New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. “By 1969, the high-water mark of protest, at least five hundred papers served communities and constituencies worldwide, with five hundred to a thousand more dissenting papers in high schools alone,” (pg xv). The sixties were an infamous decade in the United States with political and social upheaval running rampant throughout the country as citizens fought for civil rights and equality. The..... More

New York, NY: Jerome Rothenberg & Dennis Tedlock; Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1970; 1971. First Printings. Softcovers. "As the first magazine of the world's tribal poetries, ALCHERINGA will not be a scholarly "journal of ethnopoetics" so much as a place where tribal poetry can appear in English translation & can act (in the oldest & newest of poetic traditions) to change men's minds & lives. While its sources will be..... 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

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. “Her name was Lucile Langhanke. She was a farm girl from the Middle West, a lonely, beautiful child who became the tormented victim of her parents’ greed. At twenty she was a star, the pampered, glamorous movie queen known to the world as Mary Astor” (from front flap). Mary Astor (1906-1987) achieved a decades-long acting career despite the influences and..... More

New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2003. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Former Rolling Stones editor and columnist Greil Marcus collected the writings of Lester Bangs (1948 – 1982) into, what he calls, “the story, ultimately, of one man’s attempt to confront his loathing of the world, his love for it, and to make sense of what he found in the world and within himself” (xviii). As a music critic, Lester..... More

Fullerton, CA: California State University, Fullerton/ Grand Central Press, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. "We developed the concept for this exhibition after reading about Cafe Frankenstein in Brian Chidester's book Pop Surf Culture. This small cafe in Laguna Beach existed for only a couple of years in the late 1950s, but learning its history led us to look further into the Surf Beat Generation that started locally. It became obvious that..... 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

Paris, France: Chez Devambez, 1920. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A treatise on historic & contemporary waltz & tango dances by Jacques Boulenger (1879-1944), the noted French literary critic & journalist. With seven color panel prints, each protected by attached glassine sheets, by these acclaimed French & European illustrators: Guy Arnoux (1886-1951), Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), Mario de Goyon (188?-1926, frontispiece), Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), Drian (b. Adrien Desire Etienne, 1885-1961), Edouard Halouze..... 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

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope. By exploring the moral sentiments of entire societies and their leaders, and how such attitudes changed under the impact of total war, Burleigh presents readers with a fresh and powerful perspective on a conflict that continues..... 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