Marvin Minkler Modern First Editions

07/30/2026

Dragonfly Haiku

Dragonfly pauses
trucks pass on the wet highway...
dark clouds top the hills.

07/30/2026

The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich.
Ten Inner Sanctum Mystery Novelettes and Short Stories with a Foreword by Ellery Queen.
Simon & Schuster. NY. First Printing. 1965

Many of the stories written under the author's alias
William Irish. Most were originally published in the '40s, '50s,
and early '60s.
Crime, detection, irony, chills and terror from one of the masters of crime fiction.

07/29/2026

Spent time working with him on homeless issues in the late 80’s. A fine actor and a genuine spiritual human being.

I am my brother's keeper.

💙

07/28/2026

July 27, 2017. Sam Shepard — playwright, actor, sometime drummer — died at his farm near Midway, Kentucky, from complications of ALS. He was 73.
Patti Smith wrote:

"I knew that I would see Sam again somewhere in the landscape of dream, but at that moment I imagined I was back in Kentucky, with the rolling fields and the creek that widens into a small river. I pictured Sam’s books lining the shelves, his boots lined against the wall, beneath the window where he would watch the horses grazing by the wooden fence. I pictured myself sitting at the kitchen table, reaching for that tattooed hand.”

07/28/2026

Hail Holy Queens Publication Day!
Grab a copy.
It's a flat out knock out. You will read long into the night.
Chris McGinley is the real deal.

07/27/2026

If you had to pick a favorite between these two noir number ones.

07/27/2026

The Invisible Crusade.
The Adventures of Zana O'Savin #5
Craig McDonald
Artist: Douglas Klauba
Cover design: J.T. Lindroos
Night Town Books - 2026

Pulp is back! Read all of these exciting, rip-roaring, fascinating, adventures of Zana O'Savin, and her team of globe traveling trouble-shooters, and this final novel in the series promising to, once more get the reader to race through the pages, to find out what happens next.
Modern Pulp Fiction Master and award-winning author, Craig McDonald delivers the goods.

“Team O’Savin braves annihilation in a three-front war! The Free Crofters are a forgotten people hiding in plain sight whose goals are seemingly menacing as the Crofters are mysterious. The Scarlet Duchess is a potentially ageless, shadowy enigma committed to Russian world domination. More terrifying? Both may be in league with the highest office in the land. The Zana O’Savin saga, praised for bringing character-driven pulp adventure into the 21st Century, reaches its harrowing climax!”

07/26/2026

"People who censor books are usually illiterate." - A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING, John D. MacDonald (1964)

07/26/2026

"Shane!" "Shane!" "Come back!"

07/25/2026

July 24 was the birthday of John D. MacDonald who started his writing career in magazines, and in 1964 published his first Travis McGee crime novel, The Deep Blue Good-by. In all he wrote 21 more McGee novels set in Florida, in this superb series.
A copy of the first pbk edition of The Deep Blue Good-by could run you about $100 bucks today.