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	[SALINGER, J.D.]. The Kit Book For Soldiers, Sailors, & Marines. Chicago: Consolidated BooK Publishers, Inc., (1942). First edition. 12mo. Pictorial boards. Good, lacking the mailing box (no DJ, as issued). Well-rubbed, esp. at the edges with a few scuffs and scratches. Some bumping. Spine lean, but sound. Still, presentable copy of a very fragile wartime production. Pictorial Boards. Good. First edition (1942) of Salinger's first book appearance. Starasciak A5, which fails to note this earlier edition, only the subsequent '43 printing. Includes Salinger's story "The Hang Of It." Also includes work from Ellery Queen, Rudyard Kipling, and others. 336pp. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 9844 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	AGEE, JAMES. The Morning Watch. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First edition. Small 8vo. Jacket has touches of edgewear, tiny closed tear to top front panel and where top corner of rear panel meets spine. Light fading to spine and rear panel as well. Unclipped. Overall, bright and clean. Book also lightly faded at top board edge and spine, bit of shelfwear at head and tail. Together, uncommonly well-preserved. Boards. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First US edition (after a tiny Italian edition) Agee's first novel, semi-autobiographical. With a lengthy and detailed (self-penned?) biography and author photo by Walker Evans on rear of jacket. Author's follow-up to his classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. One of 4000 copies. 120pp. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 8863 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	ATWOOD, MARGARET. The Blind Assassin. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0771008635. 8vo. Jacket is nearly new, with barely noticable touches to top of spine. Book has some wear to top of page block and erased former price on FFEP. Otherwise unread. A beautifully designed book. First Canadian edition from the Canadian novelist of this Booker Prize-winning novel. 521pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 265 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	AUSTER, PAUL. The Book of Illusions: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. First Edition. ISBN: 0805054081. 8vo. Book & jacket are bright, clean, sharp. 1st printing of this, my favorite of Auster's novels. As inventive as his New York Trilogy, but more human and moving. 321pp. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1500] Book number: 10569 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. Everlasting Story of Nory. New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. ISBN: 0679439331. 8vo. A convincing look into a nine-year-old mind. From the author of Vox and The Size of Thoughts. DJ has minor rubbing. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 196 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. Room Temperature. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First Edition/Printing. ISBN: 0802112242. 8vo. Jacket lightly rubbed, book with touches of shelfwear to extremities. Overall, bright, clean and tight. Baker's touching second novel which takes place over the course of a father feeding his baby a bottle. 116pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1787 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. Room Temperature. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First Edition/Printing. ISBN: 0802112242. 8vo. Overall fine in like unclipped jacket: bright, clean and tight. SIGNED by author Baker on title page. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ. Baker's touching second novel which takes place over the course of a father feeding his baby a bottle. 116pp. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 8888 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS: Essays and Other Lumber. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First UK edition. ISBN: 070116302x. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket has trace rubbing. Unclipped. Book has faint toning to page edges. Else clean and sharp. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Baker's first essay collection, which includes his important and now-classic piece on library discards. 355pp. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 11320 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. U and I: A True Story. New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. ISBN: 0394589947. 8vo. Jacket has patches of faint rubbing. Mild edgewear. Book has shelf/reading wear to extremities. Binding strong, pages clean throughout. First edition/printing. Baker's meditation on writerly influence through the person of John Updike. Part- memoir, part writing manual, part lit. crit. 179pp. Quarter Cloth. Very Good in a Very Good DJ. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 1047 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. U and I: A True Story. New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. ISBN: 0394589947. 8vo. Book and jacket are bright, clean, and sharp. Quarter Cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. SIGNED by author Baker to title page. First edition/printing of his meditation on writerly influence through the person of John Updike. Part- memoir, part writing manual, part lit. crit. 179pp. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 8886 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BALLARD, J.G. CRASH. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1973. First American edition. ISBN: 0374130728. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket has touches of rubbing, edgewear. A couple of tiny closed tears to bottom edge. Unclipped. Book has faint sticker residue to front pastedown. Bit of fading along the top edge. Else clean and sharp throughout. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First US edition of this cult novel adapted into the controversial David Cronenberg film of the same name. 223pp. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.5 \| £UK 75.25 \| JP¥ 11032] Book number: 11341 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BANK, MELISSA. The Girl's Guide To Hunting And Fishing. New York: Viking, 1999. First Edition/Printing. ISBN: 067088300x. 8vo. Jacket has mild rubbing, touches of edgewear. Book w/name to front pastedown, light shelfwear. Overall, bright & clean. Bestselling collection of interlocking short stories. Though sometimes lumped in with much of the chick lit popular at the time (Bridget Jones, etc.), this is smarter and more moving. A finely-written debut. 274pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 1280 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BANVILLE, JOHN. Athena. New York: Knopf, 1995. First American edition. ISBN: 0679405216. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket. Trace edge/shelfwear. Tiny black remainder mark to top edge, very unobtrusive. Paperback. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First US edition from this Booker-winning author. 232pp. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 11021 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAYLEY, JOHN. Elegy for Iris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0312198647. 12mo. Small remainder dot to bottom text edge. Else, fine and unread. Heartbreaking and honest memoir by the husband of novelist Iris Murdoch. Made into an equally-fine film which was nomnated for several Oscars. First US edition (stated w/appropriate number line). 275pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1088 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAYLEY, JOHN. ELEGY FOR IRIS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First American edition. ISBN: 0312198647. 12mo. Near fine in fine jacket. Tiny remainder dot to bottom edge. Else bright, clean, sharp and tight in fine unclipped DJ. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine DJ. First US edition / printing of this award-winning memoir of Bayley's life with the novelist Iris Murdoch who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1994. Adapted into the Academy Award-winning film IRIS with Kate Winslet and Judi Dench. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 11314 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	[JAMES JOYCE]. BECKETT, SAMUEL, STUART GILBERT, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, ET AL. (CONTRIBUTORS). OUR EXAGMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Two small chips to wrappers. Minor rubbing, edgewear. Toning overall, as usual. "Made in Great Britain" stamp to title page, as common. Faint penciled price notation to rear wrapper, "1929" faintly penciled to title page. Else a clean, sound, and well above average example of this very fragile production. Wraps. Very Good. First edition, regular paper issue, of Samuel Beckett's first book appearance, an anthology of essays printed in defense of what was to become James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." Also includes brief excerpts from Joyce's "Work in Progress" later cut from the published book. One of just 200 copies. [Slocum & Cahoon B10], [Federman & Fletcher 1]. USD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 333.75 \| £UK 300.5 \| JP¥ 44129] Book number: 11114 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BERENDT, JOHN. MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. New York: Random House, 1994. First edition. ISBN: 0679429220. 8vo. Near fine in a fine jacket. Book has slight lean, hints of reading wear. Else clean and sound throughout. Jacket is unclipped ($23.00), bright, and sharp. Together: handsome. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine DJ. True first edition / printing of this wildly popular bestseller which quickly went into multiple (indeed, over one hundred) often mis-identified printings. Usual "points" touted by many dealers are here present, though I have my strong suspicions that ALL first printings contain them. Nonetheless, a nicely-kept example of this now-classic entry in the true-crime genre, adapted for the screen by Clint Eastwood. 388pp. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 \| £UK 60.25 \| JP¥ 8826] Book number: 11417 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BUCK, PEARL S. Portrait of a Marriage. New York: John Day Co., 1945. First Edition. 8vo. A worn, but sound volume. Rubbing and edgewear externally. Front hinge started, toning overall. Spine sun-darkened. Still, a handsome edition with significant shelf-appeal. No jacket. First edition of the novel from the Nobel winner set in the Pennsylvania countryside where she lived much of life. Originally appeared in a slightly shorter and serial form in Redbook. 224pp. Hard Cover. Good. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 1557 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. EXTERMINATOR! New York: Viking Press, 1973. First edition. ISBN: 0670302813. 8vo. Near fine in near fine jacket. Jacket has mild rubbing, faint toning. Unclipped. PO name and date to black front free endpaper, barely visible. Else a clean, sharp and sound example. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. One of 7500 copies. [Maynard and Miles A23a]. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 11228 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. NAKED LUNCH. New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Near fine in a very good jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Minor edgewear, a couple of tiny edge-chips. Two small scuffs front panel. Else bright and sharp. Book has touches shelfwear to extremities. Else clean, sound and square overall. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First US edition / printing (both book and jacket) of the Beat masterpiece, which - copyright date aside - was not actually published in this edition until 1962. A landmark novel, it led to several important court decisions on indecency and censorship. Certainly Burroughs' best-known work (it was successfully adapted by David Cronenberg into a fine film of the same name), it is also arguably Burroughs' best and most enduring as well. One of 3500 copies. And incidently, there are no "states" of this jacket, contrary to some dealer's listings. There are only later printings of the jacket married to earlier editions of the book; see Shoaf 2b-i. [Maynard and Miles 2Ab]. USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 233.5 \| £UK 210.5 \| JP¥ 30890] Book number: 11237 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Nova Express. New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo. Jacket near fine with trace toning along edges and single tiny closed tear to front panel. Else bright and sharp. Unclipped. Book has former ownser's stamp to bottom edge and ffep. Touches shelfwear along extremities. Overall, sound and clean. Very good plus. Cloth. Very Good+ in Near Fine DJ. First edition. 