Twenty-five Mostly First Edition Works of Short Stories/Essays/Poetry/Philosophy

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May 13, 2021 - May 25, 2021

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  Twenty-five Mostly First Edition Works of Short Stories/Essays/Poetry/Philosophy. Camus, Albert, A Happy Death, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, stated first American edition; Camus, Albert, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961, third printing; Camus, Albert, Caligula and 3 Other Plays, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958, stated first American edition; Carver, Raymond, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, London: William Collins Sons & Company, 1982, stated first British edition; De Beauvoir, Simone, The Ethics of Ambiguity, New York: Philosophical Library, 1948; Farina, Richard, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, New York: Random House, 1969, stated first printing; Frost, Robert, In the Clearing, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, stated first edition; Gass, William, On Being Blue, Boston: David R. Godine, first edition, first printing; Gass, William, Omensetter's Luck, New York: New American Library, 1966, stated first printing; Gass, William, Fiction and the Figures of Life, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, stated first edition; Golding, William, The Paper Men, London: Faber and Faber, 1984, first edition; Golding, William, The Spire, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, stated first American edition; New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966, stated first American edition; Jarrell, Randall, Losses, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948, stated first edition; Singer, Isaac Bashevis, The Death of Methuselah, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988, first trade edition; Singer, Isaac Bashevis, The Spinoza of Market Street, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudaby, 1961, stated first printing; Williams, Tennessee, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale and Summer and Smoke, New York: New Directions Books, 1964; Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, New York: Harper & Row, 1978, stated first edition; Sartre, Jean-Paul, The Reprieve, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947, stated first American edition; Pirsig, Robert M., Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, New York: Bantam Books, 1991, first edition; O'Neill, Eugene, All God's Chillun Got Wings and Welded, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924; Pynchon, Thomas, Slow Learner, Boston: Little, Brown and Company,1984, stated first edition; Pynchon, Thomas, Vineland, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990, stated first edition; Kesey, Ken, Demon Box, New York: Viking, 1986, first edition; O'Hara, John, And Other Stories, New York: Random House, 1968, stated first printing, (all works in dust jackets in predominantly good condition, some jackets with chipping or price clipped, many with book jacket covers).

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