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[Item #1100]Elmwood Park, IL: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1989. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1989 number of the venerable literary journal is partly dedicated to articles by & about Kathy Acker, the late experimental writer often cited as a literary post-punk progeny of William S. Burroughs among other influences. Includes the transcript of a conversation between Acker & Ellen G. Friedman, as well as articles by Acker herself, Naomi Jacobs, Robert..... More
[Item #1638]London, England: Aloes Books, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Alexander Adams. A brief, haunting memoir by Alexander Adams, an award-winning artist, poet & writer, concerning his activities, experiences & impressions of Berlin, where he resided during 2007-2014. The narrator "A." is presumed to be the author. One of a limited edition of 75, this is copy No. 43/75 as hand-noted in pencil on the title page. Also..... More
[Item #3028]Brighton, England: Pig Ear Press, 2013. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Alexander Adams. “He walks the platform, two sides twice, / a slump-shouldered ghost / dipping for refund bottles in recycling cans. / He approached a passenger. / His request was silently refused. / Each of them hastened onwards / one to home, one to death / and me watching, cold and curious. / Junk hollowed his cheeks and..... More
[Item #5410]Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More
[Item #3884]London, England: Aloes Books, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed twice by author; inscribed & signed by publisher. An evocative piece of epistolary literature by Alexander Adams, a poet, writer & award-winning artist. Adams is a member of the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), where he has delivered outstanding presentations at its annual conferences. This writer has had the pleasure & privilege of being a friend &..... More
[Item #3022]London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018; 2020. Limited First Editions. Stapled Wrappers. Both volumes signed by Alexander Adams. "I have accepted the view that my verse benefits from illustration and that- as an artist- I am well placed to provide that. My verse has appeared in anthologies without illustration, so it seems that the verse is strong enough to function without images. I try to write verse as if..... More
[Item #3641]London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Alexander Adams. “After/Après Francis Bacon” is a 2018 publication from our friend-&-associate at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), Alexander Adams. Adams, an award-winning artist-poet-writer (and noted recipient of the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monaco) here nests a “suite of 21 poems based on the life and art of Anglo-Irish..... More
[Item #5003]Boston, MA: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Ansel Adams. "My devotion to photography of the natural scene has drawn me to nearly every section of the United States and to Hawaii and Alaska. The desire to apply my photography to wilderness regions beyond the Sierra Nevada was realized for the first time when I was appointed photomuralist for the..... More
[Item #4485]London, England: Robert Reviere & Son, c. 1906. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. "Thus I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species; by which means I have made my self a Speculative Statesman, Soldier, Merchant, and Artizan, without ever medling with any practical Part in life. I am very well versed in the Theory of an Husband, or a Father, and can..... More
[Item #5610]Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "James Agee achieved the fame he deserved only after his tragically early death- of a heart attack, in a New York taxi- at forty-five...This book contains James Agee's previously uncollected prose: pieces ranging from Harvard days to his last years. In addition to short stories, there are notes for motion pictures (a medium that held deep fascination for him), scenarios, and..... More
[Item #5353]Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original, and devastating. 'Let Us Now..... More
[Item #4564]New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1972, Broadway and movie actor George Sanders committed suicide at the age of 65 because, he wrote in a note he left, "I am bored." Brian Aherne, himself a famous and distinguished actor, was one of Sanders' close friends. In this intimate biography, he takes us into the private life of an amazingly talented star whose unpredictable behavior and..... More
[Item #5641]Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2022. First Edition. Softcover. "She was born for the fifth time in 1990/ from pork fat and church-boy jazz.// Says she was built by sun-backed backs/ in a city lost inside its own mouth.// The Midwest taught her all about heartbreak:/ the speed paint color fades,// how beauty abandoned is beauty begrudged,/ refuses to pose again." ("Depression Proposes to Me Again," first four stanzas, pg. 51)..... More
[Item #5629]Boston, MA: A. Williams & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. “The ancients entertained noble notions of the poet. He was an enthusiast and a rhapsodist. His work was done in surprise and delight. And all good epic poets were thought to compose, not by choice, but by inspiration; and so, too, the good lyric poets drew, they tell us, ‘from fountains flowing with nectar, and gathered flowers from the gardens..... More
[Item #5524]New York, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 2017. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Sherman Alexie. "Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend, Rowdy. Determined to receive a good education, junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town, where the only other..... More
[Item #5517]Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Nelson Algren “’THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM’ is Algren’s finest novel. It tells of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefka’s gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt the cards as if he could talk to them and they understand. Frankie was as tough as any of the regulars at Schwiefka’s but he..... More
[Item #5124]New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Nelson Algren. “Nelson Algren’s first writing was done when he was working as a migratory laborer in the Southwest. His first story was published in ‘Story Magazine’ in 1933, while he was living in an abandoned filling station outside of Rio Hondo, Texas….‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ wasn’t written until long after it had been walked,’..... More
[Item #5142]Roseville, MI: Ridgeway Press, 1988. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A slim chapbook of poetry by the Iraqi-American poet Alese Alousi, published by Ridgeway Press. This small press also published writings by F.E. Kerouac-Parker, the late former wife of Jack Kerouac who came from & returned to the Detroit area. Enchanting poems in a unique, colloquial style. A fine rarity in perfect condition. As new. More
[Item #1688]New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. Jane Alpert (b. 1947) spent the years between 1969 and 1974 evading persecution for her participation in the planning and execution of several bombings of government and corporate buildings in the New York City area. Protesting the war effort with a group of radicals that targeted locations associated with the military, she was convicted of conspiracy as the writer..... More
[Item #5649]New York, NY: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1981. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the proceedings of the prestigious Academy includes a commemorative tribute by Allen Ginsberg to Henry Miller, who had died the previous year: "He innovated in the courageous mode of spontaneous prose- prose which depends on the energy of the mind moving and the fearless recollection of that energy at time of composition."..... More
[Item #1686]New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & illustrated by Steve Amick. "It's 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, has arrived in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him an unwanted discharge from the service. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton- the wife of Wink's buddy, still stationed in the Philippines-..... More
[Item #5532]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... More
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