New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "The snow will never be | so perfect again, blue in the dusk, | his weariness lit by candles in windows: not the slave's | heavy footfall here in Boston, on the way to Tremont Temple, | where messengers line up, | hand touching hand, Lincoln's pulse | already entering a telegrapher's wrist..." ("Frederick Douglass Waiting for News..... 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: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Words and images played a major role in the development of the French Revolution. Printed speeches, pamphlets, newspapers, political cartoons, engravings depicting recent events, all circulated widely and helped to shape the immediate future. These are the focus of the exhibition: Words of Blood, Images of Fire: The French Revolution. By showing what people saw, what they read, even..... More

New York, NY, USA: Granary Books, 1989. Limited First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed twice by Jane Brakhage to Albert Glover. A compilation of critical-biographical essays by Jane Brakhage (a/k/a Jane Wodening, 1936-2023), the noted American author, artist & environmentalist who was formerly married & collaborated with the canonical American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003, see our item No. 8140). The legendary subjects of the essays herein are the..... More

Birmingham, AL: Birmingham News, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Charles Brooks. “Often, little things happen in our lives which seem insignificant at the time; but later, these small things can be seen to have completely changed our lives. My life turned at three crossroads: a flip of a coin, tying my shoe, and a letter. I met my wife on the flip of a coin. Tying my shoe probably..... More

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. “For the better part of a century, the editorial cartoon has ranked as one of the most avidly read features in most daily newspapers. This collection of more than 350 works, representing the best efforts of 145 leading editorial cartoonists in the United States and Canada, demonstrates why-and in the process adds a...... More

New York, NY, USA: Modern Library, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. “In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular..... 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

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. “The American poet Charles Olson (1910-70) was a large man, not only in physical size, energies, and appetites, but in the mythic dimension with which he invested both his work and his life. He believed that ‘the whole world & all experience is, no matter how real, only a system of metaphor for the allegory (Keats called it) a...... 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

New York, NY, USA: Viking Penguin, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "Six thousand five hundred couples are married at Yankee Stadium. A famously reclusive writer has his picture taken. A Swiss UN worker is held hostage in Beirut. Don DeLillo's extraordinary new novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. Haunted by the spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “Glass animals are among the most universally admired—and widely collected—art forms in glass. For more than 3,500 years artisans have fashioned animals, both real and fanciful, both wild and domestic, in an astonishing array of forms and for a wide diversity of uses—as figurines, perfume bottles, jewelry, paperweights, beakers, tiles, plaques, lamps, vases, and stained-glass windows.” (from front flap)..... More

New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1998. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. “Biographers are notorious for falling in love with their subjects. It is the literary equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome, the phenomenon which leads hostages to feel sympathetic towards their captors. The biographer is, in a sense, a willing hostage, held captive for so long that he becomes hopelessly enthralled. / There are obvious, intellectual motives which drive a writer..... More