Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1988. First Edition, First Printing; First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Churchill, the larger-than-life Lion of British politics beset known for his legendary resolve and wartime leadership--a strength which no doubt helped steer the West to victory in World War II and alchemize an impenetrable confidence in FDR immediately following the darkest days of his presidency. Luckily for historians and the budding Churchillite in you..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday/ Random House, Inc., 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "After the attacks of 9/11, many said the world had changed forever, but no one could say exactly how. In Ripples of Battle, military historian Victor Davis Hanson looks at three important battles that changed the course of Western history in order to show how battles fought long ago and far away can still affect the way we think..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. "Man's capacity for renewal and rebirth is tied to his ability to remain in touch with his child self. From here he can re-experience his sense of animal optimism, his ability to transform at will, his pleasure in free floating as well as free falling. This is the consciousness from which Michael McClure has written 'Gorf' and from which I directed..... More

New York, NY: 0 To 9 Books, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "people/ people/ people/ people" (untitled poem, unpaginated) A collection of famously minimalist poems by Aram Saroyan (b. 1943), the acclaimed poet, novelist, memoirist & playwright who is the son of William Saroyan (1908-1981), the canonical Armenian-American author & playwright. The poems here, printed on recto only of page leaves, consist of only one word or very short phrase..... More

Madley, UK: Five Seasons Press, 1984. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers. "I live on land in the Sierra Nevada of Alta California, continent of Turtle Island, which is somewhat wild and not terribly good. The indigenous people there, the Nisenan or Southern Maidu, were almost entirely displaced or destroyed during the first decade of the gold rush. Consequently we have no one to teach us which parts of..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In 'Serving the Reich,' Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those..... More

Berkeley, CA: Ark Press, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. "The close, creative, and sometimes difficult relationship between the poet-friends Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan is well known to anyone who has at least a casual interest in the poetry of the San Francisco Bay Area. For those who have more than a neophyte's knowledge, and the term has certain historical and descriptive relevance appropriate to the zeal for poetry in this..... More

New York, NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "The story of how Dashiell Hammett transformed himself from Pinkerton detective to author of the most iconic detective novels of the twentieth century. (Hammett's) life on center stage is well known. But before he became a household name as America's greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before the years of celebrity and McCarthy-era blacklisting chronicled by his companion, Lillian Hellman, Hammett led a...... More