London, England, UK: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public….When a man should marry? A young..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking/ Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvelously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letters throughout his long life (1915-2005). Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to his fellow writers- William Faulkner, John Cheever, John Berryman, Ralph Ellison..... More

Canton, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Sometime after Charles Olson’s death in January 1970, I told Jack Clarke I wanted to publish some kind of tribute to Olson. He responded by sending me a copy of “A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul,” which Olson had sent to us for publication in "The Magazine of Further Studies  No. 5." On the copy Jack..... More

Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1962. First Printing. Softcover in Dust Jacket. "We tend to describe all ventures in poetry as experiments in form. The poems in this book are not experiments in form, but experiments in content. They are evocations of single moments of life. There is a part of the personality which speaks of things that are dead- of Achilles, long-dead relatives, nostalgia for the 'old days'; these..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. "The peculiar satire characteristic of the labors of a skilled cartoonist forms the common denominator for this lively anthology of outstanding editorial cartoons. Featured here are the best works on the major issues of 1972 by 110 leading editorial cartoonists, nine of them Pulitzer Prize winners, representing newspapers, magazines, television stations and cartoon..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1970. Second Edition, First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "Poetry, like music, is to be heard. It deals in sound- long sounds and short sounds, heavy beats and light beats, the tone relation of vowels, the relations of consonants to one another which are like instrumental colour in music. Poetry lies dead on the page, until some voice brings it to life, just as music on..... More

London, England, UK: Headline Book Publishing/ Hodder Headline PLC, 1993. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ramsey Campbell. "Late in the twentieth century, during an era in which ghosts and vampires and other spectral standbys have degenerated into icons of mass-media kitsch, Ramsey Campbell almost silngle-handedly has revived English supernaturalism as serious artistic expression. In his stories he summons this hallowed tradition to embody such themes as urban decay, institutional..... More

Abingdon, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Nancy A. Collins. "And if his wife knew better, well-she lived happily ever after anyways." (final sentence, Billy Fearless, pg. 339). Knuckles and Tales is a themed collection of Southern Gothic horror & dark-fantasy short fiction written by American author Nancy A. Collins (b. 1959). Collins is best known for her Bram Stoker Award–winning debut Sunglasses After Dark..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. "Why poetry? Its materials are so constant, simple, elusive, specific. It cost so little and so much. It preoccupies a life, yet can only find one in living. It is music, a playful construct of feeling, a last word and communion" (preface). Robert Creeley (1926-2005), Black Mountain poet, daring publisher, college professor, and cohort to the likes of literary..... More

Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "notice to all/ land offices:/ Investigate/ New/ Holdings/ it is rumored/ that the unicorns/ have staked/ a large/ claim/ in the Rocky Mountains" ("(notice to all)," pg. 1) A large collection of poems by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), among the primary- & one of the few female- original poets of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. Gathered from myriad publications "...too numerous to (completely)..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "In making this selection from the first decade of my work I have sought not only to include certain poems which have been particularly admired by those who admire my poetry at all, but, more important, to provide those texts which at this time I see as essential for a serious reading of evolving themes and forms; and, back of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Dial Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," writes Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last hundred years..... More

London, England, UK: Tate Gallery Publications, 1992. First Softcover Edition / Advance Review Copy. Softcover. "Realist, expressionist, Dadaist, traditionalist working in the vein of the German Old Masters, Otto Dix (1891-1969) was all and much more than these labels suggest. His career stretched from Wilhelmine Germany before the First World War, through the war itself, the revolution and counter-revolutions of 1918-20, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Second World..... More