New York, NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind (at least temporarily) his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that he had fully expected to be his masterpiece. Begun in 1927, and originally titled Lovely Lesbians, Crazy Cock sprang from his anguish over June's love affair with a mysterious woman called Jean Kronski. Purging himself of..... More

Paris, France: The Olympia Press, 1962. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The second volume of The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American writer & artist whose earlier works were an influential precedent for the Beat Generation, especially its Founding Father Jack Kerouac. Preceded by Sexus (1949) & followed by Nexus (1959, see our item No. 4552), this installment of Miller's epic-intimate fictionalized autobiography was first published in..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by Wayetu Moore. "In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she nevertheless survives. On a plantation in Virginia, June Dey hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. And in the..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this collection of short fiction Howard Frank Mosher returns to the scenic but rugged hill country of northern Vermont that provided the setting for his highly praised first novel, Disappearances. The characters who people the six stories are natives of this isolated remnant of an earlier New England. They are fiercely proud, resourceful, determined to the point of stubbornness..... More

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. "Bend Sinister is a dramatic fantasy of modern man menaced by the rising tyrant State which, under the familiar slogans of Equality and Community, extinguishes the free intelligence and all normal human relations. From the opening scene in a hospital, where the hero Adam Krug's wife is dying, to the last scene where the author, like Prospero at the..... More

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: Perennial Library/ Harper & Row, 1989. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates. "A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt. In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, Inc./ William Abrahams, 1985. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. "It was on a mild, fragrant evening in late September, several weeks after she had moved to Glenkill, Pennsylvania, to begin teaching at the Glenkill Academy for Boys, that Monica Jensen was introduced to Sheila Trask at a crowded reception in the headmaster's residence. And the meeting was so awkward, her own response so lacking in brilliance..... More

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, Inc./ William Abrahams, 1987. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. "From one of the great writers of our time comes an epic novel of an American family in the 1950s. Probing the divisions between the permissible and the forbidden, ordinary life and the secret places of the heart, Joyce Carol Oates has never been more memorable, more truthful, and as some will argue, more shocking, for..... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance holds a unique place in modern American culture...now, in Lila, Robert M. Pirsig brings us a new voyage, as mysterious and compelling as the journey in that first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a cruising sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Phaedrus has a most unlikely..... More