The Accidental Tourist

huntertyler Preliminary Inventory of the Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Anne Tyler, 1958-1998 Processed by: Elizabeth Arnold; machine-readable finding aid created by: Elizabeth Arnold

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Descriptive Summary Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Anne Tyler, 1958-1998 Hunter, Jody Jones 3.6 Linear Feet 82 Items David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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[Identification of item], Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Anne Tyler, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Provenance

The Jody Jones Hunter Collection of Works by Anne Tyler was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2001.

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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).

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).

Subject Headings

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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. Contents of Collection Accession 2001-0058 Books by Anne Tyler 1 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 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 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 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 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

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

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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

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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