New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Arno Strine likes to stop time and take women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobigraphy, The Fermata . It proves in the telling to be a very provocative, funny, and altogether morally confused piece of work." (from inner front cover flap). Born in New York City, New York, novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker (b. 1957) is..... More

Brighton, England: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheets; and Plastic Bag Invitation. “Motion-picture studies of Ronald Reagan reveal characteristic patterns of facila tonus and musculature associated with homo-erotic [sic] behavior. The continuing tension of buccal sphincters and the recessive tongue role tally with earlier studies of facial rigidity (c.f. Adolf Hitler, Nixon). Slow motion cine-films of campaign speeches exercised a marked erotic effect upon an audience..... More

New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. “This study probes the relationship between two contradictory, or apparently contradictory, pairs of terms: ‘Depression’ and ‘abundance,’ and ‘literature’ and ‘mass culture.’ It suggests, first, that one can detect in the culture of the American thirties—despite the painful national experience of scarcity and poverty—the now-familiar outline of an image-mediated, consumer society. It argues, second, that the hierarchical opposition between..... More

Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Iris Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Aliki Barnstone to Dan Rzicznek. "It’s both a delight and a pleasure in this vast American poetic landscape to read a poet as breath-taking and luminous as Aliki Barnstone. In this new book, Blue Earth, she gives us the best of herself, her voice, and she writes as if possessed by the language of angels..... More

New York, NY, USA: Norton, 2008. First Edition. “We live in a visual age–an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science. Certain key images embody our understanding of life and the universe we inhabit. Some, such as Robert Hooke’s first microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken..... More

New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry, 1971. First Printing. Loose Sheets in Manilla Envelope. A “book” [really a long-form manuscript in unbound single sheets] of poems by conceptual artist, poet, and painter Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022), known both for her long association with the legendary Paula Cooper Gallery in New York and her “vast and varied body of work” (Paula Cooper Gallery). Her writing, we’re happy to tell you, is quite..... More

Latham, NY: Paris Review Editions/ British American Publishing, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Charles Baxter to Laurence & Nancy Goldstein. "I read Charles Baxter's Imaginary Paintings with intense pleasure. This is poetry of the first order, characterized by an anguished, almost inconsolable lyricism, utterly immersed in the life that is, a life that tends to be ignored in our art, whatever the form." (Jim Harrison, quoted..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University / Library Partners Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover; Folded Single Sheets. Signed by Donald Beagle to Laurence Goldstein, with: [1] a typed letter from Goldstein to Beagle, most likely a retained copy; and [2] a typed return letter from Beagle to Goldstein, with Beagle's signature below his typed name. “We drive four hours to the path of totality, to this Fort offshore / from Charleston..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Press, 1976. Limited Second Printing. Softcover. "This is the record of a Quebec novelist's obsession with Jack Kerouac and with the significance of Kerouac's life and writing for a Quebecois. Victor-Levy Beaulieu finds Kerouac's Americanism superficial, constituted mostly of desperate and unsuccessful flight from the Quebec gloom which was his inescapable heritage. He suggests that Kerouac's fear of women, his mother-worship, and his fear of..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad beautifully integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain college, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had..... More

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. First Edition. Inscribed & signed by Erin Belieu to Dan Rzicznek. “Too prosaic, didactic, / purely political, the cause lacking / a certain loftiness, unlike homelessness / or domestic abuse, those subjects / newly upholstered with the necessary, / American-style noblesse oblige. / Maybe if I were writing in / an Eastern European language with / a translator who caught all the verve..... More

Nashville, Tennessee: Keyhole Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Matt Bell "With How They Were Found, Matt Bell joins the company of the great fabulists like Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, or closer to home, the American masters, Steven Millhauser, John Crowley, and Thomas Pynchon. In reading this collection, you will be forgiven if you have to constantly remind yourself that this is the..... More