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

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

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

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: S. J. Reginald Saunders, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed with greeting by Robert W. Service. "Mr. Service needs no introduction to Canadians, for his readers here are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The poetry of Robert Service has sold more widely throughout the English-speaking world than that of any other living poet. His new volume of poems, BAR-ROOM BALLADS includes, among other poems in the typical..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) served his broadcasting apprenticeship as a teenager...Then, starting in 1943 and continuing until his death, Thomas often sat behind a BBC microphone, variously giving radio talks, introducing poetry selections, participating in roundtable discussions, reading dramas, essays, poems. His was a glorious voice and he had a special ease and inventiveness on the air." (from front flap) The..... More

New York, NY: Horizon Press, Circa 1976 (1953). First Softcover Edition Thus, Undetermined Printing. Softcover. "The Little Review, founded and edited by Margaret Anderson- one of this century's great romantics and rebels- is probably the livest and most important legend in American literary history. It "printed more distinguished work and aroused more excitement than any of its latter-day successors have. (The New Yorker). This volume presents over 150 selections from..... More

New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. First Printing. Softcover. "Quarterlia" is the quarterly publication of the Quality Paperback Club. Edited by Kathy Kiernan, this issue contains a plethora of intriguing contributions worth the price of admission alone. Among these are Jerry Tallmer's essay "Jack Kerouac: Back to the Village--But Still On the Road"; memories of Robert Lowell from one of his cousins; and a contribution from poet Deborah..... More

Dublin, Ireland: Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann, 1999. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by co-editor Theo Dorgan to translator Thomas Rain Crowe. "Ten distinguished poets were invited...to choose 100 significant poems of the century. Each section editor reflects on the poems that mark, characterise or are emblematic of a particular decade. They have chosen for our attention poems that interrogate and are shaped by contending histories of the island of..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Glee Knight, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This issue is dedicated to Henry Miller, a great artist, on his 81st birthday." (from contents-copyright page) Thus do the late Arthur (1937-2012) & Glee (a/k/a Kit?) Knight state the main theme of this vintage issue of their acclaimed, pioneering series of Beat-related publications under the umbrella title of "The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual." Henry Miller, the great..... More