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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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