Brighton, England: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheets; and Plastic Bag Invitation. “Motion-picture studies of Ronald Reagan reveal characteristic patterns of facila tonus and musculature associated with homo-erotic [sic] behavior. The continuing tension of buccal sphincters and the recessive tongue role tally with earlier studies of facial rigidity (c.f. Adolf Hitler, Nixon). Slow motion cine-films of campaign speeches exercised a marked erotic effect upon an audience..... More

London, England: Ignu Publications, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “The Sonnets were first published in 1964 by a small press, then they were picked up in 1968 or '69, I forget which, by Grove. […] It was very difficult to get this work written, although it wasn't difficult to write it. It was a long time coming and I didn't really know what was coming, but then it..... More

London, England: The Wooden Shoe, 1967. Limited First Edition. Chapbook in Stiff Wrappers. Signed and numbered by Anna Blume. A beautifully-crafted, hand-printed art book by Anna Blume, an anarchist involved with the short-lived but influential Wooden Shoe bookshop and press in London. The store was only open about a year and was affiliated with Albert Meltzer, a contributor to anarchist paper Freedom and co-founder of the newspaper Black Flag who..... More

London, England: John Lehmann, 1952. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The third published work & second novel of Paul Bowles (1910-1999), the canonical American-expatriate author, composer & true Figure of Legend. Bowles, with his equally if differently legendary wife Jane, lived & worked in Tangier for most of his life, beginning when it was a notorious "International Zone" (the very title of the first chapter here), a cauldron of..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. A Catholic priest was excommunicated last week in Syracuse, New York. The offense was rather unusual. The incriminating testimony was bizarre. The witness for the Papal state testified, I'm an ex-Marine from Bay Parkway in Brooklyn. When I moved up to Syracuse, I joined the Sacred Heart Order and went to confession. I began to get suspicious when the priest kept telling..... More

Brighton, England: Public House Bookshop in Conjunction with Urgency Rip-off Press Publications, 1996. Limited First Edition; First Printings. Tack-bound Softcover; Single Sheets. An archive of materials relating to a Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) exhibition that took place in England in May 1996. The exhibition was the first of its kind to happen in England & gathered together numerous “Special Bukowski Items” & “Bookworks” (to use the language appearing on the promotional..... 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

Brighton, England, UK: Urgency Press Rip Off Press, 1972. Limited Pirated Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by (pirate) publisher Roy Pennington. In 1965, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who is the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise, published TIME, his cut-up parody of the "American Century" 's flagship publication (along with LIFE & FORTUNE), a key work in WSB's life-long effort to subvert the powers-that-be establishment's control..... More

Brighton, UK & Seattle, WA: Unicorn Bookshop, 1969. Limited First Trade Edition. Sewn Binding. "don't listen to the words/ but listen to what I'm/ saying// like the shadows that you/ speak I know are meant to be-/ apples & roses" (second page, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Bill Butler (1934-1977), the legendary American-expatriate poet, publisher & bookseller. Butler founded the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England, which from the late..... More

Llandeilo, Wales UK: MWH, 2001. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "the light from your window/ a star in the sky/ your body moves by me/ I feel I could die/ we never grew closer/ it's no use to try/ your body moves by me/ a star in the sky" ("the light from your window," pg. 121) A compilation of poems by Bill Butler (1934-1977), the legendary American-born expatriate poet, bookseller &..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, dated, placed & signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "The astonishing, unexpurgated, revelatory heart-talk between two of the Founding Fathers of Post-Modern American Literature. Absolutely the most intimate documentation of the histories of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others closely associated with the authors. Filled with original, unpublished poems, the range of Allen Ginsberg's correspondence is comparable..... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of short stories by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the brilliant & prolific New York School-&-Beyond poet, editor, biographer, novelist & story writer as here, who epitomizes our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated." With the title story & 23 other varied tales of satire, dead-pan humor, topicality & his particular interests including baseball. We here offer..... 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