Ann Arbor: Third Mind Books, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. "Starting from San Francisco ' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970's who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their..... More

Cullowhee, NC; Natal, Brazil: New Native Press/ Sol Negro Edicoes, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "The only way I can think to describe the highlands of Peru, is to compare it to a painting by Chagall. "Chagall goes to the country," perhaps. Everywhere, there are alpacas, burros, and incandescent birds. And, at these heights, everything is a bit off-the-ground, floating, It's very surreal- which you, of..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, n/d (Circa 1980s-1990s). First Editions. Single Sheets; Folded Sheet. "May It Continue" Broadside signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. We present the third & final bundled offering of rare broadsides by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting From San Francisco, Item No. 3071..... More

Sylva, NC: New Native Press, 1991. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed (thrice) & inscribed by Thomas Rain Crowe to his parents. "Ransacked in the renaissance of evening sun,/ the moon has taken the half of my bed that's sleep./ With only enough room to write, and visions of memory wiritng me,/ I lean back into my body of rock wanting to dance..." ("The New (Part I No. 5)," first stanza)..... More

Llandysul, Wales: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Thomas Rain Crowe is a poet native to America who believes in journeys. His poems stem from a sensibility that is far reaching and world wide in its intensity while at the same time able to absorb the particularity of everyday life. One senses a great struggle between worlds in his poetry and a...... More

Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "In A House of Girls, Thomas Rain Crowe writes in the long-standing German literary genre of the Bildungsroman (education through experience). In this linked-stories, coming-of-age book of autobiographical fiction, we see and hear echoes of great writers in this tradition, such as Goethe, Joyce, Novalis, Dickens and Thomas Mann. Crowe's "house" and his "girls" are what has..... More

Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by and from the Collection of Thomas Rain Crowe. "The essays of Thomas Rain Crowe combine with the stirring illustrations of Robert Johnson to produce a prophetic vision of the world in which we live -- a vision of what we have and what we stand to lose through our careless disregard for the Earth and its finite resources. A kind..... More

Buffalo, NY: Sunnyoutside, 2010. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Brucciano Poems, what the author says belongs to the genre of travel poem, is the record of a summer spent in a small village high in the Italian Alps- "far from home, yet home," as (Thomas Rain) Crowe refers to it. These, then, are poems taken from the sheaf of his daily exercise at a...... More

Paris, France: Les Editions Aux Forges de Vulcain, 2013. Second French Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. A collection of autobiographical-fictional stories by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting From San Francisco, Item No. 3071, Deluxe Edition No. 3075). First published in 2007 as "A House..... More

Cullowhee, NC: Amazon/Kindle for New Native Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Based on scenes and scenarios from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and the real history of the Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, The Watcher focuses on the paradoxical world of the Shakers in the fictional enclave of Pleasant Grove in the mid-1800s during the antebellum Protestant revival-- up to and including the Civil War..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Third Mind Books, 20185. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, Lettered, Limited (1/26) "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. 'Starting from San Francisco' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and..... More

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "Nearly sixty years ago, a struggling painter first met a young newspaperman when he came to court his sister. Each of the men went on to win international fame, the artist as one of the most brilliant photographers of our time, the journalist as a poet and writer who has carved an indelible niche in the world of..... More