Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Connexion, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This small press literary journal was published just across the river from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario. The table of contents describes Connexion as “Prose & Poetry for the Mind & Body,” though not much more information is available about the press or its mission. This second issue opens with the poem “Dying” by Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938), the acclaimed, much-honored..... More

Kansas City, Missouri: Hallmark, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From the collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti with gift inscription. "The poem "Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher" by Barbara Guest is a poignant exploration of themes such as uncertainty, intimacy, and the delicate balance between safety and risk. The poem opens with a candid admission of not knowing, setting a tone of vulnerability and tenderness. The repeated line "Parachutes..... More

Washington DC: Paycock Press, 1981. First Edition. Large-Format Softcover. “The first decent history I ever read on the local literary scene was Jack Foley’s “A Bank of Violets,” published in Aleph no. 1 in 1975. The piece was good at putting the 60s explosion of local magazines and literary presses into perspective, but hardly touched on what had gone before, save to trot out Walt Whitman, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound..... More

Santa Monica, CA: The Center for the Humanities of Santa Monica College, 1989; 1990. First Printings. Softcovers. Both issues signed by Tom Clark on front covers. Two near-contiguous issues of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Jim Krusoe, both featuring contributions of poetry by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the great American poet, editor, novelist, biographer & artist who resides atop our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated," most deserving of..... More

Athens, GA: The University of Georgia, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. The theme of this double number of the academic-literary journal published by The University of Georgia is "Women & the Arts." Featuring an essay by the great southern U.S. writer Eudora Welty ("My Introduction to Katherine Anne Porter"). Welty was also among those listed as Advisory and Contributing Editors of the Review. Other contributors to this issue include Joyce Carol..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "In her highly acclaimed novel Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates traced the American dream to its origin deep within our individual imaginations. In Angel of Light, she explores our political heritage and gives us a novel of mounting drama with all the import of Greek tragedy. It is a story of loyalty, betrayal, revenge, and finally, forgiveness." (from front flap) An ambitious..... More

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, Inc./ William Abrahams, 1987. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. "From one of the great writers of our time comes an epic novel of an American family in the 1950s. Probing the divisions between the permissible and the forbidden, ordinary life and the secret places of the heart, Joyce Carol Oates has never been more memorable, more truthful, and as some will argue, more shocking, for..... More

New York, NY: Dutton/ The Penguin Group, 1994. Advance Reading Copy/ Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates. "Throughout her long and prolific career, Joyce Carol Oates has established a shining reputation as an insightful, powerful, and bold explorer of the American soul...she has limned our passions, our secrets, and our fears. An intense exploration of one man's roller-coaster rise to success and the price it exacts from him..... More

New York, NY: Ecco/ Harper Collins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins..... More

Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. A vintage number of the acclaimed "International Quarterly of Literature & Art," "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring fiction & drama by Sam Elkin, Mario Fratti & others; non-fiction including "The Academic Take-Over" by John..... More

Farmington Hills, MI: Witness Publishing, Inc., 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This early number of the literary journal in its original Michigan incarnation features contributions by Donald Hall (1928-2018), the great prize-winning poet who at one time was a member of the University of Michigan faculty; & Joyce Carol Oates, the acclaimed, super-prolific novelist. With much more, including a portfolio of disturbing photographs by Danny Lyon that accompany his article on..... More