New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" is a ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy epic." (front flap). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English author, humorist & screenwriter Douglas Adams (1952-2001), published in 1987. Written as a "fuck you" to the pressure from publishers to write more of his wildly popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. "I was named after my daddy, Vern, | but I was like my mama, | though I'd never admit it, until now. | Before she settled down, she traveled from town to town | on her roller derby circuit | for the Texas Tornadoes. | Sometimes I went with her. | She always knew how to make..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. "Rooms Are Never Finished focuses our attention on the major hot spot of our world with a personal emotion that brings it close and makes it real for Americans. These poems are simply amazing." (Forrest Gander, dust jacket review). Kashmiri-American poet and educator Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) presents his penultimate book of poetry, the National Book Award..... More

New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Arno Strine likes to stop time and take women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobigraphy, The Fermata . It proves in the telling to be a very provocative, funny, and altogether morally confused piece of work." (from inner front cover flap). Born in New York City, New York, novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker (b. 1957) is..... More

Nashville, Tennessee: Keyhole Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Matt Bell "With How They Were Found, Matt Bell joins the company of the great fabulists like Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, or closer to home, the American masters, Steven Millhauser, John Crowley, and Thomas Pynchon. In reading this collection, you will be forgiven if you have to constantly remind yourself that this is the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Saul Bellow. "The Dean's December is a tale of two cities, Chicago, Illinois, and Bucharest, Romania, a tale of East and West. It is also the story of a double crisis in the life of Albert Corde. Corde, the Dean, is not a real academic- this is anything but a campus novel- but a newspaperman who returned..... More

New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition. “Every time I see long columns of numbers, handwritten in a certain way, a strange sensation or shudder, partly aesthetic, partly painful, goes through my diaphragm. It is like seeing the dorsal fin of a large fish suddenly cut through the surface of the water – not a frightening fish like a shark, more like a sailfish. The numbers..... More

Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Peter Blue Cloud to Thomas Rain Crowe; & with ephemera signed/endorsed by Crowe & Blue Cloud. "'Coyote, how did it all begin?"// It was beyond night or even the concept of night. It was a blackness so dense that it swallowed all else./ There was a howling beyond the puny sound of storms,/ and yet there..... More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2009. Limited First Edition. Signed by Ben Bova. “This is not a science fiction novel, let that be understood from the outset. Although I am known primarily as a science fiction author, the book you hold in your hands is a contemporary novel. It is set in the here and now. Its major characters are scientists, the kind of men and women who are working today..... More

London, England: John Lehmann, 1952. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The third published work & second novel of Paul Bowles (1910-1999), the canonical American-expatriate author, composer & true Figure of Legend. Bowles, with his equally if differently legendary wife Jane, lived & worked in Tangier for most of his life, beginning when it was a notorious "International Zone" (the very title of the first chapter here), a cauldron of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking Penguin, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "World's End is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three time periods: the late seventeenth century, when the Dutch had begun to give way to the English along the great river's banks; the 1940s, when anti-Communist sentiment was sweeping the country; and the late 1960s. With low humor and high seriousness, and in magical, almost hallucinatory prose, it follows..... More

Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Mark Brazaitis to Dan & Amanda Rzicznek. "...The author's bizarre humor and the outrageous plot elements and attitudes about the vagaries of human nature lighten the mood considerably..." (from Booklist Online review, back cover). Cleveland, Ohio native and Peace Corp volunteer Mark Brazaitis' (b. 1961) "The Incurables" is a collection of ten..... More

Boston, MA: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Edition. Single Sheet. “We waited and waited. All of us. Didn’t the shrink know that waiting was one of the things that drove people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn’t have any money they waited in longer..... More