New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First U.S. Edition. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest–whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories–comes afterwards.”--Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, pg 3. Father of Absurdism, Existentialist..... More

New York, NY, USA: Added Enterprises, 1949. First Printing. Softcover. "I am an American, Chicago born- Chicago, that sombre city- and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way..... More

San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Despite the fact of its offices having been headquartered mere moments away from City Lights Books, and that its own literary-editorial stock saw itself rise alongside the tsunamic tide of the Beat Generation, -- there's not that many Beats in San Francisco review. They rarely "take over" an issue of this (wildly underappreciated) trade-format literary journal--but, as is so often the..... More