Preliminary Inventory of the Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Anne Tyler, 1958-1998
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleJody Jones Hunter Collection
of Works by Anne Tyler,
1958-1998
Creator
Hunter, Jody Jones
Extent
3.6 Linear
Feet
82 Items
Repository
82 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsCollection is open for research.
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Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have
not been transferred to Duke University. For more
information, consult the copyright section of the
Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jody Jones Hunter
Collection of Works by Anne Tyler, Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by
Anne Tyler was received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library as a gift in 2001.
Processing Information
Processed by Elizabeth Arnold
Completed June 13, 2003
Encoded by Elizabeth Arnold
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Hunter is a collector of works by certain southern authors taught by William Blackburn. Tyler is a Duke alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer, whose best-known works include novels The Accidental Tourist (1985) and Breathing Lessons (1988).
[top]Collection Overview
The collection consists primarily of first
editions, limited editions, translations, and other
editions (many of them autographed or inscribed, 1965-1998)
of the works of Anne Tyler, delineating her prolific
career. Also includes books about or containing
contributions by Tyler (1958-1993); issues of periodicals
containing her contributions or reviews of her work
(1965-1996); and three pieces of her original
correspondence (1979-1989).
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Tyler, Anne.
- Hunter, Jody Jones.
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature--Southern States.
- Authors, American--Southern States.
- Authors, American--20th century.
- Authors, American--Correspondence.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- Short Stories, American--Women authors.
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Accession 2001-0058
Books by Anne Tyler
If Morning Ever
Comes
First UK edition, signed; Chatto
and Windus,
1965
Second UK edition; Severn House,
1984
The Tin Can
Tree
Knopf,
1965
Macmillan,
1966
A Slipping-Down
Life
First edition, inscribed; Knopf,
1970
First UK hardcover edition;
Severn House,
1983
The Clock
Winder
First edition; Knopf,
1972
First UK edition; Chatto and
Windus,
1973
Celestial
Navigation
First edition; Knopf,
1974
Searching for
Caleb
First edition; Knopf,
1976
First UK edition, signed; Chatto
and Windus,
1976
Box 2
A La Recherche de
Caleb, first French edition; Stock,
1981
Earthly
Possessions
First edition, inscribed; Knopf,
1977
First UK edition; Chatto and
Windus,
1977
Toujours
Partir, first French edition; Stock,
1979
Possessi
Terreni, first Italian edition; Ugo Guanda,
1991
Morgan's
Passing
Uncorrected proof of first
edition, tall format; Knopf,
1980
First edition; Knopf,
1980
First UK edition, signed; Chatto
and Windus,
1980
Morgan
L'Insaisissable, first French edition; Stock,
1982
Dinner at the
Homesick Restaurant
First edition, signed; Knopf,
1982
First UK edition, signed; Chatto
and Windus,
1982
Le Dejeuner de la
Nostalgie, first French edition; Stock,
1983
Box 3
Uncorrected proof of the first
edition; Knopf,
1982
Uncorrected proof of the first
edition, bound upside-down, signed; Knopf,
1982
Restaurang
Hemlangtan, reprint of first Swedish edition;
ManPocket,
1983
The Accidental
Tourist
Uncorrected proof, first state;
Knopf,
1985
Uncorrected proof, second state;
Knopf,
1985
First edition, signed on a
tipped-in leaf; Knopf,
1985
First UK edition, Chatto and
Windus,
1985
Den Till Fallige
Turisten, first Swedish edition; Bokforlaget Trevi,
1986
Turist Ved et
Tilfaelde, first Danish edition; Gyldendal,
1986
Le Voyageur Malgre
Lui, first French edition; Stock,
1987
Voyageur Malgre
Lui, first mass market French edition with variant
title; Stock,
1989
Turista Por
Acidente, first Portuguese edition; Dom Quixote,
1987
Nakljucni
Popotnik, first Slovenian edition; Salazba
Mladinska knjinga,
1990
Box 4
Breathing
Lessons
True first edition, original
leather, signed with a special 2-page message not included
in other editions; Franklin Library,
1988
Uncorrected proof of first trade
edition; Knopf,
1988
Uncorrected proof, copy for
presentation, signed on extra blank leaf bound at front;
