London, England: Fig Tree/ Penguin Books Ltd., 2008. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Zoe Heller. "A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have..... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Zoe Heller. "Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary existence; aside from her cat, Portia, she has few friends, and no intimates. When Sheba Hart joins St. George's as the new art teacher Barbara senses the possibility of a friendship. It begins with lunches and continues with regular invitations to meals with Sheba's seemingly close-knit family. But..... More

London, England: Victor Gollancz, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Ever the contrarian, “A Moveable Feast” is Your Devoted Managing Curator’s favorite work by the canonical early-Modernist titan, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). “A Moveable Fest” is like a great documentary. The only difference is the prior’s having been printed to page and bound between boards, — an effect that fans of vivid, film-like prose are quick to praise, and happily “get behind.” This..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2019. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Stephen Hines. The title story by Stephen Hines, an acclaimed young Canadian writer. Chapbook in sewn binding, a handsome, high-quality production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of Tangerine Press, edited by Michael Curran, our friend across the pond in the UK. The tenth number in SFP's "Walking Wounded Series" as stated on copyright..... More

New York, NY: Ace Books, Circa 1952. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Against a backdrop of fast-drinking, wild jazz, and all-night parties, the young men and women of today who make up what they call the "Beat Generation" carry on their desperate search for a meaning to their lives." (from front endpaper) The novel that is considered among the very first published works about what would thereafter become known as the..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. “Things had been ticking along quite nicely. My teachers suddenly started talking to me about going to college, my mum had ditched her rubbish boyfriend, and I had a gorgeous new girlfriend. You know that bit in a film when they show couples laughing and holding hands and kissing in lots of different places while a song plays? Alicia and..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. " "When the first bombs lit at Wheeler Field on December 7, 1941, Pfc. Richard Mast was eating breakfast. He was also wearing a pistol..." Here, in the opening paragraph, James Jones sets forth the central issue of this new novel. Pfc. Richard Mast does manage to keep the pistol assigned to him for guard duty, and the struggle around..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1984. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "This republication of The Ink Truck returns to print the first novel by the celebrated Bard of Albany, William Kennedy- a rollicking, lusty, metaphysical comedy about a newspaper strike pursued at quixotic length. Bailey, the heroically buffoonish protagonist of this novel, is a former columnist for, and now a full-time striker against, a newspaper in a medium-size American city..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1963. First British Edition. Hardcover. "The odyssey of Jack Duluoz has caught up many readers...it is brought to a dramatic crisis in Big Sur, which has made an extraordinary impression on American critics. Horror, despair and joy fight for the soul of Jack Duluoz as he treks the neonlit superhighways, broods in the isolation of a beach cabin 'facing the pacific fury', or is consoled..... More

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1973. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "Describing the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence, Doctor Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Massachusetts. Always lurking in the back of Jack's mind is the shadow of Doctor Sax, cape flowing, slouch hat half concealing a malevolent leer..... More

Czechoslovakia: Votobia, 1996. First Czech Edition. Hardcover. In a 2020 interview with Mojo Magazine, Tom Waits remarked that “Pic” was his personal favorite Jack Kerouac book. “It’s written like a Mark Twain story, all in phonetic black jargon,” Waits was quoted as saying. What most Kerouac fans (and Beat-&-Beyonders alike) don’t know is that “Pic” was not written at the very end of Kerouac’s life. Its posthumous publication (it was..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First British Hardcover Edition (Publisher's File Copy). Hardcover. "Maggie Cassidy is a haunting and tender recreation of (Jack) Kerouac's first love. Jack Duluoz is sixteen, at once gauche, passionate and football-crazy, and Maggie Cassidy is a sexually precocious high-school girl a year older than he...and although Jack is only too conscious of the problems caused by his extreme youth and inexperience, and her wayward sexuality..... More

New York, NY: ibooks Inc., 2005. First Edition Thus, Second Printing / Rescinded Edition. Softcover. “It was Allen Ginsberg who introduced us—if that’s the appropriate word for what happened that evening in spring, San Francisco, 1956. I’d come into the city for the first time a few weeks before and had met Allen through the fact that both he and poet friend Ed Dorn were working at the Greyhound Bus..... More