83 “Yesterday’s Gone On Down The River And You Can’t Get It Back” Inscribed By Cormac McCarthy 109MCCARTHY, Cormac. The Stonemason. Hopewell, NJ, 1994. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $2450 First trade edition of McCarthy’s first published play, inscribed, “For B— C—, All the best, Cormac McCarthy.” Stonemason “tells of the close bond between a young black construction worker, Ben Telfair, and his stonemason grandfather… ‘Stacking up stone is the oldest trade there is,’ said McCarthy in 1992… ‘It’s older than anything, older than fire’” (Hage, Cormac McCarthy, 14). Fine. 110MCMURTRY, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York, 1985. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $2000 First edition of this sweeping, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel of the West, inscribed: “For S— & R—, Larry McMurtry.” “McMurtry shows… a quest misplaced in history, in a landscape that is bare of buffalo but still mythic… This is a masterly novel” (Kirkus). Fine. “Paris Is A Moveable Feast” 111HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York, 1964. Octavo, original half russet cloth, dust jacket. $950 First edition of Hemingway’s celebration of Paris, with eight pages of blackand-white photographic illustrations. Hemingway declared to a friend in 1950: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Text and cloth fine; dust jacket bright and nearly fine. “Who Is John Galt?” 112RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York, 1957. Thick octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4000 First edition of one of the most popular and influential novels of the last 50 years, in original dust jacket. By 1984 more than five million copies of Atlas Shrugged had been sold, and in a 1991 Library of Congress survey Americans named it second only to the Bible as the book that had most influenced their lives. Book with stain to rear free endpaper, white mark to rear board; bright dust jacket with a bit of staining to rear panel, more extensive staining to verso. Extremely good.
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