New York: Random House, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel - a darkly comic crime novel about a screenwriter, a billionaire's wife, a murder and a cop - by this Emmy and Edgar award winning writer of Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and more. 274 pp. ISBN: 1400061563.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2009). First edition - "Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. . .. [this biography] details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape." Notes and documentation, index. xii, 316 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940) dj. Hardcover first edition - The scarce first novel by this author and screenwriter, best known for "The Chair for Martin Rome," which was the basis for Robert Siodmak's 1948 film noir classic "Cry of the City" with Victor Mature and Richard Conte. This is set entirely within the walls of a prison. 216 pp.

New York: Random House, (1968) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wurlitzer's very offbeat first novel, about a Sixties road trip that begins in a small town on the California coast to San Francisco, through the Southwest desert to New York through the Panama Canal (and maybe back again.) Comment by Richard Poirer on the dust jacket that this is the "most exciting, talented and original new novel since Pynchon's V." Wurlitzer also wrote numerous screenplays including Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", the cult film "Candy Mountain" with Tom Waits, (which he co-directed) as well as the wrote the libretto for Philip Glass's opera "In the Penal Colony." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page "For Larry Owens, Ponca City Literary Outlaw." 164 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1970. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by this experimental novelist. His first novel was compared to Pynchon's V and Pynchon himself contributed a blurb to this novel noting that this is "hopefully another sign that the novel of bullshit is dead. . . Wurlitzer is very, very good." Wurlitzer also wrote numerous screenplays including the 1971 Monte Hellman film "Two-Lane Blacktop," Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", the cult film "Candy Mountain" with Tom Waits, (which he co-directed) as well as the wrote the libretto for Philip Glass's opera "In the Penal Colony." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page "For Larry Owens, All the way in Ponca City." 159 pp. ISBN: 0-525106456.