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34018. Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994. Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions and general tales of ordinary madness. Edited by Gail Chiarrello. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1976, 4th printing, 478pp., PAPERBACK, good clean and solid copy but with small stain on spine paper and superficial horizontal crack in spine paper, $45
. ISBN 0872860612


23744. Davis, Donald D.. Listening for the Crack of Dawn. Little Rock: August House, 1990, stated First Edition, 220pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue hardcover, but pages a bit wavy in second half of book, INSCRIBED at length by Davis on title page. $15
. ISBN 0874831539


25297. Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Tragic America. New York, Liveright, 1931, 435pp., very good gray cloth, with some wear around edges, and with number H16 written in ink on title page, $45
The pre-publication "filched" is found on page 49, but the three other variants noted by Pizer are from the corrected version. Of Dreiser Virginia Woolf wrote in 1919: "He is not himself by any means a great writer, but he may be the stuff from which, in another hundred years or so, great writers will be born" (VW, Essays, 3).


30191. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Story: "Bouffonnerie Noire", in Les oeuvres libres. Revue mensuelle ne publiant que de l'inédit, No. 112 (Sept. 1955). Traduit par R.-N. Raimbault. Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1955, 3-28pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, paper browning, $35
COMPLETE ISSUE of the journal containing translation of Faulkner's story. Other authors: Noel Calef, G. Imann-Gigandet, Jean Ratinaud, Andre Warnod, A. Coullet-Tessier, Bernard Shaw, Claude-Andre Puget.


31400. Hemley, Cecil, 1914-1966. Dimensions of Midnight: Poetry & Prose. Edited by Elaine Gottlieb with a foreword by Mark Van Doren. Athens, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1966, xv, 233pp., fair dust-jacket, worn around edges with chip in middle of spine, very good red cloth, $12
"Cecil Hemley (1914-1966) was born in New York City. He received his B.A. from Amherst and his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and did further graduate work at the Yale school of Drama and the New School for Social Research. He taught at the New School, City College, Columbia and New York University, and he was cofounder of Noonday Press and its Director and Editor until 1963, when he became Director of the Ohio University Press. Hemley served literature in many ways: he was the first to bring Isaac Bashevis Singer to public attention as his editor and translator, and he was also the President of the Poetry Society of America. ".


25810. Hemley, Cecil, 1914-1966. The experience. New York: Horizon Press, 1960, 221pp., very good dust-jacket, slight wear at top of spine, very good black cloth, $19
Design by Marshall Lee. The novel first appeared in serialized form as A folly to the Greeks, in the Chelsea review.


23988. Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930. The woman who rode away and other stories. Leipzig : Tauchnitz, no date, around 1929, Copyright Edition, 285pp., good used copy, sewn paper wraps worn around edges, chip at bottom of spine, previous owner's name, $5
Collection of British and American authors, vol. 4877.


15956. LeClair, Tom / McCaffery, Larry, ed.. Anything can happen: interviews with contemporary American novelists. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983, 305pp. : ill.. 24 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good red cloth, $9
Interviews with: Donald Barthelme, Rosellen Brown, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Federman, Willliam Gass, John Irving, Diane Johnson, Steve Katz, Joseph McElroy, Toni Morrison, Tim O'Brien, Ronald Sukenick, and a dialogue between John Barth and John Hawkes. ISBN 0252009703


22811. Meynell, Esther. Time's Door. New York: Macmillan, 1935, later printing, 337pp., good dust-jacket with a few chips and tears around edges, very good brown decorated cloth, previous owner's name, $14
.


23990. Morris, Wright, 1910-1998. Collected Stories, 1948-1986. Boston: David R. Godine, 1989, 274pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $7.5
. ISBN 087923752X


26772. O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Complete plays, 1932-1943. New York, N.Y.: Library of America, 1988, stated First Printing, 1007pp., very good green cloth in original slipcase, $19
This is ONLY volume 3 of the O'Neill set 1932-1943. Library of America vol. 42. ISBN 094045050X


33518. Roth, Philip, 1933-. Patrimony : a true story. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1991, 238pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear, very good blue-gray cloth, $6
. ISBN 0671703757


33478. Roth, Henry, 1906-. A star shines over Mt. Morris Park. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1994, stated First Edition, 290pp., very good dust-jacket, very good green cloth, $9
Volume 1 of his epic: Mercy of a rude stream. VOLUME ONE ONLY. ISBN 0312104995


34964. Roth, Henry, 1906-. From Bondage. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1996, stated First Edition, 397pp., dust-jacket with spine call number label, taped to itself in plastic sleeve, very good hardcover but ex-library with stamps and pocket, very good condition, $9
Volume 3 of his epic : Mercy of a rude stream. VOLUME THREE ONLY. ISBN 0312143419


34963. Roth, Henry, 1906-. Requiem for Harlem. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1998, stated First Edition, 291pp., dust-jacket with spine call number label, taped to itself in plastic sleeve, very good hardcover but ex-library with stamps and pocket, very good condition, $9
Volume 4 of his epic : Mercy of a rude stream. VOLUME FOUR ONLY. ISBN 0312169809


9811. Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. The moon is down: a novel. New York: The Viking press, 1942, 1st edition: "First published in March 1942", 188pp. 20 cm., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, price-clipped, very good small blue cloth, faded around edges, a few minor pencil marks in margins, $10
.


23141. Stürzl, Erwin A., Hrsg.. Essays in honour of Professor Tyrus Hillway. Edited by Erwin A. Stürzl. Salzburg: Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur, University Salzburg, 1977, 326pp. 21 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, cover a bit faded, $15
Salzburg studies in English literature Romantic reassessment, 65. Stürzl, E. A. Tyrus Hillway. -- Detweiler, R. John Cheever's Bullet Park: a world beyond madness. -- Foltinek, H. Some observations on character in the American novel. -- Glasser, W. The changing world of Harriet Beecher Stowe. -- Hogg, J. William Hayley's Marcella and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The changeling: A case of literary plagiarism? -- Kühnelt, H. H. Franz Blei und Die Literatur der Vereinigten Staaten. -- Martin, J. S. Finding a usable past: Emerson's response to the predicament of early American writers. -- Steiner, D. Zur Autor-Leser-Beziehung bei J. D. Salinger: Autonomie und Manipulation. -- Stürzl, E. A. Byrons Ansichten zur Theorie des Dramas. -- Truchlar, L. "Writing without genre". Marginalien zu Charles Newmans A child's history of America. -- Wahl, W. B. Updike's world and Couples. -- Zacharasiewicz, W. Skizzen eines Reisenden: Bemerkungen zu einem bestimmenden Thema im Werk Washington Irvings.


23743. Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. American hunger. Afterword by Michel Fabre. New York : Harper & Row, 1977, stated First Edition, 146pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $9
. ISBN 0060147687