San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20") announcing a concert with performances by Big Brother & the Holding Company, along with the Sir Douglas Quintet, during October 15-16, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with the..... More

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "Samuel Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable- and largely overlooked- influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Variegation Publishing Company, 1956. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Morgan C44, pg. 230). “Through all the hours of the sunlight / I am indoors, / employed to instruct the electric calculator / with an indifferent mind. / Clerks live in the abstract physical world, / observing procedure, / recording correspondence, registering facts / in which phantoms / even are represented, / for what they are. / All these..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. "The time is now. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname- Buffalo Bill- is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral..... More

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1988. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot. "In Balm in Gilead, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, the MacArthur-prizewinning sociologist, tells her mother's amazing story with both candor and passion. From girlhood in rigidly segregated Vicksburg, MIssissippi, to a distinguished career as a child psychiatrist, Dr. Margaret Lawrence has overcome every obstacle facing black women in our time...This stirring portrait is..... More

Paris, France: Bibliotheque Artistique & Litteraire, 1894. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The second-to-last work published during the lifetime of Paul-Marie Verlaine (1844-1896), the great French poet who, along with his fellow poet & lover Arthur Rimbaud, most highly represents the epitome of the Decadent & symbolist literary movements. An early exemplar of the softcover format in specially sewn binding with author, title, decoration, publisher & date on sheet affixed to..... More

New York, NY: Summit Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kent Haruf. "Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged is in the finest tradition of American storytelling. Spare and resonant, it is the tale of the betrayal of a small Colorado town by its local hero, and of the town's insidious revenge. Everyone loved Jack Burdett. He was the best football player his town had ever seen. His high school..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016. Second Printing. Hardcover. “In ‘Small Town Talk,’ Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock’s community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book’s narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren—and the Big Daddy had..... More

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. “’Stairways to Heaven’ is unique in the study of American religious history in two ways: first, it demonstrates that the ritual use of mind-altering substances has contributed to the innovation and diversity that characterize American religious life; second, it uses interdisciplinary research into the religious uses of drugs to shed light on the controversial legal, ethical, and spiritual controversies that surround drug..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. First American Edition. Softcover. “The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, ‘Glue’ is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy, the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting..... More