New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator May Neama. "When a man, however endowed he may be, concerns himself only with telling the story, when he does not take into account that true literary power does not lie in the fact but indeed in the manner of preparing, presenting, and expressing it, he has no sense of art. The profound and..... 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

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1975. Limited First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "Blue as color and state of mind, 'blue' as word, Blue as Platonic idea- these are the layers of blue that William Gass explores and ponders and celebrates in this brilliant book. Blue is a famously erotic hue, and Gass opens with an examination of the depiction of sex in literature. He argues that the failure of most writers..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. With owner's signature & marginalia of Clayton Eshleman. "...Genet's second novel, having been written in La Sante and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers. Like that first work, Miracle of the Rose was written in the solitude of a prison cell, on the pieces of white paper the penal authorities furnish the convicts for..... 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 & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Since this work is not done posthumously, I've had the liberty to annotate each verse regarding appropriate cultural references which few critics have examined...I've lived with and enjoyed Howl for three decades, it has become a social and poetical landmark, notorious at worst illuminative at best...it seems helpful in this fourth decade of the poem's use to clarify its literary..... 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

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2001. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. “Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996” justifies the cost of admission rather quickly, and features heavy-hitters all-around. Before one can even begin to praise the Ginsberg-authored content contained herein, they are welcomed into the work by way of a Preface by Czech poet-dissident [& eventual politician] Vaclav Havel. Havel, as students of history will no doubt remember, was a legend..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. “In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem, ‘Howl’ and Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’ Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Throughout this course, which he taught first at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present a...... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. "Allen and I came from the far ends of the nation. I was from the German and Scandinavian working farmer / logger / fisherman world of pre-WWII Puget Sound, Allen from the New York City Immigrant Left. We met in a backyard in Berkeley, and again in Kenneth Rexroth's wood-floored apartment in the foggy Avenues zone of San Francisco. The fall of..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. “The University of Michigan was as American as Harvard was European. Its scale alone was a reminder of the campus’s location in the middle of the vast expanse of the American continent, a sensation of coastlessness that made O’Hara a bit nervous, as was evident in his poem of the following July (‘Ann Arbor Variations’)…. O’Hara had chosen to rent..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Stephen Greenblatt. "In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. His discovery..... More

The Hague, Netherlands: Counter Culture Chronicles, 2020. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "So, Piero Heliczer was born on June 20, 1937, he left us on July 22, (1993). He was a visionary poet, playwright, filmmaker, actor, translator, painter, musician and above all: An inspirational scenemaker...In this publication friends, admirers and people he worked with pay tribute to his creative mind and to the man himself. Works from obscure Dutch magazines..... More