Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Described by its author as an "interpretive biography," Caponi's "Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage" aims "...to penetrate the underlying imaginative structures common to all and then to link them to a larger cultural context." In crafting the work, Caponi "...relied heavily on Bowles' autobiography, "Without Stopping," to a great extent. I have done so for two reasons: first, through family letters..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. First Edition, Review Copy. Hardcover. "When the beat writers emerged from San Francisco in 1956, they succeeded in touching off controversy and discussion throughout America which continue unabated today. Not only their writing,but their nonconformist way of life- with its special interest in jazz, Buddhism, drugs, and squalor- became a subject of general interest, discussed and hotly argued in a wide range..... 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

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he..... More

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More

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

New York, NY: Conjunctions, 1981. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This historic, very first number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow is subtitled "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions" & features many essays, odes & tributes to the legendary litterateur by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure (who passed away recently as of this..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "The Night Before Thinking," a tale by Moroccan storyteller Ahmed Yacoubi recorded & transcribed in English & with a short introduction by Paul Bowles, the great expatriate American author & composer. In that introduction, Bowles notes that his friend & colleague William S. Burroughs was enthusiastic..... 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

Boston, MA: Partisan Review, Inc., 1991. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the late, venerable American literary journal features an excerpt from Norman Mailer's then-forthcoming novel Harlot's Ghost, now regarded as an exemplary classic by this great American novelist, entitled "Harlot's Lady." Also a scholarly literary-critical essay on the works of Vladimir Nabokov by Robert Alter ("Nabokov and Memory"); a memorial tribute to acclaimed artist Robert Motherwell by Karen Wilkin;..... More