Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1991; 1994; 1995. Limited First Editions; First Edition. Single Sheets; Softcover. "Against Information" broadside signed by John Lane. A collection of three collectors' items by John Lane, the noted & prolific South Carolinian poet, environmentalist & academician: (1) "The Body is Full of Lovers," a broadside (appx. 7&3/8" x 13&3/8") with the title poem below reproduction of an uncredited (but signed- by Goya?) illustration of..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 1993. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed twice by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "These were my first essays, written after ten years of commitment to the life and language of a poet. They were written years ago now, in 1985, during a stay in a cabin in the Smokies, not far from the Cherokee Indian reservation. Keep in mind they are..... More

Spartanburg, SC; Raleigh, NC: Holocene Publishing; Horse & Buggy Press, 2000. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by John Lane. A collection of poems by John Lane, the South Carolina native & noted, prolific poet, environmentalist & educator. The common theme of the poems is the poet's late father, whom he remembers with irreverent affection & as if he were still beside him engaging in the cozy banalities of life..... More

Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "In the story of the earth, geologists tell us that around 12,000 years ago the planet shifted from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. There probably were poets to sing about that change, but of what they sang, we have no records...Now John Lane's traveling geologist sings a dawning epoch's blues. The..... More

Durham, NC: Horse & Buggy Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by John Lane & Rob McDonald. "I have kept a box of what remains of my father's material life. He committed suicide in 1959 when I was five years old. In the box are letters, photos, objects, papers. Around the anniversary of when he would have turned a hundred years old (2015), I began to reach into..... More