The Lost Generation

Gertrude Stein coined the term in 1924 to refer to the young American writers who had worn the uniform in the First World War. She told Hemingway: “That’s what you are.That’s what you all are. All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death…"

Hemingway popularized the term by using it as an epigraph for his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. However, he later wrote to his editor Max Perkins that the "point of thebook" was not so much about a generation being lost, but that "the earth abideth forever"; he believed the characters in the novel may have been battered but were not lost.In his 1964 memoir of his years in Paris, A Moveable Feast, Hemingway wrote: “I tried to balance Miss Stein’s quotation with one from Ecclesiastes… I thought ‘who is calling who a lost generation?’… the hell with her lost-generation talk and all the dirty, easy labels… Gertrude is nice,…But she does talk a lot of rot sometimes.”

Critic Malcolm Cowley, himself of that generation of American writers, proposes the term “World War I Generation” to describe American writers born in the 15 years from1891 to 1905 who came of age during the First War and who started publishing their first books in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

An early leader of that group is F. Scott Fitzgerald who defined a literary generation as: “….by a generation I mean that reaction against the fathers…. It is distinguished by aset of ideas, inherited in moderated form from the madmen and outlaws of the generation before; if it is a real generation it has its own leaders and spokesmen, and it drawsinto its orbit those born just before it and just after….”

Cowley compiled a list of 385 names of American writers in this age bracket who distinguished themselves in all literary fields. In fiction, poetry, and drama alone, these writers collected 19 Pulitzers, 10 National Book Awards, and 5 Nobel Prizes for Literature.

Cowley judges the period and the works created to have been a “second flowering” of American literature--the first American Renaissance having been the 1850’s & 1860’sgraced by Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne and Thoreau. Another critic, Van Wyck Brooks said the WW I generation was the most “dramatic” period in American literature.

We have chosen to represent this second flowering of American writing in this catalog with the work of 24 authors categorized as follows. Of course, this is just a sampling.We have many more First Editions of the Lost Generation in stock.

• The Early American Trinity: Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound• The Paris Big 3: Hemingway, Fitzgerald & John Dos Passos• Mystery Masters: Dashiell Hammett & John M. Cain• Other Masters: Faulkner, Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, John Marquand & Thomas Wolfe• Three Poets, A Humorist & A Critic: Hart Crane, EE Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, James Thurber & Edmund Wilson• The Younger Set: Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, John O’Hara, James Farrell & Robert Penn Warren

The Lost Generation writers have had an impact on the next generation of American writers, and are highly valued by collectors. Norman Mailer entered Harvard intending tobecome an engineer, but decided to be a writer after spending a summer vacation reading James T. Farrell, Dos Passos and Steinbeck.

In Christie’s May 2000 auction, a collector paid $248,000 for Hemingway’s autographed handwritten draft of his short story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”. InJune last year, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby sold for $180,000 at Bonham’s auction house in New York.

Janet Hobhouse. Everybody Who Was AnybodyG.P. Putnam, New York, 1975.

First American Edition. With black & white photographs andcolor plates of paintings. Bio of Gertrude Stein who kneweverybody in Paris in the 1920’s, including Hemingway. “Itwas easy to get into the habit of stopping at 27 rue deFleurus late in the afternoon for the warmth and the greatpictures and the conversation. Often Miss Stein would haveno guests and she was always very friendly…. In the threeor four years that we were good friends I cannot rememberGertrude Stein ever speaking well of any writer who had notwritten favorably about her work or done something toadvance her career…” --from Hemingway’s Paris memoirs,A Moveable Feast. $30

David Newton-Demolina.The Literary Criticism of T. S. Eliot:New EssaysAthlone Press, UK, 1977.

Fine/Fine. Essays probe Eliot’sinfluence as a literary critic. $50

Peter Ackroyd. Ezra Pound and His WorldThames and Hudson, London, 1980.

First Edition Signed & Dated by Peter Ackroyd. VeryGood/Near Fine. With 111 illustrations & photos of Pound'slife. Brown cloth with bright gilt decoration on front and titlelettering on spine. Bumped and cloth slightly worn throughat bottom edge of spine. Hemingway wrote of Pound:“Ezra Pound was always a good friend and he was alwaysdoing things for people… Ezra was themost generous writer I have ever knownand the most disinterested. He helpedpoets, painters, sculptors and prose writers…” Anyone who has seen the facsimile manuscriptedition of T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland with Pound’s editingnotes, will agree. $120

The Yale Review. Yale University PressNew Haven, 1989.

Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Issue dedicated to T.S. Eliot, including 5poets reviewing his poems. $25

The Early American Trinity

The Paris Big 3John Dos Passos. Century’s Ebb:The Thirteen ChronicleGambit, Boston, 1975.

Stated First Printing Signed & Dated byAuthor's wife, Betty Dos Passos. NearFine/Very Good Plus. Jacket original price intact. $250

Barry Maine. Dos Passos The Critical HeritageRoutledge, Chapman & Hall, London, 1988

First Edition. Fine/Fine. Dos Passos called him-self a chronicler of American life—writing novels,history, biographies, plays, poems and muchtravel literature. He was a charter member of theAmerican literary set in 1920’s Paris—includingdriving an ambulance at the French front duringWW I. $22

John Dos Passos. The Best of Times;An Informal MemoirNew American Library, New York, 1966.

First Edition. Fine/Fine. In this memoir, DosPassos describes his time spent withHemingway in Paris in the ‘20’s: “I did enjoygoing to the day bicycle races with him.French sporting events had for me a specialcomical air that I enjoyed. We would collect aquantity of wine and cheeses and crunchyrolls, a pot of pate and perhaps a cold chick-en, and sit up in the gallery. Hem knew all thestatistics and the names of the riders. Hisenthusiasm was catching, but he tended tomake a business of it while I just liked to eatand drink and enjoy the show.” $30

John Dos Passos. Orient ExpressHarper & Brothers, New York, 1927.

Stated First Edition. Very Good/No DJ.With 8 Illustrations in color from paintingsby the Author. Pages & endpaperstanned. Owner name on flyleaf. Bindingslightly cracked. A collection of DosPassos essays about his travels toConstantinople, to Batum, and thenthrough Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijanby train and boat. $150

Ernest Hemingway. Essay:The Art of the Short StoryThe Paris Review, Paris, 1981.

25th Anniversary Double Issue contains:Essay by Ernest Hemingway "The Art ofthe Short Story"; Fiction by RaymondCarver, William Faulkner, William H. Gass,Terry Southern; Drawings by DavidHockney; and Poetry by John Ashberry,Robert Creeley, James Dickey, ThomGunn, Donald Hall, Anne Sexton and manyothers. $30

Ernest Hemingway. Islands in the Stream Scribner, New York, 1929.

First Edition, First Printing with "A-9.70 (V)" printed oncopyright page. Fine green cloth with gilt Hemingway signature stamped on cover. Like new Dust Jacket. The novel was the first Hemingway work publishedposthumously. The manuscript was found by his last wife,Mary after his death. The author had started a sea trilogyas early as 1950, and had actually separately publishedone of the stories as The Old Man and The Sea in 1952.Mary and Scribner then combined the two unpublishedstories with a fourth unpublished sea short story under the current title in 1970. $360

Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bells TollsScribner, New York, 1940.

First Issue with letter "A" on copyright page. Very GoodPlus/ Near Fine. In 1937 Hemingway contracted with theNorth American Newspaper Alliance to report on theSpanish Civil War. From his front line reporting experience,he wrote this story of a young American attached to arepublican guerilla unit as an explosives expert. He wrotethe novel in 18 months in Cuba, Wyoming and Idaho. Thebook was an instant best seller, and is considered, alongwith The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, andhis short stories, as the master at his best.Both party candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential elec-tion agree. Obama named the book as "one of the threebooks that have inspired him; and John McCain said thebook is his all-time favorite. A bipartisan endorsement.

$2100Ernest Hemingway. The Dangerous SummerScribner, New York, 1985.First Edition Thus.

Introduction by James A.Michener. Fine/Fine. Includesblack & white bullfight photos . Theauthor’s last book, edited from a75,000 word manuscript written in1959-1960 on assignment for LIFEMagazine which describes therivalry between bullfightersDominguin and Ordonez.Dominguin came out of retirementto challenge the younger Ordonez.Most definitely worth two ears, ahoof and the tail. $60

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the SeaScribner, New York, 1952.