187pp. Nebula nominee and third in the Burroughs' Nova Trilogy. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 9769 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S (ALIAS "WILLIE LEE"). ROOSEVELT AFTER INAUGURATION. New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition thus. 12mo. mimeo wraps. Very good plus with tiny name to top corner front wrap and very mild edgewear. Else very bright, clean and sound. Wraps. Very Good+. Uncommon Burroughs item from Ed Sanders' legendary mimeo press. Restores censored material from the first edition published by City Lights; covers by Allen Ginsberg. One of approx. 500 copies. [Miles and Maynard A9]. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 9974 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. The Ticket That Exploded. New York: Grove Press, 1967. First edition. 8vo. Trace wear and toning along edges of jacket. Else bright and unclipped. Book has unobtrusive abstract stamp to FFEP. Mild wear at spine tips. Else clean and sharp. Near fine overall. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition of Burroughs' fourrth novel. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 9728 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	CAIN, JAMES M. THE BABY IN THE ICEBOX and Other Short Fiction. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. First edition. 8vo. Full leather with three raised spine bands and titles and decorations gilt. AEG. Moire endpapers, ribbon marker. A very fine copy. Unread. Bright, tight and sharp. A lovely production. 305pp. Leather Bound. Fine. True first edition, preceding trade. Part of the First Edition Society series. Includes two-page message from Alfred Kazin not in other editions. Illustrated by Will Harmuth. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 11269 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	CANIN, ETHAN. Emperor of the Air. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First edition. ISBN: 0395429765. 8vo. Book has some page toning, faint soiling to edges. Jacket spine sunned. Edgewear and a couple of small tears. First edition/printing of this auspicious short story collection. Though Canin has yet to live up to the promise of this, his debut, Emperor still stands as one of the best books of short stories of the last twenty years. Very moving. One of the Granta Twenty. 179pp. Hard Cover. Very Good in a Very Good- DJ. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 531 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.

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	[SALINGER, J.D.]. The Kit Book For Soldiers, Sailors, & Marines. Chicago: Consolidated BooK Publishers, Inc., (1942). First edition. 12mo. Pictorial boards. Good, lacking the mailing box (no DJ, as issued). Well-rubbed, esp. at the edges with a few scuffs and scratches. Some bumping. Spine lean, but sound. Still, presentable copy of a very fragile wartime production. Pictorial Boards. Good. First edition (1942) of Salinger's first book appearance. Starasciak A5, which fails to note this earlier edition, only the subsequent '43 printing. Includes Salinger's story "The Hang Of It." Also includes work from Ellery Queen, Rudyard Kipling, and others. 336pp. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 9844 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	AGEE, JAMES. The Morning Watch. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First edition. Small 8vo. Jacket has touches of edgewear, tiny closed tear to top front panel and where top corner of rear panel meets spine. Light fading to spine and rear panel as well. Unclipped. Overall, bright and clean. Book also lightly faded at top board edge and spine, bit of shelfwear at head and tail. Together, uncommonly well-preserved. Boards. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First US edition (after a tiny Italian edition) Agee's first novel, semi-autobiographical. With a lengthy and detailed (self-penned?) biography and author photo by Walker Evans on rear of jacket. Author's follow-up to his classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. One of 4000 copies. 120pp. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 8863 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	ATWOOD, MARGARET. The Blind Assassin. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0771008635. 8vo. Jacket is nearly new, with barely noticable touches to top of spine. Book has some wear to top of page block and erased former price on FFEP. Otherwise unread. A beautifully designed book. First Canadian edition from the Canadian novelist of this Booker Prize-winning novel. 521pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 265 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	AUSTER, PAUL. The Book of Illusions: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. First Edition. ISBN: 0805054081. 8vo. Book & jacket are bright, clean, sharp. 1st printing of this, my favorite of Auster's novels. As inventive as his New York Trilogy, but more human and moving. 321pp. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1500] Book number: 10569 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. Everlasting Story of Nory. New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. ISBN: 0679439331. 8vo. A convincing look into a nine-year-old mind. From the author of Vox and The Size of Thoughts. DJ has minor rubbing. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 196 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. Room Temperature. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First Edition/Printing. ISBN: 0802112242. 