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Item #39302 Confessions of a Chinatown Moll. Jeff BOGAR, pseud. Ronald Wills Thomas

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Confessions of a Chinatown Moll.

NY: Universal Publishing, nd. (1953). First edition (digest-size p/b original). "A glimpse behind the bamboo screen into the world of plush harems, hashish and the machinations of the orient… an exotic, fast-moving tale of international intrigue and intriguing femininity that speeds to a smash finish in San Francisco's Chinatown!" (back cover blurb). Light rubbing to lower wrapper, o/w a tight, square Near Fine copy, with uncreased spine. More about Confessions of a Chinatown Moll

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Item #39306 Junkie. William BURROUGHS, as 'William Lee'

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Junkie.

NY: Ace Books, 1953. First edition of William Burroughs' first book, written under the pseudonym 'William Lee'. Bound tête-bêche in wrappers with Maurice Helbrant's "Narcotic Agent". Publisher's note by Carl Solomon (not credited). Ace Books was owned by Carl Solomon's uncle, A.A. Wyn, a connection made by Allen Ginsberg who was acting as Burroughs's agent at the time. The publication of Nelson Algren's novel "The Man With The Golden Arm" in 1949 inspired a trend for books about junkies, many of them mass-market paperbacks sold in newsagents rather than bookshops, and with commercial success in mind Wyn agreed..... More about Junkie

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Item #39307 Junkie. William BURROUGHS, as 'William Lee'

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Junkie.

London: Digit Books, nd. (1957). First UK edition, and the first edition of "Junkie" as a separate item. Wrps. Front cover art by Al Rossi, based on his earlier artwork for Ace Books. His sensational back cover art depicts blonde with hypo and rolled-down stocking, and it was probably this, at least in part, that provoked the British censors to suppress the book after publication and order all the remaining copies to be pulped. Surviving copies of this legendary rarity seldom appear on the market, and those that do are usually found in less than collectable condition. This..... More about Junkie

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Item #39308 Junkie. William BURROUGHS

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Junkie.

London: New English Library, 1969. Wrps. New front cover art depicts junkie's arm with hypo. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Allen De Loach William Burroughs". A nice association as De Loach published Burroughs in his magazine Intrepid. Spine slightly faded, with a little flaking to spine edges; pages lightly browned, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy. More about Junkie

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Item #39309 Junkie. William BURROUGHS

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Junkie.

NY: Ace Books, 1972 (stated 1973). Third Ace Books edition. Wrps. New cover design. Wrappers slightly rubbed along spine edges, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy. More about Junkie

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Item #39310 Dead Fingers Talk. William BURROUGHS

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Dead Fingers Talk.

London: Tandem, 1966. First p/b edition. Front cover art depicts a mainline shot with blood. Faint reading creases to spine; page edges slightly tanned; wrappers rubbed and lightly creased, o/w a tight, Very Good copy. More about Dead Fingers Talk

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Item #39311 Junkie! The Life and Loves of a Drug Addict. Jonathan CRAIG, pseud. Frank E. Smith

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Junkie! The Life and Loves of a Drug Addict.

NY: Falcon Books, Inc., 1952. First edition (digest-size p/b original). Cover art by Ketor Seach. Issued as no.36 in Falcon Books' digest series. "Steve's search… takes him into sordid 'Dream Street', the world of 'junkies', murderers and prostitutes, in this revealing novel of raw sex and brutal passions" (back cover blurb). The title's similarity to that of William Burroughs's first book, published the following year, suggests that it may have influenced Ace with their unauthorised choice of title (from its inception in 1949, right up until March 1953, a month before publication, Burroughs had always referred..... More about Junkie! The Life and Loves of a Drug Addict

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Item #39312 Black Opium. Claude FARRÈRE, pseud. Frédéric-Charles Bargone

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Black Opium.

NY: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1958. First thus (originally published in 1904 as "Fumée d'opium"). Wrps. Translation by Samuel Putnam. Preface by Pierre Louys. Cover art by Robert Maguire features an erotic depiction of a naked blonde woman amidst the swirling smoke of an opium pipe. Farrère's classic collection of opium tales: "The world of BLACK OPIUM is a forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy... Here is a world of torture and torment, filled with the fantastically erotic shapes of the living nightmares of..... More about Black Opium

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Item #39313 Beat Girl. Bonnie GOLIGHTLY

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Beat Girl.

NY: Avon, 1959. P/b original. "She was lonely and promiscuous - in that well-bred-casual way of young women who have too much money, too much time and nobody to really give a damn what they do with it. Then she stumbled onto Shelley, crude and sensual, one of the Beat Generation" (blurb). Golightly, author of "The Wild One" and a former Greenwich Village bookshop owner, sued Truman Capote, Esquire, and Random House for libel and invasion of privacy over Capote's depiction of her near-namesake in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Front cover diagonal crease to top right corner..... More about Beat Girl

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Item #39314 Marihuana. William IRISH, pseud. Cornell Woolrich

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Marihuana.

NY: Dell, 1941. First edition in book form (the story first appeared in Detective Fiction Weekly), published as Dell Book 11, priced at .10c. (and originally sold in vending machines). Wrps., unpaginated. Classic pulp cover art by Bill Fleming. "A cheap and evil girl sets a hopped-up killer against a city". Cheap paper browned, with water stains to lower right corners and two short tears to second leaf; surface creasing and associated rubbing to upper wrapper; o/w a Good copy of this noir classic. More about Marihuana

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Item #39315 On The Road. Jack KEROUAC

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On The Road.

