Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. First Softcover Edition-Review Copy. Softcover (signature bound). "The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now- these are his materials." (from back cover). This is a first softcover edition/review copy of the first book-length compilation by the renowned poet Robert..... More

Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More

Grass Valley, CA: Cold River Press, 2011. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by David A. Boles to Charles Plymell. A volume with the two title poems by David A. Boles, the prolific alternative poet, publisher & artiste (see his website, www.boles.org), printed back-to-back with covers in two directions (as with the first edition of "William Lee" 's "Junkie" as you Third Minders will recall). With forewords by Boles, cover..... More

Boulder, CO: The Naropa Institute, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. This Summer 1990 issue (no longer referred to with Vol. or No.) of the literary journal published at The Naropa Institute features two hilariously scurrilous pieces by Charles Bukowski, "Dildo Man" in prose & "Sex Sister" in prose-poetry. Also excerpts from a slide lecture delivered by artist David Hockney at the Institute on July 22, 1989 including an illustration ("If the..... More

Binghampton, NY: State University of New York, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This double number of the postmodern literary journal published by the State University of New York (SUNY) is devoted to a symposium entitled "Engagements: Postmodernism, Marxism, Politics." Of particular interest is an article by Andrew Parker on poet Ezra Pound's notorious anti-semitism; as well as a portfolio of very disturbing paintings by the artist Leon Gollub, whose work is..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Dream at the End of the World...Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men- all were lured by a raffish city that promised a full range of unconventional pleasures. At the..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "To Tangier, outpost of unrestrained freedom, morass of ruthless greed and opportunism, comes a young American, Nelson Dyar. Fed up with his job in a New York bank, he has accepted a position in this swarming Moroccan city where nationals of many countries mingle in a frenzy of smuggling, espionage, vice of every description. Quickly caught up in the stream of..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Trade Softcover Edition. Published by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press in 1977, “Things Gone and Things Still Here” collects the title piece along with eight other sand-whipped mosaics-in-prose by literature’s most distinguishable Tanjawi (the word for “single resident of Tangier”), Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Although he is primarily known for his short stories and prose fiction, Bowles also wrote poetry and composed music..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1985. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories- at once brutal and intensely lyrical- are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North Africa, where their action occurs, (Rodrigo) Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed; and at the same time they can be read as..... More

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More

Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1967. Second printing. Hardcover. “LSD is dangerous,” writes William Braden (1930-2008), “but its greatest danger may not be what we commonly suppose. There may be fear and peril in a ‘bad trip,’ but a ‘good trip’ may possess features which fundamentally challenge our religion and our God. This is the first book to make the connection between the LSD experience and some of the main currents..... More

New York, NY: The Kulchur Foundation, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A rare early collection of writings by Joe Brainard (1942-1994), the cult writer & artist associated with the New York School but who was really "beyond category" to borrow Duke Ellington's phrase. A treasure-trove of prose-poems, prose, diary entries & even favorite quotes. Large-format softcover in sewn binding. From the library of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, the founders of..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1975. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Noted San Francisco poet and mentor to the Second San Francisco Renaissance poets, Jack Hirschman, wrote of fellow Californian John Brandi: "He has been an open roader (sic) for much of his life and like his two great forebears, Whitman and Neruda, has named the minute particulars, the details of his sojournings...infusing them with a whole gamut of..... More