New York, NY: The New York Review of Books, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Editor-at-Large of the New York Review of Books, professor of Humanities at Bard College, and Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation (a charitable trust that supports writers of nonfiction, essay, and criticism), Daniel Mendelsohn (1960- ) is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator acclaimed for his narrative nonfiction and literary criticism. Since 1991..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. "The "inscrutable Orient" becomes demystified when Raymond Mungo, the eloquent young activist of the 1960s, leaves America in 1971 to find what he self-mockingly calls "the secret of the universe." From streamlined bullet trains to rat-infested freighters, from a flophouse in Hong Kong to the high-powered world of television and advertising in Tokyo, from opium dens in Malaysia to banquet tables..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 1996. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Attached Over-Wraps. Signed by Joe Napora. "From the head, we look out to the river but cannot see where we tied up the canoe. Without the trees, we'd have a clear view of the river- the twisting river, sinuous, sensuous mound, each in motion, and us standing but in motion while at rest. We are the river. This is the..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "The ancient Chinese associated water with the moon, the feminine, with flow, with fear. Like no other element, we connect with water. We are water. 70% of the earth is covered by water, 70% of (the) human body is water. Perhaps that is it, water inside and out, essential to living life. And always there, always here..... 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

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1945. First Softcover Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. "First published in 1945, Kenneth Patchen's Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer has been reprinted over the years in various editions and is now recognized as a classic of American humor and satire. It is the hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent whose comic misadventures hold up a distorting mirror to our..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1960. First Edition, Eighth Printing. Softcover. "Kenneth Patchen has created many worlds...and now the comic, disturbing world of these new poems and drawings of Because It Is. Klee and Goya, Edward Lear and Christian Morgenstern, Kit Smart and Blake are others who have had this genius for inventing a special universe of fantastic revelation. So powerful is Patchen's rejection of the world we read..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "Charles Plymell's Camposque Virentis is a masterpiece of wind cutting across the plains, open highways, honest country music, and gospel tunes of sod and blood. It is a tribute to a mother like no other, a mother from a different time, a different world." (from W. K. Stratton quote, back cover) A prose-poem memoir-tribute to his mother & her..... More

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1941. Second Printing. Hardcover. With vintage gift inscription; later gift inscription to Thomas Rain Crowe. "No flower has been so popular in the past as the rose, and, in spite of the introduction of other plants from all parts of the world, it retains its pre-eminence (sic). It is therefore easy to understand why it figures so largely in literature and art and plays its..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Few, if any, foreigners have glimpsed the people and places Mark Salzman tells about in this unique, inspired portrayal of post-Cultural Revolution China and the Chinese. Shortly after he arrived in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, Salzman encountered Pan Qingfu, one of the nation's foremost Wushu (kung fu) experts and, as such, a cultural hero to the Chinese..... More

Edinburgh, Scotland: Polygon Books, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed to Thomas Rain Crowe by Scottish author Tom Hubbard. "Through the words of the people who experienced it, history is alive. It is one thing to read an account of clearance and emigration to Canada from the Hebrides, another to hear the people's version of the dispersal of their community and their adaptation to a foreign land...Fortunately oral history..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1969. First Softcover Edition, Fifth Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gary Snyder. "Both Pound and Williams have shown how a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meanings of "ecology") drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation." (from back cover) A now-classic collection of writings by Gary Snyder..... More

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Candy Christian encounters her first misadventures in this best of all possible worlds at the hands of Professor Mephesto, her college ethics teacher, and thence begins a series of picaresque travels which take her into various places and encounters...Candy carries most of the absurdities of our time to their logical conclusions. Its targets, literary and otherwise, are many: the..... More