New York, NY: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. The first hardcover edition of a compilation of three novels by the late Kathy Acker, the provocative experimental author among whose influences was William S. Burroughs. Consisting of Kathy Goes to Haiti, originally published in 1978 in a limited small press edition; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, about the controversial, murdered Italian film director & first published..... More

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

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

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

New York, NY: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "This extremely moving novel deals with a universal human situation. It is the story of a loving and closely knit family and of the loss and heartbreak in that intimate circle when a beloved member suddenly dies. Yet A Death in the Family is not a sad book. It is essentially a story of love, which glows with affection and tenderness..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Self-Published by the Poet, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by John Allen to James Perrizo. "Putting together a first book of poems is a very strange experience. A most private part of one's life suddenly threatens to become public, at least in a minor sort of way. The temptation to offer up a host of disclaimers and qualifications is strong...The basic reason for this particular..... More

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

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early eighth number of the collectible series of pamphlets published by the venerable Black Sparrow Press & dated May 1973 on front cover, features the title poem (or rather the series of short prose-poem paragraphs) by David Antin (1932-2016), the esteemed & pioneering poet, critic & performance artist. On front cover, as with other issues in this series..... More

Boston, MA: Rolly-Michaux Gallery, 1979. First Printing. Single Folded Sheet. A rare piece of ephemera relating to Karel Appel (1921-2006), the esteemed Dutch artist-sculptor-poet who was a founder of the avant-garde CoBrA (for Copenhagen, Brussels & Amsterdam) art movement during the late 1940s. This is an invitation to a "special preview exhibition" of Appel's sculpture & works on paper held on October 13, 1979 at the Rolly-Michaux gallery in Boston..... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett to Thomas Rain Crowe. "grandfather eagle/ which art in heaven/ thou soarest in heaven/ thou makest my blood/ to sing/ sing/ sing" (Eagle Song, pg. 8) A collection of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), A Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one time was a Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill..... More

Ellsworth, ME; Eugene, OR: Backwoods Broadsides; Mountains & Rivers Press, 2003; 2005. Limited First Editions. Folded Sheet; sewn wrappers. Broadside inscribed & signed by Bob Arnold to Thomas Rain Crowe; chapbook signed by Bob Arnold. "If it just kept on raining/ -far past the notion of an ark/ would we have a new mythology/ to take its place" ("Getting Past the Text," pg. 12, Invent a World) Two collectible productions..... More

N/P: Filthythumb Press, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. On approaching the work of French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), one is by turns intrigued and bewildered, but is perhaps most notably (albeit occasionally) brought to epiphany. If the contemporary English slang adjective "batshit" was then in use, it would have been employed in virtually all descriptions of Artaud. An unlikely casualty of medical misdiagnoses as a child..... More