New York, NY, USA: William Morrow and Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed note in card envelope included. Diane Ackerman (b. 1948) is described as a poet, essayist, and naturalist with seven volumes of poetry and fifteen nonfiction books published since 1976, and her subjects have varied far and wide with whatever peaks her intellectual or creative curiosity. Lady Faustus is her third volume of poetry, and the poems here..... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" is a ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy epic." (front flap). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English author, humorist & screenwriter Douglas Adams (1952-2001), published in 1987. Written as a "fuck you" to the pressure from publishers to write more of his wildly popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy..... More

San Francisco, CA: n/p, 1976. Original Manuscript. Single Sheet. “Look inward / to the color prints on the wall, / the travel posters above the couch, / browse thru the library of your books, / turn-on, the neon-lights of your direction… / and await the sun / the might, burning fist / pushing, thru the night, / and remember the turn of the world, / the cause of change— /..... More

Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. "The war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it." (Diana di Prima, pg. 221). Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With a preface by editor, publisher..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. First Softcover Edition. "The spiders appeared suddenly | after that summer rainstorm. | Some people still insist the spiders fell with the rain | while others believe the spiders are from the damp soil like weeds | with eight thin roots. | The elders knew the spiders | carried stories in their stomachs..." (excerpt from title poem, pg. 12). Today we offer The Summer..... More

Berkeley, CA, USA: Wesley B. Tanner, 1988. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. “As I thought of her I fell asleep and a marvellous vision appeared to me. In my room I seemed to see a cloud the colour of fire, and in the cloud a lordly figure, frightening to behold, yet in himself, it seemed to me, he was filled with a marvellous joy.” (lines 12-15) Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), often referred..... More

New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "The snow will never be | so perfect again, blue in the dusk, | his weariness lit by candles in windows: not the slave's | heavy footfall here in Boston, on the way to Tremont Temple, | where messengers line up, | hand touching hand, Lincoln's pulse | already entering a telegrapher's wrist..." ("Frederick Douglass Waiting for News..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harcourt/ Harvest, 2006. First American Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Yehuda Amichai emigrated with his parents to Jerusalem in 1936. There he became one of the first poets to write in colloquial Hebrew, authoring fourteen books and winning the Israel Prize in 1982. Open Closed Open was his last collection of poetry. It is a testament to all that he represented: the beauty and honor of living, the..... More

Poem-of-the-Month-Club, 1973. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Kingsley Amis. Two poems, “Wasted” and “Kipling at Bateman’s” from English poet, essayist, and novelist Sir Kingsley William Amis (1922-1995), father of Sir Martin Louis Amis (1949-2023) best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields(1989) and who was named one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 by The Times. While they were very much two different people, father..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. “The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called ‘perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today.’ Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons’s achievement: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry….The Snow Poems, Ammons’s twelfth book, is a major achievement by a major American poet.”..... More

New York, NY, USA: Gross & Dunlap Publishers, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "...Dudley has left his wife in Chicago and, under an assumed name, he returns to the Indiana town of his childhood to masquerade as a factory hand. One day Aline Grey, the wife of his employer, becomes suddenly conscious of the newcomer and a strange fascination in him. She finds a way of bringing him into..... More

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2000. Second Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Nin Andrews to Dan Rzicznek. “A series of wry meditations on the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the human and the divine, everyday experience and the limits of bliss, The Book of Orgasms maps the imaginary terrain of the upper realm, the place where euphoria endures. In Nin Andrews’ highly original conception, orgasms..... More

Berkeley, CA: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet & noted founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. There are few, if any widely-known connections between Cornell University in Ithaca, NY — and this, even though several visionary non-Beat authors have taught there to great effect: have been received, warmly by talented students who are eager-to-contribute; by responsive readers, and responsive..... More