Collection: New York Novels

NY: New Wave Publications, 1991. 53 leaves, printed rectos only; illus. Octavo; black plastic comb binding. Very good or better, with light toning and soiling to wraps. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Ayden on the title-page: "To Michael my comrade in arts. Best Erje Feb... More

Inscribed first edition of this freewheeling experimental novel about 1960s counterculture life on the Lower East Side: a series of edgy, evocative vignettes bursting with psychedelic drug use, queer sex, and all manner of bohemian misfits. Rear panel blurbs from William S. Burroughs and Seymour... More

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First edition. Octavo. 201pp. Blue cloth; red topstain; white spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear, two small water spots to topstain, light toning to textblock. In an unclipped, "$4.50" jacket with light wear at spine ends, browning along the... More

NY: Basic Books, 1961. Omnibus edition. Octavo. Vii, 380, 301, 314pp. Red cloth boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Near fine, with mild bumping/softening to board tips and spine ends, mild toning to textblock edges. In a very good unclipped jacket ("$7.95") with toning to... More

NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. First edition. Octavo; 243pp.; black textured paper boards, in dust jacket. Lightly bumping to bottom corners and base of spine. Else near fine in a very good, unclipped "$3.95" jacket showing light wear and a few small spots of... More

NY: Charles Reznikoff, 1963. First edition. 8vo. 311pp. Blue cloth; gilt spine titles; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued. Mild bumping to spine ends and board corners. Minor forward cocking to spine. Former owner's name inked on front free end paper. Very good or better.... More