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Was the Old Chief’s Country plus three stories from Five. Volume Two picks up a few additionalstories from the collection African Stories and adds perhaps a dozen more. Each volume has a newpreface by Lessing. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jackets with wrinkling to the lamination.Very attractive copies, and uncommon thus. $200112. LEVY, D.A. ukanhavyrfuckincitibak. D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man, AnAnthology of His Poetry. Cleveland: Ghost Press (1968). A compilation and tribute to Levy, oneof 1000 copies, published after Levy was indicted on obscenity charges. 8 1/2" x 11" x 1" thick,with photographic cover, bound with black tape spine, silkscreen prints bound in. “Proceeds,if any, from the sale of this book will go to the levy defense fund, the yet-to-be-conceivedlevy substinence fund, and the subsequent levy offense fund.” Levy was one of the importantunderground poets of the 1960s counterculture, and deeply involved in the self-publishingand mimeograph movement of the era. He was constantly at odds with the powers that be inCleveland, and committed suicide in 1968, leaving a legacy as a martyr to art and social protest.Some handling and sunning evident on covers; near fine. $750113. LOPEZ, Barry. Arctic Dreams. NY: Scribner (1986). A massive study on the Arctic,combining history, natural history, mythology, ecology and anthropology in a narrative that is atonce scientifically rigorous and spiritually exalting. Winner of the National Book Award. Thiscopy is inscribed by Lopez to another National Book Award-winning author, “with admiration,in a shared sense of enthusiasm for the land for all it contains.” Dated in the year of publication.Along with his earlier book, Of Wolves and Men, which won the John Burroughs Medal, ArcticDreams helped change American “nature writing” fundamentally and permanently: after thesebooks it was no longer possible to write about “nature” as though it did not include our ownnatures, and each book has both an external and internal component, the two being frequentlyintertwined like the “double helix” of DNA. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An associationcopy of the first order. $1250114. LOPEZ, Barry. Crossing Open Ground. NY: Scribner (1988). A collection of essays on“the bond between mankind and the land and man’s heartbreaking betrayal of [it].” Again, inscribedby the author to another writer in the field, “with gratitude for the illumination you offer, with greatrespect for your testimony.” Dated in the year of publication. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. $750115. LOPEZ, Barry. Field Notes and Typed Letter Signed. NY: Knopf, 1994. A collectionof stories, the third in a trilogy that began with Desert Notes and continued with River Notes. Thiscopy was sent by Lopez in the month of publication to William Rueckert, literary critic, coiner ofthe term “ecocriticism,” and author of “Barry Lopez and the Search for a Dignified and HonorableRelationship with Nature,” which appeared in the North Dakota Quarterly in 1991. With a typedletter signed from Lopez to Rueckert conveying the book, in part: “You were so insightful aboutRiver Notes, I thought you would want to see the book, though I know you’ve moved on to otherthings.” The letter is approximately 125 words, folded in fourths to fit into the book, else fine.The book has Rueckert’s signature on the front pastedown under the flap, and is otherwise fine ina fine dust jacket with a corner crease to the front flap. In its early conceptualization, the trilogywas going to include Desert Notes, River Notes and Animal Notes. Animal Notes was never written:Lopez turned his inspiration for Animal Notes into the groundbreaking nonfiction work Of Wolvesand Men, and Field Notes then completed the sequence. $150116. LOPEZ, Barry. Lessons from the Wolverine Broadside. [Athens]: Universityof Georgia Press [1997]. Large broadsheet featuring the cover art for this story, which wasattractively illustrated by Tom Pohrt, who also illustrated Lopez’s Crow and Weasel. Signed byboth Lopez and Pohrt. 12" x 24". Fine. $75117. LOPEZ, Barry. Pulling Wire. (Minnesota): Red Dragonfly Press, 2003. A fine press editionprinting a single story. Letterpress printed on handmade Japanese paper, with a title page woodcut byGary Young. Of a total edition of 276 copies, this is one of 240 copies in wrappers. Fine. $75118. LOPEZ, Barry. Nunca Mas! (Red Wing): (Red Dragonfly Press)(2007). A chapbookdocumenting a week of despair during which Lopez visited Auschwitz after the launch of the Frenchedition of his book Resistance. First published in the French paper Liberation as “Une phrase de PrimoLevi.” One of 350 numbered copies, this being Copy 115. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. $35119. -. Same title. One of 350 copies, the first 90 of which were signed by Lopez and theartist, Carol Inderieden. This is Copy 40. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. $175120. LOVECRAFT, H.P. Autograph Letter Signed. October 1, 1927. Written to horrorwriter and artist Clark Ashton Smith (“C.A.S.”), one of the circle of friends and fellow writersknown to posterity as the Lovecraft Circle, and one of the writers whose work extended theCthulhu Mythos that Lovecraft had invented and which then became part of the fictional milieuof a whole group of writers for Weird Tales and the other pulps in the 1930s and after. Four pages,closely written on two sides of two 6" x 9" sheets; approximately 1300 words. Lovecraft beginsby admiring the paintings by Smith that Donald Wandrei had sent him (“Truly, I have neverbefore seen such profoundly soul-moving glimpses of alien worlds with haunted skies and junglesof prismatic madness. It is such a series of forbidden revelations as one might spy through somemagic window of the sort described in Dunsany’s ‘Book of Wonder’...”). He discusses his travels,particularly to areas in New England that are predominantly unchanged for the past 150 years,and sympathizes with Smith’s struggles to write and paint, bolstering his friend by calling himmore successful than himself in his “ability to produce creative work... I haven’t very much energymodern literature 158 | 3233 | lopezbooks.com