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Eureka Mill by Ron Rash. 1998 Bench Press, unstated edition, signed, 63 pages. Rash is a poet, short story writer, and novelist who often writes of Appalachia. Eureka was Rash's debut poetry collection which depicts life in the mill.
Condition: VG. Signed on title page
"After tonight I see why mill and hell
are spelled almost the same and sound alike."

The Seagull on the Step by Kay Boyle. 1955 Knopf, first edition, 247 pages. Boyle was an antiwar activist and prolific short-story writer, who wrote alongside the modernists and expats of her time. She won the Guggenheim and two O'Henry awards, and was widely published in the New Yorker, although was fired from her staff position and blacklisted for a time during the red scare. As for her writing, in the New York Times obituary: "The writer Stephen Vincent Benet once described Miss Boyle's style as being 'as bright as an icicle and light as the bones of a bird.' And the critic Louis Kronenberger once contended that the fineness of her insights was 'such as no other writer of our time, in English at least, can match.'" Seagull on the Step was her twelfth novel.
This copy is inscribed by the author to the owner, along with correspondence from Kay Boyle and newspaper clippings.
Condition: Jacket in fair condition, back flap detached, lower part of spine missing, chips and tears. Book in good condition,… Read More

The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy. 1964 Dutton, first edition, 255 pages, inscribed by author. Dundy was a novelist, actress, and biographer who gained acclaim with her debut The Dud Avocado in 1958, about young woman trying to make it in Paris, in which the heroine experiences an orgasm which Dundy credits as "an important first step toward the frank treatment of female sexuality in fiction." (NYT obituary). In her later years her memoirs depicted her bad marriage and life with celebrities. The Old Man and Me was her second novel, darker than the Dud Avocado but still witty, and takes place in the literary scene in Swinging London.
Condition: Jacket in VG condition, some wear, fading, and rubbing away but no tears, book in VG condition with slight lean. Inscribed by the author to Arthur Penn, renowned director of Bonnie and Clyde, on June 19, 1969 in Stockbridge, MA.
"And the irony was that I was in there suffering the poor only the highly improbable off-chance of running into the very rich!"

voices/I hear/voices by William Packard. Illustrated by Steffan. 1972 Barlenmir House, first edition. Packard was a novelist, playwright, and poet who founded the poetry magazine New York Quarterly, known for publishing poems and interviews by the likes of Sexton, Ashbery and Bukowski. Voices was his third book of poems.
Condition: Inscribed by the author. Jacket in good- condition with stain on inside, book in VG condition