Cope, Creswick, Horsley, Redgrave, & Tayler. London, England: White and Allen, 1889. Limited Edition. Hardcover. “Logicians have but ill defin’d / As rational, the human mind / Reason, they say, belongs to man-- / But let them prove it if they can.” (“The Logicians Refuted,” page 79). Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist, and poet Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was one of the founding members of “The Club” in London in 1764 with..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original, and devastating. 'Let Us Now..... More

Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1987. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Voices & Visions is the most ambitious television production ever attempted on American poetry, and the most comprehensive. In 13 hour-long programs, the series traces the course of the art during the last century and a quarter as it was shaped by some of our most important poets. Using vintage photographs and film footage, paintings, newsreels, original manuscripts and archival..... More

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

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

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

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

San Francisco, CA: Beat Poetry & Arts, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. From what we can gather, "The Best of San Francisco's BEAT Poetry & the Arts" compiles 'the best' of what were initially smaller issues of Beat Poetry & Arts: A Classic & Contemporary International Forum," a west coast literary magazine published & edited by one Michelle Maria Boleyn. As the title infers, the magazine features a panoply of West..... More

New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM: Spuyten Duyvil/ AWAREing Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. "Vivid personal stories of the poets and writers who leaped out of the literary traditions of the 1950s, blending with other artists to create the excitement of a new art mix called multimedia. Light Years tells the story of a unique group of poets, novelists, playwrights and book people who associated with visual and performing artists..... More

New York, NY: Situations, 1998. First Separate Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The title work along with eleven other short prose-poem stories by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the great New York School poet's-poet & a canonical category onto himself. A note preceding this collection states that it first "...appeared in Angel Hair #4, Winter 1967/68, thanks to editors Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman, and has not been published since..." This first separate publication..... More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Unlike many regional anthologies, Bluestones and Salt Hay is not merely a gathering of writers linked by geographic proximity, but rather an anthology of place and how the poet's vision reflects local history, geography, and culture. Special care was made in the selection of the poetry so that New Jersey is a recurring theme throughout the volume. The Pine..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he..... More

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