Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. First Softcover Edition. "The spiders appeared suddenly | after that summer rainstorm. | Some people still insist the spiders fell with the rain | while others believe the spiders are from the damp soil like weeds | with eight thin roots. | The elders knew the spiders | carried stories in their stomachs..." (excerpt from title poem, pg. 12). Today we offer The Summer..... More

New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. “This study probes the relationship between two contradictory, or apparently contradictory, pairs of terms: ‘Depression’ and ‘abundance,’ and ‘literature’ and ‘mass culture.’ It suggests, first, that one can detect in the culture of the American thirties—despite the painful national experience of scarcity and poverty—the now-familiar outline of an image-mediated, consumer society. It argues, second, that the hierarchical opposition between..... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. “Throughout the spring morning of April 14, 1876, a huge crowd, largely African American, began to assemble in the vicinity of Seventh and K Streets in Washington, DC. It had been eleven Aprils since the end of the Civil War, and eleven years to the day since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A parade involving nearly every African American..... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First Edition. “At his death on December 10, 1990, Armand Hammer was hailed as one of the great entrepreneurs of all time–a man who came out of retirement at the age of 59 to build the virtually bankrupt Occidental Petroleum Corporation into one of the world’s great international companies. The multimillionaire industrialist was also saluted as an art collector and philanthropist, and..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking Penguin, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "World's End is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three time periods: the late seventeenth century, when the Dutch had begun to give way to the English along the great river's banks; the 1940s, when anti-Communist sentiment was sweeping the country; and the late 1960s. With low humor and high seriousness, and in magical, almost hallucinatory prose, it follows..... 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, 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

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1979. First Edition. Signed by Charles Brooks. “More than 360 eye-catching cartoons from the pens of 130 of the leading political cartoonists from the United States, Canada, and Latin America make this volume a concise pictorial history of the year’s events. Focusing upon the 24 major news stories of 1978, this volume, the seventh in an annual series, presents virtually every political point of view–liberal..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harper & Row, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Sterling A. Brown to Laurence Goldstein. "Publication of Sterling A. Brown's Collected Poems is an event of great importance for those who are interested in Afro-American culture- and, indeed, in American literature. While many of his poems regularly appear in anthologies, the classic collection Southern Road (1932) has not been available for some time and..... More

Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-70) at the centre of the early postwar American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Samuel Charters to William Everson a/k/a Brother Antoninus "Of those who died/ I knew so little./ They had been only voices,/ voices in a conversation,/ only faces that I looked up into/ as the men sat thin and sunburned/ in the stuffy rooms/ talking to someone else." (first lines, Part I, pg. 1) A five-part poem by Samuel..... 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

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "A profoundly visual poet, Elizabeth Bishop had a unique prismatic way of seeing. In this finely written companion to the poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling sense of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing. Drawing on Bishop's unpublished writings- her journals, letters, and manuscripts- to reinforce her interpretations of the poems, Costello demonstrates that Bishop's work portrays both the..... More