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EASY MONEY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85396More details Price: $85.00 -
ALL EARS: Cultural Criticism, Essays and Obituaries.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71887More details Price: $20.00 -
TRINITIES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64296More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FIX: INSIDE THE WORLD DRUG TRADE.
Edition: First edition
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.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 60170More details Price: $15.00 -
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 -
T H E K I L L I N G .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this S a n F r a n c i s c o w r i t e r , 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 -0 3- 0 4 8 3 3 6 0.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookplate.)
Book ID: 46428More details Price: $20.00 -
FACE TO FACE.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39355More details Price: $15.00