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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "(Donald Barthelme) here enlarges and makes further forays into the imaginative terrain laid out in his three previous books. The fourteen new stories gathered together in City Life offer sudden, dazzling glimpses of a world very much like our own but with more clearly visible marvels and terrors...Throughout his exploration of City Life, Donald Barthelme displays the inimitable wit..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. "'With the publication of 'The Hawkline Monster,' Richard Brautigan, author of 'Trout Fishing in America,' revealed a new dimension to his talent that amused and entertained his many readers. 'His writing has an exemplary control and precision, a fine-tuned tension...he belongs at literature's main table.’ (Chicago Tribune). In this stunning new novel, Brautigan explores contemporary values in America and their..... More

New York, NY; London, England; New York, NY: Olympia Press; Sphere Books Limited; Coronet Communications, 1970; 1971. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his..... 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

Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow, 1979. Limited First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "Like the ship's captain who rushes into the first lifeboat in drag, Benway rejects the pompous hypocrisy of his profession and this rejection is so outrageous as to provoke laughter rather than censure." (from Introduction, pg. 10) A variant passage from William S. Burroughs' breakthrough work, Naked Lunch, starring his immortal routine-character Dr. Benway, the unforgettably over-the-top, breezily..... More

London, England: Picador/ Pan Books Ltd., 1989. First UK Edition. Hardcover. " "Interzone" was the working title for the novel William S. Burroughs composed from roughly 1953 through 1958- the work that, when finally published under the title Naked Lunch, revolutionized the modern novel to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other work in this century. Burroughs' readers will recognize "Interzone" as the dreamlike locus of so much of his..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Viking Press; Aloes Books, 1971; 1975. First American Edition; First Edition Thus. Hardcover; Softcover. (Shoaf, 19f. p. 35). (1) In his important early critical study of WSB, “William Burroughs: the Algebra of Need,” Eric Mottram writes that in this work, “…Dutch Schultz’s mob, the federal government’s power…move in a continuous sphere of action within the monologue of the dying gangster, a deathbed ‘last words’ under..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. First Printing; Fifth Printing. Hardcovers. "And only after the first shock does one realize that what Burroughs is writing about is not only the destruction of depraved men by their drug lust, but the destruction of all men by their consuming addictions...Burroughs is not only serious in his intent, but he is a writer of great power and artistic integrity engaged in a...... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Listen to my last words anywhere. Listen to my last words any world. Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory to take what is not yours. To sell the ground from unborn feet forever-" (first chapter "Last Words," first paragraph) The third & final volume in..... More