First Edition. First Issue with publisher colophon and letter "A" on copyright page. Near Finewith Fine First State dust jacket. Bright artwork on front of DJ. Original light blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Original $3.00 price intact. Written in Cuba in 1951 and published the following year, this novella was the last major work of fiction Hemingwaywrote and published in his lifetime. The story recounts an epic battle of wills between anold, experienced fisherman and a giant marlin-- the largest catch of his life. The book was featured in Life Magazine, and five million copies of the magazine were sold in twodays. The novella received the Pulitzer Prize in 1952, and was cited when he was awardedthe Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. "No good book has ever been written that has in itsymbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, areal sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough theywould mean many things"—Ernest Hemingway. $1900

Madelaine Hemingway Miller. Ernie;Hemingway Sister “Sunny”RemembersCrown, New York, 1975.

First Edition. Very Good Plus/ Very Good.With 130 Hemingway family photos. $25

Ernest Hemingway. The Garden of EdenScribner, New York, 1986.

Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. Hemingwaystarted the novel in 1946 and worked on itfor 15 years. It was first published 25 yearsafter his death. $60

Ernest Hemingway. Interview in The Paris Review 18Paris Review, Paris, 1958.

Fifth Anniversary Issue includes: Interview with ErnestHemingway, Short Story by Philip Roth, Drawing byGiacometti and Poetry by W.S. Merwin, Louis Simpson,W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Bly and others. $65

F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and DamnedA.L. Burt, New York, 1922.

Third Printing, March, April 1922.Very Good Plus green cloth withbright gilt letter titles on front andspine. Pages tanned with age butclean and tight. No dust jacket.Fitzgerald’s second novel paints aportrait of the social elite during the Jazz Age. Its account of thecomplexities of marriage is thoughtto be based on the Author ’schallenging marriage with ZeldaFitzgerald. $75

Francis Kroll Ring. Against the Current;As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald.Creative Arts Book Co., Berkeley, 1985.

First Edition Inscribed by Author. Ring wasFitzgerald's secretary in Hollywood duringthe last two years of his life. Foreword by A. Scott Berg. Fine/Fine. $50

F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald. Bits of Paradise:21 Uncollected StoriesScribner, New York, 1973.

First Edition. Stories selected by Matthew J.Bruccoli with the assistance of Fitzgerald'sdaughter, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Includes11 previously uncollected stories by F. Scottand all of Zelda Fitzgerald's stories. NearFine/Near Fine. $50

F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Notebooks of F. Scott FitzgeraldHarcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1978.

Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine.Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Contains 2078 entries ranging in length for one word to hundred plus word passages which provide insight into how he wrote his novelsand stories. $24

Dashiell Hammett, Dead Yellow WomanLawrence E. Spivak/Jonathan Press, New York,1947.

First Edition Thus. Six Stories selected, edited andintroduced by Ellery Queen. Very Good Plus/No DJ.“Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase anddropped it into the alley. He gave murder back tothe kind of people who do it for a reason, not just toprovide a corpse; and with means at hand, not withhand wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropicalfish.” –Raymond Chandler $200

Dashiell Hammett. The Continental OPLawrence E. Spivak, New York, 1945.

First Edition Thus.Very Good Pluspaperback digest. Acollection of 4 stories,introduced by ElleryQueen. Hammett'sfirst short storyappeared in the magazine Black Maskin 1923. Under apseudonym, Hammettintroduced a short,overweight, unnameddetective employedby the Continental

Detective Agency, who became known as TheContinental Op. In 36 stories between 1923 and 1930,featuring the tough and dedicated Op, Hammett gaveshape to the first believable detective hero in Americanfiction. Drawing on his own experiences working for thePinkerton Detective Agency, Hammett created a privateeye, whose methods of detection are completely convincing, and whose personality is multidimensional.

$150

Dashiell Hammett. The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other StoriesLawrence E. Spivak, Bestseller Mystery No. B50.New York, 1944.

First Edition Paperback. A collection of 7 stories with an Introductionby Ellery Queen. Very Good/No DJ.“It was Hammett -- as much as contemporaries like SherwoodAnderson, Frank Norris and even Ernest Hemingway -- who createda truly American voice in literature; a bold, unflinching hard-boiledtone that, as Raymond Chandler once put it, could be ‘made to sayanything’.”—January Magazine Review. $180

Mystery Masters

James M.Cain. Past All DishonorKnopf, New York, 1946.

