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195684225New York: The Viking Press 1956. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For the Gabels with best wishes from an old exile to Evanston Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University where he graduated with honors and earned bachelor's degrees in anthropology and sociology. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' Irish Times. "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us step by step the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' New York Times. Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. The Viking Press hardcover books
1953117859New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Saul Bellow. In fine condition. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American Chicago born and go at things as I have taught myself free-style and will make the record in my own way: first to knock first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language. The Viking Press hardcover books
194429481New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. FIRST EDITION. Minor soiling to cloth otherwise a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket slightly faded at spine panel with some very minor restoration at spine ends and corners. A very attractive copy of the author's scarce first book. <br/><br/> The Vanguard Press hardcover books
1957142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. <br/><br/>Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
19904318New York: Whitney Museum 1990. Published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of Art. First in the series "Artists and Writers: American Journals" organized by May Castleberry. Printed by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig. Folio black morocco spine gilt-lettered and yellow linen boards. Fine. A very amusing collaboration and a handsome production. Two color woodcuts one of which is initialled by Steinberg hand-painted by Michael Berdan and 16 tipped-in offset lithographs. They depict the traffic architecture and noise of Canal Street which was Frazier's neighborhood in New York for twelve years. Canal Street leads to the Holland Tunnel the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel of which Frazier describes the building history. Canal Street is a vivid hodgepodge of architecture and shops both open air and enclosed selling everything from designer knock-offs to fruit and vegetables and an amazing array of hardware and auto parts. Black Morocco and Yellow Linen. Fine. Illus. by Saul Steinberg. Folio. Whitney Museum Hardcover books
1953140938331New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first state with orange topstain. Bound in publisher's grey and black cloth with decorations and titles stamped in orange. Fine with corners lightly bumped in a Near Fine first state dust jacket with publisher's original price of $4.50 and advert for The Short Novels of John Steinbeck on the rear flap and no reviews with light edge wear. A beautiful copy in unusually nice condition. The Viking Press unknown books
191Black and white silver gelatin print of novelist and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow. The photograph measures 11 inches by 14 inches. Signed by Saul Bellow on the photograph. The photograph was taken by renowned photographer Art Shay in October 1976 the same day the author heard that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Shay is a former Time-Life staff reporter who became a full-time photojournalist in the early fifties. More than 25000 of his photographs have since appeared in numerous publications including Life Time the New York Times Fortune and Sports Illustrated. His work has been much exhibited critically acclaimed and collected. He has won some twenty Art Director awards for distinguished photography as well as commendation for Life magazine's "Picture of the Year" in 1959. Signed and stamped by Shay on the verso. In fine condition. Matted and framed. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." unknown books
198722016New York: Simon and Schuster 1987. First edition early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Richard A. Ware One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully Allan Bloom September 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. The Closing of the American Mind is brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep so witty and so thoughtful so outrageous and so sensible so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary book" William Kristol The Wall Street Journal. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1944108092Vanguard 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. Except for a tiny soil spot at the bottom inside edge of the back cover and a closed tear in the bottom margin of one page this is a very near fine and quite clean and fresh copy of this fragile book in a very good fust jacket that shows minimal chipping at spinal extremities rubbing along back spine edge and a tear in the middle of the front jacket flap. Original price of $2.50 still on front flap of jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Vanguard hardcover books
19595561New York: The Viking Press 1959. First edition of Bellow's fourth book. Octavo original half cloth. Inscribed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few closed tears. Jacket painting by Bill Preston. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow's oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Henderson the Rain King was named one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century by Modern Library. The Viking Press hardcover books
196625Paris: Maeght Editeur 1966. Limited Edition. Limp boards in slip case. Near fine/very good. Number 149 of a limited edition of 300 with original lithograph signed and numbered by Steinberg laid in. French language. Text by Michel Butor and Harold Rosenberg photographs by D'Inge Morath. Oblong 4to. Pictorial dust jacket over limp boards in acetate sleeve. Unpaginated. Numerous full page illustrations the majority in color by Steinerg.Small loss to top edge of acetate sleeve otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Original slip case in very good condition. Maeght Editeur books
1975911160NY: Viking. 1975. His eighth novel winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the title published just before he received the Nobel Prize. Also nominated for the National Book Award. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf done for Kroch's and Brentano's First Edition Circle. Fine in a fine dust jacket -- bright unworn and unfaded. A poorly manufactured volume which is perfectbound and uses cheap paper making attractive copies of this title much scarcer than one would expect. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Viking hardcover books
1964107467New York: The Viking Press 1964. First edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by the author on the title page "Best Wishes Saul Bellow Philadelphia March 3 1968." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. A novel complex compelling absurd and realistic Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. "A masterpiece" The New York Times. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language since Time's founding in 1923. The Viking Press hardcover books
