[Rarebooks] FS: Several books discounted

[Stephen Johnson]

The below items are for sale at a substantially reduced price today
(Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) subject to the terms set forth below.

Brown, Larry
Joe [Signed]

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Fine, Superior, copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust
jacket, SIGNED BY LARRY BROWN on the title page. Of the novel, the
Washington Post Book World stated: "Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped
his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.", and
Publisher's Weekly stated: "With this powerful, immensely affecting novel
Brown comes into his own as a writer of stature." The book provided the
basis for the 2013 movie of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. Signed
copies of the book are quite uncommon and signed copies in as nice a
condition as is this copy are quite a bit scarcer. A Fine, Superior, copy
SIGNED BY LARRY BROWN. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Fine / fine. Item #2881

Price: $150.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $45
Venturi, Lionello
Chagall

Paris: Editions d'Art Skira, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine
copy of the first edition, first printing (some darkening to the rear joint
-- as published) in a Fine dust jacket (quite slight wear to the spine
panel's top edge but without the toning sometimes seen); a work discussing
the great artist and his work, illustrated with 53 tipped-in color plates
-- each with brilliant color. This copy wears the SCARCE Publisher's
cardboard slipcase which shows some wear and fading. A Fine copy. Item #2773

Price: $125.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $25
Price, Richard
Ladies' Man [Signed]

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1978. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover.
A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (tiny rubs to the extreme
spine corners), in a Fine, bright, unworn, and unfaded dust jacket, SIGNED
BY RICHARD PRICE on the title page; the author's third novel whose
protagonist, Kenny Becker, a young door-to-door Housewares salesman with
washboard abdominals who goes prowls New York City in the early 1970s.
Taking place over a single week during which our Becker finds nothing but
trash and ashes, silenced cash registers and neon lights. Signed copies of
the book in a condition as nice as is this one do not turn up often, this
being the nicest copy we ever have seen. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY RICHARD
PRICE. Fine / fine. Item #2804

Price: $95.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $25
Butler, Robert Olen
Countrymen of Bones [Signed]

New York: Horizon Press, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (binding quite slightly
askew, tiny dark spot to the closed page block's top edge), in a Near Fine
dust jacket with slight edge wear), SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER on the
title page; Butler's third book, a tale centered around two scientists --
both working in the desert of New Mexico unknown to each other but only ten
miles apart from each other -- one an archeologist unearthing the past, the
other working on the development of the first atom bomb. A Near Fine copy,
SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. Near fine / near fine. Item #2809

Price: $75.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $20
Miles, Barry
The Beat Hotel: Ginsburg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris 1957-1963

*New York: Grove Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Fine, Virtually Superior, copy of the first edition, first printing (a bare
touch of pushing to the spine ends) in a Fine dust jacket (with a small
price sticker to the front flap's upper margin); the story of a rooming
house on the Bohemian Left Bank of the river Seine in Paris, France which,
from 1957 through the rooming house's closing in 1963, was home to Allen
Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky,
Harold Norse, and other members of the Beat Generation. A Fine, Virtually
Superior, copy. Fine / fine. Item #2849*

Price: $75.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $20
JEAN-AUBRY, G. [Conrad, Joseph; Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters

*Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. First Edition, Later
Printing. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy of the first edition, later printing,
issued in two volumes in about Very Good dust jackets with the jackets
showing some sunning to the spines, some chips and some quite small tears,
some damage to the right side of the jacket's spine panel for Volume One,
and some sunning to the volumes where the jackets are chipped. The original
publisher's blue cloth is lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and
each front board bears a facsimile of Joseph Conrad's signature in gilt.
The top edge of each closed page block is in gilt as well. The set contains
a frontispiece in each volume and the two volumes together contain a total
of 12 plates and four facsimiles, including two tipped-in. In spite of some
flaws in his work, this set was a significant step forward in Conrad
studies. To produce it, Jean-Aubry gathered approximately 2,000 Conrad
letters. Those in private hands he returned their owners and dozens of them
have since disappeared. (Some of Conrad's letters to John Galsworthy are
known only due to this work.) In his presentation of some of the letters,
Jean-Aubry left out matters that he, a product of his era, considered too
delicate to include or which would, in his judgment, reflect poorly on
Conrad or his correspondents. Altogether a rather nice and Near Fine set in
Very Good dust jackets and RATHER SCARCE TO THE MARKET. Near fine / very
good. Item #2919*

Price: $60.00    TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $20


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With Thanks for your consideration of the above and
Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books



Stephen Johnson
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