New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "Thomas McGuane's extraordinary first novel, The Sporting Club, aroused an immediate sense of delight and discovery in all who read it...reviewers compared him to Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Pynchon, Bellow, Barth, Updike and Terry Southern- yet he is really distinguished by a wildly inventive comic vision, by a felicity of style and maverick energy that are absolutely his own. The Bushwhacked..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "Something to Be Desired is Thomas McGuane's wisest and wittiest novel to date. Yet it deals with the serious themes of misguided sexual obsessions, the anguish of separation, the rekindling of a child's alienated affections, and the satisfaction of putting to rest a desire that has diminished all others. Lucien Taylor has two loves. He is a man whose inexplicable..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the esteemed literary journal is subtitled as the "Final Regular Issue" & is edited by the eminent Michigan writers Dan Gerber & the late, larger-than-life Jim Harrison. Among the co-editors of this issue is Thomas McGuane, designated "Fiction Editor" & destined to become the acclaimed novelist, very early in his career. Also featuring an interview of McGuane conducted..... More