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

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: 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 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