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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies Signed by the author. Still seal in shirk wrap. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Shown without slipcase.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Limited Edition of 78 Quarter Morocco bound copies signed by author on limitation page. The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Housed in lightly worn slipcase.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by the Author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards.230 p. Audience: General/trade. Stated First Edition and Signed by the Author.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Housed in a black slip case. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. This First Edition is limited to 1, 000 copies bound in Brillianta cloth. and 78 copies bound in quarter-morocco with hand-made paper covered boards. All the quarter-morocco copies are lettered by Ward Dunham, from A to ZZZ, and signed by the Author. This is copy WW.
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S. Clay Wilson. Very good in Very good jacket. [10], 230 pages. Signed by both author and illustrator on the half-title page, Decorative dust jacket. Illustrated endpaper. This novel was originally published in French as Sous le signe du rasoir (Editions Payot et Rivages, 1994). In excellent condition, first English language edition signed by the author and artist. This is the rare limited edition with the gold skull and crossbones foil stamp to the front and back endpapers. Jim Nisbet (January 20, 1947-September 28, 2022) was an American author. Nisbet received a degree in literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before settling in San Francisco, California, where he wrote poetry, short stories, plays, and novels. He also ran a studio designing and building "electronics furniture"-consoles and cabinetry for audio and video production studios. He was the author of 13 published novels and six books of poetry, and he contributed to many collections and journals. His work was published in the U.S., France (by Rivages, under legendary editor François Guérif), Germany, and Italy. Nisbet's writing used the conventions of crime fiction and noir to support a dark, cerebral, and harrowing narrative, laced with humor and carried off in unexpected directions by exuberant wordplay. He incorporated themes as wide-ranging as sailing, particle physics, mathematics, ancient Rome, modern jazz, and urban subculture. Steve Clay Wilson (July 25, 1941-February 7, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson attracted attention from readers with aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of lowlife denizens, often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix. A striking feature of Wilson's work is the contrast between the literate way in which his characters speak and think and the depraved violence in which they engage. As James Danky and Denis Kitchen wrote in their book, Underground Classics, "He astonished and sometimes frightened his fellow cartoonists, though they saw it as pushing if not eviscerating the boundaries of taste. More than anyone, Wilson defined the boundaries of the medium." The artist and characters sometimes take violence with a playful attitude, for example getting tired of fighting and agreeing to have sex instead of continuing a battle. In contrast to the many counterculture figures who moderated their more extreme tendencies and successfully assimilated into the mainstream of commercial culture, Wilson's work remained troubling to mainstream sensibilities and defiantly ill-mannered. Derived from a article in Publishers Weekly: In this bleak noir novel set in San Francisco, Nisbet etches the lives of two wretched misfits in acid prose. At 50-plus years of age, Mark "Pauley" Paulos has survived the horrifically abusive childhood trauma that forms the book's unforgettable prologue, along with untracked periods of jail and other misadventures, to achieve a kind of precarious stasis. Martin Seam, on the other hand, has little idea of who or what he is. Full of wants and needs and thoroughly amoral, he is willing to steal, cheat, scam or do anything merely to quiet those incessant desires. Unfortunately, Martin is as unsuccessful as he is unscrupulous. When these two collide in their separate orbits about the universe, it seems like a cosmic joke. If Elmore Leonard had created Pauley and Martin they would shine with a fine comic sheen. In Nisbet's hands they scratch, prickle, sweat and stink. Nisbet presents with wrenching effectiveness the fragile accommodations his characters have to make in order to survive in a hostile world they can never overcome and can keep at bay only for a time. This is more an exercise in Dostoyevskian angst than a proper mystery. The jacket by underground comix artist S. Clay Wilson perfectly fits the text.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. This first trade edition is limited to just 1000 copies. Previously only available in French. Dustjacket, endsheets and foil stamping all by S. Clay Wilson. " In this bleak noir novel set in San Francisco, Nisbet (Prelude to a Scream) etches the lives of two wretched misfits in acid prose. At 50-plus years of age, Mark "Pauley" Paulos has survived the horrifically abusive childhood trauma that forms the book's unforgettable prologue, along with untracked periods of jail and other misadventures, to achieve a kind of precarious stasis. Martin Seam, on the other hand, has little idea of who or what he is. Full of wants and needs and thoroughly amoral, he is willing to steal, cheat, scam or do anything merely to quiet those incessant desires. Unfortunately, Martin is as unsuccessful as he is unscrupulous. When these two collide in their separate orbits about the universe, it seems like a cosmic joke. If Elmore Leonard had created Pauley and Martin they would shine with a fine comic sheen. In Nisbet's hands they scratch, prickle, sweat and stink. Nisbet can overwrite ("Like the lysergic pinwheel from which depointillates all phenomenology, Mark Paulos' entire juvenile world devolved upon that nail and its strop"), but he also presents with wrenching effectiveness the fragile accommodations his characters have to make in order to survive in a hostile world they can never overcome and can keep at bay only for a time."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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Yucson. 2003. Dennis McMillan Publications. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0939767430. 230 pages. hardcover. Cover art by S. Clay Wilson. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Pauley's done a few bad things in his life and he's been around the block a few times, too; in fact, he's been inside the Big Block for most of his life. But now, age 52, he's got an honest job, making h1gb-class torture racks and other exquisite playthings for a gay S&M outfit in San Francisco. He's also got a super-hot 25-year-old girlfriend who wears a glow-in-the-dark mood bone in her nose and keeps him on the straight and narrow. His only real problem right now is that his old Ford Econoline van has finally pooped out, and he's got to find new wheels posthaste. The State Franchise Tax Board is also breathing down his neck and the rent is due; but things will work out-they usually do. But, unfortunately for all concerned, today isn't usually; it's the day he's going to look at a small, used Toyota pickup truck advertised by one Martin Seam. Sometimes a ticket to Hell only costs $600. nonrefundable, of course. inventory #10828.