Orient, NY: The Mediterranean Review, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. A vintage number of the acclaimed "International Quarterly of Literature & Art," "...devoted to new literature not only from the Mediterranean area but from the rest of the world" as stated by the publisher, chiefly edited by Robert DeMaria. Featuring fiction & drama by Sam Elkin, Mario Fratti & others; non-fiction including "The Academic Take-Over" by John..... More

Pleasant Hill, OR: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1974 (1977). Second Printing. Softcover. The first number of a literary journal edited by Ken Kesey, the legendary novelist whose Merry Prankster "Further" exploits with Neal Cassady & co. were a bridge from the Beat Generation to the 1960s psychedelic counterculture. Sub-titled "Old In The Streets" & featuring Kesey's wacky short story in the form of titled vignettes, "the thrice-thrown tranny man or..... More

Pleasant Hill, OR: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1978. First Printing. Softcover. The fourth number of a literary journal chiefly edited by Lee Marrs & co-edited-founded by the great American novelist Ken Kesey, whose legendary Merry Prankster exploits on the "Further" bus with Neal Cassady & co. formed a bridge between the Beat Generation & the psychedelic-Hippie movement. This issue, sub-titled "Straight from the gut," features the fourth installment of Kesey's..... More

New York, NY: Robert M. McKinney, 1983. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This third number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow features contributions of poetry & prose by John Ashbery; Luis Bunuel, the great Spanish film director & Dali collaborator (poems with illustrations by Jose Hernandez); Aime Cesaire (a poem translated from the French by Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith); Tom Clark; Michael McClure;..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: English Department, University of Michigan, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. The seventh annual compilation of poetry & prose published by the English Department of the University of Michigan. Includes contributions by Marge Piercy, Lemuel Johnson & other UM students, graduates, professors & poets, some of whom were or went on to become renowned. With reproductions of photographs, a wonderful woodcut illustration on front cover by Stanley Wyatt, &..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1967. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal then-edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview with the canonical Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov conducted by Herbert Gold, with two photographs- one a contemporary portrait in Switzerland where he was living at the time, & from 1937 in the company of distinguished literary figures in Paris. Also in this issue are contributions..... More

New York, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage, official 20th Anniversary issue of the prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features lengthy, very insightful interviews of two great icons of twentieth-century literature: W.H. Auden, conducted by Michael Newman & with a facsimile manuscript page; & Christopher Isherwood, conducted by W.I. Scobie & preceded by same. Interestingly, no mention is made that Auden had died..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features an excerpt from a then-newly published novel, How It Is, by the austere modern master Samuel Beckett; the short story "Funes the Memorious" by the revered Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges; a short work of memoir, "In The Cold," by the now half-forgotten but brilliant Alfred Chester;..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a deep & insightful very-late-in-life interview with the great American writer John Dos Passos (1896-1970), author of the canonical USA Trilogy, conducted by David Sanders & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page of his later novel, Mid-century (which reminds us almost of a Burroughsian cut-up). Also in..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features five poems by the canonical American poet Robert Bly; "Love Song" by Denise Levertov; "The Turning" by Philip Levine; an in-depth interview with Mary McCarthy during the time she was working on what would become her now-famous novel The Group, conducted by Elisabeth Niebuhr & preceded by..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-edited by George Plimpton features a collaborative work of art & poetry in the form of a graphic poem or comic by Joe Brainard & Kenward Elmslie, "The Power Plant Sestina." Brainard (1942-1994), the great New York School but ultimately sui generis artist-poet who died tragically of AIDS; & Elmslie, the prolific poet..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features an in-depth interview of the canonical Southern-American writer Eudora Welty (1909-2001), conducted by Linda Kuehl & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page. Also in this issue are contributions of prose including a memoir by jazz great Hampton Hawes with Judith Rascoe; fiction by James Salter, James Schuyler..... More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-dated, inscribed & signed by Joseph Wambaugh. "The reader of this book will, after the first overwhelming emotional assault, be forced to ask if it could really be true. The answer is yes. In his first work of nonfiction, Joseph Wambaugh presents his strongest, most important book. It is the vivid story of an incredible murder and its aftermath- a murder..... More