Ellenburg, WA: Vagabond Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Genius is a ragged lion / holding sunlight in his hands / Friend of outlaw, rare grotesque / Alone he flies with eyes of eagles / Lunatic, / Ape, / Angel, / Demon, / Fiend, / Torn and spit upon by cowards / he walks with angels and despair / Genius, poet, ragged lion / holding sunlight in his hands." (from Title..... More

New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1977. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This very early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry," edited & with contributions by Eliot Weinberger, features three poems by Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, translator & scholar who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Opposite the first poem ("36..... More

New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1979. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry" & edited by Eliot Weinberger features the long epic poem "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land" by Aime Cesaire (1913-2008), the venerated Martinique-born French-language poet, translated into English by Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith. Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. “So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it…” Thus begins the..... More

Noida, India: Picador India, 2008. First Indian Edition. Hardcover. "V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this..... More

Norman, OK: Texture Press, 1997. First Edition. Book. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. A chapbook of miscellaneous "fictionselections" by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & contrarian activist. Sort of hybrids between short essays & prose-poems concerning many topics, in various fonts & formats. On blank front endpaper, Napora has hand-inscribed & signed: "Thomas-/ (drawing of compass-points or star)/ No shortcuts..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Initialed by Joe Napora. "The One. The One and the Many. What connects? What divides? Once we knew. Before the internet, smart phones, E-mail, before telephones, before writing, before information, we knew. There is an Iroquois tale called "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" describing the creation of the universe and the beginning of the human race...This story connects us..... 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

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "A work which would free much of the encumbrance upon man as himself a universe- not microorganisms, microcosm- would start with Hesiod, taking him as a base-line and saying anything after him as 'lost' something and that all which he does show and include is a beginning of dimension of man's place in the cosmos as it had been..... More

Port Moody, BC: Simon Fraser University, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “THIS IS GOING TO BE / A SERIOUS ISSUE / BY GOD” the first page of [this issue of] “Iron” solemnly declares; a fitting pronouncement for a magazine seemingly created by and for Olsonites. However, the history of [what was actually called] “Iron” magazine actually on tangentially involves Olson, and centers far more on Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1959 he showed up for a much-touted Harvard appearance of Beat bards Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky. The occasion left him ambivalent over whether the author of HOWL was a real poet or merely a crowd-pleasing publicity hound and "Rowser." In his estimate of Corso he was less uncertain, disdaining the neo-romantic ex-con's verse and falling into a protracted..... More

Boston, MA: Origin Press, 1979. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Wherever we turn/ someone's gone. To gaze/ at the horizon// for an imminence-/ for a speck to loom-/ to weave a hope on." ("Penelope" by Cid Corman, pg. 56) The eighth number in the fourth series of the legendary literary journal edited, published & with contributions by the great (mostly) expatriate American poet & translator Cid Corman (1924-2004). Subtitled "The dialectical..... More