Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett to Thomas Rain Crowe. "grandfather eagle/ which art in heaven/ thou soarest in heaven/ thou makest my blood/ to sing/ sing/ sing" (Eagle Song, pg. 8) A collection of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), A Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one time was a Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill..... More

Memphis, TN: St. Luke's Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover in Dust Jacket. Inscribed & signed by Marilou Awiakta to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Based on the actual events which happened in 1833 to a Choctaw child, RISING FAWN tells the poignant and triumphant story of a small girl taken, during the Removal, from her Choctaw home and handed over to adoptive parents in Memphis. It is not until Christmas and the..... More

West Chester, PA: West Chester University, 2000. First Printing. Softcover. The legendary number of the academic literary journal published by West Chester University, chiefly edited by Kostas Myrsiades. Subtitled "Teaching Beat Literature," this issue is entirely devoted to scholarly essays on the Beat Generation & its primary figures including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder & others. With contributors representing a whose-who of scholars who..... More

New York, NY: George Braziller, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each one of us wanted to cry out, somehow to express our shock and horror at the assassination of the President. Each one of us tried to say in conversation what we felt, but essentially we were mute. Our gestures were helpless; our impulses somehow to monumentalize those days, to hold them and not let them sink into banality and acceptance-..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. "My hero is Man the Discoverer. The world we now view from the literate West- the vistas of time, the land and the seas, the heavenly bodies and our own bodies, the plants and animals, history and human societies past and present- had to be opened for us by countless Columbuses. In the deep recesses of the past..... More

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. “How the [Grateful] Dead…survived to speak to successive generations is the subject of this intensely provocative and personal narrative. Social critic and biographer Carol Brightman, who was active in the political struggles of the era, presents a Whitmanesque tableau of America’s colliding countercultures. Here’s the Dead—with their original fondness for folk, bluegrass, and blues; their immersion in psychedelics;..... 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

London, England: John Calder (Publishers) Limited, 1984. First UK Edition Thus. Softcover. "From a well-argued attack on those who wish to over protect our privacy and sense of shame, to a remarkable series of interviews with Daniel Odier, and a consideration of the ways in which information is transmitted and received in different cultures of the past and in our own increasingly robotized world, The Job reveals the mind of..... More

London, England: Notting Hill Editions, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson's Disease. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforest in search of cures, and through self-experimentation seeks to find the answers..... More

London, England: NdA Press, 1980. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Natalie d'Arbeloff to Thomas Rain Crowe. "This book is a facsimile reproduction of a handmade livre d'artiste published in England in 1974 in an edition of only 75 copies. Natalie d'Arbeloff, who produced that limited edition and illustrated it with her deep-etched color plates, also printed its text by hand...Her motive in undertaking such a...task...was to give..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. "When a lonely South African sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of his black foreman's young bride, his transgression brings to an end an uneasy feudal peace. His embittered spinster daughter, Magda, dreams of and executes a bloody revenge, then shuts the farm off from the world to play out with the foreman and his wife her sexual..... More

John's Creek, NC: New Native Press, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Hand-designated as Author's Copy, dated & signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. " 'The perfect work' is what we do with our God-given talents, in service, and how we use these talents to grow. To become more fully who we truly are. And in this way, how we are related to the individual and collective growth of others, as..... More