New York, NY: Dutton, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "Join Will Gompertz, BBC Arts editor and probably the world's first art-history stand-up comedian, on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Claude Monet's water lilies to Vincent Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Andy Warhol's soup cans to Damien Hirst's pickled shark, read the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were..... More

London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018; 2020. Limited First Editions. Stapled Wrappers. Both volumes signed by Alexander Adams. "I have accepted the view that my verse benefits from illustration and that- as an artist- I am well placed to provide that. My verse has appeared in anthologies without illustration, so it seems that the verse is strong enough to function without images. I try to write verse as if..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original, and devastating. 'Let Us Now..... More

Memphis, TN: St. Luke's Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover in Dust Jacket. Inscribed & signed by Marilou Awiakta to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Based on the actual events which happened in 1833 to a Choctaw child, RISING FAWN tells the poignant and triumphant story of a small girl taken, during the Removal, from her Choctaw home and handed over to adoptive parents in Memphis. It is not until Christmas and the..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2011; 1999. First German Edition; Original Artwork. Softcover; Single Sheet. Including original collage artwork signed & dated by Mary Beach. A unique pairing of two collectibles by Mary Beach (1919-2006), who along with her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002) was at the Paris-based center of cutting-edge cut-up writing & collage art. She was also the mother of Pamela Beach Plymell & therefore the mother-in-law of Legendary..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Ann Charters first met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1956 at the second of Ginsberg's legendary readings of his poem "Howl" in Berkeley. Charters, a photographer well known in the Sixties for her portraits of blues musicians, became fast friends with the group of writers and poets who would later be known as the Beat Generation. Especially close..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The combination of superb and thoughtfully-arranged illustrations, definitive text, and up-to-date illustration maps, all in a single volume, has already established the pocket-sized version of this guide...as the most essential reference to European bird identification. This sumptuous large-format edition with entirely redesigned text is intended to complement the field guide and permit greater appreciation of the extraordinarily beautiful artwork. 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

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. "The BUK book offers a unique look at a phenomenon: Charles Bukowski- BUK- the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd jobs man, and lowly factotum, became the best-known "underground" writer in the English language. Jean Genet called him "the best poet in America." His work- raw, crude, heartwarming, and hilarious- has inspired imitators, emulators, sycophants, and detractors. Until now, everything written..... More

New York, NY: Jaguar Publications, Inc., 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Magazine. This number of the Playboy-era American men's magazine edited by Jacqueline Wright features an interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by an unknown staff writer entitled "William Burroughs: Prophet or Pornographer?" (pgs. 16-17, 66-68). The interview took place during WSB's break from expatriatism in Tangier while he lived at 22 Centre Street in lower Manhattan approximately between March-September..... More

London, England: Michael Horovitz, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This double-double number of the UK literary journal edited & published by Michael Horovitz brims with mostly original contributions by a wide mixture of the most well- & unknown cutting-edge literary figures (& some artists & musicians for good measure) from the time of (or recently deceased at) its publication during 1975 to now & beyond, compiled over many years since the..... More

Gothenburg, Sweden: Radium 226.05, 1986. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This first number of the literary & art journal published in Sweden, edited by Ulrich Hillebrand & CM von Hausswolff, features "A Crimson Path They Go," a late post cut-up short story by William S. Burroughs (pgs. 11-12). Provocative, timely & hilarious, this is an exemplary later little gem by the Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, the patron Saint-Demon of..... More