Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1980. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "I do not believe in invoking the State, a deity of illusion, least of all against its own hallucinations. The CIA giveth, the CIA taketh away. But the powers that be would be well advised to deport (Chogyam) Trungpa to his native land, where after due reprocessing he might be given a hoe and sent to..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing..... More

Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit, MI: Ann Arbor News; Detroit News; Campaign for Nuclear Free Ann Arbor, 1969; 1984. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets; Single Sheet. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, affectionately nicknamed "Ike") was called "The Quintessential American" by journalist Andy Rooney. Not since George Washington had one great man accomplished so much, first in war as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II; then as..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset is distinguished with two very important contributions by William S. Burroughs, Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation & the Patron Saint (or Demon if you prefer) of our enterprise: The short story "My Mother and I Would Like to Know," a post-cut-up, (relatively)..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Already hailed in Europe as a masterpiece, Oriana Fallaci's powerful new novel is the dramatic love story of a man and a woman who are caught in the conflicts of political struggle and are moved inexorably toward a confrontation with death. In A Man Fallaci draws a dynamic portrait of the unparalleled hero of the Greek resistance, Alexander Panagoulis..... More

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be a journey deep into the realm of consciousness, the inward travel explored to exhilarating effect in his writing, whether in the poetry that had earned him international acclaim or in the idiosyncratic journals..... More

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Here is an invitation to adventure of a rare and wonderful variety. One moment we are wandering on the outskirts of a village in modern Greece, the next we are standing with three hundred doomed Spartans in the fifth century B.C., hopelessly holding a narrow pass against the tens of thousands of Xerxe's massed army. In a...... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Not intended for publication, the journal of Graham Greene's trip to the Belgian Congo in 1959 was the raw material for the novel that became A Burnt-Out Case. A shorter journal, of a wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941, was a prelude to the writing of The Heart of the Matter. Together with the author's introduction and plentiful..... More

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "When 'Least Heat Moon' (the translation of the tribal name in his mixed blood) lost his job in a college in Missouri, he got a half-ton Ford van, packed a few necessaries including Leaves of Grass and Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, and set out to follow the track of various ancestors and write a book about..... More

Raleigh, NC: Cooper Street Publications, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. "KEROUAC...Just the name itself sounds unique. But Jack Kerouac was much more than unique. His writing, not only his taboo subject matter, but also his honest way of writing, his narrative prose style, has opened the eyes of millions of literature students all over the world...for a number of years in the 1950s...Jack Kerouac would call Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Home..... More

Monee, IL: Get Things Done Publishing, 2015. Tenth Edition. Softcover. "The exploits chronicled in this book happened before I was on the Beat Circuit, but then this was really the first one...but I've been hearing about this thing ever since it happened. Every time any two people who were both there were in the same room they'd talk about it like they'd taken some wild trip together. That's why I...... More

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "Jim Bishop has chosen for the most ambitious book of his career one of the most controversial and least understood figures of recent American history- the real story of Martin Luther King, Jr. For four years, Mr. Bishop traveled across the country to interview personally the major figures- friends and enemies, black and white- involved in King's life and death..... 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