Chicago, IL: Time Inc. (Time Magazine), 1964 [1] / 1971 [2]. First Printing. Magazine. Here it is: a "TIME" / "LIFE" capsule from Beatlemania (and an additional issue of "LIFE" covering the brilliant, angst-laden early 70s post-Beatledom of the great Paul McCartney). Starting with item [1], we have some eerie reminders that Democracy is a "work-in-progress" like the late, great Civil Rights leader Rep. John Lewis taught us: "...the 88th..... More

New York, NY: Viking Studio/ Penguin Group, 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Oh leaves, ask the wind which of you/ Will be the first to fall. (by Soseki, pg. 51) "This new translation of one hundred haiku masterpieces captures the spirit of the Japanese originals. Drawing on the work of classic poets such as Basho, Buson and Chiyo-Ni, Jonathan Clements has selected the best of three centuries of haiku and..... More

Chicago, IL: Roving Anvil Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Richard D. Houff to Charles Plymell. "your buildings stand erect/ and satisfied like obscene mountains./ We pick one at random and take a hitch/ on an inconspicuous freight elevator;/ check out the top floor,/ try a few door handles./ Eventually, we find our way/ to the employee lounge/ where several worthy butts/ surrender themselves from/ overstuffed ashtrays."..... More

Paris, France: La Cinquieme Roue; Galerie L'Ollave, 2005; 2011. First Editions. Softcovers. Le Mot Strangule inscribed & signed by Mathias de Breyne to Thomas Rain Crowe; Chute/ Chut No. 33 inscribed & signed by Jean de Breyne. An intriguing bundle by two acclaimed French writers who are father & son: (1) Le Mot Strangule, a small volume of poems by Mathias de Breyne. All text in French, first edition published..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Well, this is certainly interesting--a biography of the great Hunter S. Thompson from the esteemed Elle Magazine writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll. You may, like your Devoted Assistant Curator & Resident Archivist, have first heard of E. Jean Carroll from her mid-January, 2020 allegation of rape against President Trump--an incident Carroll says happened in a Manhattan department store in the..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "Charles Plymell's Camposque Virentis is a masterpiece of wind cutting across the plains, open highways, honest country music, and gospel tunes of sod and blood. It is a tribute to a mother like no other, a mother from a different time, a different world." (from W. K. Stratton quote, back cover) A prose-poem memoir-tribute to his mother & her..... More

London, England: Ragged Lion Press, 2020. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The first number of the new literary journal published by cutting-edge Ragged Lion Press in the UK & edited by E.A.D. Sellors. Featuring two poems by Gerard Malanga, the Beat-progeny countercultural poet & photographer who was a key associate of Andy Warhol during the "factory" era- one in commemoration of poet Lee Harwood (1939-2015), the other of the great..... More

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the literary journal edited by Jeffrey H. Weinberg & published by his Water Row Books imprint features a prose-poetic essay by Donald Blaise about his impressions of William S. Burroughs & co. ("Bunker Scenes: Inspector Lee At Home"); reproduction of an original drawing of WSB by Colleen Burke; the poem "Forced to Suck/ Blues..." by Beat's Beat..... More