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Literature
Ableman, Paul. I Hear Voices. Paris: Olympia Press, [1957]. 16mo, 219pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Some rubbing to dust jacket. $45 | Surprising, often comic tale told from the point of view of a schizophrenic. First edition. | |
Baldwin, James. Phono LP. Black Man in America. Cambridge, Mass: Credo, [1965?]. Credo 1. Long playing record album. Album cover design by Erik von Schmidt. Fine. $100 | An interview with Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. | |
Barthelme, Frederick. Rangoon. NYC: Winter House, 1970. 8vo, 195pp, illustrated. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine except for a chip at crown of spine. $125 | First edition of Frederick Barthelme’s first book. Illustrations, comprising whole chapters in parts, are by Mayo Thompson, later of dada-punkers Pere Ubu (“Devo with brains”), and the obscure Red Crayola. | |
Barthelme, Frederick. War and War. Garden City: Doubleday, [1971]. 8vo, 190pp, illustrated. Wrappers. Excellent copy. $75 | The author’s second book, published only in wrappers. Like Rangoon, this book is now practically disowned by its author. Mayo Thompson reappears in War and War. First edition. | |
Bax, Martin. The Hospital Ship. London: Jonathan Cape, [1976]. 8vo, 219pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $30 | Chilling allegory of civilization in eclipse, set on a hospital ship that makes occasional, unavoidable visits to the horrific mainland. A pediatrician by profession, Bax published the avant garde magazine Ambit, nurturing the careers of J. G. Ballard, Edwin Brock, Eduardo Paolozzi, and others. First edition. | |
Blier, Bertrand. Going Places. Translated by Patsy Southgate. NYC: Lippincott, [1973]. 8vo, 264pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $25 | First English-language edition. Novel of rebellious youth (“We’re real fuckheads”) by French filmmaker Blier (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Buffet Froid, others). | |
Bowles, Jane. The Collected Works of Jane Bowles. With an introduction by Truman Capote. NYC: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. 8vo, 431pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Owner’s signature on first endpaper; original price sticker on back. $50 | Includes Two Serious Ladies, In the Summer House, and Plain Pleasures. | |
Braly, Malcolm. Felony Tank. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Gold Medal, [1961]. 175 + ad. Paperback. Fine. $35 | Paperback original. Braly’s first three books were written in prison. | |
Braly, Malcolm. Shake Him till He Rattles. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Gold Medal, [1963]. 175 + ad. Paperback. Fine. $35 | “Drifting between a very cool girl and a very warm one... A funky, nighttime love story so vivid you can taste it, hear it, feel it...” A paperback original. | |
Cottonwood, Joe. The Naked Computer. SF: Black Dragon Books, 1974. 8vo, 128pp. Wrappers. Fine. $35 | First edition, one of 400 copies comprising the entire edition. Author’s first book. | |
Gerber, Dan. American Atlas. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1973]. 8vo, 204pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35 | Droll road novel by poet and race car driver Gerber. First edition. | |
Grogan, Emmett. Final Score. With promotional material. NYC: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1976]. 8vo, 292pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows a little rubbing. $50 | Grogan’s second book, a novel describing a nuclear caper in exacting detail. Soon after its publication, Grogan was found dead on a New York subway. Conspiracy rumors persist. First edition, with six pages of publicity material laid in: three pages from the publisher, two from the publicist, and one is perhaps by Grogan himself. | |
Horn, Richard. Encyclopedia. NYC: Grove, [1969]. 8vo, 157pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine, price clipped. $25 | Comedic novel in lexicographic form. First edition. | |
Major, Clarence. All-Night Visitors. Hardbound. NYC: Olympia Press, [1969]. 12mo, 203pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Price clipped; slight tear to dust jacket. $200 | Rare hardbound edition of poet Clarence Major’s first book. First edition. | |
Meltzer, David. The erotic fiction of David Meltzer, complete in ten volumes. Signed and annotated by by their editor-publisher. Ten books: the Agency trilogy (The Agent, The Agency, How Many Blocks in the Pile?), Orf, The Martyr, the Brain-Plant tetrology (Lovely, Healer, Out, Glue Factory), and Star. Paperback originals, published between 1968 to 1970. The first nine bore the Essex House imprint, the last was published by Essex House’s parent company, Brandon House. Fine. $500 | Poet David Meltzer’s erotic fiction, a complete set of first editions. Published under the direction of Brian Kirby, who has signed and annotated each volume on its copyright page. | |
Mowry, Jess. Way Past Cool. First edition, signed. NYC: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1992]. 8vo, 310pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $35 | Signed by Mowry, “2/22/93 Oaktown,” on a plate affixed to the first endpaper. Deftly-rendered, sympathetic novel of life in the street gangs of Oakland. | |
Peters, Daniel. Border Crossings. NYC: Harper & Row, [1978]. 8vo, 313pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. One small tear in dust jacket. Nice copy. $35 | First edition. Fictionalized account of a draft resister’s struggles, 1969-70. | |
Robbins, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976. 8vo, 365pp. Wrappers. One very light crease in spine. $50 | First edition. This wrappers edition preceded the hardcover. | |
Southern, Terry. Blue Movie. NYC: World [New American Library], 1970. 8vo, 288pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $45 | First edition. Southern’s darkly funny, graphic satire of the movie industry. | |
Southern, Terry. The Magic Christian. First US edition. NYC: Random House, [1960]. 8vo, 148pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to edges. Very nice copy. $100
Watts, Minor. Americaville. NYC: Olympia, [1969]. 16mo, 249pp. Hard-bound in dust jacket. Binding slightly split between 2nd and 3rd front endpapers. Crown & foot of dj worn, somewhat rubbed. $35 | “A small resortish town with its landed aristocracy, artist-hippie elements and indigent Negro and Indian population, is faced with a possible revolution and/or police state in the immediate future, and is turned into a scene of explosive strife, genocide and mindless tragedy.”. | |
Wurlitzer, Rudolph. Nog. NYC: Random House, [1968]. 8vo, 164pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Sticker removed from paste-down. $55 | First edition of Wurlitzer’s first book. | |
Wurlitzer, Rudy. Flats. Review copy. NYC: Dutton, 1970. 8vo, 159pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Excellent. $40 | First edition, review slip laid in. | |
Wurlitzer, Rudy. Quake. Review copy. NYC: Dutton, 1972. 8vo, 158pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $40 | First edition, review slip laid in. | |
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