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The Man Who Fell to Earth 1st edition : Walter Tevis – Bowie interest.
SOLD Tevis' 1963 novel that became the foundation for Nicholas Roeg's film starring David BowieThis...Category: Books, Film Tie In / TV, Music Book, NovelView Details -
Absolute Beginners British paperback – Colin Innes
To order: please click the enquiry button or email info@pleasuresofpasttimescom and state your...Category: Books, NovelView Details -
The Favourite Game Leonard Cohen Paperback 3rd (1969)
£15.00 US paperback , 3rd printing May 1969 : previous owner's name and 9/6 price on fly, no loose...Category: Books, NovelView Details -
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I Jan Cremer 1965 1st edition translated from Dutch by Alex Trocchi
£45.00£35.00 first edition published by Calder & Boyars in 1965 , translated from Dutch by Alex Trocchi...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
The Man Who Had Power Over Women by Gordon Williams 1967 HB 1st edition
£30.00 1967 first edition - adapted into film starring Carol White 1970 VG+ Unclipped DJ To order:...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
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The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck – lot- US 1st edition US, Book club flyer and British theatre programme
£450.00£375.00 US 1st edition hardback Published by Viking, 1942 - first state with printer's fault ( period...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
Charles Dickens Christmas Book #5 : 1st edition -The Haunted Man & The Ghost’s Bargain 1848
£550.00 For # in the Christmas Book series click here : Charles Dickens Christmas Book #3 : Cricket on the...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Juvenile / Children, NovelView Details -
Charles Dickens Christmas Book #3 : Cricket on the Hearth 1846 1st edition /2nd state & 1886 new edition
£175.00 – £475.00 This title was the 3rd in the series of Christmas book, preceded by A Christmas Carol in 1843 , The...Category: Books, Juvenile / Children, NovelView Details -
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Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas { Rolling Stone #95&96, 1st edition HB & PB}
£110.00 – £1,750.00 Hunter S Thompson's 2nd published book - "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Novel, BooksView Details -
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William Burroughs, The Last Words Of Dutch Schultz
£30.00 – £40.00 "Laid out as a stripped-down movie script, [this is] a gruesome, hallucinatory exposition of the...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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William Burroughs Cities of the Red Night 1981 US HB 1st edition
£40.00£30.00 First instalment of Burrough final trilogy :Cities of the Red Night, The Place of the Dead Road and...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands, UK Picador 1988
The Western Lands, the final instalment of Burrough last trilogy 1988 Picador UK 1st edition /...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
William Burroughs The Wild Boys : UK and US 1st edition paperbacks
£35.00 – £40.00 Burroughs' dystopian novel that had wide pop culture influences - from David Bowie (Diamond Dogs)...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge Uk 1st edition Hardback 2013
£55.00£40.00 Near Fine, possibly unread - 1st edition and 1st printing To order: please click the...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
Thomas Pynchon Slow Learner – British hardback 1st edition
£70.00 A collection of short stories Alternative cover to the US 1st - Magritte's Red Model ...Category: 1st Edition, Novel, BooksView Details -
Colin Wilson The World of Violence 1963 UK 1st
£50.00 Colin Wilson's 3rd novel Condition : Near Fine : Clean no marking : DJ is un-price clipped with...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
West End People by Peter Wildeblood British 1958 1st edition Hardback
£70.00 Following his own arrest under the repressive laws against homosexuality Wildeblood...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
William Gilllette as Sherlock Holmes : Postcard from the 1st stage adaption
£75.00 Scarce Antiquarian postcard,circa 1900, of American actor/manager William Gilllette ...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
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The Ginger Man by J.P Donleavy (lot of 2 books ) 1st edition Novel and play ( with “What They Did In Dublin)
£250.00£150.00 Book 1 • 1st Olympia Press (Paris Edition) hardback 1958 - preceded by their 1955 paperback...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Novel, Theatre : PlaysView Details -
Ken Kesey Sometimes A Great Notion : UK Hardback 1st edition.
