Clouds Hill Books

05/05/2025

“Perhaps the most infamous three-by-five-inch card in twentieth-century American literature.”
(Alex Beam)

04/09/2025

John Updike – An archive of letters, a working typescript, and an unpublished children’s book

04/09/2025

Muriel Spark. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. Philadelphia & NY: J.B. Lippincott, 1962. First American Edition in Dust Jacket.

04/08/2025

J.D. Salinger. FRANNY AND ZOOEY. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. First Edition in dust jacket.

04/08/2025

04/08/2025

03/12/2025

DEREK WALCOTT. A collection of first editions, limited editions, uncorrected proof copies, original artwork, and corrected manuscripts by the Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, with items inscribed to his editor. Illustrated catalogue available upon request.

03/12/2025

Raymond Carver - WINTER INSOMNIA – One of 6 known copies.

Santa Cruz: Kayak 1970. First Edition, in white wrappers, one of c. 6 known copies thus. By Raymond Carver, with prints by Robert McChesney. Signed by Carver. A near fine copy. Contact CHB for additional information.

02/28/2025

Thomas Pynchon. MASON & DIXON – RARE UNCORRECTED PROOF WITH ORIGINAL SHIPPING CARTON. New York: Henry Holt, 1997

Uncorrected Proof Copy, second state, in blue wrappers. One of reportedly 23 copies in which a replacement page, on which the title ampersand is fully present, has been tipped to the adjacent pages. Pynchon’s textual revisions were made in the issues that followed the proof. Near fine. With: Shipping Carton for 12 copies of the hardback issue. The carton carries the author’s name and book title in the distinctive typeface used on the title page and acetate jacket, also an incorrect ISBN, reportedly to mislead those trying to acquire copies ahead of publication date. Near fine. Mason & Dixon was one of the most acclaimed novels of the 1990s. According to Harold Bloom, “Pynchon always has been wildly inventive, and gorgeously funny when he surpasses himself: the marvels of this book are extravagant and unexpected.” Bloom also called the novel “Pynchon’s masterpiece to date.” Contact CHB for additional information.

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02/28/2025

James Thurber. THE BEAST IN ME AND OTHER ANIMALS – INSCRIBED TO MORRIS ERNST. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948. First Edition in dust jacket. A fine association copy, inscribed by Thurber to Morris and Margaret Ernst on the front free endpaper: “Jolly / Times / to Morris / and Margaret / Jim and Helen.” One of the most influential civil liberties lawyers of the twentieth century, Morris Ernst championed cases that expanded Americans’ rights to privacy and freedom from censorship. He was the literary lawyer who defended Random House in the famous 1933 obscenity trial of James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and represented Thurber in several business transactions. His wife Margaret Ernst collaborated with Thurber on three books for which she wrote the text and he illustrated. Slightly faded at the edges, else a very good or better copy in a very good jacket, which is scratched on the rear panel and has a few short tears and creases at the edges. For additional information, please contact CHB.

02/28/2025

TOM WOLFE. A collection of first editions, limited editions, uncorrected proof copies, and publishing party invites for the master of New Journalism, from the library of his editor. Illustrated catalogue available upon request.

02/19/2025

SEAMUS HEANEY. A collection of first editions, limited editions, and uncorrected proof copies by the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, with many items inscribed to his New York editor. Illustrated catalogue available upon request.