Long Island City, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens- and enemies- of the vast Roman Empire two thousand years ago. This book goes beyond the stereotypes found in popular culture to examine the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to..... More

New York, NY: Portents, 1969. First Printing. Broadside. Issued as Portents 13 by Ann Charters (author of the first major biography of Jack Kerouac), this 6"x15" broadside is a prospectus for a special Herman Melville-related box of which only 25 were produced. "This Melville box attempts to give a sense of Melville's presence in the Berkshires by offering a construct of objects, some contemporary to Melville, others from our own..... More

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early eighth number of the collectible series of pamphlets published by the venerable Black Sparrow Press & dated May 1973 on front cover, features the title poem (or rather the series of short prose-poem paragraphs) by David Antin (1932-2016), the esteemed & pioneering poet, critic & performance artist. On front cover, as with other issues in this series..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Max Apple. "So what's a nice Jewish boy like Ira Goldstein doing managing a flashy Puerto Rican middleweight named Jesus? What is his mother, a vital but previously chaste widow, doing in the brutal arms of Solomon, the scrap-metal king of Detroit? How is Ira's skeptical grandmother going to cope with a boxer in the house..... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett to Thomas Rain Crowe. "grandfather eagle/ which art in heaven/ thou soarest in heaven/ thou makest my blood/ to sing/ sing/ sing" (Eagle Song, pg. 8) A collection of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), A Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one time was a Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill..... More

Ellsworth, ME; Eugene, OR: Backwoods Broadsides; Mountains & Rivers Press, 2003; 2005. Limited First Editions. Folded Sheet; sewn wrappers. Broadside inscribed & signed by Bob Arnold to Thomas Rain Crowe; chapbook signed by Bob Arnold. "If it just kept on raining/ -far past the notion of an ark/ would we have a new mythology/ to take its place" ("Getting Past the Text," pg. 12, Invent a World) Two collectible productions..... 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

London, England: Antioch International Writing Programs at the Antioch Centre for British Studies, 1979. First Printing. Softcover. This Autumn 1979 number of the British literary journal features a review of a volume of poems by Edward Dorn (Hello, La Jolla, 1978) by Peter Ackroyd, another by Linda W. Wagner of a work by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski (The Man Who Shook Hands) & more. With contributions of poetry by Don..... More

New York, NY: Perennial, 2004. First Perennial Edition. Softcover. Inscribed by Peter Balakian. Writer Peter Balakian (born June 13, 1951- ) may seem familiar to you as he is a prolific contributor of essays and op-eds to The Washington Post, The Guardian, Art In America, Poetry, & New York Times Magazine, among others, with similar themes to his poetry and other published writing. Balakian blends personal and historical stories to..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In 'Serving the Reich,' Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those..... More

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Russell Banks. "Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness- and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules." (from front flap) A...... More

London, England: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1973. First Trade Edition. Softcover. The first trade softcover edition of a collection of short tributes to the British poet George Barker (1913-1991) on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1973. Among twenty of his colleagues, friends & admirers who contribute to this homage is Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg's hand-written tribute, dated June 7, 1971 & including a drawing & bold signature, is reproduced..... More