New York, NY: Grove Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. These are the last private musings and reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November 1996 through July 30, 1997- only a few days before his death on August 2. In his poignant introduction that details WSB's life in his twilight years, James Grauerholz writes that the journals "...include successive drafts of several short routines; remarks on books he was reading..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by David Ohle. "I knew (William S. Burroughs) for the last decade of his life, when he lived in Lawrence, KS. There were the Thursday evening dinners I cooked at his house, the trips to the country for fishing and target shooting, the drives to Kansas City for his weekly six-pack of methadone, and finally, pall bearing..... More

London, England: Notting Hill Editions, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson's Disease. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforest in search of cures, and through self-experimentation seeks to find the answers..... More

San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "For the first time in print, these forgotten conversations are now hereby available for your reading pleasure. From the beaches of Morocco to a penthouse in France; to London, San Francisco and Kansas- now you can vicariously relive the experiences and tribulations of five of the previous century's free thinkers and inventors of culture: W(illiam) S. Burroughs and friends." (back cover)..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "Take My Life is Eddie Cantor's autobiography. In it he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter that have so long been his due...Take My Life is filled with anecdotes..... More

Deadwood, OR: Wyatt-MacKenzi Publishing, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “’Hi, I’m Ron,’ he said. ‘They call me Pigpen.’ He tipped the brim of his hat and nodded as he entered the store. My first impression was, ‘Pigpen’” Really? Who would introduce themselves as that? The next one bounced in, looking a lot younger than he was. ‘I’m Bobby, they call me Bobby.’ Next was a shorter, stocky guy with..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971; 1981. First Edition, Fourth Printing; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. "For a time I held a unique position. Among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver, there was not one so young as myself. Amid these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards..... More

Amherst & Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed for Allen Tobias by Jules Chametzky. "In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers...not only do these various writers emerge as interesting and often complicated human beings, but Chametzky reveals himself to be a warm and gracious storyteller." (from back cover) A compilation of..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Winston Churchill's first book, was originally published in 1898. The author was at the time a subaltern in the 4th Hussars but, finding regimental life too quiet to satisfy his adventurous spirit and hearing that a field force of three brigades was being formed under General Sir Bindon Blood to..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. "Like the measured, punctuated musical silences its title alludes to, this book vibrates with meaning and emotion. Because Stop-time is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence, it deals with family conflict, friendship and love, the paralysis of terror, pride in new powers- all the commonplaces of reminiscence. But this is the story of a young life told with such freedom..... More

Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "In A House of Girls, Thomas Rain Crowe writes in the long-standing German literary genre of the Bildungsroman (education through experience). In this linked-stories, coming-of-age book of autobiographical fiction, we see and hear echoes of great writers in this tradition, such as Goethe, Joyce, Novalis, Dickens and Thomas Mann. Crowe's "house" and his "girls" are what has..... More

Paris, France: Les Editions Aux Forges de Vulcain, 2013. Second French Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. A collection of autobiographical-fictional stories by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting From San Francisco, Item No. 3071, Deluxe Edition No. 3075). First published in 2007 as "A House..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More