Crescent City Extremely Rare Books
544 Camp Street
New Orleans, Louisiana

First drafts often reveal interesting insights into the workings of the creative intelligence. I'm happy to announce I've managed to unearth some extremely rare first drafts of classic works of fiction. (Prices available on request)

Touch of Weevils .............. Seedy border town, corrupt police officer, giant weevils. All the elements. Orson Welles probably thought the time was not yet ripe for a full out science fiction "A" movie. He left that to Hitchcock and Psycho. But it remains a fascinating first stab at what was to become a classic.

Out of Africa, But It's On Back Order .......... Just a little tightening and Isak Dinesen had her masterpiece.

7 Days in May Company ......... Fletcher Knebel's hallucinatory account of his nightmarish stint as a floorwalker for May Company. He apparently finally decided that Malcolm Lowry already mined that territory in Under The Volcano and went back to the drawing board.

Tagtime ..........................Doctorow's riveting quasi fictional take on the early years of tag team wrestling. Half Nelson Eddie and Hammerlock Ellis remain vividly esconced in the imagination long after the sequel is forgotten.

A Journal of the Plaque Year ...............A truly visionary work. You have to remember this was over two hundred years before flossing. Sometimes you're just too far ahead of your time as D. Defoe obviously decided.

Just Say It Isn't So Stories....................Little known is the fact that Mr. Kipling had second thoughts about the wonder of Empire. "How the East India Company got its pouch" and "How Lord Kitchener got his stripes" are classics.