Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1918 [1970]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Guillame Apollinaire's celebrated, groundbreaking "Calligrams" were first published shortly after his death in 1918, and have since come to be considered an important ancestor of Concrete poetry and a major Surrealist work. The "Calligrams" deal in "...the spiritual drama of Apollinaire's reactions to World War I," his "...total investigation of life," and his all-permeating conviction that he indeed stood..... More

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

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More

Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Community College, circa 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. A letter-size (8&1/2"x11") flyer-announcement of "A Dramatic Reading from the Letters, Essays, and Poems of Antonin Artaud" featuring Clayton Eshleman, the esteemed poet, translator & educator; & the actor Earl Kingston. The event took place at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, MI on December 1 of what was most likely the year of..... 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

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977; 1986; 1989. First Edition; First Softcover Editions. Hardcover; Softcovers. "At the time we were all writing erotica at a dollar a page, I realized that for centuries we had had only one model for this literary genre- the writing of men. I was already conscious of a difference between the masculine and feminine treatment of sexual experience. I knew that there was a...... 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

New York, NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. With excerpt of poem hand-written & initialed by Robert W. Service. An early &, in its time, wildly popular volume of poems by Robert William Service (1874-1958), the extremely prolific British-Canadian poet known as "The Bard of the Yukon" & often compared to his near-contemporary Rudyard Kipling. These are very straightforward, old-fashioned poems about the places & people of Canada's..... More

New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gerard Malanga to Charles Plymell. "Thomas Merton called Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo "the greatest universal poet since Dante." British poet, critic, and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, identified Vallejo as "...the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." And in the forceful, brilliant poetry of Vallejo, poet/photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

San Diego, CA: Atticus Books, 1982. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This first number of the literary journal features an authorized reprint of a short, satirical essay by Ezra Pound, "The Printing Press Press Was Invented" from 1936; as well as contemporary contributions of poetry & prose from John M. Bennett, Michael Creedon, Ronald Davis, Rod Moore, Harry Polkinhorn (also co-editor) & many others. With a series of illustrations by richard..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Olympia Press was founded in Paris in the spring of 1953 by Maurice Girodias, "conceived," he writes, "as a desperate move on my part to escape complete social and economic annihilation."...From the beginning it was unique among publishing houses. Located in Paris, it published in English. Its authors included some of the greatest of the past and the present..... More

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Thirty-Five contemporary American poets appear in this classic collection edited by Helen Vendler, New Yorker poetry critic & Harvard English Professor. Including works by Wallace Stevens, Langston Huges, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath & many others. Book in very fine condition with only spotting to edges, dj near fine with..... More