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New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1974.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. What follows is a series of wild, witty, and bizarre encounters.

New York:: Touchstone,, 1971.. First Printing of the First Paperback Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine paperback binding. The 62 stories in this collection, some as brief as one page, illustrate Brautigan's rare wit and whimsy, like so many snapshots in a writer's personal album. There are fantasies, love stories and painful memories of a tortured childhood all told with originality and a touch of magic

New York:: Putnams,, 1972.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine clipped dust jacket, with light edge wear to the spine ends. This is Bowles' first-person account of his life as a novelist, short story writer, travel essayist, composer and translator as well as his relationship with such notable artists as Aaron Copland, Gertrude Stein, William Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote. Bowles spent most of mature artistic life in Morocco and he writes extensively of his life there and his marriage in 1938 to another gifted writer, Jane Auer Bowles.