Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation

Ace Books paperback, 1983. An early collection of non-genre short stories, originally published in paperback in 1961. Most of the stories were written between 1957 and 1959, while the author was an army draftee. Foreword by Frank M. Robinson, introduction (1975) by Ellison, and THESE STORIES: Final Shtick (1960); Gentleman Junkie (1961); May We Also Speak? (1961) essay; Daniel White for the Greater Good (1961); Lady Bug, Lady Bug (1961); Free With This Box! (1958); There's One on Every Campus (1959); At the Mountains of Blindness (1961); This Is Jackie Spinning (1959); No Game for Children (1959); The Late, Great Arnie Draper (1961); High Dice (1961); Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center (1961); Someone Is Hungrier (1960); Memory of a Muted Trumpet (1960); Turnpike (1961); Sally in Our Alley (1959); The Silence of Infidelity (1957); Have Coolth (1959); RFD #2 (1957, with Henry Slesar); No Fourth Commandment (1956); The Night of Delicate Terrors (1961).