Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this book I have attempted to delineate the Western archetype by examining one of its most salient features: the creative writer. Abstracting from his personal achievement I treat him as a distinct species, a phenomenon spanning several generations of Western experience, to arrive as a late but authentic symbol in the pantheon of American images we have developed over our two centuries..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Hart Crane's life was notoriously turbulent, persistently nonconformist, and tragically short. Born in 1899, Crane became one of the most significant modernist American poets, yet his self-destructive tendencies--violent outbursts, massive drinking binges, and dangerous sexual pursuits--came to a catastrophic conclusion when at only thirty-two he threw himself from the stern of an ocean liner into the Gulf of Mexico. This..... More

Asheville, NC: The Asheville School / French Broad Press, 1994. Limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Wallace Fowlie, James B. Duke Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University through three decades, is the author, among many other writings, of a previously-published book-length examination of the "Inferno." This latest essay, "Dante Today," guides the new reader into the fourteenth-century creation of a stubbornly modern poet. From an invocation of Dante's proper..... More

Noida, India: Picador India, 2008. First Indian Edition. Hardcover. "V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "There is probably no contemporary writer better qualified to discuss the "art of fiction" than William H. Gass. His knowledge and understanding of his subject come from the point of view of both a practitioner...and a theoretician...His discussion returns fiction to the issues, including language and the individual trademarks of various writers. He makes an important distinction between the..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered by Barry Gifford. “THE MYTH OF THE RAINY NIGHT! Just awoke to shroud mist morning, veiled day, heavy traffic on Bridge St.—mill men on their way to work. Last night “Louise” came home ‘bout 3 A.M. with a man but wouldn’t let him in her room. “Aw, lemme in Louise—Louise honey, I ain’t got no place to go”;..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "The revealing personal journals of premier American poet Allen Ginsberg from the crucial years of his youth, Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958 is a must-read for everyone fascinated by the Beat Generation and its place in American literary and cultural history. A portrait of the artist as a young man at peak creative energy...In these years Ginsberg made radical discoveries in poetics- including..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. “What a wonderful book is ‘Deliberate Prose,’ the selected essays of Allen Ginsberg! It is the work of a great poet, a great American, and a great friend of literature who more than any bard in history helped shape social thought and political change in his era. Brilliance suffuses the collection, beginning with the opening essay, his prophetic ‘Independence Day Manifesto’..... More

Paris, France: Editions du Seuil, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. This intriguing, wide-ranging French language edition of Allen Ginsberg interviews spanning a fifteen year period from 1963 to 1978 begins with a seldom-discussed, seldom-quoted interview from one Ernie Barry (who it is almost impossible to find any information on). Fresh off of his travels in Cambodia, South Vietnam, Tibet and India, Ginsberg "...joined over 500 demonstrators outside the Sheraton in San..... More

(1) New York, NY; (2) Berkeley, CA: (1) Harper Collins; (2) Workingman's Press, 2001. (1) First Edition, Second Printing; (2) First Printing. (1) Hardcover; (2) Stapled Wrappers. Well, this collection certainly features heavy-hitters all-around—a book of Selected Interviews from Allen Ginsberg with Preface by legendary Czech poet-turned-dissident-turned-politician, Vaclav Havel (a legend in his time and the first democratically-elected president of his country). Added to this is the presence of a...... More

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Bob McNeely; Random House, Inc., 1969; 1972. Original Photograph; First Edition. Photograph over Mount; Hardcover. With description in Allen Ginsberg's hand on verso of photograph. A one-of-a-kind bundle of rarities relating to Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) an original photograph (appx. 9&7/8" x 7&3/4") depicting Ginsberg (1926-1997) in the company of John Wieners (1934-2002) at the Republican National Convention in..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Dream at the End of the World...Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men- all were lured by a raffish city that promised a full range of unconventional pleasures. At the..... More

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, Inc., 1984. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Kwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz, called by his admirers the 'Tongue of the Unseen' and the 'interpreter of Secrets,' lived in Shiraz, in the province of Fars during the turbulent fourteenth century. Little is known of the details of his life though he received the patronage of a number of the many rulers who wielded power in Shiraz during his..... More