Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2010. First American Edition. Trade Format Softcover. The culture and counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s was largely influenced and shaped by the discovery of the magic contained within lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1943. Experimentation and the subsequent obsession with psychedelics, particularly LSD, began spreading into more sectors of society, both as a psychiatric treatment and spiritual recreation. Societal overlords feared the growing awareness..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Following on the enormous success and critical acclaim of Graham Greene's last novel, The Human Factor, comes Doctor Fischer of Geneva, a black entertainment which is also a profound study in human greed. At the center of his remarkable tour de force is the enigmatic Dr. Fischer, millionaire, student of human nature, practical joker and party-giver. His parties are..... More

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The amazing, sometimes shocking story of the country's erotic, pace-setting area: New York's East Village. The uncensored center of/ HAPPENINGS/ UNDERGROUND MOVIES/ COFFEEHOUSE THEATRE/ DRUGS/ FUGS/ AVANT-GARDE SEX!" (from front cover) A now-classic, thoughtful (albeit sensationally promoted as shown by the above quote) overview of the East Village NYC scene circa 1966, right when the Bohemianism of the Beat..... More

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1973. First Printing. Hardcover. "Jurgen Habermas is the most influential thinker in Germany today. Picking up where Adorno left off in his exchange with Popper, he became the central figure in the Positivismusstreit that dominated German philosophy and sociology in the sixties. Through his detailed criticism of positivist epistemology and methodology and his careful, undogmatic articulation of insights drawn from an immense knowledge of the German..... More

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "When 'Least Heat Moon' (the translation of the tribal name in his mixed blood) lost his job in a college in Missouri, he got a half-ton Ford van, packed a few necessaries including Leaves of Grass and Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, and set out to follow the track of various ancestors and write a book about..... More

New York, NY: The New Press, 2003. First Printing. Hardcover. “In ‘The Dream Life,’ J. Hoberman (b. 1948) has produced a major new cultural history of the 1960s—a brilliant, polymath and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one….The ‘purest power in America,’ film historian David Thomson once observed, is the fantasy of having one’s fantasy realized onscreen—and hence played in a hundred million minds. During..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433 C.E.) initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across millennia in China and beyond, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history. Hsieh's work, all but unknown in the..... More

Llandysul, Wales: Gomer Press; Gwasg Pantycelyn, 1993; 1997. First Editions. Softcovers. Language Regained signed by Bobi Jones & others; Llen Y Llenor inscribed & signed by Dewi Stephen Jones to Thomas Rain Crowe. Two volumes by & about Robert Maynard (Bobi) Jones (1929-2017), a respected academician & among the most acclaimed & prolific writers in the original Welsh language: (1) Language Regained, an essay by Bobi Jones in publisher's "...series..... More

Taos, NM: Voices from the American Land, 2015. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. With loose sheet of hand-written notes by Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Arctic landscape is not for the weak. It's difficult. Dangerous. Possessed of a demanding beauty. Much like the human heart, it is easy to get lost in. Joan Naviyuk Kane's people have lived in the circumpolar north for thousands of years, thriving in the harsh..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2014. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Old Rob, a character based loosely on a real mountain neighbor I knew when I first bought my place on John's Creek. The real Rob was a retired logger who dabbled in real estate. What struck me as we talked on his porch was how he was sort of a seam character, like someone..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "We believe The Fixer to be a great novel. Bernard Malamud has put a lifetime of working at his craft into this extraordinary book. What makes the difference here is that the author's consummate skill has been applied to a great theme- injustice- and embodied in a great story. The Fixer is the story of a little man, a...... More

Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2014. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Christopher Martin to Thomas Rain Crowe; inscribed & signed by David King to Crowe. "In poems celebrating the way the natural world and we humans are composted and recycled to create the future of our enduring legacy and the posterity of our planet, Christopher Martin & David King have truly captured not only the concept..... More

New York, NY: Corinth Books, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Softcover. "Greenwich Village is the liveliest and most colorful local community within New York City. An exciting complex of interesting people, fascinating places and dynamic ideas, the Village has the vitality of a metropolis, the intimacy of a neighborhood, and a personality all its own." (from "Greenwich Village, Past and Present: Old Green Village," pg. 16) A vintage, now-classic book of..... More