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Richard Ford – Rock Springs (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.09.W054: Ford – Rock Springs: Stories

128 leaves, pp. i-viii ix-x xi-xii 1-27 28 29-49 50 51-191 192 193-235 [9]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988

Contents: i blurbs, ii ‘_{OTHER BOOKS BY} Richard Ford’, iii half-title, iv-v title-page spread, vi imprint, vii dedication ‘Kristina’, viii blank, ix-x table of contents, xi fly-title, xii blank, 1-235 Rock Springs: 1-27 ‘ROCK SPRINGS’, 28 blank, 29-49 ‘GREAT FALLS’, 50 blank, 51-68 ‘SWEETHEARTS’, 69-98 ‘CHILDREN’, 99-108 ‘GOING TO THE DOGS’, 109-148 ‘EMPIRE’, 149-170 ‘WINTERKILL’, 171-191 ‘OPTIMISTS’, 192 blank, 193-214 ‘FIREWORKS’, 215-235 ‘COMMUNIST’; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries list and order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form, χ4a- χ5b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Robert Crawford; display typography by Chip Kidd; exterior rear author photo by Lee Crum.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (two copies)

Blurbs

(front cover) Stunning….This volume should confirm Ford’s emergence as one of the most compelling and eloquent storytellers of his generation. – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny; and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism. – Joyce Carol Oates
An enormously versatile writer, a perfect ventriloquist who achieves his end in voices that vary from swamp-deep to mirror flat….Rock Springs is cause for celebration. – Geoffrey Stokes, Village Voice Literary Supplement
The most beautiful book of fiction I’ve read this year…The narrative power, the intelligence behind these stories, is formidable. – Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Few writers have captured the inner emotional reflection of the great Western emptiness, the ringing of desire against outsized requirement as well…This is not just another book of fiction. This is literature. – Roy Pattishall, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With a single collection Richard Ford has established himself as the leading short story writer in the United States today. – Alberto Manguel, Toronto Globe and Mail

Frederick Exley – Pages from a Cold Island (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.09.W053: Exley – Pages from a Cold Island

144 leaves, pp. [10] 1–2 3-274 [4]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988

Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b “ALSO BY FREDERICK EXLEY”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedications, π3b blank, π4a epigraphs, π4b blank, π5a note to the reader, π5b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-274 Pages from a Cold Island, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Dave Monteil; exterior rear author photo by Mark Jury.

Copies: JDP1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) Like A Fan’s Notes, this is a glory of a book, a heart’s needle under your skin. – Boston Globe
The second volume in Frederick Exley’s trilogy of autobiographical novels is in every way a worthy sequel to the much-acclaimed A Fan’s Notes. Pages from a Cold Island begins with the death of Edmund Wilson, a devastating event that sends Exley on an obsessive personal odyssey from Alexandria Bay on the St. Lawrence River to a resort island off the coast of Florida to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Our hero lurches from one outrageous encounter to another in a chronicle full of irrepressible energy and no-holds-barred confession.
Lunatic, funny, sad, and infuriating. A work of art. – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Even better than A Fan’s Notes…marvelously funny. One of the truly remarkable personal chronicles of our time. – William Styron
Exley matters because beneath the surface of a life seemingly given over to too much booze and random sex and aimlessness, there is a true writer, an artist unseduced by fad and fashion. – Jonathan Yardley, New Republic

Harold Brodkey – First Love and Other Sorrows (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.09.W018: Brodkey – First Love and Other Sorrows

112 leaves, pp. 3–12 13-31 32–34 35-84 85–86 87-114 115–116 117-156 157–158 159-166 167–168 169-177 178–180 181-192 193–194 195-207 208–210 211-223 [3] [The first page with pagination marked on it is page 13; however, the table of contents indicates that the first story, “State of Grace”, begins on page 11. The page numbers listed on the table of contents point to the section title for each story, pages that are unnumbered with a blank unnumbered page on the verso before the story proper begins. Thus we should expect 10 pages / 5 leaves to precede this page 11, when there are in fact only 8 pages / 4 leaves. There are 2 pages missing from the expected 10 at some point in the sequence; to preserve an unbroken pagination sequence, I have treated pages “1” and “2” as missing]

Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988 [i.e. second Vintage Contemporaries edition]

Contents: 3 blurbs, 4 “OTHER BOOKS BY HAROLD BRODKEY”, 5 title, 6 imprint, 7 dedication, 8 blank, 9 contents, 10 blank, 11-223 First Love and Other Sorrows: 11-31 “THE STATE | OF GRACE”, 32 blank, 33-84 “FIRST LOVE | AND OTHER | SORROWS”, 85-114 “THE QUARREL”, 115-156 “SENTIMENTAL | EDUCATION”, 157-166 “LAURIE DRESSING”, 167-177 “LAURA”, 178 blank, 179-192 “TRIO FOR THREE | GENTLE VOICES”, 193-207 “PIPING DOWN | THE VALLEYS WILD”, 208 blank, 209-223 “THE DARK | WOMAN OF | THE SONNETS”; χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Patty Dryden; exterior rear author photo by Jerry Bauer.

