Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. "This play is not "about" something; hopefully, it is something. And primarily it is a way of looking at man and his human nature as the only source of violence which has come closer and closer to destroying the race. It is a view which does not look toward social or political ideas as the creators of violence, but into the..... More

New York, NY: Atria Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. “The publicity extolled [Lena Horne] as a black woman who battled racism and crushing loss with ultimate dignity, while conquering almost every corner of white-dominated show business–Hollywood, Las Vegas, Broadway. In an age when black film actresses were confined either to low-budget “race movies” or to playing maids or whores, Horne was the screen’s first Negro goddess and bowed to no..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. “A book about the Huston family is a book with an extensive historical sweep, covering a history not just of Hollywood, but also of vaudeville and the legitimate theater in America; examining not only the people and events in the lives of Walter, John, Anjelica, and her brothers and sister, but also the ways in which the Hustons have revealed..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. “She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without A Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natali Wood made her debut in 1946, playing Claudette Colbert..... More

N/P: Filthythumb Press, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. On approaching the work of French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), one is by turns intrigued and bewildered, but is perhaps most notably (albeit occasionally) brought to epiphany. If the contemporary English slang adjective "batshit" was then in use, it would have been employed in virtually all descriptions of Artaud. An unlikely casualty of medical misdiagnoses as a child..... More

New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM: Spuyten Duyvil/ AWAREing Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. "Vivid personal stories of the poets and writers who leaped out of the literary traditions of the 1950s, blending with other artists to create the excitement of a new art mix called multimedia. Light Years tells the story of a unique group of poets, novelists, playwrights and book people who associated with visual and performing artists..... More

London, England, UK: Cape Goliard Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. Here we have yet another delightful item we actually had not seen or sold before it came across the Desks of our Curators here at TMB: the eminently portable (and oddly adorable) third published effort from Tom Clark, “The Emperor of Animals.” Offered here is an extremely early and petitely charming chapbook by the great American poet..... More

Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1993. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Kenward Elmslie to Ken & Ann Mikolowski. "Postcards on Parade explores the glorious traditions of the American musical, gives them a spin, and injects them with surreal pizzaz and linguistic highs in this concept musical for the 1990s. Three gatherings of dealers and collectors of old postcards provide a reality that is constantly confronted and undermined..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal features two contributions by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the path-breaking French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor: Three letters written during the 1920s, '30s & '40s in English translation by Thomas Fitzsimmons; & the short one-act play "Spurt of Blood," translated by none other than the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also in..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "The list of really mythic female stars is a short one- Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, and...? Whoever else would be on that list, Rita Hayworth would certainly be included- the Titian-haired "Love Goddess," star of Gilda, Blood and Sand, The Lady from Shanghai, Pal Joey, and countless other films, whose pinup photograph was so incendiary..... More

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005. First Edition/ Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. "BEAT GENERATION is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma- what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship..... More

New York, NY: Poet's Press, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “There is a sense to him that intrigues me—of an Ancient Person, a curiously insistent Messenger. / … / We were in New York. He had knocked on the door and now entered, wearing a lovely Edwardian suit, a lovely cloth it was, wool. He handed my wife and myself the pipe, and again moments later, we were walking on..... More

Paris, France: Obelisk Press, 1937. Limited First Edition. Unbound Signatures in Wrappers. Signed by Henry Miller. "Night. A tropical garden filled with pebbled paths. In the center of the garden a small pond out of which rises a huge bowl filled with gleaming gold-fish. The heavy white face of Alraune hovers over the garden like a mask. The face grows larger and larger until it fills the screen. Her mouth..... More