Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author Frank Uhle. "Ann Arbor, long known for its political and cultural activism, has an equally compelling history of engagement with film and media. In their quest to show art and independent films and in their efforts to raise money in the name of artistic freedom, local and campus societies pushed the boundaries of conformity. Delving into..... More

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's copy signed by James Purdy. A collection of four short one-act plays by James Purdy (1914-2009), the great American novelist, short-story writer, poet & playwright. Purdy's prolific works, created over his long life, were prescient & deeply admired by more famous twentieth-century literary giants including Samuel Beckett. His writings have a compelling affinity for people & subjects at or..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1917 Vachel Lindsay called motion pictures 'today's divine surprise' and urged his fellow poets to write about them as a significant phenomenon of modern life. Throughout the century poets have responded to the movies, including some of our most important contemporary writers...The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History is the first study of the engagement of..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1972, Broadway and movie actor George Sanders committed suicide at the age of 65 because, he wrote in a note he left, "I am bored." Brian Aherne, himself a famous and distinguished actor, was one of Sanders' close friends. In this intimate biography, he takes us into the private life of an amazingly talented star whose unpredictable behavior and..... More

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. First Printing. Hardcover. "Errol Flynn, the magnificent physical specimen who made fifty-six films, had a little conscience about what people thought of him. But precious little. "My job is to defy the normal," he proclaimed. Earl Conrad, the man who wrote Flynn's famed autobiography MY WICKED, WICKED WAYS, recounts here how the actor defied the normal during the last year of his..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "In these pieces I have thought to make some cubist studies to underline dramatic plot and thought. The problem is to tell stories about people when the people are simply the agents of different kinds of plot, with the thoughts that motivate such plots. I then may add a little decoration, such as torches and bearskins or a beanstalk..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1980 (1960). Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "To Lord Richard Buckley, his most euphoric Lordship, greetings! What a treat to hear your new shatterbusting recording delivered like a true hipster with variations...It's all so very alive and jumpin' and in the pauses one can hear the atoms exploding out there in the Milky Way where the grass comes up every once in ten billion years..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & with Original Drawing by Michael McClure. Think of “Little Odes and The Raptors” as two individual “books” compiled into one, not altogether unlike the dual selections that make up Michael McClure's (1932-2020) friend, Jim Morrison's eponymous 1970 collection “The Lords and The New Creatures” [See TMB Item #4461]. It was McClure who introduced Morrison to the work..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. This item is unique in that it straddles the line between a "First Edition" and a "First Edition Thus," as it was first completed by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) in 1948 and titled "Summer and Smoke." Williams began work on the play in 1945, initially titling the work "Chart of Anatomy" and deriving the plot line from one of his short stories..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. "Take My Life is Eddie Cantor's autobiography. In it he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter that have so long been his due...Take My Life is filled with anecdotes..... More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "Palm Sunday is a marvelous pastiche of speeches, letters, fiction, articles- even a musical comedy- woven together by a narrative in the distinctive, ironic Vonnegut voice to form an autobiography presenting the life and opinions of Kurt Vonnegut in his own words...In short, Palm Sunday is a literary event." (from front flap) The thirteenth published work of Kurt Vonnegut (Jr., 1922-2007)..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "Johnny 23," a short story by William S. Burroughs exemplary of the tail-end of the great(est of them all in our estimation) writer's cut-up phase segueing into his later, (relatively) lucid style- & with WSB's favorite number of personal-mythological significance in its..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal features two contributions by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the path-breaking French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor: Three letters written during the 1920s, '30s & '40s in English translation by Thomas Fitzsimmons; & the short one-act play "Spurt of Blood," translated by none other than the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also in..... More