San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Despite the fact of its offices having been headquartered mere moments away from City Lights Books, and that its own literary-editorial stock saw itself rise alongside the tsunamic tide of the Beat Generation, -- there's not that many Beats in San Francisco review. They rarely "take over" an issue of this (wildly underappreciated) trade-format literary journal--but, as is so often the..... More

Amherst & Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed for Allen Tobias by Jules Chametzky. "In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers...not only do these various writers emerge as interesting and often complicated human beings, but Chametzky reveals himself to be a warm and gracious storyteller." (from back cover) A compilation of..... More

Manitoba, CAN: Neewin Publishing Company, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. "This book contains a collection of essays concerned with the problem of human relations between the Red and White peoples on this continent....Most of the essays are written by people who, in their professions and through the Nishnawbe Institute in Toronto, have been working together over the past years, in trying to bridge the cultural conditioning which makes it so difficult..... More

New York, NY: Ballantine Books/ Random House, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "1984, the year "celebrated" in George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, is finally upon us. Despite the dire predictions of Orwell, Clarke finds the future is not necessarily gloomy. In this extraordinary collection of his articles, essays, and speeches, Arthur C. Clarke, citizen of the world, expounds on some of the world's enormously serious problems: war and peace, the..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Printing. Hardcover. Published in 2005, Cormac McCarthy's (b. 1933) "No Country for Old Men" was originally written as a screenplay. This is somewhat unsurprising given the assertive imagery sewn masterfully all throughout the work, but is a factoid of interest nevertheless--and a great jumping-off point for discussions of the work among McCarthy initiates, devotees and scholars alike. "No Country" marked a new..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1982. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by John Cheever. "To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim. It's an impossible situation. This will be apparent to everyone, and it was to me, a country boy brought up on a farm- or, to be precise, in a country house- just outside the village..... More

New York, NY: Transatlantic Review, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. It isn't every day that true time capsules--one-way flights, if you will--to the vaunted literary past come to market, or even to light. Yet, by virtue of era or epoch, items possessing "mojo" (historical pedigree of a sort, or at least a line of verifiable relation to it) are, in fact, procurable. This is one such item--easily overlooked "at first glance"..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage, early number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited by Dave Moore & subtitled [a] "BEAT BROTHERHOOD NEWSLETTER" -- features numerous fascinating, informative articles on the Beat Generation, whose legacy was then existing in a purgatorial state of geriatric paralysis: the authors themselves -- if still alive -- addled, ailing or..... More

n/p: Pacific Red Car, 1993. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "It's a Sunday afternoon in New England just three days before Christmas- Ma's making the roast in the kitchen range, also tapioca pudding so when sister Nin comes in from outdoors with the shovel she's been wielding in the blizzard there are cold waves of snowy air mixing with the heat steams of tapioca over the stove and in..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&3/8") announcing a concert with performances headlined by the Grateful Dead (here misspelled as "Greatful Dead"), along with Sopwith Camel, during August 19-20, 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..... More