New York: Henry Holt, (1987.). Although it is hard to believe now, this novel was rejected by many publishers before Louisana State University took it on. A beautifully written account of a man who finally finds some direction in his life. A country and western singer who served two years in Angola for manslaughter, Iry heads west to the Bitteroot ranch of fellow prisoner Buddy Riordan, but he and the Riordan family are caught up in the conflict around a local pulp mill. 241 pp. ISBN: 9780807113349.

New York and Washington, D.C.: Harry N. Abrams / Corcoran Gallery of Art ( (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which powerfully and graphically documents the plight of men women and children in cities and towns across the country and points the way to lasting solutions. Illustrated with many full color and black & white photographs, many full page, by Eli Reed, Jodi Cobb, Mary Ellen Mark, Clarence Williams, Tipper Gore, Betsy Frampton, Donna Ferrato, Joseph Rodriguez, Callie Shell, Stephen Shames, Annie Leibovitz, and Diana Walker. Produced in conjunction with exhibits at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Getty in Los Angeles. Forword by Tipper Gore, essay by Nan Roman. Large format. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-8109-45533.

New York Morrow, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by the internationally acclaimed actor Rupert Everett, who has been in such films as Another Country, and The Comfort of Strangers. One English review described this as 'gallop[ing] through a life of dissipation with black humour and unabashed hedonism. Venturing from the Borders to Tangier, a confection of sexual confusion, cross-dressing and copious drug abuse litters every episode of the mal-de-siecle masquerade.' Illustrations by Frances Crichton Stuart. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-688-117864.

New York: Lippincott, (1969) dj. Hardcover - A high school student uses smoking pot to try and escape from the problems in her life. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-397-310706.

New York: British Book Centre, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An intimate record of night life in London, and a selection of crime stories from the case book of Ex-Superintendent Robert Fabian." An interesting book, although when he talks about the horrors of young girls become addicted to marijuana after smoking one cigarette, he loses a bit of credibility... Illustrated with photographs. 237 pp.

New York: Times Books, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thoughtful comprehensive look at the 1960's published twenty years after the Summer of Love in San Francisxo - The story of the American 1960s generation and its 'passage' to a promising middle life, from the times of rebellion - sexual, economic, anti-war, getting high, anti-materialistic - to the present realities - and the extent to which they still maintain the values, ideals, and philosophies of the past. Now that another 20 years has passed, it is interesting to read this book and to see what further changes have occured to this generation. Notes, resource list. 418 pp. ISBN: 0-81291225X.

New York: Push / Scholastic, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original for young adults. "Brendon - good student, eccentric dresser, shy around girls - trips regularly with his friends Kevin and Will. The story covers 48 hours of their lives as they wander the streets of Philadelphia, after scoring some tabs of 'pure sunshine' (a sheet of California Acid [with] little yellow suns illustrated on each tab). 171 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth in this series of mysteries featuring Merry Folger, police detective and daughter of the Chief of Police, set on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-688-134734.

New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - Mystery featuring Joe Gunther's sidekick, former Vietnam veteran and police detective Willie Kunkle, set mostly in the slums of New York City where Kunkle's former wife has been found dead of an apparent overdose. 312 pp.

New York: Warner, (2001). dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery in the highly praised series featuring Joe Gunther, now head of the newly minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Set at a ski resort struggling with financial and other problems. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7676.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A riveting account of small-town murder; a terrifying tale of a seemingly ordinary family whose lives and illusions about each other were shattered one hot summer night in 1988." Drugs, the fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons and the desire to inherit his stepfather's money led a North Carolina State Student to arrange for the brutal murder of his stepfather and the attempted murder of his mother. Photographs. 460 pp. ISBN: 0-671-679473.

New York: Random House, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In 1965, Time Magazine selected the senior class of Palisades High School in suburban Los Angeles for the cover story article on American teenagers "on the fringe of a golden era". This book includes interviews from 30 members of that class at their 10th reunion, in which they describe what it was like to come of age in the 60s and 70s. The authors were both members of the original class. Inscribed by BOTH Medved and Wallechinsky on the front endpaper and uncommon thus. Illustrated with photographs. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400747.

New York: Random House, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1965, Time Magazine selected the senior class of Palisades High School in suburban Los Angeles for the cover story article on American teenagers "on the fringe of a golden era". This book includes interviews from 30 members of that class at their 10th reunion, in which they describe what it was like to come of age in the 60s and 70s. The authors were both members of the original class. Illustrated with photographs. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400747.

New York: Doubleday, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins crime novel, set in Los Angeles in 1967, where he and Mouse are cruising the streets searching for a young black man known as "Little Green" who disappeared during an acid trip. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0385535984.

New York: Scholastic, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - A moving young adult novel by this Newbery and Corretta Scott King award winning writer - the story of a black boy from Harlem, attending a prep school on a scholarship , who returns home at Christmas to discover that his Dominican girl friend has begun using drugs - the beast is the name given to the lure of drugs. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

New York: Scholastic, (2003.). First edition - A moving young adult novel by this Newbery and Corretta Scott King award winning writer - the story of a black boy from Harlem, attending a prep school on a scholarship , who returns home at Christmas to discover that his Dominican girl friend has begun using drugs - the beast is the name given to the lure of drugs.

Berkeley, CA: Crime and Social Justice, 1977. First edition - Includes an announcement that the Berkeley School of Criminology - which was the impetus behind this journal and the only progressive program of study of criminlogy in the US - had been abolished. This issue contains articles on Class consciousness and crime in Chile by James Petras; on prison psychiatrists and drugs by Richard Speigelman, on the FBI and more. Photographs, ads, large format (8.5 by 11.5 inches), 74 pp.

Devils Elbow, MO: Stubborn Mule Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first full-length collection - frank and revealing and powerful poems which don't shy away from dealing with mental health, drugs and family. INSCRIBED on the title page "Thanks for checking this out..." 86 pp. ISBN: 978-1950380114.

New York: HarperCollins, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring "Munch" Mancini, woman auto-mechanic, parolee and recovering drug addict, and now also the owner of a limo business and an unofficial adoptive mother of a little girl. An interesting and highly praised series, featuring a strong woman protagonist, by an author whose checkered past was not unlike that of Munch, but whose life was sadly cut short with her death in 2007 at just age 50. This copy is INSCRIBED on the title page by the author "For --- Enjoy the journey." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0192127.

New York: The Viking Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Massive novel by one of our best and most innovative modern writers - from the front flap: "Henry Tyler is a failing private detective in San Francisco. When the love of his life, a Korean-American woman named Irene - who happens to be married to his brother John - commits suicide, he clings despairingly to her ghost. Struggling to turn grief and guilt into something precious, he employs his professional skills to track down the supernatural Queen of the Prostitutes, who first gives him a false Irene (in reality a heroin-poisoned whore), and then herself." 780 pp. Dust jacket photograph by William Vollmann. ISBN: 0-670891673.