Alias Art Mann
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1985. First Edition. Soft Cover. A futuristic novel with an introduction by publisher Charles Plymell. Another Cherry Valley Edition rarity. Very Fine. More
[Item #1288]Fiction
Stocking Cap
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The skill was not to snub the nose of the pickerel on the under edge of the ice as, with wet, numb hands, you brought him up- more often than not he was a perch- out of the water six inches or three feet down, as the winter went, from the frozen surface of the lake." (first paragraph..... More
[Item #3997]
Doubleheader: Hurrah for Anything, Poemscapes and A Letter to God
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1958. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "Two of Kenneth Patchen's most lively and appealing books, Hurrah for Anything and Poemscapes, both originally published by Jonathan Williams but long out of print, make up the main sections of this new paperback. Also included is one of the poet's most remarkable longer works, A Letter to God, which is reprinted from the rare pamphlet by Henry Miller..... More
[Item #4357]
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer
New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1945. First Softcover Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. "First published in 1945, Kenneth Patchen's Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer has been reprinted over the years in various editions and is now recognized as a classic of American humor and satire. It is the hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent whose comic misadventures hold up a distorting mirror to our..... More
[Item #4343]
Snapshots For A Serial Killer: A fiction and a Play
San Francisco, CA: GLB Publishers, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. "The discerning reader will soon be aware of connections between my killer and the notorious serial murderer, Randy Kraft, who is currently on Death Row, San Quentin, having been convicted of the sex murders of sixteen young men and suspected of killing more than sixty...the interior life, which is what I am about, is entirely my creation...John Keats called this penchant..... More
[Item #3335]
Flesh Film: A Cut-Up Novella
Germany: Moloko Print, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "The European mainland spawned a remarkable second wave of post-Burroughsian cut-up authors to expand upon his principles and took the technique deep into new territories. Jurgen Ploog belongs to this lineage of vigorous, exciting, cut-up practitioners which includes Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach, & Carl Weissner...What Ploog achieves in Flesh film is a text that exists within its own space, drawing on Burroughsian tropes..... More
[Item #3493]
The Benzedrine Highway Bundle
New York, NY; Salem, NY: Kicks Books Co.; Bottle of Smoke Press, 2013. Deluxe First Edition; First Edition, Ephemera. Softcovers; Postcards; Bottles; Boxes. Deluxe edition & two cards all signed by Charles Plymell. "Charles Plymell roared out of Kansas with tires blazing while the Beat scene was still in training wheels. Weaned on jump blues, true grit and Dr. Gimmy Gommy's Goodies, Plymell redefined the fast track with blunt force..... More
[Item #3359]
Ship of Fools
Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press/ Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "This long-awaited novel by Katherine Anne Porter is destined to take a permanent place in the literature of our time. Over a period of many years Miss Porter has devoted her creative energy and her great gifts as a storyteller to this major work, weaving its many strands into a rich, varicolored fabric. It is a novel..... More
[Item #4020]
The Opium Must Go Thru
Robert McNealy. Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Potts Stories by Charles Potts, with artwork on covers & inside by Charles McNealy. Inscribed by Potts to Charles & Pamela Plymell on the title page: "For Chas & Pam Plymell/8-19-98/No Sex please/I'll have an/80 million dollar/blo (sic) job instead./(signed) Charles Potts." Also on the title page is Charles Potts' blindstamp below his inscription. Also..... More
[Item #1494]
The Crying of Lot 49
Philadelphia, PA & New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Crying of Lot 49...is the story of Oedipa Maas, a young woman who finds herself appointed executrix of a former lover's estate. This is annoying enough, but when it leads to the gradual revelation of the secret postal system of the outcasts..."(from rear flap) A first edition of Thomas Pynchon's second novel, published three years..... More
[Item #1827]
Entropy
n/d (circa 1983). First (?) Separate Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The first separate edition of an early work of fiction by thomas Pynchon first published in the Kenyon Review, (Vol. 22, No. 2), in 1960. This appears to be an unauthorized edition, with the name of the publisher taken from a term for a sinister code-system in Pynchon's second novel, The Crying of Lot 49. Aloes books in London, UK may..... More
[Item #1830]
V.
