Indianapolis, IN & New York, NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. "Detroit Is My Own Home Town is as sprightly a collection of stories and portraits as ever came under the classification of memoirs. Malcolm W. Bingay probably knows more Detroit lore than any other man alive, and it's people he is interested in- not dry dates and statistics. Now editorial director of the Detroit Free Press, the..... 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

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

Seattle, WA: Wood Works, 2000. Limited First Softcover Edition. Sewn Wrappers in Over-Wrap. "Juan Ramon Jimenez's Naked Woman is a classic celebration of love, conveyed upon breaking waves of passion and despair, with evocative, shadowy asides that draw us close to the excited, humbled poet, till we share his perceptions, his agony and joy." (from back cover) A stately, passionate four-part masterpiece of poetry by Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958), the..... 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

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. "I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books, with the exception of the Jungle Books and the Just So Stories. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken." (author's Preface) A compilation of..... 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

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. "If I could have/ Two things in one:/ The peace of the grave,/ And the light of the sun;" ("Moriturus," first stanza, pg. 3) A vintage, classic collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), the canonical American poet, quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian & LGBT icon. Hardcover in boards with cloth spine & corners, first edition as stated on..... 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