Lot 416
Lot 416
Fourteen first editions

American authors, 1966-2000

Price Realised USD 1,250
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Fourteen first editions

American authors, 1966-2000

Price Realised USD 1,250
Price Realised USD 1,250
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Fourteen first editions
American authors, 1966-2000
AMERICAN LITERATURE: Group of 14 first or first American editions. New York: 1966-2000.

Post-Vietnam American fiction, including limited editions by Philip Roth and I.B. Singer, inscribed Joseph Heller, and a great copy of Joan Didion’s second novel. Comprises: ROTH, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House, 1969. Limited first edition, signed by the author, no. 307 of 600 copies. Original board slipcase. * DIDION, Joan. Play It As It Lays. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1970]. * KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Being There. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. * GARDNER, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. * HELLER, Joseph. Something Happened. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to his lawyer, Ev Zeigler, dated June 1975. * SINGER, I. B. The Collected Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. Limited first edition, signed by the author, no. 374 of 450 copies. Original slipcase. * 8 further volumes.

Together, 14 volumes. Octavo. Original cloth or boards; dust jackets as issued. (Condition varies, some scattered shelfwear.) Overall near fine condition.
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