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

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Loren D. Estleman. Michigan native, and master of the detective procedural and western, Loren D. Estleman is a criminally undersung novelist. Estleman is as prolific as he is skilled, his oeuvre contains roughly 70 books, each and every one of a quality many writers strive for but few ever achieve. “Sweet Women Lie”, is the eleventh volume in Estleman’s “Amos..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Michael McClure. “Rain Mirror stands as my most bare and forthright book,” begins Michael McClure (1932-2020), the great American Beat poet most known for his involvement in the San Francisco Renaissance of the mid-late 1950s. “It contains ‘Haiku Edge’ and ‘Crisis Blossom,’ two intensely disparate and different long poems,” he writes in the work’s numbered preface. McClure is certainly..... More

Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop Press, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Impure/of necessity/I cannot shut it out/the poem of fire/that burns in this night/men know not how to use./A way of love,/lines of flame/too familiar/to be a god./It is the keyboard of desire.”--Gerrit Lansing, “Needfire”, pg.10. “Work / 1”, is the first in a series of literary publications put out by the illustrious, if now defunct, Detroit Artist Workshop. The Workshop..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2023. First Printing. Hardcover. He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, had a front-row seat to a young Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), was admired by Susan Sontag (1933-2004), and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed by William Meredith. William Meredith (1919-2007) held several highly respected positions in the poetry industry such as the Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (1964-1987) and the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1978-1980). Meredith began writing in his college years, and his first collection of poems was published just four years..... More

San Francisco, CA: Eileen Kaufman, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers / Folded Single Sheet. “In the beginning, in the wet / Warm dark place, / straining to break out, clawing at strange cables / Hearing her screams, laughing / ‘Later we forgot ourselves, we didn’t know.’ / Some secret jazz / Shouted, wait, don’t go. / Impatient, we came running, innocent / Laughing blobs of blood and faith, To this..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. “The rainman gave me two cures/And he said, ‘Just jump right in.’/The one was Texas Medicine/And the other was railroad gin./And like a fool I mixed them/And they strangled up my mind/Now people just get uglier/And I have no sense of time.”--Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside Mobile With The Memphis Blues”. Peter Coyote is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. Coyote’s worked on..... More

New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934; 1935. First Editions. Hardcovers. "In this scoffing strange book Mr. (Branch) Cabell has written the only existing novel whose reality is the astounding reality of that world of dreams in which we pass a third of our lives. Lewis Carroll alone has guided his readers on a similar journey in the company of his world-famous Alice; but Alice was both immature..... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2023. Limited Signed & Numbered Edition. Hardcover. "Keep your / friends close / keep Guffan / closer" ("Opener," pg. 1). “Liar Survivor” is the fourth work by Mick Guffan (1953-2006) to be released by Michael Curran’s Tangerine Press, the others being 2022’s “Bastard Out of Mitchum,” [TMB Item #5018], 2021’s “Bent for the Job,” and 2018’s “Inner London Buddha.” Guffan has received more and more recognition..... More

San Francisco, CA: Amber House Press, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “I am not saying that you cannot find a better poet if you look hard enough; there are enough of them blowing and mewing, god knows. But [John] William Corrington’s oblique and viscid honings recommend a little more than burial in the slush pile. I remember, upon reading the early works of Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson, I had the..... More

Boston, MA: A. Williams & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. “The ancients entertained noble notions of the poet. He was an enthusiast and a rhapsodist. His work was done in surprise and delight. And all good epic poets were thought to compose, not by choice, but by inspiration; and so, too, the good lyric poets drew, they tell us, ‘from fountains flowing with nectar, and gathered flowers from the gardens..... More

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Flames Publishing, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Steven Boone. “Art is the proper task of life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche. Steven Boone is not necessarily a household name in the art world the likes of: Dali, Picasso, Da Vinci, or Warhol, that being said, however, Boone is an artist whose work is as lovingly crafted and singular as the artists aforementioned. Boone, a graduate of The..... More