Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. "We are greatly prejudiced by our size. We find it difficult to believe that an animal that is many times smaller than ourselves can have anything in any way comparable to our own motives, or to experience anything that resembles our basic emotions of fear and hunger, let alone aggression or sexual excitement." (from Foreword, pg. 7). Life in the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. “This study probes the relationship between two contradictory, or apparently contradictory, pairs of terms: ‘Depression’ and ‘abundance,’ and ‘literature’ and ‘mass culture.’ It suggests, first, that one can detect in the culture of the American thirties—despite the painful national experience of scarcity and poverty—the now-familiar outline of an image-mediated, consumer society. It argues, second, that the hierarchical opposition between..... 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

Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges in American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. The letters provide the facts and circumstances of what lies under the published literary history, and they illuminate the pathway from imaginative conception to the published texts by recounting the poetics of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First Edition. “At his death on December 10, 1990, Armand Hammer was hailed as one of the great entrepreneurs of all time–a man who came out of retirement at the age of 59 to build the virtually bankrupt Occidental Petroleum Corporation into one of the world’s great international companies. The multimillionaire industrialist was also saluted as an art collector and philanthropist, and..... More

New York, NY, USA: Modern Library/ Random House, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Jorge Luis Borges is widely recognized as one of the most important and original figures in contemporary literature, and Labyrinths is perhaps the most representative selection of his work. Consisting of some forty tales, parables, literary essays and metaphysical musings, it captures, like no other anthology, the essence of Borges' simple but richly metaphorical style. From "Tlon..... More

New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. "Everyone knows the public Diana: the sweet, shy English girl with 'a history but no past' who married the Prince of Wales in a storybook wedding. But what of Diana in private? Was she really just an innocent kindergarten teacher when she and Prince Charles got engaged? Was she truly in love with her fiancé—and how did he..... More

New York, NY, USA: Vintage Contemporaries, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Presented here is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin by Anne Carson (b. 1950), the award-winning & prolific Canadian-born author & academician who taught & lived in Ann Arbor (& may still reside here). Many of these pieces include references to writers, thinkers, and artists, as..... More

New York, NY, USA: Paragon House, 1990. First Edition. In Love, In Sorrow illuminates the fatal differences that came to separate those who embodied America's prewar and postwar, modern and postmodern literary ideals. This correspondence, too, between two of the most gifted writers of our modern era, battling ferociously over the issues of loyalty and love between artists, poignantly portrays the dilemma facing any writer who accepts, and then rejects..... More

Bolinas, CA, USA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Robert Creeley to Robin Eichele. Once known primarily for his association with the group called the “Black Mountain Poets,” Robert Creeley (1926-2005) was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the 20th century. His poetry is noted for both its concision and emotional power. Offered here today is the 1973 compilation..... More

New York, NY, USA: Basic Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. “Body and Soul conveys the energy and bravery of modernism as it took root in America. Crunden resurrects its adventurous pioneers – the composers, musicians, critics, poets, gallery owners, painters and patrons – with all their charm and quirks. His approach is fresh and original; we feel that he was there at the scene, a first-hand witness to..... More

New York, NY, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Frank Delaney describes Ulysses as one of the pleasures of life, 'an entertaining, funny, absorbing, exciting, enjoyable novel, a book to get lost in, a book to take to a desert island, a book to keep by your bedside, and discover each day something new, a book to be quoted from, recalled, discussed, contemplated, bequeathed, bestowed, but..... More

La Jolla, CA: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. First Edition. Single Sheet. “The Floating Bear is one of the most important and also one of the most elusive of all the hundreds of “little magazines” of the sixties. Edited by Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones for free distribution by mailing list, it published many of the best American writers during nearly the entire decade. A list of only the most frequent..... More