Danny Sugerman's "Wonderland Avenue" (1989)

New York City: William Morrow and Company (book), 1989.
9.5" x 6.25" x 1.5", 407 pages, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 0-688-04656-8.

Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess by Danny Sugerman, as published in hardcover with dust-jacket by William Morrow and Company (New York City) in 1989. Book design by Jaye Zimet. Art Direction by Donna Eble, and jacket design by Jeff Düngfelder. Jacket photographs of Sugerman are by Todd Gray [who I met in the 90's].

William S. Burroughs is noted in the acknowledgments and supplies a blurb to the back cover: “Danny Sugerman spent his youth in Hollywood’s rock ‘n’ roll fast lane, following the example of his mentor and idol, Jim Morrison. Although he crashed at age twenty-one, Sugerman ultimately survived and has given us this savagely engrossing account of his wild misadventures. Wonderland Avenue shatters the myth of the glamour of hard drugs and hard living. A most entertaining and informative book.”

I also have a copy of the Signet/Plume (New York City) softcover 1st printing. 8" x 5.375" x 1", 407 pages.

This edition has a somewhat shortened blurb from the hardcover edition: "Danny Sugerman spent his youth in Hollywood’s rock ‘n’ roll fast lane, following the example of his mentor and idol, Jim Morrison. Although he crashed at age twenty-one, Sugerman ultimately survived and has given us this savagely engrossing account of his wild misadventures.”

Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Book I: Youth:
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Book II: The Rock:
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Book III: The Life:
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Chapter Thirteen
• Epilogue
• Afterword