Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2023. First Edition. Softcover. "John Prine may well be one of the greatest songwriters to ever live. Bob Dylan sang songs from Prine’s unreleased debut back to him when they first met, later raving to the Huffington Post in 2009, 'Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree…' But long before Steve Goodman dragged Kris Kristofferson to see his good friend..... More

Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press; Thunder Bay Press, 2023; 2021. First Editions. Softcover. “Cindy Glovinsky has an unmistakable presence and voice. The poems in Unclenching chronicle the responses of a fervent consciousness taking on whatever quotidian has to throw at it in the form of boredom or frustration or craziness or injustice and giving back at least as good as it gets.” (Bruce Bennett, from back cover of Unclenching). Cindy..... More

No Place: Mindful Wordsmith, 2016. Second Edition. Softcover. Signed by Dion Wright. “Dion Wright’s ‘Tempus Fugitive’ is one of the best books I’ve read concerning the Psychedelic Hippy scene from Millbrook to Woodstock to San Miguel to Laguna Beach to San Francisco and all stops in between. A Le Corbusier of metal and philosophy, his narrative is about real characters, hilarious and insightful. / … / I knew Dion briefly..... More

New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. "...William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. He has laid bare the seamy side of human existence, exposed the blatant hypocrisies of politics, science, and big business, and stripped the veneer from the surface respectability of the middle-class world. His satire is acidly funny, his sexual fantasies as wild as they are deeply disturbing..... More

London, England: Robert Hale, 1990. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Henry Miller described himself as a confused, negligent, reckless, lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man...filled with wisdom and nonsense. These letters, penned by the controversial author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring, represent Henry Miller's sexual and moral summing-up. Published in the UK for the first time, they chart the infatuation, marriage and eventual..... More

London, England: Granta Publications, 1997. First UK Edition. Hardcover. “Dinner with Persephone is one of the most compelling books about a country ever written by a foreigner. It is also an extraordinary work of literature, defying categorization—though it can be read with great enjoyment simply as a lovingly well-written evocation of the land that endures the consequences of being ‘the birthplace of European civilization’” (front flap). This travelogue by Patricia..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Ben Abramson, 1946. Second Edition/ First American Edition/ Trade Issue. Hardcover. Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American writer whose earlier oeuvre was an influential precedent for the Beat Generation, describes this work as "Being the account of a voyage to New York and back exactly as recorded in a letter to Alfred Perles (1897-1990), the distinguished Viennese French writer, who up till now has held the record for..... More

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "J. Rives Childs, the author of important works on (Giacomo) Casanova and Restif de la Bretonne and former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and to Ethiopia, began to collect Henry Miller's work in 1939. But it was not until 1947 that Childs opened his correspondence with Miller by sending to him a copy of a letter written to a French reviewer..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. "Henry Miller was most eloquent at dinner hour. During his last years in Pacific Palisades he reflected on a myriad of subjects, particularly the people, events and concepts that shaped his extraordinary life. A new aspect of his feelings toward Anais Nin is revealed, as are the influences of Charlie Chaplin, Gurdjieff, Picasso and others. Poignancy fills his description of the..... More

London, England: The Olympia Press/The New English Library Limited, 1966. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonizing deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies..... More

London, England: Mayflower Books Ltd., 1968. First UK Edition Thus. Softcover. "In this restless, exciting book Jack Kerouac covers the Los Angeles waterfront, Mexico, New York, Morocco, Paris and London. It shows a man traveling, living and loving free. It reveals the get-up-and-go way of the life...the unique philosophy of self-fulfillment...that make him the prophet and chronicler of an entire generation." (from back cover) Jack Kerouac's now-classic accounts of his..... More

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Co., 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Sedaris. Award-winning author David Sedaris (b. 1956) is identifiable by his darkly humorous and self-deprecating writing in his many books of essays, stories, and diaries. Many recognize Sedaris from his frequent radio appearances on This American Life with Ira Glass or NPR’s Morning Edition, and still many others know his name from the by-line of pieces..... More

New York, NY: Schoken Books, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "This, the second and final volume of the widely acclaimed complete Diaries of Franz Kafka, embraces the period of Kafka's most productive and mature literary activity, breaking off one year before his death. It was during this period that he wrote The Trial, The Castle, "In the Penal Colony," "The Burrow," "Josephine the Singer," etc. In this volume, as the end..... More