Americana. Reed (Ishmael), four signed first editions, Mumbo...

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£100 - £150

Americana. Reed (Ishmael), four signed first editions, Mumbo Jumbo, [New York]: Doubleday, 1972, autographed title-page, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, sunned spine, some wear, over black cloth boards, 8vo; The Last Days of Louisiana Red, New York: Random House, 1974, half-title with author's manuscript dedication, publisher's dustjacket, sunned spine, some wear, over red cloth boards, 8vo; Flight to Canada, New York: Random House, 1976, half-title, dedicated and autographed dedication leaf, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Mike Stromberg, some wear, over two-tone cloth boards, 8vo; Shrovetide in Old New Orleans, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978, half-title, title-page with author's autograph and manuscript dedication, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Jacqueline Schuman, some wear, over two-tone cloth boards, 8vo; idem, another first edition, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, unsigned, London: Allison & Busby, 1971, original printed photographic dustjacket, yellow cloth, 8vo, (5) 

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; association copies dedicated to him.