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LIVING JONATHAN'S LIFE: A Doctor's Descent Into Darkness and Addiction.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Deerfield Beach, FL Health Communications (2007). SIGNED first edition - "A true story of identical twin brothers, each fighting similar physical and emotional battles. One would lose his life; the other would nearly self-destruct." After his brother's death from AIDS, Scott Davis began feeling extreme pain, and descended into a world of drug-taking in search of relief. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 2008. Appendices on resources available. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7573-06497.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91732More details Price: $21.50 -
BRASS.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Canongate U.S., (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, a "a portrait both of a city and a generation, offering a female perspective on the harsh truth of growing up in today's Britain. Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men, but feels increasingly trapped. She seeks escape in the hedonistic underbelly of Liverpool, getting off on rough sex and cheap highs. Shockingly candid and brutally poetic. . " 296 pp. ISBN: 1-841954845.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91236More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LESS DEAD.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90278More details Price: $23.50 -
LAST BONGO SUNSET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Budapest-born author's first novel, "a darkly lyrical, semi-autobiographical account of a drug addict's life in Venice, California in the early 1970s. When a prostitute, Cassandra, puts a needle full of heroin into the arm of a young man who calls himself College, he instantly responds to the drug. Soon he's addicted and sharing his apartment with Cassandra and her pimp," (PW) although, like Plesko himself, he does manage to break the bonds of addiction. Cover praise from Kate Braverman who calls this "a novel of scathing, indelible brilliance. . the best book I have ever read about the 60s, drugs and the death of the American dream." 269 pp. ISBN: 0-671880497.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 90090More details Price: $16.50 -
SUGA WATER: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (slight curl to outer edge of front cover) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 89802More details Price: $85.00 -
THE DELICACY OF EMBRACING SPIRALS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A highly praised and compelling collection of poetry and prose poems and more, one which uses the spaces on the page as part of the message. "Tempestt is a self-proclaimed 'daughter of California, ' and her collection begins by gazing inward, before moving seamlessly into questions of queerness and Blackness that drive a searing social and political critique." (Alta Magazine) SIGNED by the author. 130 pp. ISBN: 978-0872869257.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89222More details Price: $27.50 -
IN HANUMAN'S HANDS: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperOne / Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book (although he had short stories and plays published). Although Rao notes in his introduction that this is not a "factually accurate recounting of his life" but a book "pulled from my experiences and from the stories of my relatives." An account of how this "descendant of generations of Brahmin priests chose a tragic path to enlightenment. His powerful memoir describes in harrowing detail Raos troubles with crack addiction and the spiritual awakening that led to his recovery." (Washington Post) 399 pp. ISBN: 978-0060736620.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to pages)
Book ID: 88874More details Price: $18.50 -
A LOT TO MAKE UP FOR.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this Canadian writer. A story of "alienation and reintegration set in small-town Canada. Hoping to atone for past mistakes, Stan Hagan, a young recovering alcoholic, comes to Ashton seeking Adele Symons, his former girlfriend. . the novel has a gritty honesty about it that lends its well-worn truths the air of fresh discovery."(Library Journal). ISBN: 0-374191778.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86925More details Price: $19.50 -
BASEBALL JUNKIE: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of a World Series Champion.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Diego: DreamGrinder Press, (2017). First edition - Autobiography of a two-time World Series champion who reached the pinnacle of Major League Baseball before retiring at age thirty-six in 2012, but who balanced these victories with the crippling demons of addiction, divorce, anxiety, depression, and feelings of inferiority. v, 257 pp. ISBN: 978-1944903176.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85990More details Price: $17.50 -
HALF BROKE: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83760More details Price: $20.00 -
EXPOSURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1993,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a woman who seems to have it all, but is secretly snorting speed and shoplifting, and whose vivid and painful memories of her life with her father, a noted photographer, are about to be exposed. Like her first novel, this was also selected as a New York Times Notable Book. SIGNED on the title page. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-379-409424.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80848More details Price: $30.00 -
SING, UNBURIED, SING.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine first issue dust jacket without the award sticker.
Book ID: 79642More details Price: $28.50 -
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU: A Memoir.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2013). Hardcover - The author's first book, an account of an unconventional coming of age in the 1990s. "Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. . despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by." 207 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993240.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79310More details Price: $15.00 -
ORFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel derived from Greek mythology by this Newbery award winning writer. "Enny recounts the story of her best friend, Orfe, a talented artist known for the beauty of her music; Orfe's romance with Yuri, a recovering drug addict; and Orfe's doomed struggle to save Yuri - and herself." 120 pp. ISBN: 0-689317719.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (withdrawn stamp on front endpaper, but no signs that this was ever in a library - or even read!) .
Book ID: 75946More details Price: $14.50 -
WHAT IT MEANS TO LOVE YOU.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: MacAdam / Cage Publishing, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author' second novel, set in the underworld of Chicago's Halsted Street, a world of addiction, prostitution - love in the midst of brutality. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 1-931561184.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (crinkling to back cover of dj).
