New York, NY: Library of America, 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. Abbott Joseph Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) best known as a war correspondent for “The New Yorker” from 1935 to his death in '63, was a renowned journalist and writer with a career that few ever achieve. “World War II Writings” is a collection of Liebling’s writing from his time covering the Great War. From Paris in..... 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 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

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. An interview of the celebrated comic writer Alan Moore conducted by the late music producer & journalist Nick Talbot (1977-2014, known as Gravenhurst), in which Moore discusses the enormous impact that Iain Sinclair, the accomplished poet-scholar-documentarian, had on his own evolution. Moore relates Sinclair's influence on his later output to the impact that William S. Burroughs had on him..... More

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Faye Moskowitz. Retired professor Faye Moskowitz (1930 - ) has aimed to keep the Yiddish language and Jewish culture alive in literature as it fades with the assimilation of younger generations of writers into Western culture. A fellow Michigander, Moskowitz was born in Detroit at the start of the Great Depression, and she was raised in Jackson, MI, not..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. "The "inscrutable Orient" becomes demystified when Raymond Mungo, the eloquent young activist of the 1960s, leaves America in 1971 to find what he self-mockingly calls "the secret of the universe." From streamlined bullet trains to rat-infested freighters, from a flophouse in Hong Kong to the high-powered world of television and advertising in Tokyo, from opium dens in Malaysia to banquet tables..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I've read accounts of a single person building a log cabin. A lone prospector in northern Canada or Alaska does it all himself. That's impressive. But building together, piecing together the communal knowledge gained from past building and from reading the relevant books and talking to the relevant workers, sharing the experience of turning a bare site..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "It is how the light is fixed,/ how silver salt preserves that time/ from fading. The image surfaces." (first stanza) A chapbook with the title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, publisher, editor & activist. With reproductions of a vintage family photograph & details thereof throughout. A charming hand-crafted production in..... More