New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Inscribed by Edward Abbey. "The Fool's Progress is the story of Henry Holyoak Lightcap's uncertain advance through life, recounted during a 3,500-mile journey from the arid wasteland of Tucson, Arizona, to the "green, fuzzy, mist-infested hills" of a fictional Stump Creek, West Virginia. The journey- Henry is accompanied by his dying dog, Solstice- takes place in April..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Nelson Algren “’THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM’ is Algren’s finest novel. It tells of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefka’s gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt the cards as if he could talk to them and they understand. Frankie was as tough as any of the regulars at Schwiefka’s but he..... 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

New York, NY: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "To Tangier, outpost of unrestrained freedom, morass of ruthless greed and opportunism, comes a young American, Nelson Dyar. Fed up with his job in a New York bank, he has accepted a position in this swarming Moroccan city where nationals of many countries mingle in a frenzy of smuggling, espionage, vice of every description. Quickly caught up in the stream of..... 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

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Brautigan. As the work’s front flap copy unceremoniously announces, “A strand of Japanese hair, an ice-cold sombrero, and a small-town librarian with no ears—Richard Brautigan has written another novel.” Further described as “the story of a man who has lost his Japanese lover…it is also the story of a small town that loses its sense of proportion..... 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

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. Second Edition. Softcover. "Boys lean over iron balconies in the summer night whispering and giggling, turn in black waters of the old swimming hole with ivory flash of ambiguous limbs, roar past each other in stolen cars with woppish cries and crash into the viaduct cracking concrete to its bloody steel bones. Boys whiz through the air out of autos, roller coasters, crashing..... 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

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