Book ID: 73764More details Price: $28.50 -
THE RIVER SORROW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Michigan author's first book, a highly praised literary thriller, featuring a young doctor, a former addict who had beaten his habit and gotten a 2nd chance, and an old-time police detective whose gut instincts tell him that the doctor is responsible for the murders that have shattered this small Midwest city. INSCRIBED on the title page "For .. . . thanks for the start" and dated in the year of publication. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-385-312075.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72762More details Price: $28.50 -
ROCKING THE BABIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this African American writer. Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation award. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was published, since it deals with the issue of whether or not cocaine-addicted mothers can be prosecuted. INSCRIBED on the title page (For -- with warm regards") and dated in the year of publication. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670-852635.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 70293More details Price: $30.00 -
ROCKING THE BABIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this African American writer. Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation award. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was published, since it deals with the issue of whether or not cocaine-addicted mothers can be prosecuted. SIGNED by author. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670-852635.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 64242More details Price: $30.00 -
THE STORY OF JUNK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, a novel about a 'nice girl's' descent into the world of heroin dealing. Dustjacket praise from John Waters and Michael Cunningham, among others. SIGNED opposite the title page with the words "Knock, knock." 325 pp,. ISBN: 0-374-270244.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64232More details Price: $30.00 -
EXPOSURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1993,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a woman who seems to have it all, but is secretly snorting methedrine and shoplifting, and whose vivid and painful memories of her life with her father, a noted photographer, are about to be exposed. Like her first novel, this was also selected as a New York Times Notable Book. SIGNED on the half title page. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-379-409424.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64221More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOODROOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A gritty thriller set on Staten Island in New York City: college history instruction Kevin Curran attempts to help his brother stay away from heroin, but is instead dragged into an underworld plot of murder, mafia hit men and criminal espionage. Bloodroot is a fictional counterpart of the real horrors of Willowbrook. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399155925.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62840More details Price: $17.50 -
HEROIN and Other Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems on addiction, loss and remembrance. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-393-049973.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease on front flap of dj)
Book ID: 60857More details Price: $20.00 -
LIVING JONATHAN'S LIFE: A Doctor's Descent Into Darkness and Addiction.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Deerfield Beach, FL Health Communications (2007). SIGNED first edition - "A true story of identical twin brothers, each fighting similar physical and emotional battles. One would lose his life; the other would nearly self-destruct." After his brother's death from AIDS, Scott Davis began feeling extreme pain, and descended into a world of drug-taking in search of relief. SIGNED by the author and dated on the title page. Appendices on resources available. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7573-06497.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60739More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MISSOURI REVIEW: Out of Bounds: Winter 2005, Volume XXVIII Number 3.
Edition: First printing.
Columbia: University of Missouri, 2005. First edition - "Discovering the best in fiction, essays and poetry," Includes fiction by Alex Mindt, Peter Levine, Susan Perabo, John Clayton; poetry by Lynn Aarti Chandhok, Ciaran Berry, and R.T. Smith and essays by Wendy Wacker, Scott Russell Saunders and Melanie Hammer, plus a pictorial liook at Russian costume designer Leon Bakst and an interview with A.M. Homes, cartoons and book reviews. 202 pp. plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1879758458.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 58213More details Price: $18.00 -
BLOODROOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty thriller set on Staten Island in New York City: college history instruction Kevin Curran attempts to help his brother stay away from heroin, but is instead dragged into an underworld plot of murder, mafia hit men and criminal espionage. Bloodroot is a fictional counterpart of the real horrors of Willowbrook. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399155925.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 55097More details Price: $35.00 -
NO HIDING PLACE: Empowerment and Recovery for Our Troubled Communities.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, (1992.). Second book by this activist African American minister, pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church, and known for his fight against drug addiction in the black community. Photographs, 228 pages. ISBN: 0-06-2509888.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 53504More details Price: $10.00 -
BUFFALO NICKEL: A MEMOIR.
Edition: First printing.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This coming of age account of a young man at first following his older brother into a life of crime and drug use, and then struggling to save himself (and failing to save his brother) is an "autobiography that reads like a well-crafted novel in its recording of the excessive human costs of drug addication.". SIGNED and dated on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 155885049X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 52248More details Price: $35.00 -
NINE BELOW ZERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel (third book) by this highly praised young Western writer. Set in Montana. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Harry Crews, Rick Bass and Jim Harrison. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-491603.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49051More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SCENE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback reprint.
New York: Norton, (1996.). Originally published in 1960, this is a classic novel of drug addiction and the world of narcotics use in any large city. Cooper was himself a heroin user, and he began this novel while serving a prison term as a form of therapy for himself, in an attempt to understand why he was a drug addict. A title in the Old School Books series edited by Marc Gerald and Samuel Blumenfeld, with a new introduction for this edition. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-393-314634.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated covers.
Book ID: 47697More details Price: $10.00 -
THE RIVER SORROW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Michigan author's first book, a highly praised literary thriller, featuring a young doctor, a former addict who had beaten his habit and gotten a 2nd chance, and an old-time police detective whose gut instincts tell him that the doctor is responsible for the murders that have shattered this small Midwest city. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-385-312075.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (some crinkling to upper edge of dj,)
Book ID: 46475More details Price: $16.50