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.

Soft Skull Press, (1999). First edition - Includes essays on AIDS, youth culture, drugs, films and contemporary art as well as "stoic, unsentimental and bracing" obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix and William Burroughs and more. Issued as a trade paperback original. 146 pp.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of treating four, long-dependent, apparently unreachable, drug addicts - Roxy, a 52 year old heroin addict and con man; Mae, a discarded prostitute; Gerard, who clings to silence; and Connie who uses words to hide and distort reality. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-231036353.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - An investigative report on drug trafficking in America and throughout the world - primarily that of heroin - produced with the cooperation of President Reagan's White House, the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Coast Guard and the British and Irish police and other drug monitoring agencies around the world. Glossary of drug terms, sources, bibliography, index. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-312-932448.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the early 70s with the supply of heroin virtually dried up on the streets two cocaine smugglers saw a chance for "easy money." George Ramos, a Cuban American conspired with Frank Matthews to smuggle into the United States a shipment of European heroin worth one hundred million dollars on the streets. Although the feds got wind of their scheme (in fact Ramos turned government witness and provides much of the information included here) this book sheds light on the enormously lucrative drug business of the Spanish and Black "mafias." 366 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this San Francisco writer, a story of the side of San Francisco that tourists aren't shown. When union official Quinn Dunaway's adopted eleven-year old daughter is beaten and raped by the ex-con boyfriend of his drug addict sister, and the police do nothing, he goes after the rapist himself. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0483360.

New York: Doubleday, (1994). First edition - Thriller depicting "the final battle between America's last generation of Sicilian Mafiosi and the world's most ruthless Asian druglords." 435 pp.