Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. First Printing. Softcover. Edited by Gena Dagel Caponi, the author of the essential Paul Bowles biography "Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage," this essential from University Press of Mississippi titled "Conversations with Paul Bowles" contains more than twenty interviews dating from 1952-1993. Bowles was known as being too gracious to refuse interviews, despite protesting all the way: "I don't want anyone to know about me."..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage autumn 2004 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a most informative article on playwright Jack Gelbert's adventures with the Living Theatre, founded by Julian Beck & Judith Malina (who recently passed away), by Jay Jeffrey Jones. Also an interview conducted by Ring with Allen Hibbard on his..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Dream at the End of the World...Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men- all were lured by a raffish city that promised a full range of unconventional pleasures. At the..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "All day the cafe was full of men in djellebas and turbans. They even filled the tables on the pavement outside, and Abdeslam ran without stopping between the fire and the tables, carrying tea and coffee and Coca-Cola. Most of the customers smoked kif, and many of them tried to sell it to him. He never bought any, because whe he..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Trade Softcover Edition. Published by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press in 1977, “Things Gone and Things Still Here” collects the title piece along with eight other sand-whipped mosaics-in-prose by literature’s most distinguishable Tanjawi (the word for “single resident of Tangier”), Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Although he is primarily known for his short stories and prose fiction, Bowles also wrote poetry and composed music..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles and Bibliographer, Jeffrey Miller. "In this bibliography I have described the first and subsequent American, English, paperback and foreign editions of books by and books translated by Paul Bowles as well as those with contributions. In general I have ignored subsequent impressions of all editions unless they differ significantly from the first impressions and thus..... More

New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "Bowles wrote his parents about the beatnik invasion: 'Every day one sees more beards and filthy blue jeans, and the girls look like escapees from lunatic asylums, with white lipstick and black smeared around their eyes, and matted hair hanging around their shoulders. The leaders of the 'movement' have moved their headquarters here and direct their activities from here. Allen..... More

St. Louis, MO; New York, NY: Lococo-Mulder, 1993. First Edition. Glued Wrappers. "Only way to see Heaven is from Hell. And Tangier has afforded me vistas of Heaven- blue notes trickling down magic mountains, the Pipes of Pan informing that everything is alive and vitally significant to YOU. Sweeping away the daily abrasive grind. "Who's that at the door? Give him some money. Send him away." Snarling street boys, little..... More

New York, NY: Bard College/Robert M. McKinney, 1983. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This fifth number of the prestigious literary journal features three poems including "Destiny Waltz" by the great American poet John Ashberry; a unique short prose piece undivided by paragraphs or punctuation, "Massachusetts 1932," by Paul Bowles, the legendary expatriate American writer, composer & Beat associate; an interview with the esteemed British poet Basil Bunting conducted & with several..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an entire short novel (The New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm) by the acclaimed Soviet-Russian novelist & critic Fyodor Abramov (1920-1983), translated into English by George Reavey & preceding the issue proper beginning with copyright page. Also in this issue are..... More

New York, NY: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1981. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the proceedings of the prestigious Academy includes a commemorative tribute by Allen Ginsberg to Henry Miller, who had died the previous year: "He innovated in the courageous mode of spontaneous prose- prose which depends on the energy of the mind moving and the fearless recollection of that energy at time of composition."..... More

No Place: Pesha Sloane, 2022. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Pesha Sloane. Offered here is a confectionary compendium unlike any other, for it houses a veritable anthology of majoon recipes--the consciousness-altering subtstance perhaps most famously associated with our Patron-Saint Demon, the great William S. Burroughs (1914-1997). Burroughs was among majoon's numerous noteworthy adherents, and it aided the composition of what became his most enduring work, "Naked Lunch." Recipe variations..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1979. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. (Miller A34a). “Choukri’s book describes a close encounter of the third kind. Hearing that Tennessee Williams had been sighted in Tangier in the summer of 1973, he immediately decided to investigate this famous visitor from the large and remote planet America. (A few years previously, when Jean Genet landed in Tangier, Choukri spotted and interviewed him, but the..... More