Frankfurt, Germany: Verlag Moritz Diesterweg (1977). First edition - A short story by this Black Panther leader and activist which was originally published in 1969 in Playboy Magazine. The story of a gang leader in Southern California who steals a powerful flashlight from a car and relishes the sense of power it gives him - although he also feels it is the beginning of a new direction in his life. This separate publication is a small pamphlet with the text in English, a title in the Diesterwegs Neusprachliche Bibliothek. Includes an introduction and annotations. "File copy, Joan Daves" stamped on front cover and title page. An interesting association copy with "File copy, Joan Daves" stamped on front cover and title page. Joan Daves (1919-1997) who escaped from the Nazi regime in the 1930s, later became an editor at Harper and was perhaps best known as Martin Luther King's literary agent. 65 pp. Ê

Clarkson, MI and Mission Viejo, CA; A.S.A.P. Publishing, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of 26 lettered, Limited Collectors copies of the first edition. This is letter A of 26 such copies bound in tan simulated leather boards with an illustration pasted on the front cover and housed in a wood-grained acryclic slip case. paper covering. A short story about a Diego bookstore owner whose business is failing. In desperation he takes a job from a distant relative that involves driving an 18-wheeler delivering shrimp to New Jersey. Frozen shrimp one way and lobster back - and millions of dollars worth of cocaine. As the body count grows, Griswold's luck holds. Includes an introduction by C. J. Box and an afterword by mystery writer Brian M. Wiprud. Illustrations by Phil Parks. SIGNED by all FOUR contributors on the limitation page. The three authors are all fisherman and in addition to the illustrations by Parks, there are tipped-in color photos which show them with various catches. Total edition limited to 150 copies with 26 Collectors copies and 10 PC copies. 32 pp. ISBN: 978-1892011589.

Clarkson, MI and Mission Viejo, CA; A.S.A.P. Publishing, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Number 85 of 150 limited edition copies of the first edition. A short story about a Diego bookstore owner whose business is failing. In desperation he takes a job from a distant relative that involves driving an 18-wheeler delivering shrimp to New Jersey. Frozen shrimp one way and lobster back - and millions of dollars worth of cocaine. As the body count grows, Griswold's luck holds. Includes an introduction by C. J. Box and an afterword by mystery writer Brian M. Wiprud. Illustrations by Phil Parks. SIGNED by all FOUR contributors on the limitation page. The three authors are all fisherman and in addition to the illustrations by Parks, there are tipped-in color photos which show them with various catches. Total edition limited to 150 copies with 26 Collectors copies and 10 PC copies. 32 pp. ISBN: 978-1892011572.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939. Hardcover - Foreword by Whit Burnett,the editor of Story Magazine, who describes this as the most popular story ever published in the then 8 year old history of that magazine. It is a story written as a series of letters, from November 1932 to March 1934, between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned with his family to Germany in 1932. This, the first separate edition, reportedly sold 50,000 copies, it was translated into many languages, although the edition in German was published in Moscow and banned in Germany, and the basis for a 1944 film of the same name. A 1995 re-issue was translated into 20 languages and sold millions of copies. A 2019 review in The Guardian comments that this story, "distils the essence of the ideology that cast a deathly shadow over the 20th century. Across a few economic pages it touches the heart of the Nazi darkness. . . it illuminates not just the specific texture of the early Nazi period, but something more timeless. It serves as a guide to the way any politics of identity especially one that invokes the people, rooting that idea in blood and soil eventually, and often very rapidly, divides and polarises. Max and Martin [had found] 'warmth and understanding, where small selfishnesses are impossible and where wine and books and talk give a different meaning to existence'. But even the very best of friends can be rent apart. . . We tell ourselves, as these characters do, that friendship is eternal, that some bonds will never be broken. This short story warns us that ideology, once it has turned to fever, is stronger than friendship.. That this short, fleeting story has lasted so long is not only because of its artistic achievement, and not only because, written in 1938, it astonishingly anticipated the horror that was yet to come. It is because its prescience is not confined to its time. It saw into our own future too." An appealing small volume, uncommon in all printings of the original edition. Unpaginated (61 pp)