New York, NY: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. "This space is invariably reserved for a brief discussion of a book's contents, with the aim in mind to inveigle and lure you, the hesitating purchaser, into buying it. The composition is generally referred to by people in the book business by the unattractive name of the "blurb." It is supposed to say a few interesting things about the..... More

Katuah Province, Turtle Island, Canada: Laurence Holden, 2009. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Laurence Holden to Thomas Rain Crowe, & with an original signed watercolor artwork. "Paintings and poems share something important-/ a concentrated form of paying attention-/ paying attention to what is!/ And what is, is both moving and still./ Paintings are still and yet move in our minds, thoughts,/ and feelings./ Poems are always..... More

Newtown, Powys, Wales: Gwag Gregynog CYF, 1988. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by all five members of publisher's staff. A poem from 1956 by Robert Maynard (Bobi) Jones (1929-2017), an academician & among the most acclaimed & prolific writers in the original Welsh language. All text in Welsh. With a beautiful, familial woodcut illustration by Hilary Paynter. Chapbook in sewn wrappers with enveloping over-wrap, an exquisitely hand-crafted letterpress production..... More

New York, NY: Touchstone Center Publications, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Richard Lewis to Thomas Rain Crowe. "In this book, Richard Lewis and Gigi Alvare have collaborated to create a quiet evocation of the presence of language in "all things, from shells to stars, from our heartbeat to distant thunder" and how everything around us "is alive with its own way of speaking." For those who listen..... More

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland: Acair Ltd., 1991. First Edition. Softcover. "This book is a celebration in words and photographs of one of Scotland's leading poets on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In celebrating Sorley MacLean it also celebrates modern Gaelic writing and demonstrates the influence that MacLean's writing has had on many young Gaelic writers. Much of the work in the book is new and unpublished and has..... More

St. Paul, MN: Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Brent Martin to Thomas Rain Crowe. "A homeless man named Leslie/ jumps into the old town Pilot Light selling weeds./ He's pulled them from the cracked sidewalk/ outside, and cupped them in a kudzu leaf" ("Everyday People," first stanza, pg. 11) A collection of poems by Brent Martin, a distinguished poet-essayist-conservationist who resides..... 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

Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams/ Jargon Books, 1958. First Edition. Sofcover. "This notebook, called "The Red Notebook" because indited in a printer's dummy with a red cover, was probably begun during the course of the air-conditioned nightmare trip around America. I had begun the trip with a handsome large dummy (for Leaves of Grass) which I was obliged to sell before completing the trip. This one, I know, was completed in..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2017. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I discovered Andre Kertesz' photo collection On Reading one afternoon in a semi-truck full of remaindered Penguin books that were donated to the college where I worked. I opened the book and read the brief biography. This statement stood out: "His reception in America, where he moved in 1936, was different if not positively hostile. In New..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "We talked as we walked/ away from the boaters/ who had circled around her/ not knowing/ that we had imitated/ the sacred glyph/ water, air, rock,/ and the living earth/ the circle within/ the circle without" ("Red Rock Art," first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, essayist, editor..... More

New York, NY: Abrams, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "The National Lampoon rose like a rocket: Launched during the late Vietnam years, it climbed through the drug-addled countercultural haze of the early 1970s to orbit an American scene desperately in need of a laugh. If the magazine had a point of view, it was that everybody and everything was fair game: raving right-wing lunatics, tie-dyed peaceniks, tedious noodniks; all were offended..... More

Markesan, WI: Pentagram Press, 1980. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "fall leaves representative/ hands that pass from the mind/ color, gesture, symbol, tongue, speech/ leaf falls here/ forms a language/ of us" (final lines) A chapbook with the title poem by Gil Ott (1950-2004), the noted American poet, essayist & publisher who mostly resided & worked in Philadelphia. With graphic illustrations on front cover & throughout by Carol Emmons, the..... More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. With Illustrated Card Signed by Harvey Pekar. “While I’m usually not into “best of” collections and awards because of the wide variation in aesthetic taste, I am happy to be working on this Best American Comics collection because it lends legitimacy to the cause of Comics, my medium, and their creators. The first “Best American Short Stories” was published by Houghton..... More