Stated First Edition. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Redcloth with gilt spine title lettering. Endpages tanned.Price intact dust jacket--chipped at spine top and topedge of back cover. Cain at his suspenseful peak: ayoung Confederate spy in Virginia City, Nevada isthe hero; passion & murder are the ingredients. $120

James M.Cain. The Magician’s WifeDial Press, New York, 1965.

Stated First Printing. Very Good/ VeryGood Dust Jacket with original price($3.95) intact. A story of two illicitlovers who plot to murder thewoman's husband, and the conse-quences of their actions. The novelhas some of the Cain's best hard-boiled writing, and moves swiftly andwith excitement. $75

James M.Cain. Double IndemnityAvon Murder Mystery Monthly, New York, 1943.

Murder Mystery Monthly No. 16. Digest size. First Thus.First separate appearance edition. First publication wasin Liberty Magazine in 1936. Second appearance was inThree of a Kind which collected 3 short novels. Softcoverdampstained in top corner. Pages tanned. A tale of anadulterous couple who try to commit the perfect insur-ance murder. "I make no conscious effort to be tough, orhard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usuallycalled. I merely try to write as the character would write,and I never forget that the average man, from the fields,the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters ofhis country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goesbeyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to thisheritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall

attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort."--Cain in preface to DoubleIndemnity. The story was filmed by Billy Wilder (1944), who hired Raymond Chandler towrite the script. Cain also participated in story conferences. $75

James M.Cain. Rainbow’s End, Mason CharterNew York, 1975.

Stated First Printing. Near Fine blue clothwith gold title lettering on spine. Bumpedat bottom of spine. Near Fine Dust Jacketwith original $7.95 price intact. Cain wasa journalist, screenwriter, and novelist -identified with Dashiell Hammett andRaymond Chandler as a central memberof the hard-boiled school of crime fiction.However, Cain's own opinion was: "Ibelong to no school, hard-boiled or other-wise". Raymond Chandler called him "aProust in greasy overalls". The novel isabout a bank heist gone awry. $55

Henry Miller. My Bike & Other FriendsCapra Press, Santa Barbara, 1978.

First Edition. Volume II ofthe Author’s Book ofFriends. Near Fine TradePaperback/No DJ. In 1973,Miller started “renderinghomage” to his Paris andBig Sur friends by writingshort portraits. This secondvolume includes 8 portraits,including one of his eternalfriend, his bike. $30

William Faulkner. MaydayUniversity of Notre DamePress, London, 1978.

First Trade Edition of aFaulkner fable the authorhand-lettered, illustrated andbound in 1926 as a gift to awoman he wished to marry.Color plates of the onlyFaulkner watercolors knownto exist. Fine/Near Fine.Owner bookplate. $40

William Faulkner. Father AbrahamRandom House, New York, 1984.

Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine.Reproduced from a 1926 twenty-four page manuscript which is the earliest attempt by Faulkner to start a novel finally published in1940 as The Hamlet. $30

William Faulkner.Requiem for a NunRandom House, New York,1959.

Near Fine/Near Fine. Thisplay version of the Author's15th novel was published8 years after the novel firstappeared. Black cloth withbright gilt titles on frontand spine. $50

Katherine Anne Porter. Pale Horse, Pale RiderThe Southern Review, LSU, Baton Rouge, 1938.

First Appearance ofKatherine Anne Porter'sshort story, "Pale Horse,Pale Rider". Issue alsocontains Poetry byDelmore Schwartz, and abook review by James T.Farrell of "White Mule" byWilliam Carlos Williams.Very good wrappers. $50

Other Masters

John P. Marquand. Sincerely, Willis WaydeLittle, Brown, Boston, 1955.

Stated First Edition. Signed by Author onflyleaf. Very Good beige tan cloth with giltdecoration stamped on front cover. VeryGood Dust Jacket with original price ($2.75)intact. One of the Pulitzer-winning author’slast novels. Wayde rises from being the sonof a factory engineer to the CEO of a majorindustrial conglomerate. $50

John P. Marquand. So Little TimeLittle, Brown, Boston, 1943.

