Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on covers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine wrinkled.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stalking a serial killer in Miami. Remainder line to top edge.
Hardcover. New York , Saturday Review Press, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Softcover. Pomeroy OH, Carpenter Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, illustrated by David Lynas. Includes numerous black and white photos of attractive female nudes. Ribald adventure in the style of Henry Miller. Johnson's second novel to be published, though the third to be written, takes up the whole issue of who gets published and why. It takes as its main subject the uproarious literary politics of the late 60's, when the government first set up the National Endowment for the Arts, and fools and crooks and serious editors asked for money to keep small-scale literary operations afloat in a sea of conglomerate-owned houses and declining public taste. One of the best parts is the description of the first COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) meeting. The two main characters, a truck driver named Gasserpod Peasporr Slocum, and his mentor, a small magazine editor, Ellis Schoenobatic, take us on a marvelous tour of the USA, into all the current scenes -- political, artistic, sexual -- and finally back to Sausalito and the girl they left behind. Clean copy.
NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, gilt title on spine faded. 74 pages, translated from the German into English by Richard L. Simon. Stream of consciousness novella of pre-WWI Vienna. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 373 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KESSLER on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker & Co, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf. Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday, uncorrected proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 291 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with soil on rear inside wrapper.
Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED by NORMAN on title page. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Dust jacket price clipped
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. US, Forge, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. 287 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 260 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated black and blue boards, 478 pages. This volume contains: Murphy/Watt/Mercier and Camier. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, red textured boards with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket present in fair to poor condition with chipping, tape repairs. Tommy Hambledon is back, and again he's in Germany, posing as a camera- toting tourist while trailing renascent Fascists. The investigation started in Cologne when a corpse was found hung out like a batch of wash from the bare girder of a ruined building. Bookplate on inside front cover, no markings.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Dark red cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, pale yellow illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, stiff binding, crisp and unmarked pages; a very neat, tight copy.
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