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

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco Group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter..... 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

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Henry Beston. "The author of The Outermost House, which...remains one of the most beautiful and popular accounts of an experience with nature, again writes of an adventure with the earth, this time with the herbs in his own garden. He lists and describes the various herbs and their culture and associates them with their ancient historical..... More

Greenfield Center, NY: Bowman Books, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Joseph Bruchac to Thomas Rain Crowe, also signed by Jesse Bruchac. "TWO RIVERS is a collaboration that reflects not only our two generations of father and son, but also the flow of language from two different yet deeply connected cultures. The relationship between the European newcomers to the northeast and the Algonquin-speaking first peoples began at least..... More

San Francisco, CA: Magical Blend, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the New-Ageish fringe-cult magazine produced between 1979-2006, published & edited by Michael Peter Langevin & Jerry Snider, features "Blast On Through: A Review of The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs" written by the noted Beat scholar Michael White. This insightful & lengthy essay analyzes WSB's final volume of his late trilogy (1987, see our item No.s...... More

San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "For the first time in print, these forgotten conversations are now hereby available for your reading pleasure. From the beaches of Morocco to a penthouse in France; to London, San Francisco and Kansas- now you can vicariously relive the experiences and tribulations of five of the previous century's free thinkers and inventors of culture: W(illiam) S. Burroughs and friends." (back cover)..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In the last two years before his death (Albert) Camus himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life. The book stands as a record of the experiences that nourished all of Camus' great work- a record not only of those exterior events in which he was involved, but..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1974. First Printing. Hardcover. Simultaneously lauded and derided, the controversial Carlos Castaneda is known for the series of four books which he claims describe his training in shamanism by “Don Juan Matus,” a Yaqui Indian “sorcerer” who has never been proven to exist. Though we are now removed by some decades from the scholarly controversy which engulfed this work, it is worth revisiting because..... More

Washington DC: National Geographic Partners, LLC, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "Come with National Geographic on a fascinating journey through ancient Greece: the land of marathons and wrestling, debate and city-states, Plato, Socrates, and Alexander the Great. In this lavishly illustrated book, historian Diane Harris Cline creates a dynamic and engaging portrait of politics, social life, inventions, conquests, ideas, art, and more. These vivid pages are filled with amazing history, gripping..... 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