Stated First Edition. Signed by Author on flyleaf.Very Good beige tan cloth with gilt decorationstamped on front cover. Very Good Dust Jacketwith original price ($2.75) intact. The Americansocial and political scene on the eve of WorldWar II. $90

Thornton Wilder. The Woman of AndrosAlbert and Charles Boni, New York, 1930.

First Edition. Good/Very Good Plus. Wilder'sthird novel. Wilder collected 3 Pulitzer Prizesand a National Book Award for his novels andplays. $150

Thomas Wolfe. Mannerhouse:A Play in a Prologue and Three ActsHarper & Brothers, New York, 1948.

First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine.Wolfe set out to be a playwright. Thisis one of the three plays he wrote,probably in 1926--3 years before publication of his first novel. $65

Clive Fisher. Hart Crane, A LifeYale University Press, New Haven, 2002.

First Edition with photos. Near Fine/Near Fine.Bumped at top corner of spine. Critic MalcolmCowley, who knew Crane well in Paris in the ‘20’s,has described the process by which the poet wrotehis poems: Crane chose or was chosen by the subject. Next he made a collection of words andphrases that might be used in the poem. He foundthe words in diverse places—the subway,speakeasies or even rereading Melville andWhitman. Forming the words into a pattern, couldthen take days, weeks, months or years. But creation could only happen at the right moment—usually stimulated by wine, a cigar, or sex. $20

Archibald MacLeish. Herakles:A Play in VerseHoughton Mifflin, Boston, 1967.

First Edition. NearFine/VeryGood. A gold-platedMacLeish resume: Hotchkiss,Yale, Phi Beta Kappa, Skull &Bones, Harvard Law, WW Iartillery captain, Paris expat inthe '20's, 3 Pulitzer Prizes andLibrarian of Congress--amongother accomplishements. $35

James Thurber. 92 StoriesAvenel, New York, 1985.

First Edition. Fine/Near Fine.With original drawings byThurber. Dust Jacket decoratedwith colored Thurber drawings.Thurber: “With sixty staring mein the face, I have developedinflammation of the sentencestructure and definite hardeningof the paragraph.” $25

This Quarter, Vol V, No. 2,Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932.

The "little magazine" This Quarter first appearedin January 1925, and was dedicated to EzraPound. It published early works by H. D., KayBoyle, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, RobertMcAlmon, William Carlos Williams and many otherAmerican writers of the First World War genera-tion. The magazine attracted a good deal of atten-tion because of its fresh critical stance. ThisDecember 1932 issue contains an E.E. Cummingsdrawing and the first appearance of short storiesby James T. Farrell and Samuel Beckett. $110

Edmund Wilson. The Thirties,From Notebooks & Diaries of the PeriodFarrar, Straus & Giroux,New York, 1980.

Stated First Printing. Fine/Fine.Edited with an introduction by LeonEdel. Edel: "...speaks of the plungefrom the 1920s into the 1930s--thetoboggan slide...from affluence topenury". Many critics considerWilson the preeminent Americanman of letters of the 20th century.$45

Three Poets, A Humorist & A Critic

Erskine Caldwell. Jenny by NatureFarrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1961.

Stated First Printing. Signed by Author. NearFine/Near Fine. Dust jacket soiled on back andspine tanned. Faulkner considered Caldwell torank in the top 5 writers of his generation(theother 4: Wolfe, Dos Passos, Hemingway, and, ofcourse, Faulkner himself). Saul Bellow thoughtCaldwell should have won the Nobel. $150

Erskine Caldwell. God’s Little AcreModern Library, New York, c. 1947.

Circa 1947 printing or earlier as publisher's label onfront inside flap states: "As of April 15. 1947, theprice of The Modern Library in U.S.A. is $1.25 acopy." New foreword by the Author. Near Fine. VeryGood Dust Jacket with darkened spine and smalltear at top edge of front cover. Critics saw Caldwellas a literary realist and sociologist, whose workspainted a naturalistic portrait of rural poverty.Caldwell once explained that his aim was "describingto the best of my ability the aspirations and despairof the people I wrote about". Part of the publicity forthis book came from the fact that the New YorkSociety for the Prevention of Vice tried to have it banned for its sexuality. Erskinetook the case to court and won. The 1958 film version starring Robert Ryan, TinaLouise, Aldo Ray, and Michael Landon, was promoted as: "Rousing, rollicking and

ribald, God's Little Acre is a rustic revel with thekick of Georgian mule.” $70

Erskine Caldwell. Georgia BoyDuell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1943.

