New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The most important powerbroker you have never heard of finally comes back to life in this savvy, meticulously researched, and fascinating biography. John William McCormick served in the House of Representatives from 1928 to 1971. He left a powerful mark on the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the list goes on. In this much-anticipated work..... More

London, England: Methuen London Ltd., 1984. First British Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Arthur Miller. "The setting is a room of a former Archbishop's palace in an East European capital- a room which is probably bugged by the secret police. The central character is a 50-year-old author, Sigmund, who, having embarrassed the current regime, is faced with the opportunity of defecting to the West. He is encouraged by two..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Unbound Folded Sheets. Signed by Joe Napora. A collection of very satirical poem-parodies & prose by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. The two main themes are American politicians & their antics in the wake of Donald Trump's election as President & the early days of his administration; & the poems & journalism of Walt Whitman. The..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "This poem was begun in 1981, revised in 2005, revised again in 2017. Some of the references to the telephone are archaic now: the wires that once were ubiquitous, the circular dial phone, party lines, the monopoly by IT&T (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation). What was the only telephone company now has competition, but once it had..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2019. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Every day I got the Monday Blues/ Every day Mitch is in the news/ It's all about the money/ and he's got plenty/ It's all about the money/ and I aint got any/ Every morning I got those Monday Blues" ("Moscow Mitch Blues," first stanza, unpaginated) Subtitled "Poetry How-To-Expose-/ Corruption-and Betrayal-of-the-/ Public-Trust-Handbook" on front cover, this is an activist pamphlet-poetry collection..... More

Washington DC: Azul Editions, 1992. First North American Edition. Softcover. "2000 is an oracular and jubilant poem in which a removed hero, but by no means gone from the scene, weighs in the balance the cold war and fiery hatreds in order to tell us that History has not ended: it is just being born with a new, unexpected and wondrous heartthrob." (concluding paragraph, Introduction by Fernando Alegria) A late..... 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

San Francisco, CA; Florence, MA; Philadelphia, PA: Glass Eye Books, 2008; 2010. Limited First Edition Chapbooks; Original Ephemera. Stapled Wrappers; Loose or Stapled Sheets. Includes eight chapbooks hand-numbered & signed by Charles Plymell, Marcia Bassett, Elaine Kahn, Matt Krefting, Jessi Leigh Swenson, Matt Valentine, Mike Watt & Valerie Webber. "Five years ago, in a time of woe for the underground, the country and the world, the members of the Ecstatic..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Quammen. "Color is the subject of this serious, funny, scary, and human novel- color as a signal for tragic hostility and for farcical misunderstanding, color as a test for the young who want to change the world. The author tells the story of a young white Ivy Leaguer who makes an awkward alliance- built on..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2007. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Attached Over-Wraps. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "With What Co$t Freedom?, Michael Revere has unleashed a poem that can only be described as a modern-day Book of Revelations. A "Howl" for our times, it is at once spiritual and secular, capturing both the sacred and the profane. Hip and holy, Hop and horror, it is a cautionary tome..... More

New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc./ The Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. "In what is perhaps the most comprehensive assessment yet made of America's changed position in the world since Vietnam, a dozen world-famous scholars and defense experts take a fresh look at the political, economic, military, and even spiritual implications of détente. Their sobering conclusion: while the Soviet Union has benefited enormously, the United States has..... More

New York, NY: Frederick Praeger, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled “A Soviet Novel of Life in Stalin’s Forced Labor Camps,” Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” is an uncontested classic of World Literature. First published in the Soviet literary magazine “Novy Mir,” or “New World” in November of 1962, it describes a single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Uncorrected Proof. Wrappers. "Prussian Nights was written, or rather composed in Solzhenitsyn's head, while he was serving his sentence of forced labor. A poem, a verse narrative, it is not autobiography in any strict sense, but it is based on Solzhenitsyn's own war experience." (from Translator's Note, pg. 33) A poem by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), the towering Russian writer who was imprisoned..... More