Osnabruck, Germany: Osnabruck Bilingual Editions of Minority Authors/ VC-Verlagscooperative, 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "In carefully selecting and translating some of (Peter Blue Cloud's) poems and stories, we have tried to reflect the author's special eye, his holistic view, his mind going back and forth, perceiving in circles and cycles without overlooking reality, obstacles in the history of the Natives themselves and of mankind. We have tried to follow his..... More

Milan, Italy: Ragazzo Innocuo, 2008. Limited First Edition. Sewn Binding. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “hovers over the body | like the libido that flies through | Beethoven concertos | And then of a sudden | that desire plunges down | into the body | At a cocktail party for instance | When some totally delirious | cynosure of sex | dances by.” (“Desire,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti) A chapbook of two poems..... More

Mexico City, Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. “Robert Kelly is a poet with a visible vision and an often invisible way of putting the poem, the mating of magic with the objects which daily surround us, his eyes widening from the soul out. Among voices shrieking the madness of these years, howling its agonies, examining its form and intention, harnessing its diologue [sic], here is a voice..... More

Mexico City, Mexico: Plumed Horn Editions, 1965. “delirium of the bird that devours my heart, | heart that resounds, imprisoned, in dark galleries | denied the light of your eyes, | delirium of knives opening my entrails, | chamber of larva and Spanish fly. | delirium of young girls signing in the | sea’s eye, tireless sea that gnaws at my chest, | delirious chest maimed by the mast |..... More

New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1962. First Bilingual Edition. Softcover. "...The poetry of Octavio Paz denies no experience in one life; it makes its music out of the acknowledgment of all experience in all lives..." (excerpt, Foreword by Muriel Rukeyser). Originally published in Spanish in 1957, Sun Stone ( Piedra de Sol ) is a poem written by Mexican poet, philosopher & diplomat Octavio Paz (1914-1998) that helped launch..... More

Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Aldrava Letras e Artes, 2006. Folded Sheets. The Brazilian literary newspaper-journal Aldrava Cultural began circulation in November of 2000, marking the birth of Aldravia, a poetic form that emerged in Brazil characterized by its compact structure. It emphasizes brevity and suggestion, inspired by the concept of "maximum poetry, minimum words" proposed by Ezra Pound. This approach is often compared to the Japanese Haiku (which specifies syllable..... More

Paris, France: Editions De La Fontaine D'Or, 1962. First Edition Thus, First Printing. "Some Merry and Delightful Stories. | The Amorous Adventures of a Lady of Quality. | Courtesans Princesses Lesbians. | The Perfumed Garden, a manual of Arabian Erotology. | The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea. | The Most Wonderful Nights of Love of Casanova." ("At The Same Library Ask For:," verso half-title page). The Kama Sutra is a classical..... More

Venice, Italy: Damocle Edizione, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his stylized ownership initial & date. “This essay by Virginia Woolf presents us with one of the greatest experimental writers of the twentieth century in the unusual version of critic and essayist, less known to the general public and yet always in line with tradition and in search of a new formal elaboration, in a...... More

New York, NY, USA: Kodansha International, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. “In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of..... More

Natal, Brazil: Sol Negro Edicoes, 2012. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. "Enslav'd, the Daughters of Albion weep: a/ trembling lamentation/ Upon their mountains; in their valleys. sighs/ toward America." (pg. 8) The canonical poem of 1793 by William Blake, the inspired & inspiring British poet-painter-printer, presented here in a bilingual edition, with original English text opposite Portugese translation by Marcio Simoes. An exquisite production in Blake-illustrated attached over-wraps with..... More

Greenfield Center, NY: Bowman Books, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Joseph Bruchac to Thomas Rain Crowe, also signed by Jesse Bruchac. "TWO RIVERS is a collaboration that reflects not only our two generations of father and son, but also the flow of language from two different yet deeply connected cultures. The relationship between the European newcomers to the northeast and the Algonquin-speaking first peoples began at least..... More

Berlin, Germany: Druckhaus Galrev, 1994. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The first German-language edition of William S. Burroughs' classic late work, published two years after the first American trade edition. WSB had a life-long fondness for & deep interest in felines. This writer recalls his furry friends joining me on the couch as I sat opposite the Beat-&-Beyond icon at his home; & we stood at the grave of Ruski, his..... More

Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2009. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. This Italian translation of The Ticket That Exploded is the first edition issued by this publisher, & is therefore a First Edition Thus. Originally released in 1962 by the legendary Olympia Press in Paris, & with many subsequent editions in the U.S., U.K. & elsewhere, TTTE is a cut-up novel from the period following the breakthrough of Naked Lunch, where..... More