Knopf,
1988
Signed copy; Knopf,
1988
Ejercicios
Respiratorios, first Spanish edition; Editorial
Lumen,
1990
Saint
Maybe
First trade edition, signed on
tipped-in leaf; Knopf,
1991
First UK edition; Chatto and
Windus,
1991
Your Place is
Empty
First separate edition, number
34 of 40 hardbound, signed; William B. Ewert,
1992
First separate edition, number
19 of 60 handsewn, signed; William B. Ewert,
1992
Tumble
Tower
First edition of children's
book; Orchard Books,
1993
Ladder of
Years
Uncorrected proof; Knopf,
1995
Box 5
First trade edition, signed on
tipped-in leaf; Knopf,
1995
A Patchwork
Planet
First trade edition; Knopf,
1998
The Best American
Short Stories 1983
Edited by Tyler; uncorrected
proof, signed; Houghton Mifflin,
1983
Edited by Tyler; first edition;
Houghton Mifflin,
1983
Books Containing Contributions by Tyler and Books About Tyler
Freshman Writing:
Essays by Students in English 1 and 2 at Duke
University
First and only printing, thought to be
Tyler's first appearance in print;
1958-1959
The Young Writer at
Work
By
Jessie Rehder, second
printing; Odyssey Press,
1962
Under Twenty-Five:
Duke Narrative and Verse, 1945-1962
William Blackburn,
ed., first edition, includes first publication of
"I Never Saw
Morning"
; Duke University Press,
1963
A Duke Miscellany:
Narrative and Verse of the Sixties
William Blackburn,
ed., first edition, signed by Tyler; Duke University Press,
1970
Works in
Progress, Number Six
Martha Saxton, ed.;
Literary Guild/Doubleday,
1972
The Best American
Short Stories 1977
Martha Foley, ed.,
first edition; Houghton Mifflin,
1977
First Person
Singular
Joyce Carol Oates,
ed., first edition; Ontario Review Press,
1983
The Available
Press/Pen Story Collection
First edition, introduction by Tyler;
Available Press/Ballantine,
1985
Contemporary
American Women Writers
Catherine Rainwater
and
William J. Scheick,
eds., first edition; University Press of Kentucky,
1985
Art and the
Accidental in Anne Tyler
By
Joseph C. Voelker,
first edition; University of Missouri Press,
1989
Box 6
Louder Than Words:
23 Authors Donate New Stories to Benefit Share Our
Strength's Fight Against Hunger, Homelessness and
Illiteracy
William Shore, ed.;
Vintage,
1989
Birch Lane Press
Presents American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Stories by
Emerging Writers
Michael C. White and
Alan Davis, eds.,
introduction by guest judge Tyler; uncorrected proof; Birch
Lane Press,
1990
The Fiction of Anne
Tyler
C. Ralph Stephens,
ed., first edition; University Press of Mississippi,
1990
Forward Into the
Past: For May Sarton on her Eightieth Birthday May 3,
1992
Susan Sherman, ed.,
limited edition; William B. Ewert,
1992
Anne
Tyler
By
Elizabeth Evans, first
edition, signed by Tyler and Evans; Tawyne,
1993
The Book of Absent
People
By
Taghi Modarressi
(Tyler's husband), first edition; Doubleday,
1986
Periodicals Containing Contributions by Tyler
The Southern
Review
Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring (April)
1965
Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter
1967
Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1967 (copy
2)
Vol. 11, No. 3, Summer (July)
1975
The New York Times
Book Review
[Technical Services needs to reformat
newsprint before use.]
15 June 1986;
"He Did It All for
Jane Elizabeth Firesheets"
, first publication of
Tyler's review of
Off for the Sweet
Hereafter by
T. R.
Pearson
14 April 1991;
"Tribal Rites in
Westchester"
, first publication of Tyler's review of
Object
Lessons by
Anna
Quindlen
The
Atlantic
Vol. 268, No. 4,
October 1991;
"In the Land of the
Lolita"
, first publication of Tyler's review of
Vladimir Nabokov:
The American Years by
Brian
Boyd
The
Algonkian
New Series No. 3,
January 1996;
"Introduction: Best
of the South"
, expanded version published in the
actual book
Best of the
South,
Shannon Ravenel,
ed.
Reviews of Tyler's Books
The New York Times
Book Review
[Technical Services needs to reformat
newsprint before use.]
8 Sept. 1985;
"Life is a Foreign
Country"
, review of
The Accidental
Tourist by
Larry
McMurtry
11 Sept. 1988;
"About Maggie, Who
Tried Too Hard"
, review of
Breathing
Lessons by
Edward
Hoagland
25 Aug. 1991;
"The Accidental
Convert"
, review of
Saint
Maybe by
Jay
Parini
Original Letters by Tyler
Typed letter, signed,
7 February 1979, to John Norbutt
Typed letter, signed,
9 November 1985, to bookseller Bernice Weiss
Autograph postcard, signed,
21 January 1989, to first edition dealer Bev
Chaney