8vo. Jacket lightly rubbed, book with touches of shelfwear to extremities. Overall, bright, clean and tight. Baker's touching second novel which takes place over the course of a father feeding his baby a bottle. 116pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1787 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. Room Temperature. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First Edition/Printing. ISBN: 0802112242. 8vo. Overall fine in like unclipped jacket: bright, clean and tight. SIGNED by author Baker on title page. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ. Baker's touching second novel which takes place over the course of a father feeding his baby a bottle. 116pp. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 8888 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS: Essays and Other Lumber. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First UK edition. ISBN: 070116302x. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket has trace rubbing. Unclipped. Book has faint toning to page edges. Else clean and sharp. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Baker's first essay collection, which includes his important and now-classic piece on library discards. 355pp. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 11320 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. U and I: A True Story. New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. ISBN: 0394589947. 8vo. Jacket has patches of faint rubbing. Mild edgewear. Book has shelf/reading wear to extremities. Binding strong, pages clean throughout. First edition/printing. Baker's meditation on writerly influence through the person of John Updike. Part- memoir, part writing manual, part lit. crit. 179pp. Quarter Cloth. Very Good in a Very Good DJ. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 1047 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAKER, NICHOLSON. U and I: A True Story. New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. ISBN: 0394589947. 8vo. Book and jacket are bright, clean, and sharp. Quarter Cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. SIGNED by author Baker to title page. First edition/printing of his meditation on writerly influence through the person of John Updike. Part- memoir, part writing manual, part lit. crit. 179pp. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 8886 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BALLARD, J.G. CRASH. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1973. First American edition. ISBN: 0374130728. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket has touches of rubbing, edgewear. A couple of tiny closed tears to bottom edge. Unclipped. Book has faint sticker residue to front pastedown. Bit of fading along the top edge. Else clean and sharp throughout. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First US edition of this cult novel adapted into the controversial David Cronenberg film of the same name. 223pp. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.5 \| £UK 75.25 \| JP¥ 11032] Book number: 11341 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BANK, MELISSA. The Girl's Guide To Hunting And Fishing. New York: Viking, 1999. First Edition/Printing. ISBN: 067088300x. 8vo. Jacket has mild rubbing, touches of edgewear. Book w/name to front pastedown, light shelfwear. Overall, bright & clean. Bestselling collection of interlocking short stories. Though sometimes lumped in with much of the chick lit popular at the time (Bridget Jones, etc.), this is smarter and more moving. A finely-written debut. 274pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 1280 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BANVILLE, JOHN. Athena. New York: Knopf, 1995. First American edition. ISBN: 0679405216. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket. Trace edge/shelfwear. Tiny black remainder mark to top edge, very unobtrusive. Paperback. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First US edition from this Booker-winning author. 232pp. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 11021 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAYLEY, JOHN. Elegy for Iris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition. ISBN: 0312198647. 12mo. Small remainder dot to bottom text edge. Else, fine and unread. Heartbreaking and honest memoir by the husband of novelist Iris Murdoch. Made into an equally-fine film which was nomnated for several Oscars. First US edition (stated w/appropriate number line). 275pp. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Fine DJ. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1088 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BAYLEY, JOHN. ELEGY FOR IRIS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First American edition. ISBN: 0312198647. 12mo. Near fine in fine jacket. Tiny remainder dot to bottom edge. Else bright, clean, sharp and tight in fine unclipped DJ. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine DJ. First US edition / printing of this award-winning memoir of Bayley's life with the novelist Iris Murdoch who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1994. Adapted into the Academy Award-winning film IRIS with Kate Winslet and Judi Dench. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 11314 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	[JAMES JOYCE]. BECKETT, SAMUEL, STUART GILBERT, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, ET AL. (CONTRIBUTORS). OUR EXAGMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Two small chips to wrappers. Minor rubbing, edgewear. Toning overall, as usual. "Made in Great Britain" stamp to title page, as common. Faint penciled price notation to rear wrapper, "1929" faintly penciled to title page. Else a clean, sound, and well above average example of this very fragile production. Wraps. Very Good. First edition, regular paper issue, of Samuel Beckett's first book appearance, an anthology of essays printed in defense of what was to become James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." Also includes brief excerpts from Joyce's "Work in Progress" later cut from the published book. One of just 200 copies. [Slocum & Cahoon B10], [Federman & Fletcher 1]. USD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 333.75 \| £UK 300.5 \| JP¥ 44129] Book number: 11114 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BERENDT, JOHN. MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. New York: Random House, 1994. First edition. ISBN: 0679429220. 