Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Wind writing a sand path/ Pebbles on the move/ worn in and out/ Eternity in a grain/ of the hand that/ feeds us" (fifth stanza, unpaginated) A chapbook with the title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, publisher, editor & activist. On front cover & opposite each page of..... More

Frankfurt, Germany: Zweitausendeins, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase with Original Wrapping Paper. As Gary Groth has written in a preface to his November 19, 2014 interview with R. Crumb titled "Zap: An Interview with Robert Crumb," "When little Bobby Crumb used to draw dirty pictures in his notebook, he would destroy them immediately, for fear of being discovered. But then the ’60s happened, and under the wicked influences of..... More

Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones La Cupula, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. “When people say ‘What are underground comics?’ I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved…we didn’t have anyone standing over us…” said Underground Comix extraordinaire Robert Crumb, the seminal guerilla-visionary whose work opened the door to an entirely new style of visual expression during the late 1960s. Offered here is a unique Spanish-language edition..... More

Paris, France: La Cinquieme Roue; Galerie L'Ollave, 2005; 2011. First Editions. Softcovers. Le Mot Strangule inscribed & signed by Mathias de Breyne to Thomas Rain Crowe; Chute/ Chut No. 33 inscribed & signed by Jean de Breyne. An intriguing bundle by two acclaimed French writers who are father & son: (1) Le Mot Strangule, a small volume of poems by Mathias de Breyne. All text in French, first edition published..... More

Seymour, CT: The Greenwich Workshop, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. "The art of Bev Doolittle encompasses the whimsical, the mystical and the spiritual, and her own unique camouflage concepts. These themes are interwoven within the complete body of her work and each reveals a different aspect of the artist herself. Her style is characterized by meticulous realism, unsparing attention to detail and an extraordinary talent for drawing. Many of her works..... More

Asheville, NC: Native Ground Music, 1995. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Folded Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Doug Elliot to Thomas Rain Crowe. "This book is like a bridge in many ways- a bridge between the arts and the sciences; between the disciplines of folklore, music, history, biology, and ecology; and between the past and the present. Now it might not look like the steel suspension spans you're used to. In..... More

Boulder, CO: Rodent Press, 1996. First Softcover Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. A large-format chapbook-style volume with the title poem by Clayton Eshleman, the renowned poet, translator & educator who has long lived in Michigan. The poem is dedicated to the memory of Nora Jaffe (1928-1994), an artist who was a close friend of the poet & whose compelling illustrations grace several of his books, as here. Jaffe's..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In this fascinating new study, the work of the greatest of decorative woodcarvers is seen from a new perspective- through the eyes of a fellow carver. Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is famous for giving wood "the loose and airy lightness of flowers." His flamboyant cascades of lifelike blossoms, fruits, foliage, birds, and fish dominate English interiors of the late..... More

San Francisco, CA: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited Lettered First Printing. Single Sheet. "The paintings can't be explained. The best of them have a certain mystery about them that can't be explained... It is a mysterious process, painting. The figures, the creatures, the face appear 'out of nowhere,' so to speak, messengers or harbingers from some other place or time... I only know they exist in..... More

Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful book in oblong format, with photographs of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometimes in the company of Beat luminaries including William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, interspersed with his poetry. In very fine condition with only very slight rubbing to dust jacket covers & slight scraping of top & bottom board edges at spine. Very Fine. More

New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator May Neama. "When a man, however endowed he may be, concerns himself only with telling the story, when he does not take into account that true literary power does not lie in the fact but indeed in the manner of preparing, presenting, and expressing it, he has no sense of art. The profound and..... More

Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1996, 2006. First (Only) Printings. Folded card, developed photographs. A most wonderful package of artifacts with several very important Beat & literary associations: Consisting of an envelope postmarked October 19, 2006 mailed by Indra Tamang, photographer & long-time associate of Charles Henri Ford, to Charles Plymell & his wife Pamela Beach Plymell, friends of CHF & publishers of one of his works, Om Krishna..... More

New York, NY: National Gallery of Art/ SCALO, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Robert Frank (b. 1924) is without question the most important photographer to emerge since World War II. In the early 1950s he pioneered an original and sophisticated way of looking at the world that has dominated the art of photography for many years. It was not simply the raw style of his work that made Frank so controversial..... More