London, England: Marion Boyars, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Eric Mottram to Richard Ellis. "In this strikingly original discussion of (William S.) Burroughs' work, Eric Mottram highlights his subject's intensely contemporary morality and his predominating concern for the erosion of individual choice. Burroughs' consistent social aim is to achieve freedom from mythology and to restore the individual's enjoyment of privacy and dignity. (Mottram) demonstrates how Burroughs' inspired..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. "The BUK book offers a unique look at a phenomenon: Charles Bukowski- BUK- the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd jobs man, and lowly factotum, became the best-known "underground" writer in the English language. Jean Genet called him "the best poet in America." His work- raw, crude, heartwarming, and hilarious- has inspired imitators, emulators, sycophants, and detractors. Until now, everything written..... More

Hamburg, Germany: Gingko Press, 1992. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by R. Crumb. “The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff come out,” said R. Crumb, the subversive Underground Comix visionary described by George DiCaprio as “…the George Washington of Underground Comix.” Echoing Kerouac’s dictum to “…satisfy yourself first, then reader cannot fail to receive telepathic shock and meaning-excitement by same laws operating in his own..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1957. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is there a "literary underground" in America- a group of undiscovered talents in revolt against mass culture, who are already shaping the literature of the future? This new anthology in the well-known series attempts to answer this question with stories, poems, plays and essays, many of them by new writers." (from back cover) A particularly rare & important number..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2013. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Returning to her roots on a six-generation family farm, Lisa Ezzard comes home to Tiger Mountain to become a wine maker and grower. Humbled and ruled by an ancestral love of the land and its seasons, she prunes in the winter, trains in the spring and summer, and harvests in the fall. Through Ezzard's..... More

n/p; Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: Belford & Co.; The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1880; 1979; 1996. Early Pirated Edition; First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Three related rarities by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) Sketches by Mark Twain, Belford & Co., 1880, "Now Published in Complete Form" as noted on title page. This is..... More

New York, NY: New York Graphic Society/ Little, Brown and Company Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Stonehenge, Devil's Arrows, Cuchulainn's Stone, Glen Druid...for millennia the Celtic megaliths have stood, their names dark with legend, their meaning only partially deciphered. The brooding presence of these monumental structures still challenges all we presume to know of earth, man, and spirit. Twenty years ago, Paul Caponigro set out to accomplish, through the silver..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958; 1959. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 2 No. 6 (Autumn 1958)- this issue features contributions of poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder & other giants of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York & Black..... More