New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Rita Mae Brown. “Rich with all the color of history and characters that burst off the page into our lives, High Hearts reveal one of our most outrageous and delightful storytellers weaving her most ambitious and entertaining novel yet” (front flap). Set in Civil War-era Virginia, Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944) dives into the complexities of 19th..... More

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. “Clane Hayward has written an insightful and riveting book about a hippie childhood gone bad. She has transformed what might have been and endearing disaster into beauty and wisdom–a testament to her personal resilience and literary skill. This is an amazing story, beautifully told.”-- Peter Coyote, from back cover. An absurdist reference to her atypical 1970s upbringing, the title of Hayward's..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "James Agee achieved the fame he deserved only after his tragically early death- of a heart attack, in a New York taxi- at forty-five...This book contains James Agee's previously uncollected prose: pieces ranging from Harvard days to his last years. In addition to short stories, there are notes for motion pictures (a medium that held deep fascination for him), scenarios, and..... More

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 2017. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Sherman Alexie. "Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend, Rowdy. Determined to receive a good education, junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town, where the only other..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. “Her name was Lucile Langhanke. She was a farm girl from the Middle West, a lonely, beautiful child who became the tormented victim of her parents’ greed. At twenty she was a star, the pampered, glamorous movie queen known to the world as Mary Astor” (from front flap). Mary Astor (1906-1987) achieved a decades-long acting career despite the influences and..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat is an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond...First-hand accounts from East Coast to West Coast, Prague to Kathmandu, Andy Clausen was there. Clausen's eyewitness memoirs stories anecdotes revelations of the generation that changed poetry music literature & ushered in the psychedelic era is infused with the underlying premise..... More

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009-2016. First Edition. Hardcovers in Slipcase. "The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989)..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by editor Millicent Dillon. "How I wish that I were with you now. I saw Bill [William Burroughs] for a few minutes, he called by to see me or I told Bryan [Brion Gysin] to let him in- rather send him in. I don't quite remember." (from letter of September 28, 1966 to Paul Bowles, pg. 290). A...... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Twenty two years ago writer Jean Francois Duval put together a book he titled Buk et les Beats- it was published in a French language edition by publishers Michalon in Paris. The book tackled the thorny question that has vexed Beat onlookers for decades- was Charles Bukowski a Beat? The answer- after reading the collection must have been..... More

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Naked Lunch is a blueprint, a How-to Book...Black insect lusts open into vast, other planet landscapes...Abstract concepts, bare as algebra, narrow down to a black turd or a pair of aging cajones..." (pg. 215) Among the essential primary works associated with the Beat Generation along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the significance & far-reaching influence of William..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. "Boys lean over iron balconies in the summer night whispering and giggling, turn in black waters of the old swimming hole with ivory flash of ambiguous limbs, roar past each other in stolen cars with woppish cries and crash into the viaduct cracking concrete to its bloody steel bones. Boys whiz through the air out of autos, roller coasters, crashing planes..... More

London, England: John Calder (Publishers) Limited, 1984. First UK Edition Thus. Softcover. "From a well-argued attack on those who wish to over protect our privacy and sense of shame, to a remarkable series of interviews with Daniel Odier, and a consideration of the ways in which information is transmitted and received in different cultures of the past and in our own increasingly robotized world, The Job reveals the mind of..... More