Near Fine/Near Fine.Inscribed by Author: "ForEdward S. Lewis, Whatare you going to do withthis one if it out sellsyour and my fondestexpectations? ErskineCaldwell". Caldwell told an interviewer that thisnovel was his favorite. Caldwell: “Georgia Boy isthe most complete book I have ever written. It haseverything, sociology, economics. I believe it will holdup longer than any otherbook I have written or any other book anyone else has ever written for that matter ! I goes into people more.” $150

Erskine Caldwell. Tragic GroundDuell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1944.

First Edition. A wartime book. Very Good Plus grey cloth with dark green title lettering on spine.Very Good Dust Jacket with original price ($2.50)intact. An interviewer asked Caldwell how he began to write a book. Caldwell: “I begin with thefirst sentence. After that things take their owncourse.” $90Also: 1st UK Edition, Falcon Press, London, 1947 $50

The Younger Set

John Steinbeck. The Long ValleyViking, New York, 1938.

First Edition ("First Published inSeptember 1938"). First State. NearFine biege cloth over light orangeboards. Near Fine Dust Jacket withminor chipping of spine top and bottom edges. Original Price ($2.50)intact. A collection of 12 short storiesset in the Author’s birthplace,Salinas, California. $1200

John Steinbeck. Tortilla FlatViking, New York, 1947.

First Illustrated Edition (October 1947) with 17 reproductionsof color paintings by Peggy Worthington. Near Fine beigecloth with color seagulls painting pasted on front. Colorfulillustrations covering front and rear endpapers. Near FineDust Jacket. The Author’s 5th novel and first clear success.Wisdom On Drinking Wine from Tortilla Flat: “Two gallons is agreat deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugsmay be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the firstbottle, serious and concentrated conversations. Two inchesfurther down, sweetly sad memory. Three inches more,thoughts of old and satisfactory lovers. An inch, thoughts ofbitter lovers. Bottom of the first jug, general and undirected sadness. Shoulder of the secondjug, black, unholy despondency. Two fingers down, a song of death or longing. A thumb, everyother song each one knows. The graduations stop here, for the trail splits and there is no certainty. From this point anything can happen.” $385

John Steinbeck. East of EdenViking, New York, 1952.

Stated First Edition. Very Good Plus bright green cloth.Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with original $4.50 priceintact. According to his last wife, Steinbeck considered thisto be his magnum opus. He claimed: "It has everything init I have been able to learn about my craft or profession inall these years. I think everything else I have written hasbeen, in a sense, practice for this." The story was madeinto a stage play, a Japanese opera , and a movie starringJames Dean, filmed in Marfa, Texas. By chance, my wifeand I spent one night in the James Dean Room at thePaisano Hotel, Marfa last summer. $1700

John Steinbeck. The Moon is DownViking, New York, 1942.

First Edition--states "First Publishedin March 1942". Second Issue. Fine blue cloth with silver letteringspine title. Near Fine Dust Jacket .Steinbeck wrote this propagandanovella at the request of the OSS(WW II predecessor to the CIA), tomotivate the resistance movement in France and the other Nazi occupied countries. It was publishedin every European language in 92different editions, and the US government awarded the author athank you medal. $450

John Steinbeck. The PearlViking, New York, 1947.

First Edition, December 1947. Fine brown cloth withdecorative black ink line drawing on cover. Fine, SecondIssue Dust Jacket (Steinbeck is looking to his right inphoto on rear cover). Original Price ($2) intact. Smalldealer label glued to rear endpaper.The story is based on a Mexican folk tale. The novellawas illustrated with drawings by José Clemente Orozco,a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in boldmurals featuring the theme of human suffering.Steinbeck’s version was adapted to the screen in theUS, Mexico, Australia and India. $330

John Steinbeck. Of Mice and MenCovici-Friede, New York, 1937.

