Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Transcript of remarks delivered by the great Beat- Black Mountain School poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005), as a participant in the major conference that was held in Boulder, Colorado at the Naropa Institute during 1982 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of On the Road, the breakthrough novel by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation..... More

Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. As the back covers of Wayne Chatterton & James H. Maguire's "Western Writers Series" pamphlets suggest, "This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, provides brief but authoritative introductions to the lives and works of authors who have written significant literature about the American West. These attractive, uniform pamphlets, none of them longer than fifty pages, will be useful to the..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Routledge, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? (Allen) Ginsberg, (Jack) Kerouac, (William S.) Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric Journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric..... More

London, England: Picador/ Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "At the end of the millennium, the leading industry magazine, The Bookseller, selected the ten people who had most influenced its century. Tom Maschler- described as 'the most important publisher in Britain; the most innovative, adventurous, and newsworthy'- was one of them; it went on to say that for nearly twenty years, 'he made publishing glamorous and the aura he..... More

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to read, either to pass examinations or to acquire information, from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We are reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In this powerful collection of new poems, Michael McClure gives us a rare view into his thoughts about mortality, particularly in the moving sequence "Death Poems." Mule Kick Blues takes its title from a series of homages to blues musicians, and features shout-outs to lifelong friends, a long poem "Fragments of Narcissus," and the ecological and zen-infused themes for which..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. Two of the most influential American writers come together in this volume, a compilation of Henry Miller’s (1891-1980) writings with literary commentary by Norman Mailer (1923-2007) organized by the themes evident in the chosen excerpts: Genius, Narcissism, Surrealism, and Domestic Misery, to name a few. Mailer demonstrates a reverence for the style and content of Miller’s writing that has been widely..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "In September 1938, Henry Miller first announced his preparation of a book to be called Letters to Emil- letters to his boyhood friend, the successful commercial artist Emil Schnellock. In the decades that followed, this one-sided correspondence was often quarried for publication, but the letters as gathered by Miller for the years 1922 through 1934 have never appeared in print until..... More

New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1977. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This very early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry," edited & with contributions by Eliot Weinberger, features three poems by Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, translator & scholar who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Opposite the first poem ("36..... More

New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1979. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry" & edited by Eliot Weinberger features the long epic poem "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land" by Aime Cesaire (1913-2008), the venerated Martinique-born French-language poet, translated into English by Clayton Eshleman & Annette Smith. Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. “So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it…” Thus begins the..... More