New York, NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Words and images played a major role in the development of the French Revolution. Printed speeches, pamphlets, newspapers, political cartoons, engravings depicting recent events, all circulated widely and helped to shape the immediate future. These are the focus of the exhibition: Words of Blood, Images of Fire: The French Revolution. By showing what people saw, what they read, even..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988. First Edition Thus, Third Printing. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Hubert Selby Jr. to Brian Jacobs. "The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. (Hubert Selby Jr.'s) searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. "This play is not "about" something; hopefully, it is something. And primarily it is a way of looking at man and his human nature as the only source of violence which has come closer and closer to destroying the race. It is a view which does not look toward social or political ideas as the creators of violence, but into the..... More

Woodstock, IL: Percheron, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. “Gargoyle, the University of Michigan campus humor magazine – founded in 1909 – this year celebrates its 90th birthday making it one of the oldest surviving college humor publications.” (From introduction pg. 5) Marking the 90th anniversary, former Gargoyles (staff) came together to compile the best of the best in this Collector’s Edition of Gargoyle Laughs at the 20th Century. Editor and compiler..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The third number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic Beat imprint, City Lights Books. Featuring an article by Richard Shattuck about the great French Surrealist poet & playwright Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918, "Apollinaire's Great Whitman Happening") with a photograph of Apollinaire; Mary Beach's translation from French into English of a...... More

New York, NY: Yugen, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Hubert Selby Jr., and Kenneth Koch. (McNeil C75-C78, p.124 in “Gary Snyder: A Bibliography”; Charters C78, p. 60 in “A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac”). “‘Merde!’ screams Rimbaud / at Verlaine salons --- / Gossip in Paris---Verlaine Wife / is jealous of a boy / with no seats to his trousers / ---Love sends..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1958. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton along with such literary eminences as Donald Hall & Peter Matthiessen features the novella Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth (1933-2018), the canonical Jewish-American author, preceding the publication of his first book of that title the following year (1959), otherwise a collection of short stories (pgs. 71-179), preceded by..... More

New York, NY, USA: Caedmon Recordings, 1973. First Edition. “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2024. First Edition. Perfect Bound. This newest issue of Beat Scene highlights “The Burroughs Affair 1963” (pg. 24), an excerpted report by John Pearson from the Sunday Times in February of 1963 in which the reporter visits William S. Burroughs at the Beat Hotel in Paris after his appearance at the Edinburgh Writers’ Conference. Additionally included in this issue are a review of Grove..... More

New York, NY; London, England; New York, NY: Olympia Press; Sphere Books Limited; Coronet Communications, 1970; 1971. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his..... More

Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John W. Campbell Jr. " "Don A. Stuart" is the pseudonym Mr. Campbell has used in writing stories which are unusual even by the standards of science-fiction. Set in the far future, amid technologies fabulously more advanced than our own, these tales dramatize some of the perils Man is inevitably exposed to in a universe indifferent to his life, his..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. “Everybody wants to define the man who signed his name, “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity—what today’s commentators would call..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a lengthy, deeply insightful interview with the great Beat Generation- Black Mountain School-associated poet Robert Creeley conducted by Lewis MacAdams Jr. & Linda Wagner, preceded by a facsimile manuscript page of his poem "The Finger" & followed by the complete poem. Also in this issue are contributions..... More