New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Now, with The Sunlight Dialogues, (John Gardner) gives us his most ambitious and most astonishing work: a world-size novel in which the complex life of an American small town is perceived as an all-encompassing medieval romance in modern dress, a pathless forest for twentieth-century knights, ladies, and wizards. The central plot concerns the quest of a noble but somewhat..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. "From one of America's most distinguished and admired novelists- an irresistible novel within a novel, a metaphysical folktale. It begins on a Midwestern campus as an aging, bespectacled professor of Scandinavian history announces to a younger historian and folklorist, "I have a son who's a monster." And in the middle of the night, it is this "monster," Freddy- a...... More

New York, NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. “When I decided to publish in book form the pictures of the dance which I had made during the last few years, my object was not to make a book of personalities. I merely wanted to show some of the phases of modern dance tendencies that could be recorded in a pictorially interesting manner” (foreword). The most important era of progress..... More

New York, NY: Portents/ Gotham Book Mart, 1970. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were known only to each other, and these photos are candid shots they took to capture..... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here is a vivid portrayal- handsomely illustrated- of one of the world's most famous and intriguing buildings. The Alhambra is a fortified enclosure on the highest mountain spur overlooking Granada. It is also the best-preserved palace from the medieval civilization of Islam, renowned for the exquisitely luxurious art of its princes. In this book a distinguished scholar of Islamic art explains..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2019. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joost Halbertsma. A collection of illustrations & short graphic stories by Joost Halbertsma, a young & prolific Dutch artist described as follows in this biography on verso of final page leaf, quoted in its entirety: "Joost Halbertsma was born 1984 in the Netherlands. He earned his art degree in fine arts when he was 21..... More

Saratoga Springs, NY: Wayne Perras; David Scavone; Elizabeth Skinner, 1981. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Since we last went to press, needless to say, much has transpired. In a world clearly filled with ominous signs a year ago, the screws of fate have tightened further. Most notable, perhaps, was the election to Office of men who display attitudes of ego- and ethnocentric impunity, guised by the name of patriotism. Since these..... More

Durham, NC: The Invisible Bear/ Duke University, 2015. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Editor Jessica Q. Stark to Thomas Rain Crowe. "To me, a desire to connect- to each other, to space, to memory and archive- seductively dwells in the corners of our selections for this volume. To love, to die, to live as human...What I see emerge from the pages of this issue reflects as well as..... More

Newtown, Powys, Wales: Gwag Gregynog CYF, 1988. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by all five members of publisher's staff. A poem from 1956 by Robert Maynard (Bobi) Jones (1929-2017), an academician & among the most acclaimed & prolific writers in the original Welsh language. All text in Welsh. With a beautiful, familial woodcut illustration by Hilary Paynter. Chapbook in sewn wrappers with enveloping over-wrap, an exquisitely hand-crafted letterpress production..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press Inc. / Evergreen Books Ltd., 1961. First Printing. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Here is the complete Kerouac text, with photos selected by Robert Frank from the film Pull My Daisy- a short cinematographic exhibition of "Beat" life in a Bowery "pad" on New York's Lower East Side, with spontaneous performances by poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, painter Larry Rivers, composer David Amram..... More

Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "A great many books have been written about Jack Kerouac, and the Net is awash with those who claim some sort of soul-mating with him. I knew him in his prime until his death, from 1947 to 1969, but I am mystified by the increase in his popularity generation after generation since...(Kerouac) responded emotionally to any stimuli, within or without, and..... More

Northampton, MA: Denis Kitchen Publishing, 2001 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. “A lost gem that has not seen print for forty years, ‘The Grasshopper and The Ant’ was created in 1960 at what was arguably the peak of Harvey Kurtzman’s creativity. It stands as one of the finest examples of his solo oeuvre that includes ‘Hey Look!’ and ‘Harvey Kurtzman’s Jungle Book.’ It is also one of the relatively few..... More

Canterbury, NH: Canterbury Shaker Village, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by illustrator Jacqueline Laufman. "My great, great, great, great grandfather/ Philip Laufman/ came here as a Hessian soldier/ 1n 1780/ to fight for the British/ against the rabble rousers./ He deserted and went to drum for General Washington.// Peter Ayers, hero of this narrative,/ also fought for Washington./ I wonder, I just wonder/ if maybe Peter rubbed elbows with..... More