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87.09.W038: Erickson – Rubicon Beach

152 leaves, pp. 1–8 9-90 91–92 93-224 225–226 227-300 [4]

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1987

Contents: 1 author photo with blurbs, 2 ‘B_OOKS _BY S_TEVE E_RICKSON’, 3 title, 4 imprint, 5 epigraph, 6 blank, 7-300 Rubicon Beach: 7-90 ‘ONE [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’, 91-224 ‘TWO [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’, 225-300 ‘THREE [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Alison Cobb.

Copies: JDP 1.1

Blurbs

(front cover) This book is…a warning to those who lack the courage to cross the Rubicon of their imaginations. – Paul Auster, The New York Times Book Review
Erickson’s stuff is exquisite: echoing like poetry….He has an absolute vision, which moves fearlessly through time and across geographic boundaries, of what it means to be born in America….Rubicon Beach is a diamond. – Philadelphia Inquirer
Stark, brilliant…a world marked by familiar coordinates but always in fantastic light, as if seen for the very first time. Somewhere in Rubicon Beach, in Los Angeles, in America…are our unadulterated dreams—if we could only stop looking long enough to find them. – San Francisco Chronicle
The best novel I’ve read this year. – Greil Marcus, Village Voice
Steve Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for reporting back the nocturnal side of reality. – Thomas Pynchon
Here, in Rubicon Beach, is a musical prose of utter clarity that can weld the abstract and the concrete, the daily an the surreal, into a seamless whole. Here is a mind that can both conceive visions and follow them over the edge. Here, I mean, is a writer—a man whose words reach for you where you live and whose meanings look back at you from your mirror whether you like it or not. – Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly
Genuine stylishness…a nightmare novel. – USA Today

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86.09.W024: Erickson – Days Between Stations

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1986

128 leaves, pp. 1–10 11-22 23–24 25-34 35–36 37-53 54–56 57-78 79–80 81-92 93–94 95-110 111–112 113-131 132–134 135-158 159–160 161-186 187–188 189-205 206–208 209-236 237–238 239-253 [2]

Contents: 1 blurbs and author photo, 2 blank, 3 title, 4 imprint, 5 epigraph, 6 blank, 7 fly-title, 8 blank, 9 blank, 10-253 Days Between Stations, χ1b about the author, χ2a blank, χ2b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Alison Cobb.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)

Blurbs

(front cover) Daring, haunting, sensual… – Thomas Pynchon
Steve Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for the reporting back from the nocturnal side of reality, along with an engagingly romantic attitude and the fierce imaginative energy of a born storyteller. It is good news when any of these qualities appear in a writer—to find them all together in a first novelist is reason to break out the champagne and hors-d’oeuvres. – Thomas Pynchon
A fascinating first novel. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Steve Erickson is a very impressive talent. His imagination is boldly cinematic and his ear for the music of language is subtle and sure. – Ron Loewinsohn, author of Magnetic Fields
Erickson is brilliant. Period. Days Between Stations is the novel of a young writer who could come in range of Thomas Pynchon. Who might, if pushed enough, become the kind of writer Norman Mailer used to refer to as ‘major.’ He brings love back from angst and gives it a function. – Michael Ventura, The Los Angeles Weekly

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Steve Erickson – Rubicon Beach (1987)

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Steve Erickson – Days Between Stations (1986)

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