1975194New York: The Viking Press 1975. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Saul Bellow to the poet R.P. Dickey. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of shelfwear. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. Humboldt's Gift is a self-described "comic book about death" whose title character is modeled on the lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine an intellectual middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher a dead poet who had been his mentor and Rinaldo Cantabile a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end Charlie has managed to set his own course. The Viking Press hardcover books
2003188New York: Viking 2003. First edition of the release of the 50th Anniversary of Bellow's third and breakthrough book resulting in his first of three unprecedented National Book Awards. Inscribed by Bellow "For ________ with good wishes Saul Bellow." Rather uncommon signed as Bellow was advanced in years at the publication of this anniversary edition and did not engage in book signings. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Viking unknown books
1953119428New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American Chicago born and go at things as I have taught myself free-style and will make the record in my own way: first to knock first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language. The Viking Press hardcover books
19471961New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo original black cloth. Signed twice by the author. Signed "good wishes Saul Bellow" on the title page and again on a notecard on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing near fine in the original dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" The New York Review of Books. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
195328407New York: The Viking Press 1953. Fourth printing 8vo pp. 6 536; original black and gray cloth stamped in orange on upper cover and spine top edge stained orange; dust-jacket chipped at top of spine along top edge and at top outer corner never any loss of letterpress else very good. This copy inscribed: "To Phil Miller in him I didn't specially try to recruit with affection and good wishes Saul Bellow." Winner of the National Book Award. <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
200312036New York: The Library of America 2003. First edition of the Library of America release of the author's first three novels. Octavo original maroon cloth. Signed by both Saul Bellow and James Wood on the title page. James Wood served as editor. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare signed as the author was aged at this point and did not attend booksignings for the release of this edition. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" The New York Review of Books. The Library of America hardcover books
1946190London: John Lehmann 1946. First British edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Robert Medley. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." John Lehmann hardcover books
2006165814Gottingen: Steidl 2006. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Essay by Martin Harrison. Includes 100 color images. A clean and tight near fine copy with a bookplate to the front free endpaper in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Leiter on the title page. This book helped garner Leiter the much wider audience he deserved even if it came late in his life. Surprisingly uncommon signed. Steidl unknown books
1965118261London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1965. First British edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Sally S. from S. Bellow Best wishes Oct 10 '91 Chicago Ill." The recipient British photojournalist Sally Soames worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin Margaret Atwood Margaret Thatcher Sean Connery Rudolf Nureyev Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames who was known to be a warm and personal journalist performed extensive research on the subjects of her photographs and developed intimate rapports with them during her process resulting in intimate and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph she captured the creative energy and personality of some of the world's most gifted authors poets and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime Manpower 1987 with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers 1995 with a preface by Norman Mailer. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Griffiths. A novel complex compelling absurd and realistic Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. "A masterpiece" The New York Times. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language since Time's founding in 1923. Weidenfeld & Nicholson hardcover books
1970184New York: The Viking Press 1970. First edition of the author's third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." The Viking Press hardcover books
194764666First Edition In Dust Jacket BELLOW Saul. The Victim. New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. 1947. First edition. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm. 8 1-294 2 blank pp. Original full black cloth blue lettering on spine. Top edge blue fore-edge uncut. With original pictorial dust jacket. Sight foxing to endpapers and inner flaps of the dust jacket. Back panel of the dust jacket with a small closed tear. Otherwise near fine. This authorÃs first two books Dangling Man and The Victim 1947 had a profound impact on the mid-twentieth century literary scene. ìTogether they effectively introduced a new style of American fiction. The ìGentileî era of Fitzgerald Hemingway and Faulkner began with Bellow to give way to a new Jewish tradition and a sense of moral and social alarm. BellowÃs characters are generally anti-heroes caught up in the existential dilemma of trying to define themselves with some measure of dignity despite the constant impediments of objective and subjective circumstances.î BenetÃs The ReaderÃs Encyclopedia fourth edition. Bellow is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for HumboltÃs Gift 1975 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. HBS 64666. $750 The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000568No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27"" 103 x 68 cm. one sheet poster style B block USA. Spencer Tracy Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn Phil Silvers Terry-Thomas Edie Adams Dorothy Provine dir: Stanley Kramer; United Artists. The crazy classic comedy involving an insane car chases to find the location of buried money. Many of the comedy greats of Hollywood were cast and many who were not wanted to be so they played cameos including The Three Stooges Jimmy Durante Jerry Lewis and Buster Keaton. The couple which Sid Caesar and Edie Adams play originally was set for Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The mishaps stories and legends about the making of the film are enough to fill a volume. It was a huge money maker. There were many Academy Award nominations in the category of sound music and cinematography. Attributed to Saul Bass poster is folded and displays some shelf wear but no pinholes. The bottom right corner is folded or was torn and has been repaired with archival tape. The fold junctures have been reinforced with archival tape. Minor fold to top right corner a few minor margin folds NEAR FINE. unknown books
