Czech Republic: Votobia, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. “Lonesome Traveler” brings together numerous gems from Jack Kerouac’s now-classic accounts of his early travels across the American continent & the world, recounted in his inimitably excited yet ultimately melancholy manner—a milestone work by the Founding Father of the Beat Generation. Scenes of Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France appear throughout the work—as do the flings, relationships and jobs he encountered during..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1985. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "This new edition comprises two important novels by one of the most original of the "beat" writers, Jack Kerouac. Satori in Paris chronicles a jet-age odyssey into ancient France. "Satori" is the Japanese word for "sudden illumination," "sudden awakening," or simply "kick in the eye." On a journey to trace his surname, Kerouac travels with dazzling speed through dozens..... More

New York, NY: The Library of America, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "With On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac established himself as a quintessentially American writer whose revolutionary style captured the spirit of a generation. The fourth volume in the Library of America's definitive edition of his works reveals for the first time the remarkable literary journey that led to his success, a journey with deep roots in..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here is the America of the late forties and early fifties that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently- the irrestible (sic) lure of the cross-country highways feverishly traveled by Jack Duluoz, the narrator of this book, and Cody Pomeray; the loneliness of diners and cafeterias and cheap hotels, of 42nd Street bars and cafeterias; the small towns passed..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. A varied & rich collection of short stories & poems by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist. Kipling was one of the world's most popular writers for children & adults during the later 19th- earlier 20th centuries; & he remains so today despite his now-unfashionable celebration of colonialism & the old British Empire. The structure..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First American Edition. Hardcover. The iconic novel by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial British Empire. While he may be out-of-favor if not entirely "canceled" by our current, intolerant "liberal" literary establishment for his indeed extreme advocacy of colonial imperialism & what is now often viewed as appropriation of native cultures..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two works by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist, in one rare volume: Kim, the novel which is among Kipling's most acclaimed & famous works, in which Kim (Kimball O'Hara), an Irish orphan living by his wits in British-ruled India during the late 19th century, gets deeply involved in adventures as he is brought into..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & with self-caricature by Jerzy Kosinski. "Fabian is a knight-errant, driving his VanHome, his only refuge and a stable for his two horses, across the American landscape, up into the northern hinterlands and down through the arid southwest, searching, judging, testing everything and everyone- himself most of all. His livelihood is polo, not the modern team sport of..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Doris Lessing's new novel- which she defines as "inner-space fiction"- is a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner man. We are inside the mind of professor Charles Watkins (Classics, Cambridge). He is doomed to spin endlessly on a raft in the currents of the Atlantic. He makes a landfall on a tropical shore. He discovers..... More

St. Paul, MN; New York, NY: Graywolf Press; Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Griffin, 1996; 2002. First Hardcover Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. First hardcover & softcover editions, first printings, both signed by Lewis Libby. 'At a remote mountain inn in the northenmost reaches of Japan, a raging blizzard has brought together wayfarers who share only fear, distrust, and suspicion of one another. In the winter of 1903, the..... More

New York, NY: The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "Norman Mailer would rather dramatize the unthinkable than write a safe book. Here is An American Dream, his first full-scale work of fiction in nearly ten years. Mailer undertook to write An American Dream under the same conditions of serial deadline that Conrad, Dickens and Dostoevsky met in their day. The novel appeared in slightly different form in eight successive..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the story of S. Levin, thirty, a bearded man with a burdensome past, who comes from New York to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, to live a new life." (front flap) The third novel by Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the great Jewish-American author in the acclaimed twentieth-century canon along with his contemporaries including Saul Bellow &..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "The setting of this wild, beautiful and haunting novel is the Amazon jungle, at once majestic and malevolent; the principal characters are four fundamentalist missionaries and a soldier of fortune; and the plot concerns their fanatical conflict over the fate of a primitive and dangerous tribe of jungle Indians...With this new novel Mr. Matthiessen far exceeds his previous achievement. At..... More