New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1978. Uncorrected Proof; First Edition. Softcover; Hardcover. Uncorrected Proof signed by Tom Clark & with hand-written editor's note; first edition signed by Tom Clark. "Damon Runyon was a listener and a watcher, a peripatetic student of life who possessed a diamond cutter's powers of attention, the dispassionate curiosity of a scientist, the investigative energy of a great reporter, and the local knowledge of a...... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Big things. And little things. The weight, the lightness of it. The place it takes. Walking around, it comes forward, or to the side, or sides, or backward, on a foot, on feet, on several feet." (first paragraph, unpaginated) A collaborative work by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), the canonical American poet who was associated with the Beat Generation; & Maria..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "The myth of Marie Curie- the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer- has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Marie Curie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1975. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Transcripts of two "impromptu Lectures" (Preface) given by Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990), the celebrated & prolific British-Cosmopolitan novelist & travel writer, best known for his trilogy of autobiographical novels under the umbrella title of "The Alexandria Quartet." The title lecture & "Propaganda and Impropaganda" were delivered during the 1970s in California, & describe his wide experiences in Greece & much elsewhere..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "A North American poet visits revolutionary Nicaragua (traditionally known as "the Land of the Poets") and reports on what he sees and hears and surmises. Considering himself "a tourist of revolution" (having traveled much in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Haiti, and Castro's Cuba) he approaches Nicaragua with the eye of a civil libertarian "with anarchist sympathies,"..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life...It spans Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would..... More

Toronto, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. This is the first & notorious (see below) Canadian edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & described by him in a note preceding them as "...compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor..... 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: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Jane Goodall at time of publication. "Africa In My Blood is an extraordinary self-portrait in letters of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the publication of In the Shadow of Man, revealing this remarkable woman more vividly than anything published before, by her or about her...a dramatic, moving, funny, and important book that tells the..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "The appearance of this book has marked a new departure in publishing history. For the first time, a publisher and an author have collaborated to keep a book on current events as completely up-to-date as the events themselves. When Inside Europe first appeared, Edward VIII had just mounted the throne, the Spanish revolution was unheard of, the Front Populaire..... More