Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swallowing and shining, and fucking." (Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye, pgs. 5-6). This issue of the venerable literary journal chiefly edited & published by John O'Brien (1945-2020) is sub-titled the "Charles Bukowski/Michel Butor Number" & features interviews, essays & various appreciations of these two most important, daring writers (Debritto..... More

Vancouver, BC, Canada: Capilano College, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. "The Capilano Review continues to live into Number 10. Some continuity, some change. We present as well as we can, the works which excite us." (Bill Schermbrucker, from Part 2 of Preface, pg. 6) A vintage earlier number of the eclectic Canadian literary & art journal published by Capilano College in Vancouver, British Columbia & edited by Bill Schermbrucker (1938-2019), the..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Jack Tilton Gallery; October Gallery in Conjunction with the Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. This art-centric Burroughs-&-Beyond bundle features two art catalogs from the year 1988, a time when Burroughs was immersing himself in painting after the 1986 passing of his dear coconspirator, Brion Gysin. The "Literary Vision" exhibit, which took place at the Jack Tilton Gallery in November of 1988, included photographs..... More

New York, NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Mandalay Dream is a novel in the form of emotional memories and experiences involving childhood and manhood simultaneously, pivoting on the power and effect of touch- physical as well as metaphorical- through stories, vignettes, fantasy, dreams, and a strong first-person narrative. A man whose marriage has failed has encounters and experiences that cause his childhood to come into..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977 / 1981. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Offered here is a complete run of Fielding Dawson's Penny Lane trilogy, a mid-career collection of Dawson's that adequately conveys that this is a writer who, at this point in his career, had already spent over twenty-five years perfecting his practice. Dawson is most commonly associated with Black Mountain College. At Black Mountain, Dawson studied poetics..... More

New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). Celebrated counterculture icon and original Beat poet Ed Sanders has this to say about Fielding Dawson: "I have said he is the new Chekhov." Hefty words for Sanders, the respected poet (and Chekhov scholar) whose immortal "Poem from Jail" was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1963. Unique to this collection is the fact..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "The work is the thing. The measure of a man. All there is to look at, count up, judge him by. His work. The words are no mark, are noise. Talk is cheap, &c, but let's see the work, &c. The 'solid artifact,' what draws the mind. (The word as act only. As prophecy. As poem, is act/shun, choice of..... More