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

New York, NY, USA: Viking/ Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvelously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letters throughout his long life (1915-2005). Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to his fellow writers- William Faulkner, John Cheever, John Berryman, Ralph Ellison..... More

London, England, UK: Ferry Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "the participation is broken/ fished from a sky of fire/ the fiery lake pouring itself/ to reach here// that matter of language caught/ in the fact so that we/ meet in paradise in such/ times, the I consumes itself// white trees, rings around them,/ wander and roll, the fog breaks,/ the sky, blue in the window" ("IMAGE-NATION I (the fold,"..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: The Paget Press, 1983. First Softcover Edition. “Near 20 years later and Cruise missiles about to land in the laundry bag. And I think I was a pretty callow 45-year-old back then, with too much ego and too little talent. So what does that make me now? Not much different, I think, except much older. Most of the opinions expressed back then I’m stuck with: I still..... More

New York, NY, USA: Penguin, 1977. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "Here is the first complete and unexpurgated edition of one of the most powerful books ever written about drug addiction. Following its hero from his Midwestern birthplace to New York, New Orleans, And Mexico City, Junky depicts the addict's life—his hallucinations, his ghostly nocturnal wanderings, his strange sexuality, his hunger for the needle. Above all, these searing pages present a...... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, dated, placed & signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "The astonishing, unexpurgated, revelatory heart-talk between two of the Founding Fathers of Post-Modern American Literature. Absolutely the most intimate documentation of the histories of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others closely associated with the authors. Filled with original, unpublished poems, the range of Allen Ginsberg's correspondence is comparable..... More

New York, NY, USA: Paragon House, 1990. First Edition. In Love, In Sorrow illuminates the fatal differences that came to separate those who embodied America's prewar and postwar, modern and postmodern literary ideals. This correspondence, too, between two of the most gifted writers of our modern era, battling ferociously over the issues of loyalty and love between artists, poignantly portrays the dilemma facing any writer who accepts, and then rejects..... More

Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Ruby Dee. "For Ruby Dee, television has provided some of the most exciting and fulfilling challenges of her career. She and her husband, Ossie Davis, conceived the critically acclaimed PBS series With Ossie & Ruby- co-hosting, performing, and co-producing twenty-six half hour programs out of KERA-TV in Dallas. Her next television role was as Mary Tyrone..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. “My great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Scott was born in 1766, grew up on the Virginia and Carolina frontiers, at age sixteen married and eighteen-year-old veteran of the Revolution and the Cherokee expeditions named Benjamin Hardin IV, moved with him into Tennessee and Kentucky and died on still another frontier, the Oil Trough Bottom on the south bank of the White River..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "If Alexander Trophimowsky had not taken charge of his illegitimate daughter's education and upbringing, no one would have ever heard of Isabelle Eberhardt. By obliging her to perform hard physical labor outdoors alongside her brothers during her childhood and adolescence, he made it possible for her to withstand the rigors of the spartan life she was to live later on..... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Karen Finley to Brian Jacobs, & with autograph "meditation" by Finley. "As soon as you told me it wasn't good for me - it tasted so much better" (unpaginated). Enough is Enough: Weekly Meditations for Living Dysfunctionally by American poet, musician & educator Karen Finley (b. 1956) is a humorous and satirical..... More

Paris, France: l'Association des Amis du Musee Gauguin a Tahiti/ Gauguin and Oceana Foundation, New York, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A complete facsimile of a journal & accompanying drawings by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the great French Post-Impressionist & Symbolist artist. Gauguin chronicled his journey to Tahiti under French Government auspices during 1891, where he was famously inspired by the people & landscapes, but became ill & had to return..... More

New York, NY: Arbor House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Through the prism of its women- grandmothers, mothers, wives, daughters- shines the texture of an immigrant Jewish family that must face old truths and new in the turbulence of America in Depression, in war, and war's aftermath. From turn-of-the-century Russia to modern-day Cleveland, Family is the richly evocative testament of five generations as they mark and hold their place in a...... More