[LITERATURE - AMERICAN]. A group of 25 works by American authors published after 1980, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, MANY SIGNED OR INSCRIBED, comprising:

1) ABBEY, Edward. The Fool's Progress. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY ABBEY and dated "October 10, 1988."

2) ALEXANDER, Robert. The Kitchen Boy. New York: Viking, 2003. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY ALEXANDER.

3) AMSTERDAM, Steven. Things We Didn't See Coming. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY AMSTERDAM.

4) AUSTER, Paul. The New York Trilogy. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION IN CLOTH, LIMITED ISSUE, number 90 of 200 copies, SIGNED BY AUSTER.

5) BASBANES, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. INSCRIBED BY BASBANES: "For Bruce Hale - A bibliophile, with regards and best wishes of a kindred spirit. Nicholas A. Basbanes Cambridge, Mass. 13. XII. 1995"

6) CHEEVER, John. The Journals of John Cheever. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. FIRST EDITION.

7) COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile's Return. Berenice Abbott, photographs. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. LIMITED EDITION, number 1738 of 2,000 copies, SIGNED BY COWLEY AND ABBOTT.

8) DICKEY, James. Alnilam. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY DICKEY: "To Don O'Briant - from James Dickey."

9) DOCTOROW, E.L. Billy Bathgate. New York: Random House, 1989.

10) DOCTOROW, E.L. City of God. New York: Random House, 1989. FIRST EDITION, second printing.

11) DUBUS, Andre. Selected Stories. Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY DUBUS.

12) FRANZEN, Jonathan. The Corrections. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. FIRST EDITION, with the erratum. SIGNED BY FRANZEN.

13) FRANZEN, Jonathan. Freedom. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY FRANZEN.

14) [Another copy]. FRANZEN, Jonathan. Freedom. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY FRANZEN.

15) [Another copy]. FRANZEN, Jonathan. Freedom. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. FIRST EDITION, third printing.

16) GALLAGHER, Matt. Young Blood. New York et al: Atria Books, 2016. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY GALLAGHER.

17) HELPRIN, Mark. A Soldier of the Great War. New York et al: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.

18) KENNEDY, William. O Albany! New York: The Viking Press, 1983. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY KENNEDY.

19) LOPEZ, Barry. Light Action in the Caribbean. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY LOPEZ.

20) MITCHAM, Judson. The Sweet Everlasting. Athens et al: The University of Georgia Press, 1996. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY MITCHAM.

21) PERCY, Walker. Lost in the Cosmos. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY PERCY.

22) PERCY, Walker. The Thanatos Syndrome. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. FIRST TRADE EDITION.

23) SAMS, Ferrol. Christmas Gift! Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.

24) SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.

25) STEINBECK, John. Working Days The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941. Robert DeMott, editor. New York: Viking, 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. INSCRIBED BY DeMOTT tTO AMERICAN NOVELIST PETER MATTHIESSEN: "5 May 1989 Athens, Ohio For Peter Matthiessen for all the pleasure of instruction his books have given me over the years. I hope you find something in here to value. Thanks for being - Bob DeMott (also of Connecticut)."

Together, 25 works in 25 volumes, all 8vo, all in original bindings and dust jackets as issued, condition generally fine.

This lot is located in Chicago.