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The following are publications which may be ordered directly from Ternary Editions. Click on a cover thumbnail to see a larger image, click on the Paypal button to purchase, or you may order by mail by sending a list of the items along with a check or money order made payable to Bill Roberts, 29 Sugar Hill Road, North Salem, NY 10560. We now accept all major credit cards through Paypal or by emailing us at bill@ternaryeditions.com.


 

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Joseph Ridgwell - Instant Ridgwell Collection

Ridgwell brings back stories from the edge, imbued with humour, sex, philosophy,
hope, defiance, brutality and truth. He is a cult figure of the literary underground
both in the UK and abroad.

Titles included are:

The Cross,
Last Days of the Cross,
The Buddha Bar
&
Where are the Rebels?

By buying all 4 titles, we are covering the postage worldwide. $40

Joseph Ridgwell - Last Days of the Cross

Novella, 154 pages. perfect-bound paperback. Reprints
Last Days of the Cross which was published in 2009
by Grievous Jones Press. ISBN: 978-1-937073-77-0. $12

Last Days of the Cross recounts the trials and adventures of young
Joseph having departed the shores of Blighty, bound for the care-free
beaches of Australia and literary greatness. Instead he finds himself
living in a dosshouse amidst the ramshackle decadence of Sydney's red-light
district, falling in love with a junky indigenous girl called Rosie who robs
him blind and periodically leaves him to wallow lovelorn amongst bottles of
rot-gut wine, porn cubicles, and peeping toms. The twin struggles of finding
love and writing his literary masterpiece propel the book through picaresque
encounters with addicts, lecherous spinsters, and the eternal evils of the
landlord and the boss.

Joseph Ridgwell - Where are the Rebels?

Poetry, 68 pages. perfect-bound paperback. Collects
poems from two long out of print titles, Where are
the Rebels?
& Load the Guns. Both titles were
published in 2008 & 2009 by Blackheath Books (Wales, U.K.),
as well as previously unpublished poems. ISBN: 978-1-937073-74-9.
$9

In this slim, but important volume the reader will encounter dead strippers,
dead girlfriends, deadbeat jobs, and the beauty and banality of modern
existence in all its convoluted complexity. Fight fire with fire, says
Ridgwell, and be prepared to rock and roll right to the very bitter end!

Joseph Ridgwell - The Cross

Novella, 196 pages. perfect-bound paperback. Reprints The Cross which
was published in three installments in 2015 and 2016 by Paper & Ink Literary
Zine in an edition limited to 50 copies. ISBN: 978-1-937073-75-6. $12

And so it continues. This is early Ridgwell. Young and travelling down under.
No money, no fixed address. Grabbing work wherever he can find it. Usually
reeling with boredom or tossing it in due to the unrelenting madness of those
in charge. Back in the Cross, Joe resumes his bender. Debt and a run in with
a mean gang of cockatoos sends him into a pit of depression and into some pretty
awkward and dangerous situations. Watching short-lived lives has taken its toll
on his soul. Avoiding the great fall, Joe is reacquainted with England via some
dodgy member of ‘The Family’ who is on his way to Sydney and into Joe’s life.

Joseph Ridgwell - The Buddha Bar

Novella, 157 pages. perfect-bound paperback. Reprints The Buddha Bar
which was published in 2008 & 2009 by Blackheath Books (U.K.)
ISBN: 978-1-937073-73-2. $12

For anyone who has been swept up in the singular kind of energy and romance
of travel, The Buddha Bar will ring true. In fact, for anyone familiar
with Ridgwell’s mad and wanton approach to writing — that cackle of sex and drugs
and booze and rock & roll — The Buddha Bar fits right in.

This book is a lusty romp through the alcohol and humidity and tropical beauty of Thailand.
Our two leads - desperate to carve out a way to make it, and live, and be, and love amidst
the constant deluge — throw in together and open a small tourist bar, our titular Buddha Bar.
And much like the bar business — the idea of it and the truth of it are seldom the same.

Lee Ranaldo, Storm King Art Center 2015.

Photo by Christina Roberts.

Photo taken in August 2015 at Storm King Art Center,
an outdoor sculpture garden located in New Windsor, NY.

Limited to an edition of 250 copies.

SIGNED EDITION - 25 giclee prints measuring 6" x 9" are signed
by Christina Roberts and Lee Ranaldo ($75).

POSTCARD EDITION - 225 copies published as a 4" x 6" postcard.($3).