Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. First novel by the Chicago author and screenwriter, an original member of the Watts Writers' Workshop founded by Budd Schulberg in 1965. "Hawkins has filled his canvas with unforgettable people, not just the dopefiends, pimps, hustlers and other victims of exploitation..... More
New York: Avon Book Division, 1959. First American Edition. Originally published in Paris in Gallimard's "Serie Noire," under the title Couché dans le pain (1959), part of Himes's series featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. FABRE, SKINNER & SULLIVAN P8. First Printing. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. The author's first crime novel, introducing the characters Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Basis for the 1991 film adaptation A Rage In Harlem, directed by Bill Duke and starring Forest Whitaker, Robin Givens, Gregory Hines and Danny..... More
New York: Signet Books / New American Library, 1956. First Edition. "This is a powerful novel about a white woman and an embittered Negro man, each a misfit in his own world, whose desperate effort to find love ended in a nightmare of drink and debauchery" (from rear wrapper). FABRE..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Novel of vengeance after a Black father's son is taken from him by a stray bullet from a local crime syndicate. Hitmen are hired, syndicate members are killed, and a war between Godfather's ensues. OCLC finds 14 copies. First Printing, a...... More
![To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]. Eleanor ARNASON](/pictures/medium/47817.jpg?v=1641872519)
New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed "To Laurie" on title page; signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Wrappers lightly creased and worn; small abrasion to rear wrapper; Very Good. More
New York: Belmont Books, 1961. First Edition. Biography detailing "the uncensored life, loves, and fabulous career of "The Sex Kitten of French Moviedom." A superb copy. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo; photo-illustrated wraps; yellow edge-staining; 157pp, [3]; with 32pp of black & white photo-illustrated plates. A fresh, Fine copy..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; red edge-staining; [vi],196,[6]pp ads. Some pinpoint wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Collects four stories which first appeared in the pulp magazines, including the title story, "Smart-Aleck Kill," "Guns at Cyrano's," and "Nevada Gas."..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1951. First Pocket Books Edition. First Printing. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; red edge-staining; [vi],208,[10]pp ads. Light wear to extremities, faint vertical crease to spine, with subtle tanning to text edges; Very Good+. Third edition overall of this collection containing the title story, "Finger Man,"..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1950. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 173pp, [3] ads. Minute wear along upper edge of rear wrapper, with faint crease to center of same and tiny inked date to title page; Near Fine, unread..... More
New York: Ace Books, 1963. First Edition. "The human remnants of the intersystem wars play a territory-oriented game designed to maximize births in an almost sterile population." LEVACK 18a. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 191pp, [1] ad leaf. Light tanning to text edges, with..... More
New York: Belmont Books, 1969. First Edition. Racially-charged, autobiographical novel by the Afro-Canadian author. Octavo; photo-illustrated wrappers; green edge-staining; 172,[4]pp. Some pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine and unread, with the edge-staining bright and unfaded. More
![The Lovers [Signed]. Philip José FARMER](/pictures/medium/34216.jpg?v=1641872308)
New York: Ballantine Books, [1961]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 160pp. Wrappers rather worn with shallow pealing at spine ends, old ink price to upper cover, ownership signature inside upper cover. A Good or better copy. Signed by the author on title page. First edition of..... More
New York: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1951. First Edition. The first of the author's 13 paperback original novels, telling the story of James Cassidy, war hero, former football star and airline pilot, who works as an alcoholic bus driver after being wrongly blamed for an airline crash. He's..... More
New York: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1952. First Edition. "An impotent alcoholic on skid row comes to some kind of accommodation with himself through the psychological and philosophical wisdom of an old black man" (Firsts, Vol.9, No.6, p.59). HUBIN, p.173. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm);..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1956. First Edition Thus. Movie tie-in edition for Goodis's 1956 novel Down There, in which an alcoholic former concert pianist plays piano in a sleazy bar, and becomes entangled with criminals who ultimately murder his girlfriend. Basis for François Truffaut's 1960 film noir Tirez sur..... More
New York: Hillman Periodicals, Inc., 1942. Reprint. The third entry in Hillman's "Detective Novel Classics" series, this humorously lurid mystery pulp tells the tale of an "electrical wizard" who is found dead in his personal electrocuting chamber (every house needs one). Our range of suspects include the usual dames and..... More
New York: Dell, [1959]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16.25cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges green; 160pp. Some light edge wear, hairline crack to hinge at pp. 4/5, else Very Good or better. "Novelization of the TV series based on Huggins' character [Stuart Bailey]" (HUBIN, p. 215). More
New York: Popular Library, 1952. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; teal edge-staining; [6],7-191,[1]pp. Light wear and rubbing to extremities, a few faint creases, and some subtle fading to text edges; Very Good or better. Suspenseful novel centered around a woman who unknowingly..... More
New York: Popular Library, [1950]. First Edition. In Work. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; teal edge-staining; [2],3-190,[2]pp. Light wear to extremities, edge-staining faded, with some faint dust-soil and creasing to wrappers; previous owners initials neatly rubber-stamped to title page and terminal leaf; Very Good..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Company, [1951]. First Edition. A paperback original novel. Slim octavo (16.25cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [64]pp. Trivial wear along spine-fold, subtle tanning to text edges, with faint previous owners name on upper margin of title page; Near Fine. First separate edition of this novella, originally published..... More
New York: Scholastic Book Services, [1962]. First Thus. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; [6],218pp.; text illus. throughout. Wrappers quite worn and creased, upper cover starting to separate, cracks at spine ends, textblock slightly toned and chipped; a Good at best copy of the first paperback..... More
![Cold in July [Signed]. Joe R. LANSDALE](/pictures/medium/39809.jpg?v=1641872373)
Toronto: Bantam, [1989]. First Edition. Early crime novel set in east Texas and the basis for the 2014 film of the same name starring Don Johnson, Michael C. Hall, and Sam Shepard. First Printing. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [10],195pp. Light wear to wrapper extremities else a Near Fine..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1974. First Edition. First volume of poems by this African American activist, sentenced to 20 years in North Carolina on charges stemming from a 1960's Civil Rights incident. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (18.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 97, [3]pp. Mild tanning to text edges, with faint..... More
