Portland, OR: Locust Records / Nexus, 1989. First Edition. LP. “The title Breathe on the Living comes from a poem by Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), an Ohio poet and watercolorist who was perhaps 50 years ahead of his time with his visions of peace and ecological sanity. And so this record is for him more than anyone else. I think he would dig it. It is also for all the Chinese..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. “One day in the late Summer of 1989, I had lunch in Telluride, Colorado, with the celebrated French director Bertrand Blier. Over steaks and salads, Blier told me funny stories about growing up in a theatrical family in Paris and about making movies with many of the finest actors in France. After coffee, we strolled back to Blier’s guest chalet..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. “With the astonishing versatility that has always been the hallmark of his genius, Graham Greene, the most distinguished novelist of our times, has now written “an Edwardian comedy.” His central figure is the notorious and ever-popular Raffles, the gentleman burglar of E.W. Hornung’s immortal The Amateur Cracksman, and the cast of characters includes the Marquis of Queensberry, Raffles’ friend and..... More

London, England, UK: John Stockdale, 1811. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. This 4-volume set from publisher John Stockdale (1750-1814) in London, England was likely the last production of his career after compiling the works of great writers like William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Contemporaries of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson (1572-1637), Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) & John Fletcher (1579-1625) were playwrights in the Elizabethan era, a renaissance of English theatre. Jonson popularized..... More

Torino, Italy: Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. “An autodidact, independent thinker, and early proponent of interdisciplinary practice, Leslie possesses an aggressive streak of self-reliance that has compelled him throughout his career to challenge himself in startling ways. Offering a unique link between the New York School and postmodernism, his accomplishments provide us with an unorthodox post-war art history lesson, forcing us to reconsider some of our..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Margot Peters brings her exceptional gifts to a full-scale life of the "royal family" of American theatre and film- and the result is a book bursting with vitality, legend, anecdote and insight. The House of Barrymore begins in the 1860s with Louisa, Mrs. John Drew, the greatest Comedienne of her time, mother of the brilliant Georgiana ("Georgie") Drew Barrymore, and..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "Take My Life is Eddie Cantor's autobiography. In it he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter that have so long been his due...Take My Life is filled with anecdotes..... More

New York, NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "There is good reason for Mr. (E.E.) Cummings' crypticism in his description of HIM. We do not remember any book that more baffles an attempt to describe it. You may think you know what to expect in a play by Cummings- and you will find out that you don't know the half of it. Such lucid madness, such adventurous..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features two episodes from Nova Express by William S. Burroughs ("Gave Proof Through The Night" & "The Fish Poison Con," pgs. 109-116), the high cut-up novel which Rosset's Grove Press would be the first to publish in full the following year (1964). Maynard &..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1917 Vachel Lindsay called motion pictures 'today's divine surprise' and urged his fellow poets to write about them as a significant phenomenon of modern life. Throughout the century poets have responded to the movies, including some of our most important contemporary writers...The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History is the first study of the engagement of..... More

Paris, France: Les Presses de la Plaque, 1988. First Edition. Loose Folded Sheets in Loose Wrappers. "Why dance? Why dance when I feel my physical abilities are so limited and the threat of failure is so constant? Often all I can remember is the possibility of getting high. In fact, the daily business of dancing IS getting high. It's called getting up, standing up, BEING on your legs!" (from Dancetales..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Burt Lancaster (1913–1994) was an Oscar Award winning actor, whose oeuvre is widely hailed as one of the most impressive in the medium. Initially known for playing tough guys with a tender heart, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in films and television series. Starring in classics such as “The..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & with Original Drawing by Michael McClure. Think of “Little Odes and The Raptors” as two individual “books” compiled into one, not altogether unlike the dual selections that make up Michael McClure's (1932-2020) friend, Jim Morrison's eponymous 1970 collection “The Lords and The New Creatures” [See TMB Item #4461]. It was McClure who introduced Morrison to the work..... More