Boston, MA: Rolly-Michaux Gallery, 1979. First Printing. Single Folded Sheet. A rare piece of ephemera relating to Karel Appel (1921-2006), the esteemed Dutch artist-sculptor-poet who was a founder of the avant-garde CoBrA (for Copenhagen, Brussels & Amsterdam) art movement during the late 1940s. This is an invitation to a "special preview exhibition" of Appel's sculpture & works on paper held on October 13, 1979 at the Rolly-Michaux gallery in Boston..... 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

San Diego, CA: Atticus Books, 1982. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This first number of the literary journal features an authorized reprint of a short, satirical essay by Ezra Pound, "The Printing Press Was Invented" from 1936; as well as contemporary contributions of poetry & prose from John M. Bennett, Michael Creedon, Ronald Davis, Rod Moore, Harry Polkinhorn (also co-editor) & many others. With a series of illustrations by Richard Sturdivan..... More

New York, NY: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "This unprecedented volume considers the profound and enduring impact of Spain's history, art, and culture on one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Cristobal Balenciaga. Hailed as "fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Balenciaga created a revolutionary oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris..... 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

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

Asheville, NC: ReFresh Press, 2004. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. "Palmate is not an illustration of understanding. It is a wail of unknowing, with reaches toward sense made through questions, questions that are expressions of unknowing...Palmate is another word for seagull feet...Only after discovering another meaning in a dictionary, "having sections radiating from a common center," did the somewhat flat term sit nicely as the title." (from introduction, "Some First Surf.")..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "...Dunyazade, kid sister of Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights, (has) her own way with words. There is also Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, and yet finds himself at forty "sea-leveled, parched and plucked, every grain in my molted sandals raising blisters, and beleaguered by the serpents of my past." And bellerophon, the hero who tames..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. " "There is nothing unusual about the foot except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen men are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself, although he is, effectively, dead...In an austere..... More

n/p: David Meltzer & Jack Shoemaker, 1970. Limited First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. Issued in November 1970 as Maya Quarto Eleven in a series co-edited & published by noted Beat-San Francisco Renaissance poet David Meltzer, this is a collection of six poems by Bill Bathurst. With an exquisite lino cut illustration by Michael Myers on title page. One of 300 copies on Curtis papers designed & printed by Clifford Burke. Large-format..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his preface to James Perrizo. An anthology of poetry & short fiction from the first decade of Passages North, the literary journal "...from the Great Lakes Region (that) has won a national audience and critical acclaim."(from back cover) Edited by Elinor Benedict & with a preface by Charles Baxter. Baxter has signed this copy at his preface..... More