Titles starting with N from Ken Lopez - Bookseller, ABAA

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1998. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. . First Edition. softcover. ... more information

Sacaton/Gila River Indian Reservation: Sacaton School District No. 18. (1980-1981). Two issues: Books One and Two. Poetry by students of the Middle School. Fine in stapled wrappers. . softcover. ... more information

(NY): North American Congress on Latin America. 1972. Volume 6, No. 2. Includes an article on violence and right wing terror in Guatemala. Near fine in wrappers. . softcover. ... more information

(Boulder): Native American Rights Fund. (1991). Volume 16, No. 2. A special edition on the freedom of religion, with an article by Vine Deloria. Fine in stapled wrappers. . softcover. ... more information

St. Paul: Native American Solidarity Committee. (c. 1976). Volume 1, No. 3. Radical/activist newsletter. Uneven sunning; near fine. . ... more information

NY: Viking. (1977). A follow-up to Field's earlier book -- Nabokov. His Life in Art. Top edge foxing and fading to cloth there; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with fading to the spine lettering. . First Edition. hardcover. ... more information

NY: Harper & Row. (1979). Very Good in Very Good (spine-faded) DJ. . First Edition. hardcover. ... more information

(NY): Phaedra. 1966. Four short stories, two of them published in the U.S. for the first time here, the others from The New Yorker and Esquire. Juliar's Variant "a," with green endpapers. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dust jacket. . First Edition. hardcover. ... more information

NY: Wideview/Perigee. (1984). Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. . First Edition. softcover. ... more information

Undated. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, and numerous other works that helped define the Beat generation and redefine the psychedelic novel, also worked in the visual media from the early 1950s on, experimenting first with collages and later with what he called "nagual art" -- art infected by chance, which had the possibility of giving the viewer access to what Burroughs called a "port of entry," an access to a different universe or a different way of seeing our own. ... more information

London: Hodder & Stoughton. (1971). The uncorrected proof copy of his first novel to depart from the espionage genre, a book that he later said was his own personal favorite of his books, but which enjoyed considerably less popular success than his spy stories. Small ink name and date on front cover; minor sunning and creasing to spine; near fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof. . First Edition. softcover. ... more information

NY: Mysterious Press. 1985. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. . First Edition. softcover. ... more information

Paris: Olympia. (1959). The first issue of the first edition of his second book, a high spot of postwar American literature and one of the three key volumes of the Beat movement, along with Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl. Published only in paperback in Paris by Maurice Girodias' small press, in an edition of 5000 copies, three years before it could be published in the U.S. Signed by Burroughs in 1996. Uneven sunning and a bit of creasing to covers; rubbing to the folds. A very good co... more information

NY: Grove Press. (1959)[c. 1962]. The first American edition and the first hardcover edition: Naked Lunch was not published in this country until three years after its original publication in Paris. It was published by the maverick publisher Barney Rosset, of Grove Press, in a tiny edition of 3500 copies -- a smaller number than was done of the scarce French paperback edition in 1959. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear at the lower edge of the front panel and a bit of rubbing on the rear spin... more information

Paris: Olympia. (1959). The first edition of his second book, one of the all-time great drug novels and a high spot of Beat and postwar American literature -- one of the three key volumes of the Beat movement, along with Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl. This is the first issue, without the New Franc stamp over the original old franc price on the rear cover. Published only in paperback in Paris by Maurice Girodias' important small press, in an edition of 5000 copies (comprising both &qu... more information

(NY): Grove Press. (1959)[c. 1962]. The first American edition of this classic novel of the Beat generation, which was not published in the U.S. until three years after its Paris publication, and until a legal challenge to its banning was successful. Such authors as Norman Mailer testified as to the literary value and accomplishment of Burroughs' work. Basis for the 1991 David Cronenberg film featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider. Lower rear corner bumped, thus nea... more information

NY: Warner Books. (1989). Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. . First Edition. softcover. ... more information

NY: HarperCollins. (1996). Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. . First Edition. softcover. ... more information

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1958. First American Edition. Very Good in Very Good DJ. . First Edition. hardcover. ... more information

NY: Rinehart. (1948). His first book, one of the great novels of World War II, and one of the top hundred classics of the last century. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the lettering bright white. A much nicer than usual copy of this stunning debut novel. Burgess 99. From the collection of Bruce Kahn. . First Edition. hardcover. ... more information