NY: Signet, 1958. First p/b edition. Back cover blurb: "Wild drives across America... buying cars, wrecking cars, stealing cars, dumping cars, picking up girls, making love, all-night drinking bouts, jazz joints, wild parties, hot spots... This is the odyssey of the Beat Generation". A Near Fine copy, with tight binding, uncreased spine, and red edges of text block unfaded. More about On The Road

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Item #39316 On The Road. Jack KEROUAC

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On The Road.

London: Pan (1961), second printing of the first UK p/b edition (1963). Front cover art depicts redhead with hands on hips, exposed midriff and side-zipped blue-green slacks against jazz combo background. Alexis Lykiard's ownership label to first leaf. Page edges slightly tanned, with corner dampstain to first few leaves; wrappers slightly rubbed and lightly creased; o/w Very Good with a tight, square spine. More about On The Road

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Item #39318 The Subterraneans. Jack KEROUAC

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The Subterraneans.

London: Panther, 1962. First UK p/b edition. Front cover blurb: "An unashamed look at their weird lives... their wild loves... in a jazz-haunted, desire-tormented world". Cover art depicts barefoot redhead dancing to sax; back cover shows still from the movie. Faint reading creases to spine, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy. More about The Subterraneans

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Item #39319 The Dharma Bums. Jack KEROUAC

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The Dharma Bums.

NY: New American Library (Signet D1718), 1959. First p/b edition. Back cover blurb: "From the pagan depths of Frisco's Bohemian bars to the dizzying heights of the snow-capped Sierras... This is the story of two sensation-seeking hipsters and their jet-propelled search for Experience. Here are their 'yabyum' sexual orgies... their marathon wine-drinking binges... their wild careening mountain-climbing sprees... their sky-rocketing poetry-jazz bouts - as only Jack Kerouac can reveal them". Near Fine. More about The Dharma Bums

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Item #39320 Maggie Cassidy. Jack KEROUAC

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Maggie Cassidy.

London: Panther, 1960. First UK edition. Wrps. Front cover art depicts Maggie as a brunette in long black stockings. Page edges slightly tanned, o/w a tight, Near Fine copy. More about Maggie Cassidy

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Item #39322 Why I Am So Beat. Nolan MILLER

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Why I Am So Beat.

NY: Ace Books, 1954. First p/b edition (D-398), second issue (with .35c cover price). Cover art by Bernard Barton. "There's this Jane sitting on a park bench just waiting for someone to come along. She's got no home, no wedding ring, and this here baby in her arms. So, strictly for kicks… Mark Gillis latches on to this babe... Anyway, that's the beginning of that wild, mixed-up week-end" (blurb). Slight creasing to top right corner of upper wrapper; pages slightly tanned; o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy. More about Why I Am So Beat

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Item #39323 The Damned and the Destroyed. Kenneth ORVIS

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The Damned and the Destroyed.

NY: Belmont Books, 1966. First p/b edition (originally published in hardcover in 1962). "She was beautiful, young, blonde, and a junkie… I had to help her!... In this fascinating, frighteningly realistic novel Maxwell Dent becomes enmeshed in the harrowing world of narcotics" (blurb). A Near Fine, unread copy. More about The Damned and the Destroyed

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Item #39324 Beyond Desire. Albert L. QUANDT

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Beyond Desire.

NY: Original Novels, Inc., [February] 1952. First edition (digest-size p/b original). Classic cover art by Robert Schultz depicting blonde, hypo, etc. "Here is the revealing, shocking story of a thrill-seeking and wealthy young girl who, because of a driving desire to find love, falls into the abyss of shame… Willing to steal from her family, to pawn her jewels, to sell out to any man to keep herself supplied with the precious 'junk' pretty Connie Emerson… runs through the gamut of life at its sordid worst!" (blurb). Some light wear and rubbing to spine; scuff marks..... More about Beyond Desire

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Item #39325 Dream Club (Beyond Desire). Albert L. QUANDT

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Dream Club (Beyond Desire).

NY: Original Novels, Inc., 1952 (stated, but possibly 1953). The second printing of "Beyond Desire", re-titled, but with the same front cover art (the back cover design differs). "Joy for one and all... or so they said... and at a price. That was the fateful, illusory stock-in-trade of the Dream Club. Behind its secret door, they would tell you, you could buy the fulfillment of every hope, the taste of every delight, the thrill of infinite power. But it could only be for an hour, a day... and the price was damnation!" (back cover blurb). Light..... More about Dream Club (Beyond Desire

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Item #39326 I Was a Drug Addict. Leroy in collaboration STREET, David Loth, pseud. Millard...

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I Was a Drug Addict.

NY: Pyramid Books, 1954. First p/b edition. Classic cover art by Julian Paul. A confessional account of heroin, morphine, cocaine, marijuana, and opium use in New York City: "Here is a true, uncensored account of a growing social problem - the story of one man's struggle to return from the pit of depravity" (back cover blurb). Tiny loss to head of spine panel; slight rubbing to spine edges and shallow crease to upper wrapper, o/w a tight, Very Good plus to Near Fine copy. More about I Was a Drug Addict

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