Chicago, IL: Time Inc. (Time Magazine), 1964 [1] / 1971 [2]. First Printing. Magazine. Here it is: a "TIME" / "LIFE" capsule from Beatlemania (and an additional issue of "LIFE" covering the brilliant, angst-laden early 70s post-Beatledom of the great Paul McCartney). Starting with item [1], we have some eerie reminders that Democracy is a "work-in-progress" like the late, great Civil Rights leader Rep. John Lewis taught us: "...the 88th..... 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

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... 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

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

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1958. First American Edition. Hardcover. A collectibly flawed production (see below). "Although Albert Camus has been active in the theater during most of his career, this important aspect of his creative life has been little known in English-speaking countries. This volume- for which the author has written a special Preface- is the first complete publication, in English, of his major work to date..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This is Albert Camus' first novel, written between 1936 and 1938, and now in 1972 published for the first time in English, following by less than a year its initial appearance in France. It is a work of his early twenties, a time when he was beginning to develop the philosophical and literary consciousness that eventually spoke so..... 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

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1990. First Edition; Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Still we are not truly home. Home where our bodies, our hearts, are at rest. Home where the trees and the seasons are familiar, like hands. Where the silent voices of the past whisper to us on every breath of arrogant wind. Where winter and summer, rain and snow, are living symbols for..... More