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
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=1592620265)
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
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: Ace Books, [1968]. Dick's first novel, this edition with cover art by Jack Gaughan. LEVACK 38j. Third paperback edition (Ace Book G-718). Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow-orange edge-staining; 188pp, [4] ads. Faint vertical crease to left edge of front wrapper, with some trivial rubbing to joints and extremities; Very..... 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=1529353758)
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: 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: 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=1535062362)
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
New York: Macfadden Books, 1968. First Paperback Edition. Simmons's first novel (published in 1957), chronicling the rise and fall of a 19 year-old Black dope hustler whose life begins to deteriorate when he is caught by police with a white woman and drugs in his car. Winner of the Houghton..... More
[New York]: Dell Book, [1969]. First Edition. Late novel by the American fantasy author, describing the invasion of a cannibalistic "hallucinogenic people from underearth!" (rear cover). 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edge stained green; 189pp. Wrapper extremities a bit worn and creased, textblock slightly toned; overall Very Good..... More
New York: Lion Book by arrangement with Prime Publications, [1953]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16cm.); original pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained dark purple-black; 128pp. Upper wrapper with several faint crease marks, general shelf-wear, else About Very Good. Early Thompson novel about a newly-paroled man escaping assassination. Institutionally scarce..... More
New York: Popular Library, [1969]. First Edition. 12mo (17.25cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained green; 128pp. Spine creased with textblock beginning to separate from wrappers, minor toning to wrappers and textblock, else Near Very Good. Novelization of the John Wayne and Rock Hudson film of the same..... More
New York: Popular Library, [1970]. First Edition. 12mo (17.25cm.); original black photo-illustrated card wrappers, all edges stained green; 128pp. Minor rubbing along spine edges, a few dampstains affecting edge stain, textblock uniformly toned as usual, else Very Good or better, apparently unread. Novelization of the 1964 film of the same..... More
Toronto: Bantam Books, [1973]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original black pictorial wrappers; [4],124pp.; 8 leaves of photographic stills from the film. Fine. Lyrical novel based on Van Peebles's album/film/Broadway musical, in which two devil-bats take on human form to disrupt a party in Harlem. More
![Grimm's World [Signed/Inscribed by Author]. Vernor VINGE](/pictures/medium/47581.jpg?v=1582240093)
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (17.5cm), pictorial paper wrappers; yellow edgestains; 176pp. Minor creases to wrappers, along spine and joints; slight rubbing and chips to extremities. Advertisement between pgs. 88-89 torn out; signature and inscription from author on title page; else bindings sound and square, Very..... More
New York: Collier Books, 1972. First Collier Books Edition. Attractive reissue of the Guayanese author's first book, which first saw publication in 1926. Tropic Death features "stories and sketches of poor blacks in the West Indies and Panama, reflecting the speech, rhythm, and myths that exist among a people faced..... More
New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Pocket Books Edition. Attractive copy of Williams's first novel, initially released by Ace in 1960. A powerful story of the racism that faces an educated Black man in the professional world, and the painful truths that warp interracial sex. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; bright..... More
New York: Pyramid Books, 1969. First Pyramid Edition. Collection of eight short stories, each centered on "a Negro, involved cruelly with his surroundings, beaten down by them; each central figure is in one way or another misunderstood by the world he knows..." (from rear wrapper). Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; yellow-orange..... More
