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PARADISE OVERDOSE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84336More details Price: $35.00 -
LOVE, LOVE AND LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Actress, singer, comedian and author's second book - a mixture of memoir, fiction and invented memoir. SIGNED on the title page. 151 pp. plus 24 pp of unfinished pieces. ISBN: 0-06-0166150.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89887More details Price: $28.50 -
THE LOST GET-BACK BOOGIE.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57870More details Price: $12.50 -
THE WAY HOME: Ending Homelessness in America.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 57903More details Price: $28.50 -
HELLO DARLING, ARE YOU WORKING?
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35867More details Price: $25.00 -
ESCAPE FROM NOWHERE.
Edition: Later printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to top edge of front cover of dj)
Book ID: 66350More details Price: $15.00 -
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? The Second Coming of the 60's Generation.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj at top of spine.)
Book ID: 39417More details Price: $18.00 -
PURE SUNSHINE,
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88729More details Price: $14.50 -
DEATH IN A COLD HARD LIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58328More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SNIPER'S WIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64065More details Price: $25.00 -
TUCKER PEAK.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71588More details Price: $16.50 -
CRUEL DOUBT.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47308More details Price: $12.50 -
LITTLE GREEN.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87121More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BEAST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine (as new) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 26773More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEAST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine (as new) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 29258More details Price: $18.00 -
CRIME AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Issues in Criminology. #7, Spring - Summer, 1977.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (address label,).
Book ID: 57892More details Price: $25.00 -
TOO YOUNG TO KNOW.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
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.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88414More details Price: $20.00 -
UNWANTED COMPANY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 39329More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ROYAL FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 37300More details Price: $28.00