New York, NY: Patti Smith, 1972. First Edition. Folded Single Sheets. A relic from the pre-fame years of a living (musical & literary) legend, “Early Morning Dream” is a virtually unobtainable, early diaristic chapbook by Patti Smith (b. 1946). As its title suggests, it relates—in charming, prose-poetic fashion—the contents of an early morning dream. Very little information exists regarding this much-desired early work, however, the extant biographical sources relay something..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Patti Smith. “In this stirring book, one of our culture’s most inspiring artists offers an intimate account of her own creative process….Illumination comes as Smith journeys to the south of France to Camus’s house, tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in an Ashford cemetery on the outskirts of London, and haunts the winding nameless streets of Paris. Whether writing..... 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: Harper & Row, 1975. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "It is a matter of pure historical fact that 'The Gulag Archipelago' played a primary role in bringing the Soviet Empire to its knees. Although economically unsustainable, ruled in the most corrupt manner imaginable, and reliant on the slavery and enforced deceit of its citizens, the Soviet system managed to stumble forward through far too many decades before..... More

New York, NY: Ecco/ HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, fascinating glory. An account framed by two wars, it begins with Robert Stone's last year in the Navy, when he took part in an Antarctic expedition..... More

New York, NY: Summit Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. "All of Dr. Thompson's greatest work is here: The Kentucky Derby at which he introduced Ralph Steadman to American depravity; his pieces on the Super Bowl and on Jean-Claude Killy; "Freak Power in the Rockies," the account of his own run for sheriff of Aspen; his observations on some other politicians- Nixon in '68, McGovern in '72, Fear and Loathing at..... More

Hawthorn, AU: Lonely Planet Publications, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. “You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.”..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931; 1938. First Edition, Second Printing; First Edition. Hardcovers. One of two volumes signed by author Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. "Twenty long years have passed since my father was laid in the ground, yet had these years been only days the memory of that tragic event could not be more vivid. In the lovely month of April- month of soft green..... More

Detroit, MI: Harlo Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hal Vincent. "The author, Hal Vincent, and his wife believe the world to be "so full of things," and this story tells how they have succeeded in getting the most out of living...Though largely a story of their lives and its varied activities, it is, in parts, historical in that many comparisons are drawn between the old and the..... More

Cullowhee, NC: R&R Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by David Waldrop & Michael Revere to Thomas Rain Crowe. A large oblong volume of personal history, poetry, photographs & miscellany by North Carolinians David ("Dave") Waldrop & Michael Revere (the latter also editor & publisher). In two parts, "Love, Family & Forgiveness" by Waldrop & "Soul Harvest" by Revere, the two authors delve deeply into their Appalachian roots;..... More

New York, NY: Omnibus Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Another in the series of 60s-themed works of art, literature and biography we’ve lately uploaded to the site, Simon Wells’ excellent “She’s a Rainbow: The Extraordinary Life of Anita Pallenberg” lives up to the what those who know absolutely anything of/about Pallenberg might expect of it. As the front flap copy relates, “She’s a Rainbow” is “the first biography of her..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1979. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. (Miller A34a). “Choukri’s book describes a close encounter of the third kind. Hearing that Tennessee Williams had been sighted in Tangier in the summer of 1973, he immediately decided to investigate this famous visitor from the large and remote planet America. (A few years previously, when Jean Genet landed in Tangier, Choukri spotted and interviewed him, but the..... More

New York, NY: Nautilus Books/ American Book Company, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Herta Wittgenstein. "Father had recovered sufficiently from his war injuries to return to teaching school. He taught fourth grade then, and he had a reputation of being terribly tough, beating some of his pupils severely. (Corporal punishment was common practice, but my father seemed to do it with more relish than others.) I was..... More