New York, NY: Flatiron Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by President Joe Biden. "In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the previous forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect and to reflect on what the year had..... More

Chicago, IL: The Bijou Publishing Empire, Inc./The Print Mint, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The fourth number of this golden-age exemplar of underground comix features several works by Robert Crumb, including a Mr. Natural episode & "Projunior and Honeybunch" (outrageously scatological even for him); Daniel Clyne, Kim Deitch & Skip Williamson. This is the first printing, indicated by "Hey Kids! Adults Only!" in red lettering above title on front cover;..... More

Madison, WI: Broom Street Theater Press, 1971. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Includes handwritten, signed note from contributor Chris Billias to Erin Matson; autograph poem. This vintage second number of the literary & art journal chiefly edited by Don Hilgenberg includes contributions of poetry by Chris Billias, Douglas Blazek & many others; prose including the complete play "The Attic Angel" by Rod Clark & book reviews by Jon Reilly including of..... More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Megan Marshall. "Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall..... More

Natal, Brazil: Sol Negro Edicoes, 2012. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. "Enslav'd, the Daughters of Albion weep: a/ trembling lamentation/ Upon their mountains; in their valleys. sighs/ toward America." (pg. 8) The canonical poem of 1793 by William Blake, the inspired & inspiring British poet-painter-printer, presented here in a bilingual edition, with original English text opposite Portugese translation by Marcio Simoes. An exquisite production in Blake-illustrated attached over-wraps with..... More

Bath, England: Morrigan Publications, 1991. Special First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by James P. Blaylock (Author), Lewis Shiner (Postscript Author), & Ferret (Illustrator). American fantasy author James P. Blaylock seemed to fictionalize his own life in this fantastical story about two young boys, named after his own sons, drawn into a mysterious world by a pair of magic spectacles found at a curiosity shop that seemed to appear out..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 2007. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Amy Bloom. “Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine” (from front flap). The second full length novel by short story and nonfiction writer Amy Bloom (b. 1953) dives deep into the life and experiences of a young Jewish immigrant from Russia establishing a new life in..... More

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I? In the summer of 1914, New York Police Department captain Tom Tunney is preoccupied by Manhattan's raging gang rivalries and has little idea that, halfway around the world, a much more ominous threat to the city is brewing. As Germany teeters..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed with drawing by Robert Bly. "In 1966 Robert Bly and David Ray founded AMERICAN WRITERS AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, which organized the first series of "read-ins" against the war, in which most of the poets in the country took part. Last spring he read this long poem, then unfinished, at various halls across the country, in which he and..... More

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1975. Second Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert Bly to Thomas Rain Crowe on the Occasion of the legendary First San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1976. "All day wind had called me,/ oceans, a yellow line streaking/ across the sky,/ bones thrown out of graves." ("Sitting in Fall Grass," first stanza, pg. 19) A collection of poems by Robert Bly, the great..... More

Grass Valley, CA: Cold River Press, 2011. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by David A. Boles to Charles Plymell. A volume with the two title poems by David A. Boles, the prolific alternative poet, publisher & artiste (see his website, www.boles.org), printed back-to-back with covers in two directions (as with the first edition of "William Lee" 's "Junkie" as you Third Minders will recall). With forewords by Boles, cover..... More

Boulder, CO: The Naropa Institute, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. This Summer 1990 issue (no longer referred to with Vol. or No.) of the literary journal published at The Naropa Institute features two hilariously scurrilous pieces by Charles Bukowski, "Dildo Man" in prose & "Sex Sister" in prose-poetry. Also excerpts from a slide lecture delivered by artist David Hockney at the Institute on July 22, 1989 including an illustration ("If the..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. "My hero is Man the Discoverer. The world we now view from the literate West- the vistas of time, the land and the seas, the heavenly bodies and our own bodies, the plants and animals, history and human societies past and present- had to be opened for us by countless Columbuses. In the deep recesses of the past..... More