Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, inscribed & dated by Rudolf Arnheim. “For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books—known and prized the world..... More

New York, NY, USA: Brian Jacobs, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Inscribed, signed & dated by Amiri Baraka to Brian Jacobs. “Revolutionary poetry is poetry expressing 1st as content and then most effectively as form, the ideology, stance & practice of revolution. Direct & complete social (and as political and economic and cultural change. That is to change society by changing human relations within the society and by so doing..... More

New York, NY, USA: Norton, 2008. First Edition. “We live in a visual age–an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science. Certain key images embody our understanding of life and the universe we inhabit. Some, such as Robert Hooke’s first microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken..... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Edition. “In tragedy the hero dies because no one can live fulfilled in time. He dies of immortality…When the tragic development suddenly makes its incomprehensible appearance, when the smallest false step leads to guilt, when the slightest error, the most improbable coincidence leads to death, when the words that would clear up and resolve the situation and that seem to be available to..... More

Osnabruck, Germany: Osnabruck Bilingual Editions of Minority Authors/ VC-Verlagscooperative, 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "In carefully selecting and translating some of (Peter Blue Cloud's) poems and stories, we have tried to reflect the author's special eye, his holistic view, his mind going back and forth, perceiving in circles and cycles without overlooking reality, obstacles in the history of the Natives themselves and of mankind. We have tried to follow his..... More

New York, NY, USA: Strawberry Press, 1984. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed, signed & dated by Peter Blue Cloud to Thomas Rain Crowe. "A knot of cedar/ the flames lick to dancing/ ancient fingers/ rub time the polished staff/ of tales/ bedded in sage myths/ our tongues/ taste tomorrow." ("Fire Tale," unpaginated) A collection of poems by Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate, 1933-2011), the acclaimed & award-winning Native American/ First (Mohawk)..... More

Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1987. First Edition. “Paul Breslin’s distinction as a critic of contemporary poetry is that he is willing to say things against, as well as for, the poet he’s writing about. Thus his criticism has a bite, too often absent from more single-minded approaches. The Psycho-Political Muse combines aesthetic and cultural responses in an exhilarating way, helping us think about both the poetry and the age..... More

Brighton, Sussex, England: Urgency Ripoff Press, 1973. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Merton, 1962. Stapled Wrappers. “CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA who was converted to Christianity in the Second Century, might well be called the father of Christian Humanism. One of his major works, The Protreptikos (from the Greek word 'to persuade'), was a masterpiece of philosophical writing. In explaining Christianity to the cultured Greek pagan, Clement ranged from acute social satire to the loftiest religious contemplation. With a biographical..... More

Cambridge, England UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in (James) Joyce studies; in James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity Neil R. Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material to support the claim that "the..... More

n/p (UK): n/p, n/d (c. 1971). Early UK (Bootleg?) Edition. Stapled Sheets. "The entire life of societies in which modern production conditions prevail heralds itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation." (Chapter One, Part/Thesis 1, unpaginated) The famous/notorious cultural-philisophical-political manifesto by Guy (Ernest) Debord (1931-1994), the radical French philosopher, Marxist theorist, filmmaker & critic who was a founding member..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking Penguin, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "Six thousand five hundred couples are married at Yankee Stadium. A famously reclusive writer has his picture taken. A Swiss UN worker is held hostage in Beirut. Don DeLillo's extraordinary new novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. Haunted by the spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. ““We Irish, born into that ancient sect” – a line from Yeat’s “The Statues,” a poem he started in April and finished in June 1938, seven months before his death. The poetry he wrote during those months was nearly as strident as the prose of On the Boiler, exorbitant even to the situation that provoked it. Rage kept him..... More