Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I will hold my hand in this fire/ to speak to her, I will stay in/ the fire of this world long enough to/ speak to her, I will place myself in/ the hands of my own Covering Cherub to/ speak to her, for I am not seeking to/ marry her, but to speak to her,/ deep in a...... More

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1981. First Printings. Softcovers. Both issues signed by editor & contributor Clayton Eshleman. The first two numbers of the deep & varied literary journal subtitled "A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art" founded, chiefly edited & with contributions by the great Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), the award-winning American poet, editor, translator & academician who was our local friend & mentor: (1) Sulfur Vol. 1 No..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Printing. Softcover. This early vintage number of the literary journal published by Barney Rosset's legendary Grove Press features contributions by such giants of Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York School & avant-garde literature as Samuel Beckett ("Text for Nothing I"); Gregory Corso ("Marriage: for Mr. & Mrs. Mike Goldberg," now among his most well-known poems); Seymour Krim (a review of Lawrence..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This early vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the poem "Lysergic Acid" by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, a very early milestone of creative writing under the influence of LSD, much-predating & predicting the countercultural explosion of acid trips later in the 1960s decade. The poem is followed by facsimile..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia Express; Episodes from Novia Express" by William S. Burroughs (pgs. 99-109). At this juncture, the first American edition of Naked lunch had not yet been published by Rosset's Grove Press, it would be later that year..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal features two contributions by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the path-breaking French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor: Three letters written during the 1920s, '30s & '40s in English translation by Thomas Fitzsimmons; & the short one-act play "Spurt of Blood," translated by none other than the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also in..... More

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

Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852. First Edition, Mixed Issue. Hardcover. Offered here is the Ralph Waldo Emerson-edited, love-laborious compendium of “memoirs” by & about Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a central organizing force-&-figure both in American Transcendentalism as a movement, and in the greater Concord/Boston area, writ large. Now, to the matter at hand: the “problem” of discovering what it is (once and forever) that makes a First, Second, Third..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. "The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature- the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years...Garcia Marquez's story is a remarkable one. Born in 1927, raised by grandparents and a clutch of aunts in a small backwater town in Colombia, the shy, intelligent boy matured into a reserved young man, first working..... 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: 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

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