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Eighteen Mostly First Edition Works of Psychological Fiction.

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$375$300
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3626TLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 13, 2021 12:00PM

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Eighteen Mostly First Edition Works of Psychological Fiction. Bossard, Chandler, Who Walk in Darkness, New York: New Directions Books, 1952; Dickey, James, Deliverance, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970, stated first printing; Hawkes, John, Death, Sleep & the Traveler, New York: New Directions Books, 1974; Hawkes, John, Virginie: Her Two Lives, New York: Harper & Row, 1982, stated "first Harper & Row edition"; Hawkes, John, The Goose on the Grave and The Owl, New York: New Directions Books, 1954; Hawkes, John, The Lime Twig, New York: New Directions Books, 1961; Hawkes, John, The Cannibal, Norfolk: New Directions Books, 1949; Hawkes, John, The Blood Oranges, New York: New Directions Books, 1970; Selby, Hubert Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grover Press, 1964, two copies, stated first printing; Selby, Hubert Jr., The Room, New York: Grove Press, 1971, stated first printing; Welty, Eudora, The Optimist's Daughter, New York: Random House, 1972, stated first edition; Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989, first trade edition; Kosinski, Jerzy, Passion Play, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979; Kosinski, Jerzy, The Devil Tree, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, first edition; O' Brien, Tim, The Nuclear Age, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, first edition; O'Brien, Tim, Going After Cacciato, New York: Delacorte Press, 1978, stated first printing, Wallant, Edward Lewis, The Human Season, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960, stated first edition, (all works with dust jackets in predominantly good condition, many with book jacket covers).
Estimate $600-800


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Keywords

St. Martin's Press, Edward Lewis, John, William, James, Chandler, Hubert Jr., Irving, Dickey, Kosinski, Selby, Owen Meany, Welty, Bossard, Brien, Cacciato, Jerzy