest
title in the post-1930 Lewis lexicon", the first edition of Jayhawker
consisted of a mere 1,076 copies. The Play is set during the Kansas
Missouri border wars which took place off and on from about 1855 to 1864.
During this period, militant bands of nominal free-staters who opposed
Slavery but who were willing to pillage, rob, and kill for other reasons as
well, adopted the term to describe themselves. With relatively few copies
of the first edition having been produced and with many of them no doubt
having been claimed by time, first edition copies are rather scarce to the
market.  Although signed copies of Sinclair Lewis works generally are not
terribly scarce, signed copies of "Jayhawker" are rare. In addition to
having been signed, this copy bears a notable Provenance, having come from
the Estate of decorated Naval Officer and Actor Douglas Fairbanks whose
bookplate resides on the book's front pastedown. A Very Good+ copy of what
itself is a rather uncommon book, and one hardly ever found signed, SIGNED
BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. RARE. Very Good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#00003514)     *WAS   $3,250.00*

*Available to the List for $1,350
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*Bellow, Saul*. *Seize the Day* [*Signed -- Jack Palance's Copy*]. New
York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS
$1,250.   A Very Good + copy -- Near Fine for this title -- of the first
edition, first printing (light fading to spine and to topstain, spine ends
lightly pushed, some shelf marking and a tiny indentation at the base of
each board), in a Very Good + dust jacket which is Near Fine for this title
(expected handling soil, spine faded as is frequently the case with this
dust jacket, a touch of fading to the upper right corner of the front panel
-- less than often seen, some tiny closed tears at the top and bottom panel
and spine edges, tiny chip at the spine tail), SIGNED BY SAUL BELLOW on the
title page. A rather nice copy of Saul Bellow's scarce fourth book which
includes the title Novella, three additional short stories ("A
Father-to-Be", "Looking for Mr. Green", and "The Gonzaga Manuscripts") and
a one-act play titled "The Wreckers". One of the works for which Bellow is
best known, critic James Wood declared it to be one of the great works of
Twentieth Century Literature. The title novella, which presents one day in
the life of salesman Tommy Wilhelm, a middle-aged worldly failure, provided
the basis for the 1986 movie of the same name starring Robin Williams and
Jerry Stiller. Three times a winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
("The Adventures of Augie March", "Herzog" and "Mr. Sammler's Planet"),
Saul Bellow also won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for "Humboldt's
Gift") and the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the human understanding
and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work".
The Press Release issued in connection with his 1976 Nobel Prize noted
particularly the "mature mastery" of "Seize the Day" and noted that "[w]ith
its exemplary command of subject and form, this last novel has received the
accolade as one of the classic works of our time." Signed copies of the
book are quite scarce. This copy belonged to actor Jack Palance has the
bookplate from the 2006 sale of his personal property is loosely laid in. A
Very Good + (Near Fine for this title) copy of one of the 20th Century's
major works, with an EXCELLENT PROVENANCE, SIGNED BY SAUL BELLOW.
EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#00003428)    *WAS  $1,250*

*Available to the List for $500
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*Jackson, Shirley*. *Raising Demons* [*Author's copy; Signed Presentation
to Dedicatee's Son*]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1957.
First edition. A Very Good copy (mildly askew, some foxing to the boards
and pastedowns, dust jacket offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns,
spine ends pushed, light surface rubs to the topstain), in a Very Good dust
jacket (mild sunning to spine, modest edge wear, small tear to top of front
panel, some foxing), INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY SHIRLEY JACKSON TO THE
DEDICATEE'S SON, AND FURTHER INSCRIBED TO HIS SON BY THE DEDICATEE, LOUIS
SCHER and there dated by him "12/56". Jackson's inscription reads: "For
Louis the IV. / Best / Shirley Jackson".  Louis Scher's inscription reads:
"Hope you enjoy / this / Dad / 12/56". Shirley Jackson's second family
memoir (following "Life Among the Savages" - 1953). A prepublication copy
inscribed and provided by Shirley Jackson to the Dedicatee's son at the
Dedicatee's request, thus a Fine Association Copy inscribed both by the
Author and by the Dedicatee, and owned by the Dedicatee's son. (The
Uncorrected Proof provides a projected publication date of "January 21st
1957" and the first edition to the market states "First Printing, 1957". As
this copy has no reference to the publication date and does not state that
it is a later printing, and as it further is dated by the Dedicatee (
"12/56") prior to the book's publication, and, finally, as we believe
Shirley Jackson would most likely have provided a copy to the Dedicatee's
son at the Dedicatee's request prior to publication, we conclude that this
is a prepublication copy provided by the Publisher to the Author prior to
the book's publication. A Very Good AUTHOR'S COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY
SHIRLEY JACKSON TO THE DEDICATEE'S SON, AND FURTHER INSCRIBED TO HIS SON BY
THE DEDICATEE AND DATED PRIOR TO THE BOOK'S PUBLICATION. A RARE INSCRIBED
ASSOCIATION COPY. Very Good in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#00002336)       * WAS $2,550.00*

*Available to the List for $975
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