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Price: US$4800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small Octavo. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY SUE GRAFTON without personalization. Signing witnessed by bookseller, Charles Parkhurst. Bound in original orange boards, spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket, with price in pounds sterling on front flap. Author's second and rarest book. Only two copies show in the auction records. A beautiful copy, with small owner address label on front end paper and date stamp on front pastedown. Armorial bookplate is laid in. Includes: the original publisher's contract for "The Lolly-Madonna War", a completely typed agreement with Peter Owen Ltd. of London, dated December 10, 1968. Three legal-sized pages of typscript, outlining rights, royalties, advance, etc. The contract is SIGNED "Sue Grafton (Schmidt)." Some creasing to the thin paper with a chip in the margin of the first two pages from a removed staple. The source of the 1970's movie "Lolly-Madonna XXX" starring Rod Steiger. Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. Since Grafton decided not to publish the book in the U.S. and never allowed it to be reprinted, this is the only contract ever signed for this early effort.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Grafton, Sue. THE LOLLY-MADONNA WAR. Peter Owen, London, 1969.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Signed first printing of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels. Grafton's second published novel, preceding her Kinsey Millhone mysteries by more than a decade. THE LOLLY-MADONNA WAR is a gritty tale of violent Tennessee hill-country family feuding that ends in a shower of gunfire and blood: powerfully attractive themes and imagery for 1970s Hollywood, and the novel was consequently adapted into the film LOLLY-MADONNA XXX in 1973 by director Richard Sarafian, starring Rod Steiger, Jeff Bridges, and Gary Busey, among others. Only published in the U.K; rare, particularly signed. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original bright orange cloth with gilt-titled spine. In original unclipped (£1.75) dust jacket, designed by Keith Cunningham. 189, [3] pages. Signed by Grafton on title page. Very minor scuffing to jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Grafton, Sue. The Lolly-Madonna War. Peter Owen, London, 1969.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Lolly-Madonna War by Sue Grafton. Signed first edition in dust jacket. Publisher: Peter Owen, London, (1969). First edition with copyright page notation: First British Commonwealth edition 1969. Signed on the title-page. Ffep with stamped notation: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library Culver City. Please Return This Material To Script Department . Dust jacket is in fine condition. Dust jacket is not price clipped with a price of £1.75 net. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. 189 pages. 5 x 7 ½ inches. Protected by Mylar. Exceedingly scarce book. Inventory #22-002. Price: $10,000.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.