New York, NY: Frank Hallman, 1975. Limited First Trade Edition. Softcover. “Three Tales” is a small collection of short stories (“Afternoon with Antaeus,” “The Fqih,” and “Mejdoub”) by legendary literary expatriate Paul Bowles (1910-1999) and published by one Frank Hallman in 1975. Little is known about Frank Hallman, and the only available information we found when researching Mr. Hallman is that he was at the helm of a small publishing..... More
[Item #4685]
New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1981. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed in English & Hebrew by Yehuda Amichai. "Yehuda Amichai is commonly regarded as Israel's leading poet and one of the major poets of our time. The hallmark of his work is an extraordinary terseness- thought and feeling communicated with a conciseness that cuts to the bone of experience. His tone is colloquial, even casual; a man..... More
[Item #4030]
Long Island City, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens- and enemies- of the vast Roman Empire two thousand years ago. This book goes beyond the stereotypes found in popular culture to examine the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to..... More
[Item #4219]
Sarasota. FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This issue of the literary journal chiefly edited & with contribution by John Weber is an especially rich gathering of works by some of the most notable poets of different generations & schools: An early poem by Margaret Atwood ("Lying Here"), who would go on to write the prize-winning & explosively influential The Handmaid's Tale & its sequel;..... More
[Item #3423]
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "(John) Barth's first work of nonfiction, The Friday Book is what he calls "an arrangement of essays and occasional lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over thirty years or so of writing, teaching, and teaching writing." With the full measure of playfulness and erudition that he brings to his novels, Barth glances into..... More
[Item #4723]
Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his preface to James Perrizo. An anthology of poetry & short fiction from the first decade of Passages North, the literary journal "...from the Great Lakes Region (that) has won a national audience and critical acclaim."(from back cover) Edited by Elinor Benedict & with a preface by Charles Baxter. Baxter has signed this copy at his preface..... More
[Item #1948]
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. First Edition, Review Copy. Hardcover. "When the beat writers emerged from San Francisco in 1956, they succeeded in touching off controversy and discussion throughout America which continue unabated today. Not only their writing,but their nonconformist way of life- with its special interest in jazz, Buddhism, drugs, and squalor- became a subject of general interest, discussed and hotly argued in a wide range..... More
[Item #4086]
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1986; 1990. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. One of two editions signed by editor-publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. An anthology of writings by & about greater-&-lesser known members of the Beat Generation & their contemporaries. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Jeffrey H. Weinberg, whose Water Row imprint & bookselling enterprise is among the first & greatest in our specialization. With a story by William..... More
[Item #3796]
London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s a new breed of writers gravitated towards Greenwich Village. They were young, radical, idealistic and 'hip,' and their work was shockingly iconoclastic. This was the start of the Beat movement. It has sometimes been dismissed as a minor cultural phenomenon characterized by a bohemian lifestyle and undisciplined expression in poetry, painting and jazz. Rejecting the values..... More
[Item #4323]
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990. Second Edition, Tenth Printing. Softcover. "It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems to have more than most. From Jack Kerouac on working on the railroad...Jack London on the 1906 earthquake to Tom Wolfe on the acid tests of the 1960s, San Francisco Stories collects..... More
[Item #4410]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Over the past few years people have asked when are we going to reprint early issues of Beat Scene Magazine. The short answer is, we're not going to...But what we have done is collect some of the best material from those long gone issues in this slim volume here. Not all material was published in Beat Scene, some of..... More
[Item #4279]
London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... More
[Item #4384]
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
[Item #3752]
Boston, MA: The Seventies Press/ Beacon Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. Signed by Robert Bly; & with hand-illustration possibly also by him. "Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and the Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th-century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting..... More
[Item #3574]
New York, NY: Random House, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Labeled by the wonderful promotional copy on the back of the book as one of the “NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST” Random House was publishing in 1950, they wrote the following about Paul Bowles’ “The Delicate Prey,” a strikingly dark and now-legendary collection of short stories from the celebrated author: “The short stories by the author of ‘The..... More
[Item #4489]
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "One spring day I was sitting on the terrace of Merri's Cafe on the beach at Merkala. A Nazarene man and his wife were there with their Moroccan maid. I sat looking out at the beach, smoking kif and sipping tea. / After a while the woman called over to me: You smoke a lot of kif for..... More
[Item #4794]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978. First Edition. Glued Wrappers. A collection of poems by Ray Bremser (1934-1998), who truly lived a quintessentially Beat life & was a close associate of Allen Ginsberg & other primary founders of the Beat Generation-&- Beyond. The poems here are in unfiltered street vernacular & are highly influenced by the jagged beat of Jazz (which of course influenced the prose & poetry of..... More
[Item #4683]
Paris, France: Henri Screpel, 1977. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For this is indeed Bruegel's message to our time; above the wailing of death wandering in our lives there may prevail, if only we can discover them, the secret harmonies that encompass life's road...The journey is long, but the mountain tells us- with Bruegel- that he will point us the way to the land of genuine magic." (from "Introduction to Bruegel"..... More
[Item #3947]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition, Second (?) Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "To Lord Richard Buckley, his most euphoric Lordship, greetings! What a treat to hear your new shatterbusting recording delivered like a true hipster with variations...It's all so very alive and jumpin' and in the pauses one can hear the atoms exploding out there in the Milky Way where the grass comes up every once in ten..... More
[Item #3393]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Dedicated to Poet’s Poet and Great Friend of Poetry in the Bay Area, the late Ann Menebroker, the prolific Charles Bukowski’s “South of No North” is a book of short stories that many Bukowski initiates feel is among his best. Two fan-&-critical favorites included in this collection are “Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts” (originally..... More
[Item #4678]
New York, NY: Ecco / Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to..... More
[Item #4415]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as a writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, Mathematics finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a...... More
[Item #4400]
Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1994-1995. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. Issue No. 1 signed by Joe Napora & Thomas Rain Crowe; issues No. 2 & 3 signed by Napora. "BullHead will run through 12 issues, each issue 52 pages. Within this form BullHead will roam according to some designs of my own in response to contributions from readers. Each issue will keep an emphasis on the oral quality of communication..... More
[Item #3594]
Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & with hand-correction by editor Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary journal founded, edited & with commentary by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. With the lengthy poem "Columba, the Dove" by the noted poet & professor Charles Cantalupo which, as he writes in a note following the poem, "...is the fourth of..... More
[Item #3628]
Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary "journal of New Poetry" founded, edited & with contributions by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Featuring poems by David Baratier, Mark Hartenbach, Alexi Kruchenykh, Barbara Mor, Napora, Fred Whitehead, Karl Young & many more. With many very interesting fonts, graphics, illustrations, foldout presentations etc. On..... More
[Item #3672]