New York, NY: Nadada Editions, 1975. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A small booklet of photographic portraits of six iconic, mostly Beat-literary figures taken in the early 1970s by Gerard Malanga, poet & important member of the Andy Warhol "factory" mileu at the height of the 1960s counterculture & beyond. The portraits are of William S. Burroughs, Candy Darling (the late transgender Warhol "superstar" cult figure), Allen Ginsberg, Mick Jagger, Anne..... More

New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The most important powerbroker you have never heard of finally comes back to life in this savvy, meticulously researched, and fascinating biography. John William McCormick served in the House of Representatives from 1928 to 1971. He left a powerful mark on the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the list goes on. In this much-anticipated work..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... More

Santa Monica, CA: Geffen Records, 2000. First Edition. Both Signed by Sonic Youth Guitarist Thurston Moore. NYC Ghosts & Flowers, a 2000 album by Sonic Youth, is mainly a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999, in which Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen. It is also the first Sonic Youth album to extensively use prepared guitar since 1985's Bad Moon Rising..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1957. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is there a "literary underground" in America- a group of undiscovered talents in revolt against mass culture, who are already shaping the literature of the future? This new anthology in the well-known series attempts to answer this question with stories, poems, plays and essays, many of them by new writers." (from back cover) A particularly rare & important number..... More

Baltimore, MD: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Three very early, contiguous numbers of the literary review journal Northeast Rising Sun, edited & with contributions by Charles Plymell & Pamela Beach Plymell, published by their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1976)- this second-ever issue features a review of Brion Gysin's great collaborative work with William S. Burroughs & Ian Sommerville, Brion Gysin..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1979-1982. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Three vintage, contiguous numbers (with a later, fourth issue "thrown in") of the literary review journal co-published & with contributions by Legendary Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell, & chiefly edited by his wife & co-publisher Pamela Beach Plymell, productions of their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 4 No. 16 (1979)- this issue features Arlene Stone's lengthy review of..... More

Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Heyday books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. "What catches Ira Nowinski's eye and what he captures with his lens are people- the beat poets of North Beach, opera divas radiating passion and delighting in adulation, cigar-smoking old Italians, tenant organizers, and an alert shirtless old man in a boxer's stance. These are photographs from three decades that speak eloquently and powerfully about..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the prestigious literary journal then-edited by George Plimpton features in-depth interviews with two canonical mid-twentieth-century playwrights: American Edward Albee conducted by William Flanagan & preceded by facsimile manuscript page from a draft of his play A Delicate Balance; & Briton Harold Pinter conducted by Lawrence M. Bensky & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page from a draft..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview with the great, super-prolific British historical novelist & poet Robert Graves (1895-1985), conducted by Peter Buckman & William Fifield, & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page. Also in this issue are contributions of fiction including by Sarah Plimpton (possibly a relation of George's, though..... More

Flushing, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features the second part of a tribute-compilation of commentaries by the canonical American writer John Steinbeck, the first part of which appeared in the Review's Vol. 12, No. 48 issue of Fall 1969. Also an in-depth interview of the great novelist-playwright J.P. Donleavy (1926-2017), conducted by Molly McKaughan..... More

Boston, MA: Partisan Review, Inc., 1991. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the late, venerable American literary journal features an excerpt from Norman Mailer's then-forthcoming novel Harlot's Ghost, now regarded as an exemplary classic by this great American novelist, entitled "Harlot's Lady." Also a scholarly literary-critical essay on the works of Vladimir Nabokov by Robert Alter ("Nabokov and Memory"); a memorial tribute to acclaimed artist Robert Motherwell by Karen Wilkin;..... More

Boston, MA: Partisan Review, Inc., 1993. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable highbrow left-leaning American literary & cultural journal edited by William Phillips features a memoir by Diana Trilling (1905-1996), the quintessential New York intellectual author, critic & academician along with her husband Lionel Trilling (1905-1975, whose students at Columbia University included Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac). Also in this issue are articles by Robert Alter, Raymond..... More