New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Jack Kerouac gave birth to a whole generation of young people, kids who left the safety of suburbia for the harder truths of the road. Thousands went searching and the beatniks of the jazzy fifties gave way to the hippies of the psychedelic sixties, a generation lost on the American highway. But one person inherited Jack's legacy like no other..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 1993. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed twice by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "These were my first essays, written after ten years of commitment to the life and language of a poet. They were written years ago now, in 1985, during a stay in a cabin in the Smokies, not far from the Cherokee Indian reservation. Keep in mind they are..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. “Art is the mirror of our betrayed ideals.” Doris Lessing, “The Golden Notebook.” Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013), recipient of the David Cohen prize for a lifetime of achievements in British Literature in 2001 and oldest-ever recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature (2007), Lessing is an author as lauded and beloved as they come. Upon awarding her the..... More

Damariscotta, ME: East Pond Publishing, 2014. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “This witty, generous, intimate, and touching memoir of a rock life is a must-read for all fans of the Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and, yes, Liberace. It’s also an inspiring tale of personal transformation. Richard Loren’s book is a trip worth taking!” (Charles Lindholm, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Boston University). As the above-quoted blurb (one of many..... More

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. “Adelin Yen Mah was born in 1937 in Tianjin, a port city one thousand miles north of Shanghai. She was the fifth and youngest child of an affluent family. Her grand aunt—in an unprecedented achievement—had founded the Shanghai Women’s Bank in 1924, and her father was a revered businessman whose reputation for turning iron into gold began when he..... More

St, Paul, MN: Red Bird Chapbooks, 2015. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Inscribed & signed twice by Brent Martin to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On a small bluff along the Little Tennessee River, just above the point where the river's free-flowing journey from the mountains of North Georgia ends at North Carolina's Fontana Resevoir, is a colony of one of the rarest of Appalachian shrubs, the Mountian Camellia (Stewartia Ovata). These..... More

Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed with drawing & signed twice by Sebastian Matthews to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision offers the deeply moving poetic memoir of Sebastian Matthews's life in the years after the car accident that devastated him and his wife and son. The poems, which often read like electric improvised prayer-songs, intimately evoke the terrors and wonders of catastrophic..... More

New York, NY; Kentfield, CA: Random House, Inc., 1979. First Editions. Hardcover; Softcover. A collectible bundle of two outstanding biographical-critical works about Jack Kerouac, the great American author & a Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America. Published in 1979, an acclaimed biography by Dennis McNally, the prolific author, historian & music publicist. Among the earliest studies as the Beats were..... More

London, England: Allen & Co., 1983. First UK Edition. Hardcover. “In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” - Judy Garland (June 10, 1922–June 22, 1969). Perhaps best known as Dorothy in 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz”, Garland had a career that started in Vaudeville, moved to the silver screen, and..... More

New York, NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind (at least temporarily) his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that he had fully expected to be his masterpiece. Begun in 1927, and originally titled Lovely Lesbians, Crazy Cock sprang from his anguish over June's love affair with a mysterious woman called Jean Kronski. Purging himself of..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This is the last book of the trilogy called The Rosy Crucifixion, of which the first two are Sexus and Plexus. In these three novels Henry Miller fictionalizes the seven years of his "crucifixion" before he left this country for France. His first wife, his second marriage to the great love of his life, his struggles to make a...... More

Paris, France: The Olympia Press, 1962. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The second volume of The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American writer & artist whose earlier works were an influential precedent for the Beat Generation, especially its Founding Father Jack Kerouac. Preceded by Sexus (1949) & followed by Nexus (1959, see our item No. 4552), this installment of Miller's epic-intimate fictionalized autobiography was first published in..... More