First Edition. First Issue (only 2500 printed).Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket with minor chipping attop and bottom edges of spine. Original Price ($2)intact. One of the author ’s early California novels,which tells the story of two migrant workers duringthe Great Depression. This was Steinbeck's firstattempt at writing in the form of novel-play.Structured in three acts of two chapters each, theauthor intended it to be both a novella and ascript for a play—a novel that could be playedfrom its lines, or a play that could be read like anovel. The story has been adapted several timesfor movies and stage plays. $3800

John Steinbeck. The Wayward BusViking, New York, 1947.

First Edition, February 1947. Near Fine reddish-brown cloth. Near Fine Dust Jacketwith minor wear at spine edges and corners.Original Price ($2.75) intact. Published in 1947, the novel recounts theattempts of its characters (and America) toadjust to life in the immediate postwar era.Publishers Weekly listed the novel as #6 onits bestsellers tally for that year. $350.

John Steinbeck. Cannery RowViking, New York, 1945.

Stated First Edition. Fine First Issue with bright,buff/light mustard cloth with grey cross lines oncover. Fine Dust Jacket with color illustration ofa cannery on the cover.One of the author ’s 16 novels, Cannery Row isa story of a grocer, a marine biologist and abum which takes place on a street lined withsardine factories—since renamed after thenovel. As described in the opening paragraph:"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” The book was adapted asboth a stage play and movie. Steinbeck in his lifetime collected numerous literaryawards including the Pulitzer and Nobelhhhh Prizes. $2700“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”--John Steinbeck

John O’Hara. A Family PartyCresset Press, London, 1957.

John O’Hara. Pipe NightDuel, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1945.

Very Good red cloth with blackspine title. Very Good Dust Jacketwith 1 inch chip missing from topspine edge. Collection of 25 stories.As reviewed by Time: “In the typicalJohn O’Hara story, a characterwants something, needs somethingor works for something—a date, ajob, a reconciliation—and is at thepoint of getting it when everythinggoes wrong, the tables are turned,his friend becomes his enemy, hisgirl laughs at him or somebodypunches him… on the nose.” $75

John O’Hara. The Farmers HotelRandom House, New York, 1951.

Stated First Printing. Very Goodblue cloth with black signaturestamped on front. Small blacksmudge on front cloth. Very GoodDust Jacket with original price ($2)intact. Minor tears on top edge.Owner bookplate. $60

John O’Hara. A Family PartyRandom House, New York, 1956.

Stated First Printing(August 1956). Signed byAuthor on title page. NearFine with Very Good DustJacket with $195 priceintact. Critic Brendan Gillranked O’Hara as "amongthe greatest short-storywriters in English…" andcredited him with helping"to invent what the worldcame to call the New Yorkershort story." $150

John O’Hara. HellboxRandom House, New York, 1947.

Stated First Printing. VeryGood black cloth with silverlettering. Endpaperstanned. Owner bookplate.Very Good Plus DustJacket with original price($2.50) intact. $60

First UK Edition. Near Fine.Very Good Dust Jacket age spotted on the rear. Anovella first published inCollier’s Magazine. $30

James T. Farrell. Truth and Myth About AmericaRand School Press, New York, 1949.

First Edition PamphletSigned by Author.Near Fine/No DJ as published. Text of aspeech Farrell deliveredon April 30, 1949 at theSorbonne. $60

James T. Farrell. When Time Was Born.The Smith/Horizon Press, New York, 1966.

Limited First Edition Signed by the Author.Near Fine black cloth with decorative design on front and back covers. Very GoodPlus Dust Jacket, price clipped. A prose poem rewrite of the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. Single handedly, Farrellaccomplishes what a collaboration of dozens

of bishops and scholars achieved inthe King James Version. $160

Robert Penn Warren. At Heaven’s GateNew Directions, New York, 1985.

First Paperback Edition Signed by Author.His 2nd novel. NearFine/No DJ. $230

James T. Farrell. The Silence of HistoryDoubleday, Garden City, New York, 1963.

Stated First Edition Inscribed & Datedby Author. Very Good--spine darkenedand paged tanned. Very Good PlusDust Jacket with original price intact. A story about an aspiring writer andChicago university student who loseshis Catholic faith and way. $80

Robert Penn Warren. Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980Random House, NewYork, 1981.Stated First Edition.Fine/Fine. Author Awarded3 Pulitzers for poetry andthe novel. $45