Bowling Green, KY: Steel Toe Books/ Western Kentucky University, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Dated, inscribed & signed (twice) by Mary Biddinger to Dan Rzicznek. "The city is older than you/ know: catalpa trees rough/ in your arms, a woman's/ gray tabby cat curving into/ your hip. Her man at the store,/ your breakfast in his hands,/ his finger ready to skim/ chipped shell from egg whites." ("Housewarming," first stanza, pg..... More

New York, NY, USA: Adventures in Poetry, 1973. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “Someday I shall marry perhaps / and go by ship to France to live / stopping first in Rome to see / the Pope and the Pincio Gardens… / You will find Paris a gray city / with none of New Orleans’ color. / A disappointment at first / until you know the bridges / and Saint Julien..... More

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Mary Oliver. "From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes "the creatures, with their/ thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their/ infallible sense of what their lives/ are meant to be." In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five..... More

New York, NY, USA: Random House, 2011. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. "The new year of 1941 was snowy: Fiona Forbes came to stay at Chequers, and we tobogganed merrily on the Beacon, using a sledge made for us by Sawyers, my father's valet." (Mary Soames, pg. 170). "A Daughter's Tale," a memoir in which Mary Soames (1922-2014), the youngest daughter of former United Kingdom Prime Minister (1940-1945) Winston Churchill (1874-1965)..... More

New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "We hope we have provided readers with an interesting and enjoyable collection, valuable not only for the undeniable pleasure of these stories, but also as a testament to the keen judgments of the magazine editors who enabled these talented writers to get their first taste of professionalism." (final sentence, "Editors' Preface," pg. xii). First Fiction..... More

Andy Warhol. Caen, France: Cahiers de Nuit, 1994. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. A limited edition booklet in dust jacket, illustrated with the famous 1967 banana illustration by Andy Warhol. Text in French. One of 100 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 200. This is copy #7/100. An extremely rare item, with book in mint condition & dust jacket near mint with only very minor rubbing & bumping to..... More

San Francisco, CA: Jacob Herman; Gail Dusenbery, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. This second number of the literary journal edited & published by Jacob Herman & Gail Dusenbery features two contributions by William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, as well as the iconic figure of our very enterprise: "Salt Chunk Mary" & "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier," exemplary short classics that mark WSB's later-1960s transition from his..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Engpol Medien, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed to Mary Beach Pelieu by Peter Engstler. A volume of prose by German writer-publisher Peter Engstler, published in Germany with all text in German. On the title page, Engstler has hand-inscribed & signed in English: "For Mary Beach Pelieu/ Best Wishes/ 20.10.03(October 10, 2003)/ (signed) Peter Engstler." Mary Beach (1919-2006) & her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002) were avant-garde writers..... More

n/p (prob. Paris, France: 1990. Autograph card/assemblage. Gatefold album. Handwritten & signed by Claude Pelieu & Mary Beach to Peggy Biderman This unique item is a small portfolio of photographs of artworks by Claude Pelieu & Mary Beach, the well-known husband & wife artist/writers who were important participants during the Paris "Beat Hotel" period & beyond, collaborating & corresponding with William S. Burroughs & many others. Pelieu & Beach created..... More