New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First trade edition, in a later issue dust jacket, with the blurbs and no author photograph. Hardcover. 602pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Green cloth with brown panel on spine. The underlying boards are exposed at the bottom fore-edge corners of the covers, and the spine... More about East of Eden
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 165 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Trade softcover. From back cover: Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard... More about Ask the Dust
New York: Ecco Press, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 239pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Wikipedia: "Hollywood is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences of adapting his novel into the film Barfly. It is narrated in the first person." More about Hollywood
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2018. First US Edition. Hardcover. 801 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; black and gray paper covered boards; gilt design on spine. In a black and white illustrated dust jacket. "The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his... More about The Labyrinth of the Spirits
New York: William Morrow, 2016. First William Morrow Premium Printing (Tenth Anniversary Edition) Later Printing. Paperback. 750pp. Duodecimo [19cm]; illustrated wraps. From publisher website: Newly updated and expanded with the author’s preferred text. A modern masterpiece from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. First published in 2001, American Gods became..... More about American Gods
ecco, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 327pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. Paul Bowles hypnotic masterpiece about foreign cultures being destroyed because of their mystery, printed here as a 65th anniversary edition by ecco. More about The Sheltering Sky
HarperPerennial, 2009. Later printing. Paperback. 207pp. Octavo ; illustrated wraps. From back of book: "Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books--The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World... More about The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
New York: Ecco Press, 2010. Later printing. Paperback. 288 pp. [21 cm] NEW. PAPERBACK. Black wraps with photo on cover, white text. From inside cover: "It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on... More about Just Kids
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2014. Reprint. Paperback. 283 pp. [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. Considered a horror novel by Bukowski, Ham on Rye details the author's early years growing up during the great depression under the control of his abusive father. More about Ham on Rye
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. 202pp. Octavo [22.5 cm]; bright red illustrated wraps. Bukowski's final novel, "dedicated to bad writing." Pulp is a very enjoyable meta-exploration of the pulp/detective fiction genre. More about Pulp
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First trade edition. Hardcover. 295pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] in green cloth with paper spine and cover labels. 1cm stain at textblock edge from title to first page of Book 1 (five pages total). Dust jacket is quite yellowed, and spine is sunned. Cather's final... More about Sapphira and the Slave Girl
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 230pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 yellow cloth with black paper covered boards and a black ink stamped title on the spine. In a dust jacket with minor rubbing to the surface and minor bumping to the head and tail... More about A Ghost in the Music
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 175pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full blue cloth with gilt title on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket price clipped. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. In 'Blue Desert', Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest... More about Blue Desert