8vo. Near fine in a fine jacket. Book has slight lean, hints of reading wear. Else clean and sound throughout. Jacket is unclipped ($23.00), bright, and sharp. Together: handsome. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine DJ. True first edition / printing of this wildly popular bestseller which quickly went into multiple (indeed, over one hundred) often mis-identified printings. Usual "points" touted by many dealers are here present, though I have my strong suspicions that ALL first printings contain them. Nonetheless, a nicely-kept example of this now-classic entry in the true-crime genre, adapted for the screen by Clint Eastwood. 388pp. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 \| £UK 60.25 \| JP¥ 8826] Book number: 11417 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BUCK, PEARL S. Portrait of a Marriage. New York: John Day Co., 1945. First Edition. 8vo. A worn, but sound volume. Rubbing and edgewear externally. Front hinge started, toning overall. Spine sun-darkened. Still, a handsome edition with significant shelf-appeal. No jacket. First edition of the novel from the Nobel winner set in the Pennsylvania countryside where she lived much of life. Originally appeared in a slightly shorter and serial form in Redbook. 224pp. Hard Cover. Good. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 1557 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. EXTERMINATOR! New York: Viking Press, 1973. First edition. ISBN: 0670302813. 8vo. Near fine in near fine jacket. Jacket has mild rubbing, faint toning. Unclipped. PO name and date to black front free endpaper, barely visible. Else a clean, sharp and sound example. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. One of 7500 copies. [Maynard and Miles A23a]. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 11228 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. NAKED LUNCH. New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Near fine in a very good jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Minor edgewear, a couple of tiny edge-chips. Two small scuffs front panel. Else bright and sharp. Book has touches shelfwear to extremities. Else clean, sound and square overall. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First US edition / printing (both book and jacket) of the Beat masterpiece, which - copyright date aside - was not actually published in this edition until 1962. A landmark novel, it led to several important court decisions on indecency and censorship. Certainly Burroughs' best-known work (it was successfully adapted by David Cronenberg into a fine film of the same name), it is also arguably Burroughs' best and most enduring as well. One of 3500 copies. And incidently, there are no "states" of this jacket, contrary to some dealer's listings. There are only later printings of the jacket married to earlier editions of the book; see Shoaf 2b-i. [Maynard and Miles 2Ab]. USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 233.5 \| £UK 210.5 \| JP¥ 30890] Book number: 11237 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Nova Express. New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo. Jacket near fine with trace toning along edges and single tiny closed tear to front panel. Else bright and sharp. Unclipped. Book has former ownser's stamp to bottom edge and ffep. Touches shelfwear along extremities. Overall, sound and clean. Very good plus. Cloth. Very Good+ in Near Fine DJ. First edition. 187pp. Nebula nominee and third in the Burroughs' Nova Trilogy. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 9769 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S (ALIAS "WILLIE LEE"). ROOSEVELT AFTER INAUGURATION. New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition thus. 12mo. mimeo wraps. Very good plus with tiny name to top corner front wrap and very mild edgewear. Else very bright, clean and sound. Wraps. Very Good+. Uncommon Burroughs item from Ed Sanders' legendary mimeo press. Restores censored material from the first edition published by City Lights; covers by Allen Ginsberg. One of approx. 500 copies. [Miles and Maynard A9]. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 9974 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. The Ticket That Exploded. New York: Grove Press, 1967. First edition. 8vo. Trace wear and toning along edges of jacket. Else bright and unclipped. Book has unobtrusive abstract stamp to FFEP. Mild wear at spine tips. Else clean and sharp. Near fine overall. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition of Burroughs' fourrth novel. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 9728 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	CAIN, JAMES M. THE BABY IN THE ICEBOX and Other Short Fiction. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. First edition. 8vo. Full leather with three raised spine bands and titles and decorations gilt. AEG. Moire endpapers, ribbon marker. A very fine copy. Unread. Bright, tight and sharp. A lovely production. 305pp. Leather Bound. Fine. True first edition, preceding trade. Part of the First Edition Society series. Includes two-page message from Alfred Kazin not in other editions. Illustrated by Will Harmuth. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 11269 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.
	CANIN, ETHAN. Emperor of the Air. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First edition. ISBN: 0395429765. 8vo. Book has some page toning, faint soiling to edges. Jacket spine sunned. Edgewear and a couple of small tears. First edition/printing of this auspicious short story collection. Though Canin has yet to live up to the promise of this, his debut, Emperor still stands as one of the best books of short stories of the last twenty years. Very moving. One of the Granta Twenty. 179pp. Hard Cover. Very Good in a Very Good- DJ. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 531 Click here to order or inquire at Brian Cassidy, Bookseller.