Berkeley, CA: Cloud Marauder Press, 1977. Limited First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Jerry Ratch to Thomas Rain Crowe. "whose soul/ do you have/ how many are/ you/ there are several/ running from death,/ laughing,/ whom you might know" (final stanzas) A chapbook with the title poem inspired by the ancient Egyptian deity by Jerry Ratch, the acclaimed Chicago-born American poet. With front cover & many interior illustrations..... More

Sylva, NC: Milky Way Editions with New Native Press, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Michael Revere has been on the poet's journey for the long haul. He's been published in literary journals and anthologies, has published several collections of his poems and has his archives collected at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He could have completed his stint as one of the most..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2007. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Attached Over-Wraps. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "With What Co$t Freedom?, Michael Revere has unleashed a poem that can only be described as a modern-day Book of Revelations. A "Howl" for our times, it is at once spiritual and secular, capturing both the sacred and the profane. Hip and holy, Hop and horror, it is a cautionary tome..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Books, 1991. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I wanted to get out of here, to go a rangin' far to the/ south and east, to Cheyenne and Denver, Chicago,/ Cleveland, yes, even Cleveland drew me with its/ mysterious name and unknown streets paved all around," (first stanza, part I) An epic-satirical three-part poem by David Romtvedt, the acclaimed & award-winning American poet & musician. The full title &..... More

Cullowhee, NC: Fern Hill Books/ New Native Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "Elegy Epitaphs of Appleton derives its inspiration from the weathered pioneer cemetery headstones which plotted the checkerboard hamlets surrounding Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1950. Written in the free verse style of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," the writer utilized actual recorded historical and apocryphal tales, which gushed forth as artesian freshets from..... More

Stuttgart, Germany: Ithaka Verlag, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed to Charles Plymell by Klaus F. Schneider. A volume of poetry by Klaus F. Schneider, published in Germany & with all text in German. A beautifully minimalist production, softcover original in wrappers with flaps attached at spine. On the shorter title page/ front endpaper, Schneider has hand-written: "For (Herr?) Charles/ of Sprochroly(?)/ the translation/ bellow(sic) by euisil(?)/ 'pleased to..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1963 (2016). First Trade Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "Poet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of this French literary classic--"Lost Profiles" is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism, written by the co-founder of the Surrealist Movement. Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism, "Lost Profiles" then..... More

Tillamook, OR: MoonPath Press, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed at great length with drawings & signed by Scott T. Starbuck to Thomas Rain Crowe. "If you're a fisherman, then Scott Starbuck is your man. Whether far offshore in a troller or on land far beyond well-traveled roads, Starbuck, as our guide in Lost Salmon, takes us to places where there are 234 local shipwrecks, and trout are being roasted over..... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. “In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. In his introduction, Stephenson provides a brief history of this literary and cultural phenomenon and establishes the basis..... More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Printing. Hardcover. “Hampton County locked them down in a nineteenth-century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations,” writes Robert Stone in the opening sentence of this short story collection’s ‘title track,’ “Fun with Problems.” Robert Stone, to the initiated, is something of a genius—a variously forgotten, hitherto unheralded American master of prose fiction as..... More

Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Press, 1976. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “all the radios are playing / tonight / as i cross america / the sky streaked platinum / rivers swollen this spring” (“3-13-69,” pg. 2). Per Verdant Press’ handy capsule biography, “Kent Taylor [b. 1940] started writing poetry his freshman year at Ohio Wesleyan University. After quitting medical school at Ohio State University, he returned to Cleveland, and became a charter..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 2001. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. "He lives next door, if there were a door,/ to houseboat row, a floating trailer court,/ some two-story and double-wide with siding/ and spacious porches, tomatoes and roses,/ others just shacks on rafts, plywood boxes/ with planks connecting them to the island,/ Key West." ("Paradise: for LP & CJ," first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Deno..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "There is a woods/ deep beyond the woods-/ Where the seas remove their waves/ using every tooth and every claw:/ link by link, woven thread by woven thread,/ bar by spoken bar by bar-/ And ride the hills and shallows/ of every split hourglass/ with the gentlest whips/ of laughter and sadness,/ rocking masts and..... More