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Joseph First with kind regards and best wishes from Loren Eiseley.” Laid in is a carbon typescriptof Mrs. (Dr. Helen G.) First’s full-page review of the book, which she says “brings together[Eiseley’s] vast academic knowledge and his deep humanity to support his plea for a more tolerantregard for the unblossomed potential in the human mind.” The review is on carbon paper andfolded in fourths. The book has offsetting to the endpages (partly from the review laid in) andMrs. First’s underlinings and marginal notes throughout; it is otherwise fine in a very good dustjacket splitting at the rear flap fold and with some faint underlining to the front panel text. Anotable copy of one of Eiseley’s scarcest books. $50057. ELLIS, Bret Easton. Less Than Zero. NY: Simon & Schuster (1985). Theuncorrected proof copy of this first book which, together with Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, BigCity, helped define the literary “Brat Pack” of the 1980s—considered the representative voices ofa new generation. Later made into a movie. Signed by the author. Reviewer’s notes in pencil;some faint stains and minor moisture creases to covers; very good in wrappers. An importantfirst book: a transgressive take on the coming-of-age novel, which was later trumped by theauthor’s second book, American Psycho, a novel so defiantly challenging that its publisher gaveup on it rather than take on the inevitable controversy that would accompany its release. Itwas eventually issued as a softcover original by a different publisher—a small footnote to theAmerican literary and publishing history of the 20th century. A notable first book, and anuncommon proof, especially signed. $50058. EUGENIDES, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. NY: FSG (1993). The advance readingcopy (marked “Uncorrected Proof”) of the first book by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winningMiddlesex. Signed by the author. Eugenides was named one of The New Yorker’s best youngwriters in 1999 on the strength of this book. The film adaptation, also released that year, wasdone by Sofia Coppola and earned high praise for Coppola and for 17 year-old Kirsten Dunst,who starred in it. An uncommon advance copy of a highly regarded first book, and quite scarcesigned. Fine in wrappers. $37559. EUGENIDES, Jeffrey. The Marriage Plot. NY: FSG (2011). The advance readingcopy of his third novel; this one concerns a love triangle that begins in the early 1980s semioticsand English classes of Brown University, from which the author graduated in 1983. Very nearfine in wrappers. $7560. FARINA, Richard. Photographs. 1965. Five original photographs of Farina taken by David Gahr, who took thejacket photo for Farina’s book Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me. All five photographs included here are from that sameNew York City photo shoot. One photo is the one used on the cover of Elektra Records Singer/Songwriter Project, 1965. One is thephoto of Farina with a bandaid on his neck that was used on the cover of the 1983 Viking re-issue of Been Down So Long, It LooksLike Up to Me. Gahr was “among the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians of the 1960sand beyond,” according to his 2008 New York Times obituary, written by Bruce Weber. A number of his images are iconic: he hada four-decade relationship with Bob Dylan; his 1968 photograph of Janis Joplin appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1988,in a retrospective on the significance of that year in American history; he shot the photograph of Bruce Springsteen that providesthe cover of his second album, “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle.” 8" x 10" black and white glossy photos; each isstamped on the verso with Gahr’s copyright notice and Brooklyn address, with Farina’s name hand-written on four of them and theyear handwritten on three of those. An impressive portfolio of an important folk singer and writer of the 1960s, who was marriedto Joan Baez’s sister and was a friend of Thomas Pynchon dating back to their college years together at Cornell, and shot by alegendary photographer. All items are fine. $125061. (Film). Cinema Now. (Cincinnati): (University of Cincinnati)(1968). The text of a symposium on AmericanUnderground Film, featuring John Cage, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and Stan Vanderbeek, and moderated by Jim McGinniss, aUniversity of Cincinnati film professor. A historic symposium that brought together four of the leading avant garde artists of thetime, whose work still resonates. Small marginal notation and stain to one page; near fine in stapled wrappers. $175modern literature 158 | 1819 | lopezbooks.com