Collection of (300+) vintage hardcover works of literature, poetry, and criticism, including (90+) novels signed and inscribed...

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Collection of (300+) vintage hardcover works of literature, poetry, and criticism, including (90+) novels signed and inscribed to George Christy. (1930s-2000s) Collection of (300+) vintage novels, short story collections, poetry collections and works of literary criticism, most hardcover with original dust jackets, by some of the most important and innovative authors of the 20th century, including (90+) titles inscribed and signed to book critic and journalist George Christy. Some of the books contain Christy's original notes from interviews with the authors. Inscribed and signed titles include Immortality by Milan Kundera, The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, An American Dream, The Executioners Song, The Time of Our Time and Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer (includes handwritten correspondence by Mailer to Christy), Creation and Hollywood by Gore Vidal, Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski, Rock Springs, The Ultimate Good Luck Independence Day and Wildlife by Richard Ford (includes handwritten correspondence by the Ford to Christy), Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well and The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, In Our Time and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, The Information and Night Train by Martin Amis, Reflections on the Death of Mishima by Henry Miller, Something Happened Good as Gold, and Picture This by Joseph Heller, Acts of Love by Elia Kazan, Goodbye, Janette by Harold Robbins, Fear of Flying and Sappo's Leap by Erica Jong, Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen, Travels by Michael Crichton, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus, Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford, Lovers and Tyrants and Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress by Francine du Plessix Gray, Rabbit Boss by Thomas Sanchez, The Lost Father by Mona Simpson, The Runaway Soul and Profane Friendship by Harold Brodkey, Double Vision: American Thoughts Abroad by John Knowles, The Piranhas by Harold Robbins, Fierce Invalids from Hot Climate by Tom Robbins, Caracole by Edmund White, Forrest Gump by Winston Groom, A Case for the Angels by Gavin Lambert, Heaven and Hell and the Megas Factor by Robert Nathan, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey, Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney, Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner, Sally Seal by Gant Gaither, Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas by Fran Lebowitz, My Other Life by Paul Theroux, Love Comes First by Eric Jong, There's Always Juliet by John Can Druten, Lonesome Cities by Rod McKuen, The Wild Party by Art Spiegelman, A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin, Love, Dad by Evan Hunter, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Elphi by Jean Stafford, Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis, The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende, Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez, Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-cola by Kinky Friedman, Los Gusanos by John Sayles, The Farewell Symphony by Edmond White, Which Lie Did I Tell? By William Goldman, Gardeners and Astronomers by Edith Sitwell and more. First Editions include Ariel by Sylvia Plath, The Crack-up by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franny and Zoe and Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour and Introduction by J.D. Salinger, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Some People, Places & Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, Oh What a Paradise it Seems, and The World of Apples by John Cheever, A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The Garden of Eden, On Writing by Ernest Hemingway, When She Was Good by Philip Roth, The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe, Exile and the Kingdom, Notebooks 1935-1942, and Notebooks 1942-1951 by Albert Camus, The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, Exhumations by Christopher Isherwood, The Dyer's Hand by W.H. Auden, Rocking the Boat by Gore Vidal, Literature and Science by Aldous Huxley, Exhumations and Ramakrishna and His Disciples by Christopher Isherwood, New Orleans Sketches by William Faulkner, Thirty One Sonnets by Richard Eberheart, The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy, The World Within the Word by William H. Gass, A Generous Man by Reynolds Price, Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard, The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway, Collected Poems by Robert Graves, Run River by Joan Didion, Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein, Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather, On the Farm by John Updike, The Black Swan by Thomas Mann, The Bathtub Hoax by H.L. Mencken, The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss, One Way to Spell Man by Wallace Stenger, Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, The Faces of Blood Kindred by William Goyen, Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham, The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace by James Merrill, What is Remembered by Alice B. Toklas, Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke, Listen to the Warm and Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows by Rod McKuen, This Crooked Way, Knights & Dragons, No Place for an Angel, Fire in the Morning, The Snare, Liberia by Elizabeth Spencer, Jackpot by Erskine Caldwell, Midpoint, Telephone Poles, The Music School, The Centaur, and A Month of Sundays by John Updike, The Journey to the East, Strange News from Another Star, Peter Camenzind, The Glass Bead Game, Knulp, Wandering, Rosshalde, Gertrude, Klingsor's Last Summer, Autobiographical Writings, Stories of Five Decades, Beneath the Wheel, and Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse, Zorba the Greek, Freedom or Death, Saint Francis, Report to Greco, Serpent and Lily, The Greek Passion, Journey to Morea, The Rock Garden, The Fratricides, Spain, The Saviors of God, England, Japan China, Toda Raba, and The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis, Mount Olive, Collected Poems, Clea, Bitter Lemons, The Black Book, and Balthazar by Laurence Durrell, and others. Also includes many early and fine editions of other notable works. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to view the lot in-person at our offices.

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