£150 - £200
Americana. Modern Firsts: Engel (Marian), Bear, first UK edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, original publisher's dustjacket over black cloth boards, 8vo; Vonnegut (Kurt, Jr.), Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, first edition, Book Club Edition, [New York]: A Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, 1969, half-title, original dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon, with a photograph of the author by Bossi, front turn-in price-clipped, rear turn-in numbered 1923, publisher's blue cloth, top-edge cut, 8vo; idem, Slapstick!, or Lonesome No More!, first edition, third impression, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1976, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon, grey cloth, top-edge cut, 8vo; Burroughs (William), The Ticket That Exploded, first UK edition, London: Calder and Boyars, 1968, original pictorial dustjacket, slight wear, over cloth 8vo; idem, The Soft Machine, first UK edition, ex-library copy, 1968, dj, hb, 8vo; Baldwin (James), Blues for Mister Charlie, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1965, original dustjacket over cloth boards, 8vo; DeLillo (Don), Running Dog, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Lidia Ferrara, cloth over papered boards, 8vo; Burns (John Horne), The Gallery, first edition, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947, original dj, chipped, torn and worn, over cloth, 8vo; Barthelme (Donald), Sixty Stories, first edition, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 198, original dj over grey cloth boards, slight wear, 8vo; Exley (Frederick), A Fan's Notes, first UK edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970, original pictorial dustjacket designed by James Spanfeller, over grey cloth boards, 8vo; other authors, including Paul Metcalf, Joan Didion, Martin Amis, etc., (13)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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