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California: Tombouctou, 1978. First Edition. 150 pp. Stiff Wraps: NEAR FINE. Signs of shelf wear and some minor chipping; cover has minor blemishes, otherwise a tight, clean copy. SIGNED by the author. Very scarce with signature.
Carroll's classic account of growing up in New York in the early 1960s, full of drugs, sex, crime and basketball. Carroll would become a renowned poet and punk rocker. Basis for the 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the central role.

London: Hutchinson, 1968. First Edition. 224 pp. Hard Cover: VERY GOOD. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Slight cocking and rubbing to boards; minor toning to text block; owner's bookplate on title page; what looks to be a pasted-on photo of Arthur C. Clarke on the copyright page. Slight discoloration and bumping along edges of the Dust Wrapper. SIGNED by the author on a special, decorative bookplate.
The seminal science-fiction masterpiece developed concurrently as both a novel and groundbreaking film by Arthur C. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1974. First Edition. 134pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Book has a couple of modest bumps, else fine. No marks or inscriptions. Dust Wrapper has minor toning and a slightly sunbathed spine. Very nice copy.
The Nobel Prize-winning author's first book, Dusklands is a pair of novellas: "The Vietnam Project," centering on a military specialist working on a strategic report on American propaganda policy for the Vietnam War, and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," chronicling the journeys of a white explorer into the heart of southern Africa during the eighteenth century. South African author J.M. Coetzee - novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator – has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the Booker Prize (twice), among many other accolades.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. Omnibus Edition. 505pp. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. SIGNED by the author.
Omnibus collector edition of Leonard Cohen's only two published novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Loser.

New York: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition. 231pp. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. SIGNED by the author.
Book of Longing is the last book of poems published before Cohen's death and seen by many as one of his best, containing erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. "Book of Longing has exceptional range. It is clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound." (New York Times).

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1978. First Canadian edition (and true first). 216 pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. Front board has modest toning on top; a couple of light pencil marks on free endpaper. SIGNED by the author.
The theme of this insightful and moving poetry collection is love with all its dilemmas. It is largely autobiographical in tone, offering the reader insights into Cohen's private world.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. First Edition. 223 pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Spine a little pushed, modest staining, spotting to the text block. Unclipped (18s. net) wrapper is bright, with a little fading on the spine. An uncommon INSCRIBED copy.
In this, his much-loved first novel, Leonard Cohen etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of wealthy Jewish parents in Montreal. "In the 1960s Leonard Cohen was just about the coolest literary figure around. A young poet who lived the Bohemian lifestyle associated with the poets of popular fiction, who spoke like a man of profound mysteries, who wrote both hopefully and cynically of love and of the mystical in the mundane. And a folksinger to boot. You know how people were always saying Bob Dylan was the poet of pop music? Well, Leonard Cohen was a singer-songwriter in the same class who really was a poet". Editoreric.com.

London: MacMillan, in Association With Goldsboro Books, 2016. First Edition. 342pp. Hardcover: FINE: Dust Wrapper: FINE. Unread. Numbered Edition, #182 / 500. SIGNED by the Author.
"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. In… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. 253pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. There is some discoloration to the boards.
The first book by the film director and producer, stories based on his experiences when he enrolled in a Redondo Beach, California high school at age 22 to observe contemporary teen life. Basis for the popular film.

New York: Trans-Anglo Books, 1966. First Edition. 160pp. Hardcover: VERY GOOD. Dust Wrapper: VERY GOOD. INSCRIBED by the author. Includes Publisher's Prospectus.
An uncommon SIGNED COPY of Spencer Crump's attempt to present a balanced look at the Watts Riot. Black and White photograps throughout Includes an Appendix: The text of the McCone Commission reportl Bibliography, Index; Map endpapers.