British Hardback first edition of Kesey's second novel He infamously drove to New York with The...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Collections, Novel, PsychedeliaView Details -
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William Gibson – Virtual Light UK 1st edition Hardback
£37.50£20.00 Science Fiction author best known for Neuromancer UK 1st : 1993 : Clean no marking , lightly...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
Jean Genet -Our Lady of the Flowers – 1957 Olympia Press English language edition
£45.00 No 36 in Maurice Girodias' infamous Traveller's Companion series -which included Burroughs Naked...Category: Beat Writers, Novel, Theatre, Books, CollectionsView Details -
The Unfortunates by B.S Johnson : 1969 Hardback -complete
£175.00 27 sections; 20 cm; 1 box Subjects: Johnson, B S (Bryan Stanley) 1933-1973 Experimental fiction A...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
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Trail Of Cthulhu – August Derleth (after H.P Lovecraft) – 1962 Arkham Press 1st edition
£135.00£125.00 1962 US Hardback first edition 2500 copies printed A collection of five Cthulhu Mythos stories...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
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Adrift in London by Colin Wilson British 1st edition Hardback or 1st Paperback
£20.00 – £45.00 Willson's classic novel set more in Notting Hill than Soho but still captures a snapshot of the...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
Pete Townshend : The Age of Anxiety : A novel 2019 Signed UK HB 1st
SOLD Townshend's well received novel from 2019 , signed on the title page Condition : As new :...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Music Book, NovelView Details -
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Bob Dylan Tarantula : USA, UK 1st & bootleg editions
£45.00 – £225.00 Outside his lyrical work Dylan hasn published very little in terms of prose or other written...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, Music Book, NovelView Details -
Hunter S. Thompson Rum Diaries Audio Book : 4 cassettes.
£15.00 The Lost Novel -Simon & Schuster Audiobooks USA 4 x unplayed cassettes - 45 hours read by...Category: Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
Marihuana by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich)
£35.00 – £200.00 By American crime writer Cornell Woolrich (1903 – 1968) who also used the pen names William...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
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Serge Gainsbourg’s Novel :Yevgenii Sokolov / Evguenie Sokolov: A Parabolic Tale
£14.50 – £32.50 For French people "of a certain age" this was their version of a Derek & Clive LP It never...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Memorabilia, Music Book, Novel, Serge & JaneView Details -
Guttersnipe by Tom Pickard, published by City Lights, 1971
£20.00 A working class dropout from Newcastle-on-Tyne, insisting to Dole authorities that his only "job"...Category: Beat Writers, Books, Novel, PoetryView Details -
The Crying Of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, 1967 Bantam edition, paperback
£85.00 Immaculate unread copy The Crying of Lot 49 is the shortest novel published by American author...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
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Nick Cave: And The Ass Saw the Angel, first edition hardback,
£32.50 – £325.00 And the Ass Saw the Angel is the first novel by the Australian musician and singer Nick Cave, ...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
Musk, Hashish and Blood by Hector France 1951 novel
£50.00 The Adventure of a modern man among the cruel men and passionate women of AlgiersClearly a work of...Category: 1st Edition, Books, NovelView Details -
Charles Bukowski, Post Office: A Novel, Black Sparrow Press, First US Paperback edition (1970)
£300.00 Unread copy of Bukowski's novel Post Office Unbroken but slightly age toned spine Else Fine Rare in...Category: 1st Edition, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, NovelView Details -
William Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded, 1st Edition Olympia Press paperback (1962)
£375.00 First edition and first printing : December 1962 Olympia Press Paris, France Text revisions were...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, Novel, BooksView Details -
William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch, Corgi UK paperback, First Edition (1968)
£35.00 First UK 1st edition 1968 paperback edition of William Burroughs' Beat classic [The] Naked Lunch...Category: 1st Edition, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, Novel, BooksView Details -
Clockwork Orange ; Anthony Burgess Reading Selections from 1973 LP
£75.00 1973 US only release Anthony Burgess reclaiming his text from Kubrick Side 1 Chapter 1 &2...Category: Film & TV, Novel, Records, Memorabilia, BooksView Details -
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Peter Pan : Peter & Wendy 1st edition Book by JM Barrie
SOLD The character Peter Pan first appeared in a chapter of Jm Barries's 1902 novel Little White Bird...Category: 1st Edition, Juvenile / Children, Novel, BooksView Details -
East of Eden (novel) signed by John Steinbeck novel with James Dean film cover
£1,000.00 This is a 1959 UK -4th impression- of the first UK paperback edition depicting James Dean from...Category: Film Tie In / TV, Novel, Signed, BooksView Details