New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. "I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances, the development of which resembled a clumsy conspiracy, with nonsensical details and a main plotter who not only knew nothing of its real object but insisted on making inept moves that seemed to preclude the slightest possibility of success. Yet out of those very mistakes..... More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "When this extraordinary novel was still a work in progress, with chapters appearing in such varied magazines as Esquire, Redbook, and Shenandoah, it generated immediate pre-publication excitement. One chapter was an O. Henry Award winner in 1976; another was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1977...As Cacciato, pursued by his own comrades-in-arms, walks out of the jungles of..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This volume contains twelve brilliant new stories, all written in the two years following the completion of Waiting for Winter (1966). One of them, "A Few Trips and Some Poetry," is a novel of medium length...The quality of And Other Stories- which contains some of the author's finest work- shows what a great amount of his energy and time has..... More

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

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

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

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "It has been seventeen years since Thomas Pynchon shocked and dazzled readers with his novel Gravity's Rainbow. Here, with Vineland, Pynchon is back, introducing a cast of individuals so quirky, so vulnerable, and so terribly ill-equipped to deal with each other that they could only hail from this world. It is 1984 in Northern California, where a group of Americans..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a novel about America. It is a novel about loneliness, about love and the ceaseless, furtive search for love. Set in the seamy, neon-lighted world of honky-tonk USA- Times Square in New York, Pershing Square in Los Angeles, Hollywood Boulevard, and the French Quarter of New Orleans- and dealing with a little-known world of hidden sex, City of..... More

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

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

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Story of the man who turned into a female breast." (front flap) The notorious novella by Philip Roth (1933-2018), the great, award-winning & prolific Jewish-American author whose works have been enshrined in the Library of America series (since before he died, a particular honor) along with his canonical contemporaries Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud et al. In this sixth..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Letting go is Philip Roth's first full-length work and easily justifies the expectation aroused after the publication of his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a work that won an array of prizes culminating in the National Book Award for the most distinguished work of fiction in 1960. In Letting Go, Mr. Roth has brought his wit and insight to bear on a...... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "Portnoy's Complaint...n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- ) A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather..... More