London, England: Aloes Books, 1973. First Edition, Limited Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "The white subway gathered silent speed as buildings and landscapes slid by- faster- faster- a blur of film flakes then pictures leaped into sharp focus- mist and frogs in 1920s roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos stretching back to his childhood- back- back- "STOP." " (from..... More

Paris, France: Bourgois/Seuil; Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1976; 1984. First French Edition; First French Edition Thus. Softcover. (1) [Shoaf, 26c. p. 39]. Edited and Translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pelieu (and soon after, published) in 1976, “White Subway” was initially published in London by our friend-&-colleague the great Jim Pennington (through his Aloes Books imprint) in 1973. It compiles sixteen short works of imagination by WSB from the late-fifties to..... More

New York, NY: Blast Books, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. [ISBN: 0-922233-05-5]. Edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise, “…The Drug User Documents: 1840-1860 includes essays on hashish use from a New York physician (1910) and a clergyman’s son (1857); accounts of opium extravagances by artists and journalists in the first decades of this century; reports on ritual peyote use by an ethnologist in 1896 and of mushrooms by a banker..... More

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed (twice) by Kathryn Stripling Byer to Thomas Rain Crowe. "My father made the birds fly overhead/ that afternoon in late fall when he lifted me/ above the weeds as tall as I was then/ into a wagon load of hay. There at the field's edge/ while he whistled, restless in the cold,/ I watched the shadows of..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In the last two years before his death (Albert) Camus himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life. The book stands as a record of the experiences that nourished all of Camus' great work- a record not only of those exterior events in which he was involved, but..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. A celebrated collection of poems by Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), the acclaimed Northern Irish poet & novelist. Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize as noted on back cover, this is the first American trade-format softcover edition in sewn binding, published simultaneously with a hardcover edition & preceded..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971; 1981. First Edition, Fourth Printing; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. "For a time I held a unique position. Among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver, there was not one so young as myself. Amid these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More

New Haven, CT: Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 1999. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Dave Church; & with photograph hand-written by Church on Verso. "The gruff voice of Dave Church drives home a truth that 'street poetry' is as modulated and full of nuance as anything from academe. The forty-odd poems in Under the Influence depict a- chosen- hard life, but that life includes sharp sensibility and wry humor; an..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Sky above California apartment building/ Sky above Damascus' whitest mosque/ Sky above Franz Schubert composing a nostalgic measure/ Sky above Vida Blue throwing smoke/ In all of you one common ingredient: Blue/ Blue is not white/ Death is white/ Blue is cool/ Blue is all right" ("Blue," pg. 11) A collection with the title poem..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987. Limited First Edition. Softcover. One of only four copies numbered & signed by Tom Clark, also with signed autograph poem & hand-initialed artwork reproduction. "Easter Sunday joins recent poems by Tom Clark with rediscovered and revised earlier poems to form a book that expresses the abiding spirit of this poet's entire work. "One comes more and more to think of a poet as somebody..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Floyd Clymer, 1949; 1950. Numbered First Editions, First Printing, Later Printings. Softcovers. The first six contiguous volumes of the Historical Motor Scrapbook series by Floyd Clymer (1895-1970), a pioneering authority, racer & builder of cars & especially motorcycles; & an indefatigably enterprising publisher-entrepreneur: (1) Floyd Clymer's Historical Motor Scrapbook, first edition as stated on front cover & spine (Vol. 1). First published in March 1944, this is..... More

New York, NY: Conjunctions, 1981. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This historic, very first number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow is subtitled "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions" & features many essays, odes & tributes to the legendary litterateur by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure (who passed away recently as of this..... More