New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene..... More

Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. As the back covers of Wayne Chatterton & James H. Maguire's "Western Writers Series" pamphlets suggest, "This continuing series, primarily regional in nature, provides brief but authoritative introductions to the lives and works of authors who have written significant literature about the American West. These attractive, uniform pamphlets, none of them longer than fifty pages, will be useful to the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Neon Sun, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. "Maybe I should cry./ I don't know what's got me./ Do walls hear?/ I want to sleep./ I got too high./ Brain is leaking out my ears./ It's on the turned-off record.// Let's meet somewhere else./ I want to sleep." ("Sound," pg. 8) A collection of poems by John Ceely, a hard-living workman-poet who we cannot find much information about- we surmise..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Coach House Press, 1971. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "In a strange game I saw myself/ as you knew me" (from "Neil Young," pg. 6) A volume with the title & four other groups of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prodigious poet, editor & biographer who first burned brightly, struggled with obscurity while maintaining his output, & epitomizes our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated." Among..... More

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First Trade Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. "This fast-paced cinematic novel depicts a hip young American professor/poet's brief but deeply disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic 60s, the novel opens on the London literary scene where Bob and Sylvia become entangled. The action shifts to the art world and backwaters of the jet-set scene on the French..... More

London, England: Secker & Warburg, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. “LEONARD COHEN writes: ‘I was born in Montreal in 1934. I studied at McGill and Columbia Universities. Lived in London as a Lord, pursuing the fair, my accent opening the tightest Georgian palaces where I flourished dark and magnificent as Othello. In Oslo, where I existed in a Nazi poster. In Cuba, the only tourist in Havana, perhaps in the world..... More

Frankfurt, Germany: Zweitausendeins, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. One of the elusive "German Facsimile Sketchbooks" from the great, subversive Underground Comix genius R. Crumb--found here in virtually unread condition. Hardcover bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on spine with ribbon marker bound in. Complete with German translation Booklet, and housed in original cardboard slipcase with printed label affixed to the spine. From the outset this work proves itself..... More

Madison, WI: RPM Print Shop, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "...many a truth comes out over the collating table, said Hamlet sucking a beer. said levy: "When I'm dead, you ought to give more attention to live poets." levy started poetry in Cleveland, helped a lot of poets, wrote "ukanhavyrfuckincitibak," edited The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle...was invited in 1968 by Quixote to spend some time in Madison. He came..... More

New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group, 2001. First Hardcover Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. "...Diane di Prima's evocative memoir, in which she explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life and how she came to define herself as a woman. She grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s in an Italian American family, and only by heroic effort was she able to break away and..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The struggle of clothes up the wash-board./ The slow web of no money but sunlight./ Sunlight. Hard at the sungate, in it, o-/ ver her hands// he stands/ like the light/ that moves/ her// yet he stands/ behind her/ slightly to the left/ forever" ("Sungate," first three stanzas, pg. 29) A collection of poems by Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021)..... More

New York, NY: Equinox Books/ Avon Books; Ace Books, 1975 (1964); 1965; 1977. First Edition Thus; First Editions. Softcovers. Three classic works of science fiction by Philip Jose Farmer (1918-2009), the pioneering, prolific & highly influential American author: (1) Inside Outside, originally published in 1964, reissued in this first edition thus by Avon books' Equinox imprint as No. 7 of its "SF Rediscovery Series, dedicated to making important and influential..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Jean Genet needs no introduction to American readers. During the past decade his plays- The Maids, Deathwatch, The Balcony, The Blacks, and his soon-to-be performed The Screens- have acquired the status of modern classics and established their author in the forefront of contemporary dramatists. (Genet) first burst upon the literary scene with this novel, Our Lady of the Flowers..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The text of a speech delivered by French avant-garde playwright, novelist & activist Jean Genet (1910-1986) on May Day (May 1), 1970, at Yale University, on behalf of the Black Panther Party & its then-jailed founder Bobby Seale. Genet had participated with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & others in the protests at Chicago during the Democratic National Convention..... More