London, England, UK: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public….When a man should marry? A young..... 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

Canton, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Sometime after Charles Olson’s death in January 1970, I told Jack Clarke I wanted to publish some kind of tribute to Olson. He responded by sending me a copy of “A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul,” which Olson had sent to us for publication in "The Magazine of Further Studies  No. 5." On the copy Jack..... More

Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1962. First Printing. Softcover in Dust Jacket. "We tend to describe all ventures in poetry as experiments in form. The poems in this book are not experiments in form, but experiments in content. They are evocations of single moments of life. There is a part of the personality which speaks of things that are dead- of Achilles, long-dead relatives, nostalgia for the 'old days'; these..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. "The turbulent events that shaped the world of 1974 offer provocative targets for 139 leading editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada in this outstanding collection of visual commentary. Gerald Ford's rise to the presidency, the growing threat of renewed war in the Middle..... More

London, England, UK: Headline Book Publishing/ Hodder Headline PLC, 1993. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ramsey Campbell. "Late in the twentieth century, during an era in which ghosts and vampires and other spectral standbys have degenerated into icons of mass-media kitsch, Ramsey Campbell almost silngle-handedly has revived English supernaturalism as serious artistic expression. In his stories he summons this hallowed tradition to embody such themes as urban decay, institutional..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Cid Corman. The second volume of essays by Cid (Sidney) Corman (1924-2004), the great American poet, publisher, translator, editor & critic. Corman founded the legendary Origin journal in 1951 (see our item No.s 4287, 6010), which featured contributions by Beat Generation/ Black Mountain School-&-Beyond Giants such as Charles Olson (1910-1970, our favorite Maximus Obscurantist), Robert Creeley (1926-2005)..... More

San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. A volume of short stories by Philip Daughtry (a/k/a Philip Suntree, b. 1942), beginning with the title story & twelve more, all identified with the locality in which they take place, from Oregon to Spain. Trade-format softcover original, first edition, first printing, though neither specified as such at copyright page. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the acclaimed..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "In making this selection from the first decade of my work I have sought not only to include certain poems which have been particularly admired by those who admire my poetry at all, but, more important, to provide those texts which at this time I see as essential for a serious reading of evolving themes and forms; and, back of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed, dated & with drawing by Allen Ginsberg to Bruce Hutchinson. "Gathered here for the first time is the verse of three decades of one of America's great poets. Collected Poems 1947-1980 includes all writings in the groundbreaking paperback volumes published by City Lights Books, the contents of many rare pamphlets issued by small presses, and, finally, some..... More

San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Ideal Bakery is Donald Hall's first collection of short stories, written over twenty-five years and published in Esquire, The New Yorker, and Antaeus and other literary quarterlies. Best known for his poetry and essays, Hall writes stories that gather power from repeated thematic images, like his poems, and from the intensity of descriptive language, like his essays. But these..... More

New York, NY, USA: Arcade Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs- two of which (including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers. The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend," is the core of this collection. The middle section of the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & dated in month of publication by editor Ann Charters. "Jack Kerouac is one of the most widely read and profoundly influential writers in the American canon. This new one-volume omnibus, planned by the author himself before his death and now completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, will make clear the scope and accomplishment of his unique multi-volume..... More