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[REVIEW COPIES] A miscellany of mostly review copies of 20th century literature, signed volumes, or first editions. Twenty-seven volumes, each a first edition, cloth in jacket unless noted. Comprising: BISHOP, ELIZABETH. Poems. North & South-A Cold Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Reportedly one of 2000 copies. A photograph of Bishop accompanies the review slip. Minor chips to upper panel extremity and darkening to white of jacket, a good copy of Bishop's second book which won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize. MacMahon A2; LOWRY, MALCOLM. Under the Volcano. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. Review slip laid-in, losses to jacket extremities; HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Four volumes. Comprising two copies of the first printing of Old Man and the Sea, 1952, one with a "Compliments of the Publisher" card signed by Patsy English laid-in, both jackets darkened, one with gouge to spine; For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940, with review slip laid-in, jacket worn with losses; and A Moveable Feast, 1964, with review slip laid-in; WAUGH, EVELYN. Brideshead Revisited. Boston: Little Brown, [1945]. One of 150 presentation copies within the limited edition of 600 and with the "Publisher's Compliments" card laid-in insisting this a "presentation copy ... not a review copy." Jacket extremities darkened and thumbsoiled and with minor losses; STEIN, GERTRUDE. Things as they are. Pawlet, VT: Banyan Press, 1950. Copy R of 26 with review slip laid-in, cloth with label, BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Nova Express. New York: Grove Press, [1964]. Review slip laid-in, jacket fine; DONLEAVY, J.P. The Ginger Man. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, [1958]. First American edition, review slip laid-in, A few minor chips and scratches but a good example of the red jacket; KAZIN, ALFRED. The Open Street. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1948]. First edition, one of 1000 copies, inscribed by Kazin in 1948, cloth backed boards, wear to rear joint; FROST, ROBERT. The Masque of Reason. New York: Holt, [1945]. One of 800 signed copies, with compliments slip laid-in, boards, split to spine; The trade edition of the same with review slip laid-in, jacket worn; O'CONNOR, FLANNERY. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace, [1955]. Review slip tipped-in,Dampstain affects jacket and lower edge; DOS PASSOS, JOHN. Four titles. Comprising: 1919, 1932, review slip tipped to jacket; Adventures of a Young Man, 1939, stamped review copy; The Big Money, 1936, stamped as review copy; Chosen Country, 1951, review slip laid-in. Wear and losses to jackets; WELTY, EUDORA. Four titles. Review slip tipped-in to each: Comprising Delta Wedding, 1946; The Golden Apples, 1949; The Ponder Heart, 1954; The Bride of Innisfallen, 1955; GUTHRIE, A.B. The Big Sky. New York: Sloane, 1947. Signed limited edition, number 251 of 500, with limited edition jacket over issue jacket, dampstaining; and four others being signed editions by Kathleen Coyle, Adlai Stevenson, and also Cowley's Blue Juniata, 1929, in a worn jacket, and a fine review copy in jacket of Goyen's The House of Breath. The lot sold as is. (27) C Estate of Robin Gottlieb