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San Francisco:: City Lights Books,, 1973.. First Printing of the City Lights edition. . A Near Fine copy, with no writing or marking to the text. Bukowski uses his own life as the plot of this series and leaves nothing out. The different stories range from hooking up with a stranger's wife who invited him over for dinner… Read more about this item

New York:: St. Martin's,, 2000.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, bright unclipped three-quarter sheet dust jacket (as issued). This is the last unpublished manuscript found in Brautigan's possessions after his suicide and exhibits his playful style and his comic insights into the life around him. Dark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow,, 1983.. First Paperback Printing. A Near Fine copy with some light smudging to front cover. A short story illustrated by R. Crumb that tells the story of a man visiting his wife in an asylum.

Santa Rosa::: Black Sparrow Press,,, 1985... Limited Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine acetate dust jacket.. Th1/176 numbered copies. 1933 Was a Bad Year is a posthumously published novel by John Fante, who died in 1983. "1933" tells the story of Dominic Molise, a 17-year old Italian-American living in Colorado. While his father, an out-of-work bricklayer, seeks… Read more about this item