London, England, UK: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2025. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Alexander Adams. "This pamphlet explains what dissenting artists (regardless of political, religious or sectional affiliation) need, how they can be funded and what benefits accrue to donors for their support. Clearly setting out the rationale behind the necessary steps for establishing a dissenting art culture, From Spark to Flame offers routes for turning inspiration into..... More

San Francisco, CA: Russian Hill Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed, signed, and dated by Angela Alioto to Lawrence Ferlinghetti “Politics was a means, not an end, for her… What is admirable about Angela’s vision is that it’s one that looks to the future. If Angela talks about the past, it is to illustrate what we can learn for the future. From the young woman with a baby..... More

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. First Edition. Inscribed & signed by Erin Belieu to Dan Rzicznek. “Too prosaic, didactic, / purely political, the cause lacking / a certain loftiness, unlike homelessness / or domestic abuse, those subjects / newly upholstered with the necessary, / American-style noblesse oblige. / Maybe if I were writing in / an Eastern European language with / a translator who caught all the verve..... More

New York, NY, USA: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. “What happened to the American dream, Mr. Boorstin says, can be explained only by seeing what we have substituted for it. Great new powers created by the ‘Graphic Revolution,’ a distinctly modern and American Revolution, have enabled us to make an imitation of reality which is more attractive than reality itself. We have flooded our world with ‘pseudo-events’ and images. These powers..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. "The peculiar satire characteristic of the labors of a skilled cartoonist forms the common denominator for this lively anthology of outstanding editorial cartoons. Featured here are the best works on the major issues of 1972 by 110 leading editorial cartoonists, nine of them Pulitzer Prize winners, representing newspapers, magazines, television stations and cartoon..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Charles Brooks. “A pictorial history of the year’s major developments, this collection of more than 360 editorial cartoons focuses the spotlight on those stories that claimed banner treatment in newspapers around the world. Included are such intriguing issues as the travails of the Carter Administration, the Bert Lance affair, the cash-and-carry Korean scandal, the antics of Brother Billy Carter..... More

Berkeley, CA: CC. Marimbo, 2005. First Printing. Sting-bound in Wrappers. Inscribed, signed, dated, & numbered by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Brugnaro, well-known as a poet and activist who learned his art not from books but from his direct labors as a factory worker for more than 30 years, here gives the lie to the stereotypists of industrial workers as some sort of species of gorilla, brutal and macho..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Marilyn Chin to Laurence Goldstein. "A fusion of East and West, high culture and popular culture, ancient Chinese history and the American present. Rhapsody in Plain Yellow is a collection of songs that dance across the terrain of emotional nuance and postmodern experimentation: from homages to Li Po to polyphonic samplings of..... More

Detroit, MI: Lotus Press, Inc., 1993. First Edition (Review Copy). Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Robert Chrisman to Laurence Goldstein; & with autograph postcard, signed letter from & to same. "The casualties of Kansas smear my van./ Bugs, beetles, small animals,/ Scraps of fur clot my tires,/ Effluent of skunk, sometimes a woodchuck,/ Sparrow, robin, even a blackbird.// Foxes rug the concrete in Missouri/ the Appalachias offer deer,/ Tan..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Offered today is the autobiography of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1946). My Life is the 2004 book that, at that time, former-disgraced President Bill Clinton wrote and released detailing the triumphs and failures of his life. With surprising candor, erudition, and humor the former President shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous..... More

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 1996. First Edition Thus. String-bound Chapbook in Wrappers. “In September 1996, while on a reading tour in Britain, I went […] to the city of York to visit the many second-hand bookshops there. […] Among shelves of old tour guides, poetry chapbooks, theatre programs and other books all mish-mashed together in a York bookshop, I found Slave Worker. The striking, almost comic book cover first..... More

Berkeley, CA: Wingbow Press, 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The question is not/ which came first/ the chicken or the egg// The question is/ which came last/ journalism or tobacco" ("Reapportionment of the Ceegar," pg. 54) A collection of poems by Edward Dorn (1929-1999), among the greatest of the Black Mountain School poets along with his colleagues/mentors Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan & Charles Olson. Many with humorous footnote-asides, contemporary pop-cultural..... More

New York, NY, USA: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957. First Edition. “This is not a political book, but simply a somewhat impressionistic study of the moods and atmospheres of Cyprus during the troubled years 1953-6. I went to the island as a private individual and settled in the Greek village of Bellapaix. Subsequent events as recorded in these pages are seen, whenever possible, through the eyes of my hospitable..... More