Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books/ Sal Paradise Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal that..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. "It was 1950. Strikingly beautiful (nineteen)-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York City and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when Joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below- it was Jack Kerouac, needing the door unlocked so he could get to a...... 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: 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

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

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. “Concierge Confidential” is an early title from the oeuvre of leading intellectual and cultural commentator, the Ukrainian-born American author, Michael Malice (née Krechmer; b. 1976). Malice’s emergence into the pop-cultural and literary spheres began with 2006’s “Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story,” an entire book about and dedicated to him by Underground Comix legend Harvey Pekar of “American Splendor”..... More

London, England: Picador/ Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "At the end of the millennium, the leading industry magazine, The Bookseller, selected the ten people who had most influenced its century. Tom Maschler- described as 'the most important publisher in Britain; the most innovative, adventurous, and newsworthy'- was one of them; it went on to say that for nearly twenty years, 'he made publishing glamorous and the aura he..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... 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

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