Lowell, MA: The Lowell Corporation For The Humanities, Inc., 1989. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac's books represent an intense inner exploration that he felt compelled to express, and the powerful energy of those works continues to affect people throughout the world. In shying away from craft and revision in writing, he was digging away at the very core of himself, as if that were where he would find..... More

Detroit, MI; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; n/p: Wayne State University Press; University of Utah Press; University of Washington Press; n/p, 1957-1969. Reprints; First Printings. Stapled Sheets; Folded Broadside. Four articles & broadside signed by Robert Peters. A miscellaneous bundle of early articles, reviews & a broadside by Robert Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed & prolific American poet, playwright, performer, critic, scholar & educator: (1) Reprint from Modern Language Quarterly..... More

North Salem, NY: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2021. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Plymell. While “a biography in correspondence” is not the subtitle of this work (for which there is none), it should be—because there is no other way of alerting the casual browser of our site or store as to the categorical value of the work at hand. What Plymell does here, is make Swiss cheese..... More

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented- until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformation in music history that can be traced to..... More

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1941. Second Printing. Hardcover. With vintage gift inscription; later gift inscription to Thomas Rain Crowe. "No flower has been so popular in the past as the rose, and, in spite of the introduction of other plants from all parts of the world, it retains its pre-eminence (sic). It is therefore easy to understand why it figures so largely in literature and art and plays its..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years is an unprecedented look at the formative years of America's best-known and best-loved writer and humorist, a thorough and thoroughly delightful examination of the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from birth to marriage at age thirty-four- the years of wildly varied experience that helped form the bases of his great classics: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Tom..... More

Goteborg, Sweden: Eight Millimetres, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "Against Control collects together a selection of essays by author Jack Sargeant that explore the multiple influences of William S. Burroughs and various aspects of the wider Burroughs' universe. In these essays aspects of Burroughs' work, and especially his speculative ideas, are presented through their intersections with sound, with imagined histories, and with mythologies. Incorporating ideas from the philosophies of libertarian pirates..... More

Madley, UK: Five Seasons Press, 1984. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers. "I live on land in the Sierra Nevada of Alta California, continent of Turtle Island, which is somewhat wild and not terribly good. The indigenous people there, the Nisenan or Southern Maidu, were almost entirely displaced or destroyed during the first decade of the gold rush. Consequently we have no one to teach us which parts of..... More

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. "Some time ago, The New Yorker printed a piece by E.B. White about a small book called The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., the late professor of English at Cornell. Mr. White recalled that in his own student days it was known on campus as the little book, and paid tribute to the author for his devotion to..... More

Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1980. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. The three classic novels by Mark Twain (1835-1910) featuring his immortal character Tom Sawyer in one volume, along with another edition of one of the three works: (1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective, published for the Iowa Center for Textual..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. A posthumous collection of miscellaneous writings by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & author. With many theretofore unpublished writings from Twain's long & most-prolific career, as noted in the Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937), Twain's close friend & writer of his first comprehensive three-volume biography (1912, see our item No. 4251). Also with many..... More

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library/ University of California, 1972. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Three versions of a classic early tale by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author. As explained in the Introductory Note by editors Frederick Anderson & Edgar M. Branch, this story first appeared as a column-article in the San Francisco Morning (or Daily) Call newspaper on August 30..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled "From My Autobiography," this is a very late, short nonfictional work in the oeuvre of Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & author. In this volume, Twain weighs in on the controversy as to the authorship of the immortal dramatic works attributed to William Shakespeare. Twain concludes that it was Shakespeare's contemporary Francis Bacon who..... More