Philadelphia, PA & New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. "...V. is indescribably original. In a madcap, sometimes sad, frequently hilarious way, it captures the ruthlessness and multiplicity of the modern world. Incident piles on incident until, in what amounts almost to a revelation, the pattern of the book and the century it describes emerge with a terrible beauty."(from rear flap) A first edition of Thomas..... More
[Item #1826]
The Beggar's Knife (Translated by Paul Bowles)
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories- at once brutal and intensely lyrical- are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North Africa, where their action occurs, (Rodrigo) Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed; and at the same time they can be read as..... More
[Item #4305]
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Tom Robbins. "As many readers well know, to describe a Tom Robbins plot does not begin to describe a Tom Robbins novel. Moreover, the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author, with his love of language, nuance, and surprise, is as opposed to story summations as J.D. Salinger." (from front flap) The seventh novel by Tom Robbins, among the most..... More
[Item #3726]
Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Tom Robbins. "When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you- an ambitious, though ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker- are convinced you're facing the Weekend From Hell. You don't know the half of it! This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel...In Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, the author explores new terrain. As..... More
[Item #3706]
Skinny Legs and All
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across from the United Nations....it sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins the long-awaited new Tom Robbins novel, a gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative book in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art..... More
[Item #3710]
Villa Incognito
New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine just those things (don't even try to imagine the love story) and you'll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins's..... More
[Item #3721]
The History of Sleep
San Francisco, CA: Gallimaufry, 1976. Limited First Edition. Softcover. An early collection of stories & short prose-poetic pieces by Steven Schutzman, the acclaimed poet, prose writer & playwright. Includes "The Bank Robbery," the much-anthologized, prize-winning short story. trade-format softcover original, a handsome production with artful, treated photographs by Tim Hildebrand on covers & interior. As noted in colophon, this copy is from an edition of 500, among which 25 were..... More
[Item #3820]
Burning Bright
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by John Steinbeck with citation to Stephen Bogart, son of Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall. This is the first edition, first printing of the canonical American writer John Steinbeck's "play in story form" as it is subtitled, "First published by The Viking Press in November 1950" as noted in the copyright page. This presentation copy is very special indeed-..... More
[Item #2163]
Of Mice and Men
New York, NY: Random House/ The Modern Library, n/d (Circa 1950). First Edition Thus, Early Printing. Hardcover. "Genuine compassion for his vagabonds and human flotsam gives the breath of life to John Steinbeck's novels and makes them idylls of the lower depths. Of Mice and Men is Steinbeck at his compassionate best; it is a story movingly and forcefully told and with overtones of soaring beauty. Its first success as..... More
[Item #4429]
The Rum Diary (Uncorrected UK Proof Copy)
London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998. First Edition, Uncorrected Proof Copy. Softcover. "Puerto Rico was a backwater and the Daily News was staffed mainly by ill-tempered wandering rabble. They moved erratically, on the winds of rumor and opportunity, all over Europe, Latin America and the Far East- wherever there were English-language newspapers, jumping from one to another, looking always for the big break, the crucial assignment, the rich heiress or the..... More
[Item #4403]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective (One Volume) with: Tom Sawyer Abroad
Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1980. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. The three classic novels by Mark Twain (1835-1910) featuring his immortal character Tom Sawyer in one volume, along with another edition of one of the three works: (1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective, published for the Iowa Center for Textual..... More
[Item #4351]
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. The late work of imaginative detective fiction by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author, featuring an appearance by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes- an unusual & delightful cross-pollination between two literary icons. Offered here is the very first edition, first printing, published by Harper & Brothers in April 1902 as stated on copyright..... More
[Item #4381]
Extracts From Adam's Diary
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. A satirical work, daring & irreverent for its time, by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author. With frontispiece illustration of Adam "writing his diary" surrounded by Eve & the creatures of Eden, & hieroglyphic-spoofing illustrations opposite each page of text, all by F. Strothman. Hardcover in red cloth with color illustration..... More
[Item #4396]
The Prince and the Pauper (Two Editions)
Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1979; 1996. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Two editions of a classic work of historical fantasy-fiction by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & author: (1) The Prince and the Pauper, published for The Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press, 1979. As noted on..... More
[Item #4303]