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: Simon and Schuster, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. "The gap between rich and poor has never been wider...legislative stalemate paralyzes the country...corporations resist federal regulations...spectacular mergers produce giant companies...the influence of money in politics deepens...bombs explode in crowded streets...small wars proliferate far from our shores...a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life. These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for Doris Kearns Goodwin's..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. "One of America's most admired television newsmen now gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In his engrossing narrative, the year's personalities and events not only are themselves made vivid but also lead to wide-ranging discussions of the past and of expectations of things to come. Here, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint..... More

San Francisco, CA: Colt Press, 1941. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "This magnificent book about Greece is written by one of the finest and most astonishing writers of our time. Henry Miller, author of The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn, is a New Yorker who has long lived in Paris. Today this great figure, following in the truly American tradition of (Walt) Whitman and (Thomas) Wolfe, is recognized..... More

Northville, MI: Sundog Press, 2000. First English Language Edition. Softcover. “In 1980, the noted Italian writer and translator Fernanda Pivano came to the United States to interview Charles Bukowski. Her credentials as a literary Boswell were impressive. She had already interviewed, and written on Hemingway, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others who have come to define modern American literature–introducing them to the Italian reader. Her entree to Bukowski..... More

London, England, UK: Echidna Epics LTD., 1972. First Edition. Folded Sheets. “Any complaints concerning this issue should be addressed to the Grateful Dead, Kinney Records. Yes, folks, it’s all their fault that this has been the most stoned-out, doped-up, deep-spaced, gone-freaked week-long weekend in the history of our time. They made practically everyone forget about practically everything. Not only that but your Catmother correspondent, Janja Banana, had a birthday party..... More

Berkeley, CA: Joyce Jenkins, 1994. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. "I'm still not sure what's harder to believe, (Charles Bukowski's) death last month at seventy-three or the fact that he lasted that long. Hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer at thirty-five and informed by his doctors that alcohol was killing him, Bukowski upon release immediately resumed drinking and began writing poetry in earnest. This combination of antisocial activities kept him going..... More

New York, NY, USA: Roy E. Larson, 1940. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "At the polls of America, as at the Judgement Seat of God, all men are equal. Franklin D. Roosevelt, standing with his wife and mother at the polls in Hyde Park shortly after noon on Nov. 5, was only one of 50,000,000 citizens, his vote no weightier than that of the least of them. But before the day..... More

Cleveland, OH: N. E. D. and J. Frog, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. "If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice which must motivate any true artist, makes them aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than..... More

New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "A young man of many talents burst upon the scene three years ago with a book called The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, and the result was a revolution in the reporting of American popular culture. Since that time Tom Wolfe has been doing field work among many noble savages (from La Jolla to London) in search of new..... More

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Nelson Algren. "This book embodies some of the finest stories (or reports) ever written by Nelson Algren. It also offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written." (from front flap) An anecdotal memoir by Nelson Algren (1909-1981), the great, prize-winning American author of hard-boiled mid-20th century canonical novels including The man with the Golden..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Dream at the End of the World...Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men- all were lured by a raffish city that promised a full range of unconventional pleasures. At the..... More

New York, NY: Hyperion, 1993. First American Edition. Hardcover. "William Seward Burroughs. Described by Norman Mailer as "the only living American novelist who may conceivably be possessed of genius," this unique underground visionary has lived up to these words. Burroughs's influence has exploded far beyond the ethereal borders of the literati into the realm of popular culture- he has influenced a remarkable spectrum of adventurous writers, artists, filmmakers and musicians...In..... More