Bibliography
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- Malcolm (1959)
- Colour of Darkness (short stories) (1961)
- The Nephew (1961)
- Children is All (1963)
- Cabot Wright Begins (1965)
- Eustace Chisholm And the Works (1967)
- Jeremy's Version (1970)
- I Am Elijah Thrush (1972)
- Color of Darkness & Malcolm (1974)
- The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974)
- In a Shallow Grave (1976)
- Narrow Rooms (1978)
- Lessons And Complaints (1978)
- Dream Palaces: Three Novels (omnibus) (1980)
- Mourners Below (1981)
- On Glory's Course (1984)
- The Brooklyn Branding Parlors (poems) (1986)
- In the Hollow of His Hand (1986)
- The Candles of Your Eyes (1988)
- Garments the Living Wear (1989)
- Out with the Stars (1992)
- In the Night of Time and Four Other Plays (1992)
- Dream Palace: Selected Stories, 1956-87 (1992)
- Epistles of Care (1995)
- Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (1996)
- Moe's Villa and Other Stories (short stories) (2000, 2005)
- James Purdy: Selected Plays (2009)
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