Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, n/d (circa 1986). First Printings. Single Sheets. Two broadsides both signed by Clayton Eshleman. Two related oblong broadside-posters, both relating to a literary event held at the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 2, circa 1986 featuring Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed, prolific poet, editor, educator & translator: (1) An approx. 14"x8&1/2" announcement of a multi-media event featuring readings of the works of Antonin Artaud..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: OtherWind Press, n/d. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Hand-numbered & signed by translator Pierre Joris. A broadside with a poem by Paul Celan (1920-1970), the German-language Jewish poet & holocaust survivor. Text in German on left column, & in English translated by Pierre Joris on right column. Printed in a limited edition of 120 copies, hand-numbered & signed by Joris, by the OtherWind Press of our hometown..... More

Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club/ The Cardavon Press, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator Robert Shore. "It was with (An Outcast of the Islands) that Conrad decided his life, which was to be congruent with his art. He doubted, after Almayer's Folly (1895), whether he "should write another line for print." He might have gone back to sea and dreamed away his life in doubt and..... More

Philadelphia & New York, NY: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This book for the first time answers in a systematic way the often-asked question, What was Bloomsbury? It was not, Edel finds, altogether the parcel of snobs, egotists, eccentrics, and elitists of the common legend. The "Bloomsberries" struck out for sexual freedom, they questioned the "received ideas" of the Victorians, they helped renovate writing and painting in..... More

New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator May Neama. "When a man, however endowed he may be, concerns himself only with telling the story, when he does not take into account that true literary power does not lie in the fact but indeed in the manner of preparing, presenting, and expressing it, he has no sense of art. The profound and..... More

Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by editor Thomas Rain Crowe. "Yvan Goll is one of the great lyric poets and authors of the twentieth century and is at the same time arguably the most neglected poet of the twentieth century. Goll was in the avant-garde of various literary scenes from the beginning. A central figure in the German world of Dada and Expressionism in Berlin..... More

London, England: The Folio Society, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,/ The shires have seen it plain,/ From north and south the sign returns/ And beacons burn again." (Part I, "1887," first stanza, pg. 3) The popular poem cycle by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), the great British classical scholar & poet. Housman's evocations of the disappointed aspirations of youth in the English countryside contain..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, n/d (Circa 1895). First Edition Thus (?). Hardcover. A volume of stories by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great British poet, novelist & story-writer whose prolific output celebrated the colonial British Empire. Current censure (if not outright censoring & "cancelling") of imperialism & native cultural appropriation (which he indeed upheld & practiced) aside, the quality & adventuresome excitement of Kipling's evocative writings bestow on them a time-tested..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First American Edition. Hardcover. The iconic novel by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial British Empire. While he may be out-of-favor if not entirely "canceled" by our current, intolerant "liberal" literary establishment for his indeed extreme advocacy of colonial imperialism & what is now often viewed as appropriation of native cultures..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First American Edition. Hardcover. A speculative, fantastical science-fiction story by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great British writer most known for his works of fabulist fiction that concern the British Empire & its then-colony (Raj) of India. Here we believe that Kipling was inspired, or competing with, his contemporary H.G. Wells (1866-1946), who with his futuristic novels such as War of the Worlds..... More

Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator Sheila Robinson. A novel by D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), the great British poet & writer. First published in 1913, this early work in the Lawrence oeuvre was at the cutting edge, indeed way ahead of its time with its deep, relatively explicit treatment of the sexual, emotional & psychological issues of its protagonists. The initial..... More

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "As a Surrealist, Péret valued freedom and creativity above all else...A member of the movement from its beginning--although unembroiled in its major controversies on a personal level--[was] especially and naturally dedicated to writing poetry that would embody "the real function of the spirit"--the basic goal of Surrealism... This volume includes poems from all his major poetic works, selected for..... More

New Haven, CT & Athens, Greece: Pharos/Athens, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "(Henry Miller) went to Greece at a time when his creative and personal life was at its lowest point, and when the realities of Nazism and the horrors of war refuted with finality the established values of high-culture Europe which he himself had already questioned. Greece- and certainly (George) Katsimbalis, (George) Seferis and their circle- awakened a...... More