Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Edward Abbey's critically acclaimed bestseller, The Monkey Wrench Gang, George Washington Hayduke- ex-Green Beret and "wilderness avenger, industrial development saboteur, night-time troublemaker, barroom brawler, free-time lover"- was last seen clinging to a cliff, under fire from both a helicopter and a posse. Now presumed dead by all who stalked him, whereabouts unknown to those who knew him best...HAYDUKE LIVES!-..... More

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Dunyazade, kid sister of Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights, (has) her own way with words. There is also Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, and yet finds himself at forty "sea-leveled, parched and plucked, every grain in my molted sandals raising blisters, and beleaguered by the serpents of my past." And bellerophon, the hero who tames..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. " "There is nothing unusual about the foot except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen men are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself, although he is, effectively, dead...In an austere..... More

New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) attended Providence College for a year before joining the army in 1954 at age 19. After serving in Korea, Berrigan went on to receive an MA in English from the University of Tulsa in 1962. After completion of his studies in Tulsa, Berrigan moved to New York City. A cyclone of amphetamine..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Labeled by the wonderful promotional copy on the back of the book as one of the “NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST” Random House was publishing in 1950, they wrote the following about Paul Bowles’ “The Delicate Prey,” a strikingly dark and now-legendary collection of short stories from the celebrated author: “The short stories by the author of ‘The..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Trade Softcover Edition. Published by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press in 1977, “Things Gone and Things Still Here” collects the title piece along with eight other sand-whipped mosaics-in-prose by literature’s most distinguishable Tanjawi (the word for “single resident of Tangier”), Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Although he is primarily known for his short stories and prose fiction, Bowles also wrote poetry and composed music..... More

Zurich, Switzerland: Vittorio Santoro, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "A query often put to me by journalists unable to invent better questions is: which one of all my stories do I like best. A meaningless question. Still, I reply, always giving the same title: 'The Time of Friendship.' It has neither personalized malevolent thought nor any violent behavior. The violent action is supplied by the approaching war. One is aware of..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Dedicated to Poet’s Poet and Great Friend of Poetry in the Bay Area, the late Ann Menebroker, the prolific Charles Bukowski’s “South of No North” is a book of short stories that many Bukowski initiates feel is among his best. Two fan-&-critical favorites included in this collection are “Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts” (originally..... More

New York, NY: Viking Press; Grove Press, 1973; 2009. First Edition(s). (1) (Maynard & Miles, A23, pp. 83-84). In one of the earliest book-length critical studies of WSB’s work, the lauded “William Burroughs: the Algebra of Need,” Eric Mottram writes: “‘Exterminator!’ is a call for help, a cry of surprise, a shout of recognition, and a demand for the agent and his god to be exposed. Its formal virtuosity is..... More

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. (Shoaf 53a., pg. 49). In his article Burroughs' Theatre of Illusion: Cities of the Red Night, in the Spring 1984 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Steven Shapiro describes this work as WSB's "....most densely overdetermined work of fiction." With great insight, and fitting density, he writes that "Burroughs' discourse encompasses contradictory exigencies of obsession and freedom, replication..... More

New York, NY: Serpent's Tail / High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. (Shoaf 88a. pg. 63; Schottlaender A66b.). "Bulldozers are destroying the rain forests, the cowering lemurs and flying foxes, the singing Kloss's gibbons, which produce the most beautiful and variegated music of any land animal, and the gliding colugo lemurs, which are helpless on the ground. All going, to make way for more and more devalued human..... More

New York, NY: Ace Books, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Softcover. "I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonizing deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in..... More