London, UK: The Bournbrook Press, 2022. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. Signed by editor, artist & contributor Alexander Adams. "Through windows of cars and trains we spot the/ mayflower, barely know the bearer's name/ -a temperate and gentle guest who does not/ insist, needs no cultivation, growing wild/ and ingenious throughout our land, untended,/ unrefined, rain invigorated, burnished by sun." (Alexander Adams, "Mayflower Season," third stanza, pg. 13) An anthology..... More

Schonebeck, Germany; Marlborough, MA: Moloko Print/ Water Row Books, 2022. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Oliver Harris. "When William Burroughs mailed Alan Ansen a copy of Naked Lunch on its publication in 1959, he dedicated it to "one of the few who understood Naked Lunch before I did," testifying to the unique role ansen played from the start of Burroughs' career as collaborator, promoter, critic, friend and author of..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

London, England: Aloes Books, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. "The white subway gathered silent speed as buildings and landscapes slid by- faster- faster- a blur of film flakes then pictures leaped into sharp focus- mist and frogs in 1920s roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos stretching back to his childhood- back- back- "STOP." " (from "Unfinished Cigarette," pg. 1)..... More

Paris, France: Bourgois/Seuil; Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1976; 1984. First French Edition; First French Edition Thus. Softcover. (1) [Shoaf, 26c. p. 39]. Edited and Translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pelieu (and soon after, published) in 1976, “White Subway” was initially published in London by our friend-&-colleague the great Jim Pennington (through his Aloes Books imprint) in 1973. It compiles sixteen short works of imagination by WSB from the late-fifties to..... More

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed (twice) by Kathryn Stripling Byer to Thomas Rain Crowe. "My father made the birds fly overhead/ that afternoon in late fall when he lifted me/ above the weeds as tall as I was then/ into a wagon load of hay. There at the field's edge/ while he whistled, restless in the cold,/ I watched the shadows of..... More