John McNally / Johnny Mack
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19 published books. Iowa MFA. My latest: The Pinned Butterfly, my first thriller, pen name Johnny Mack. I’m mostly posting my book collection.
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I love this Penguin cover: The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
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Mass market Anaïs Nin / A Spy in the House of Love
Bantam, 1968
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Love this 1960s Dell edition of Dostoyevsky novellas. Cover painting by Seymour Chwast
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Anaïs Nin
Little Birds, Harcourt Brace Jovanivich (1986)
Delta of Venus, Bantam Books (1978)
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Two books by Alain Robbe-Grillet
When I was in college, I loved finding these Evergreen Black Cat editions at used bookstores. I rarely see them anymore.
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Quintessential cover art for Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.
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Joan Didion / Play it as it Lays
Bantam 1971 edition
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Albert Camus / The Myth of Sisyphus. Vintage Books. (No date in the book for this edition.)
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1972 Vintage Books edition of Albert Camus / The Plague.
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The 4 classic Bantam editions for J. D. Salinger.
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Ecco Press edition of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1988 printing)
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Early paperback edition of Raymond Carver’s Fires. Vintage, 1984.
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Stoner / John Williams
Pocket Books, 1972 edition
Mass market paperback
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1980s Vintage editions of Don DeLillo novels.
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Graham Greene / Our Man in Havana
Penguin UK, 1962
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Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
Vintage Books edition: 1972
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Excellent Kafka editions from the early to mid ’60s. Designed by longtime book designer Paul Bacon.
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Italo Calvino
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich editions
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Published over 400 short stories, most of them in The New Yorker. Does anyone even read him anymore? I’m curious.
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KuRt Vonnegut mass market paperbacks on Dell Books
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Two Vintage editions of Albert Camus / The Stranger
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Raymond Carver.
Vintage 1982 edition
My introduction to Raymond Carver was my first creative writing professor reading the title story to our class. This was 1984.
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Dylan Thomas / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
First published by New Directions in 1955
13th printing
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I was *obsessed* with this book when I was in high school. Anyone else? Table of contents below in 3 photos.
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Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye.
Canadian edition, 1980.
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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Richard Brautigan’s book covers were distinctly his.
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Love this one!
Charles Beaumont / Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories
Penguin Classics
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Great cover of Cervantes / Don Quixote
Painting “Don Quixote” by Honoré Daumier (1868)
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Today’s vintage paperback: one of my favorite novels by one of my favorite writers.
#thequietamerican
#grahamgreene
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A few Ross MacDonalds. I found all of these in a thrift store in the ‘90s. An A+ day. Until that day, I’d read only The Drowning Pool.
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I love these Vintage International editions for Vladimir Nabokov.
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Richard Fariña / Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Dell Books, 1975 printing
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1986 Vintage Contemporaries edition of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
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J. D. Salinger / Nine Stories
Signet, 1961 edition
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Henry Miller / The Colossus of Maroussi
New Directions Press, 1958 edition
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Iconic!
It’s seen better days, but so have I.
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Pauline Kael in mass market paperback? Yes! Bantam 1966. Did it sell? This is a fifth printing of the paperback.
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I love this series of Faulkner covers. Illustrations by David Tamara. Vintage. 1987
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Old Penguin edition of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. Found this one in a bookshop in London a few years ago.
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1969 edition of Anthony Burgess / A Clockwork Orange. My copy has seen better days.
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1974 printing of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, though the cover art was probably in use starting in the ‘50s or ‘60s.
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André Gide, The Immoralist.
Publisher: Vintage
Cover design by Antonio Frasconi
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Nathaniel West twofer: Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust.
New Directions Press. No date for this edition
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Time for a Jim Thompson binge. What’s your favorite? My vote goes to Pop. 1280.
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Anaïs Nin / House of Incest
Swallow Press, 1958
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Game-changer of a book for me when I bought this in 1984.
Raymond Carver / Cathedral
Vintage Contemporaries, 1984
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More Milton Glaser Shakespeare covers.
Signet.
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1980 FSG pressing of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
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Hard Rain Falling / Don Carpenter
NYRB 2009 edition
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One of my favorite series: the Avon Bard books. Great (sometimes surreal) cover art; (often) great writers. There’s a link below about the series.
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My first copy of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. These Bantam Windstone books were the new editions available when I was in college.
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George Orwell
Penguin paperbacks. UK editions. Possibly mid-‘70s?
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Jim Thompson / The Killer Inside Me
Quill 1983 edition
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Apparently, a rare copy of this: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - 1st Edition Paperback, Astor-Honor (1959)
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The Master & Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
Translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky
Penguin 2016 edition
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Great book; great cover
1984 mass market paperback of Denis Johnson’s Angels.
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Norton’s cover art for A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess
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J. D. Salinger
Early 1960s printings
Signet editions
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Where Angels Fear to Tread / E. M. Forster
Vintage.
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Two more excellent Alberto Manguel anthologies from the mid-1980s with George Tooker artwork.
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Raymond Chandler
Vintage Crime
1988 and 1992 editions
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Not the easiest to photograph with the reflection: Stephen King / The Shining
First Signet paperback printing, 1978
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1973 paperback of Don DeLillo’s first novel (originally published in 1971).
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Shirley Jackson / The Lottery
Popular Library, 1975
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I really like the covers for the recent Dostoyevsky translations. Vintage Books. They remind me of the art on those old percussion albums on Command Records.
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Ray Bradbury / Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bantam, 1983 movie tie-in edition
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Raymond Chandler. The Vintage Crime imprint of Vintage.
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Milan Kundera, Penguin editions from the mid to late ‘80s.
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9 years of Best American Short Stories in mass market paperback. 1959-1967
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Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley series published in Vintage’s Black Lizard series.
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The Devils of Loudun / Aldous Huxley
Movie tie-in for Ken Russell film
Perennial 1971 edition
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1968 edition
Graham Greene / Our Man in Havana
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Denis Johnson / Jesus’ Son
HarperPerennial 1993 edition
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Leonard Gardner / Fat City
Vintage Contemporaries, 1986 edition
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More Graham Greene cover art, these UK editions from the early ‘70s.
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Ballantine editions of John Gardner ‘s books.
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From the first series of Vintage Contemporaries releases: Jay McInerney / Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
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Two books whose covers transport me back to my high school English Lit classes. What are yours?
Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes
A Separate Peace / John Knowles
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Bantam-Seal edition of Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle.
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Hopscotch / Julio Cortazar
Signet 1967 edition
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William Faulkner / Sanctuary
Signet, 1968 edition (probably a later printing)
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