Copies: JDP2.1 and JDP 2.2

Blurbs

(front cover) For some years now, Harold Brodkey has been making one of the great brave journeys of American literature. – Don DeLillo
When First Love and Other Sorrows was first published in 1958, Harold Brodkey was greeted as a major presence on the literary landscape of America. Now reissued to coincide with the hardcover publication of a major new collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, these funny, tender, sympathetic stories showcase the unique talents of a modern master.
Brodkey’s literature matters a great deal, for literature it surely is. – The New Republic
A volume marked by quiet immediacy. Some of the stories…have the effect of quiet confidences, highly personal yet carefully contrived. – Chicago Tribune
An unusually gifted writer with an attractive freshness of perception, a fine command of language, and an individual vein of humor. – The Atlantic

Frederick Exley – A Fan’s Notes (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.09.W009: Exley – A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir

200 leaves, pp. [12] 1-385 [3]

Edition statement: Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988 [i.e. second Vintage Contemporaries edition]

Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b ‘_{ALSO BY} F_REDERICK E_XLEY’, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a ‘A Note to the Reader’, π4b blank, π5a epigraphs, π5b blank, π6a fly-title, π6b blank, 1-385 A Fan’s Notes: 1-28 ‘1 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | The Nervous Light | of Sunday’, 29-71 ‘2 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Cheers for Stout | Steve Owen’, 72-118 ‘3 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Straw Hat for | a Madman’, 119-175 ‘4 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Onhava Regained | and Lost Again”, 176-226 ‘5 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Journey on a | Davenport’, 227-298 ‘6 | [diagonal rule 9 mm] | Who? Who? Who | Is Mr. Blue?’, 299-357 ‘7 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Lament for a | Conspiracy’, 358-385 ‘8 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | A Dream of | Sanguinary Ends’; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries ad with three blurbs.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Dave Monteil; exterior rear author photo by Mark Jury.

Copies: JDP 2.22, JDP 2.25

Blurbs

(front cover) A Fan’s Notes is strong, beautiful, American, one of a kind. – Kurt Vonnegut
The best novel written in the English language since The Great Gatsby. – Newsday
This is the horrible, hilarious account of a long failure, but a failure which turns into success: the success that this book is. A Fan’s Notes is one man’s life, written with brilliance and insight. No one should have had Exley’s life, and no one who has read it can ever forget it. – James Dickey
A singularly moving, entertaining, funny book. – The New York Times
Writers of every kind of aesthetic and cultural persuasion talk about it with one another, and press it on their friends to read….When I urge A Fan’s Notes on a friend who asks what is it about? or what is it like? I say read it, just read it. – Geoffrey Wolff, Los Angeles Times
A welcome reminder of what the basic business of literature and of living really is. All fans of art and life should read it. – Jack Kroll, Newsweek

Trey Ellis – Platitudes (1988)

Bibliographical Description

88.07.W052: Ellis – Platitudes

95 leaves, pp. [2] 1–2 3-88 89–92 93-183 [5]

A Vintage Original, July 1988, First Edition

Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, 1 fly-title, 2 epigraph, 3-183 Platitudes, χ1b dedication, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Kristine Larsen.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) Funny and dark and devilish…There’s great comic intelligence in Platitudes and daring narrative technique. – Alexander Theroux
Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborate on Dewayne’s latest sexist comedy. Alternately narrating the story of the relationship between Earle and Dorothy—two middle-class teenagers, sex-starved in New York City—Dewayne and Isshee sneak ever, and dangerously, closer to reconciling their differences. / Sparklingly iconoclastic—informed by newly invented song lyrics, menus, photographs, et cetera—Platitudes marks the exciting debut of Trey Ellis.
I was zapped by Trey Ellis’s humongous talent. His book, Platitudes, is delightfully rad. He dares to have the gumption to write comically about American literary politics. – Ishmael Reed
The novel takes off like love at first sight. In its wonderfully comic atmosphere, it is smart and sassy, sensitive and intelligent. The author understands and cherishes his literary ancestors, and manages, at the same time, to be absolutely himself—in his own voice, and of his generation. – Clarence Major
Cracklingly inventive and seriously comic; maybe we have here an older, wiser and darker Holden Caulfield. – John A. Williams