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: The Seabury Press, 1976. First Edition, Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. “This book of practical criticism exemplifies the principles set forth in Bloom’s tetralogy of “antithetical criticism”: The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Kabbalah and Criticism, and Poetry and Repression. Figures of Capable Imagination conducts a unified inquiry into the Romantic literary tradition, and begins with three chapters showing the reactions to influence-anxieties by Coleridge, Pater..... More

New York, NY, USA: Film Culture Inc., 1963. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Here is METAPHORS ON VISION: it is a collection of writings on the film and, in particular, on the film as Stan Brakhage sees and makes it. Yet more significantly it is a testament of what makes mythopoeic art. Mythopoeia is the often attempted and seldom achieved result of making a myth new or making a new myth."..... More

San Francisco, CA: Open Space, 1965. Limited Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Dante undertook to make Italian the vehicle of his highest thought and in so doing forged the soul of a people. But we, who are not Italian nor who have any fluency of that tongue, meet here tonight to do him honor which is also dues or duty, for Dante undertook at the same time to make Poetry the vehicle..... More

New York, NY, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For a writer whose productive career lasted only twenty years and whose energy was prodigally expended on other things than writing, (F.) Scott Fitzgerald wrote an astonishing amount. Of the more than one hundred and fifty short stories he wrote during those twenty years, only about a quarter were collected during his lifetime; a few new ones were..... More

New York, NY, USA: Arlington House/ Crown, 1982. First American Edition. Hardcover. "RKO Radio Pictures existed in an atmosphere of almost continual chaos, from its optimistic beginnings in 1928, until it collapsed into ruins at the hands of the megalomaniac Howard Hughes nearly 30 years later. In its comparatively short and always turbulent history RKO made some of the greatest films and nurtured some of the finest talents ever to..... More

Cleavland, OH: Absolute Zero Press, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “Stanley D. Heilbrun, 28, from Cleveland's Psychedelic Row, is searching for the renaissance man. Heilbrun fled last week rather than appear in Common Pleas Court on charges of possession of marijuana and furnishing a 16-year-old girl with marijuana. He is the former owner of the Headquarters, a bookstore and gathering place for hippies at 11603 Euclid Avenue in University..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “Parker places Bishop among her ancestors and contemporaries in American poetry, especially Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Lowell, and further compares her work to the poetry or prose of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and Flannery O’Connor, as well as to some of Bishop’s own translations from Brazilian fiction and poetry. He suggests that Bishop’s writing grows out of an..... More

New York, NY, USA: Modern Library, 1955. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "This book is one of the major classics of American philosophy. For more than half a century, it has rewarded readers with many insights into the elusive problem of the nature of beauty and the way in which beauty is perceived. Profound and serious, The Sense of Beauty is written with all the lucidity and brilliance that only a...... More

Berkeley, CA: Ace Backwords, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. "I hate giving advice because each person and the situation of each person is different." (Charles Bukowski, interview). A largely forgotten underground punk rock tabloid, Twisted Image was about as underground as you can get. "World's Greatest Fucker" Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), author, poet, imbiber, is the featured interview ( Debritto B1354, pg. 340) in this relic from the 1980s and Berkeley..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Poetry/LA, 1987. First Printing. “His blood-smeared horizons / his hawks forming shadows of / doom / his stallions greater than / men / or / if not that / then certainly more life- / enduring and endearing / standing in a lovelier / light…”--Charles Bukowski, first several stanzas of “Jeffers,” Poetry/LA 14, pg 1. Offered today is a poetry mag rarity, Poetry/LA 14: Spring-Summer 1987. Started in..... More

New York, NY, USA: Ecco Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Offered here is issue 5 of Daniel Halpburn (b.1945) and Paul Bowles’s (1910-1999) literary periodical Antæus published by Halpburn’s Ecco Press — which would eventually become a publishing imprint of HarperCollins. Antæus ran from 1970 to 1994 and was first founded and published in Tangier, Morocco but would eventually move to New York City in the mid-1980s. The periodical would..... More

New York, NY, USA: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Perfect Bound in Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the story "The Birth, Life and Death of an Underground Newspaper" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar & the racetrack, preceded with an evocative illustration by Peter Bramley (1945-2005), most-acclaimed for..... More