New York, NY: Trident Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. "William Faulkner, the writer, was a familiar figure to many, a gentle, shy and rather reserved man who, though tweedy, managed always, somehow, to appear dapper. He chose to mimimize his role as literary genius, preferring to refer to himself as a simple dirt farmer and resident of Oxford, MIssissippi, the prototype of the city of Jefferson, which appeared in almost..... More

New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. "For more than twenty years- since the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959 and, more recently, Cities of the Red Night- William Burroughs has remained the most defiantly original and iconoclastic American writer of his time. With a Joycean devotion to writing, a healthy paranoia based on harsh realities, and a Swiftean sense of satire, Burroughs has fashioned a fictional universe..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2023. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "This rough and crude flyer, tantalizingly promoting an imminent appearance at the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco by William Burroughs intrigued when it appeared on the net recently. Got me wondering if El Hombre Invisible did in fact turn up? No year is given, but November 4 at 3 p.m. gives something of a clue...But now James Birmingham..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Ben Abramson, 1946. Second Edition/ First American Edition/ Trade Issue. Hardcover. Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American writer whose earlier oeuvre was an influential precedent for the Beat Generation, describes this work as "Being the account of a voyage to New York and back exactly as recorded in a letter to Alfred Perles (1897-1990), the distinguished Viennese French writer, who up till now has held the record for..... More

New York, NY: George Wittenborn Inc., 1962. Third Edition; Second American Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Hilaire Hiler on front cover. "I promised to say something about painting. Here it is- Saw Hilaire Hiler last night for my first lesson, after weeks of pour-parlers. If it were not that I like him so much I would sit down immediately and do a pen portrait of him. But here is a...... More

New York, NY: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dysfunctional families are all alike. Ditto 'survivors.'" So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost..... More

London, England: Picador, 1991. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by P.J. O'Rourke. “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.” – Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924). The American government (a group of gormless shit-heels if ever there was one) as an institution has, a number of times, been likened to a plump sow suckling at the teat of..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1977. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "JONG, SANCHEZ, BOYLE, MILLER, as disparate a crew as America is a country, have created a crashing concert of voices that could bring down Mt. Rushmore. Their voices are territorial, separated by emotional gorges and visionary peaks, and combining to make coherent music, not the modulations of a chamber group, but a struggling song to fill the sky. Don't expect..... More

Pittsburgh, PA: Scholastic Publishing Company, 1928. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the venerable "National Magazine for the Schoolroom," edited by Maurice R. Robinson, features an article entitled "Television In The Home Now"- "Now" being 1928! One Dr. E(rnst) F(rederick) W(erner) Alexanderson (1878-1975), a Swedish-American electrical engineer, pioneered a television system for the General Electric Company, two decades before TV became commercially available. The article features a photograph..... More

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. "One of the frequent causes for misunderstanding contemporary forms of art, for the gap which all too often divides the artist from the non-artist, is lack of clarity in understanding the position of the artist in society today. It is not possible to judge either the artist or the work of art of our own times by the standards which prevailed..... More

New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969. First Editions Thus. Softcovers. "Few explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But (John L.) Stephens's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In this work...he tells the story of his travels to some 50 ruined Mayan cities. In..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1966. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In any discussion of contemporary poetics the name of Charles Olson will almost inevitably come to the fore. An iconoclastic and controversial figure, Olson has developed theories on the writing and understanding of poetry which place him, historically, as a bridge between the first leaders of the modern movement...and some of the most important later innovators. This collection..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc./ Anchor Books, 1972. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In this gathering from many tribes, Jerome Rothenberg...reveals the great range of American Indian poetry, choosing from the multitudinous poetries and cultures what most interests and impresses him- as a later-day American and as a poet. In these "renderings" of a great oral and sacred tradition, he has worked with other poets. And in the back..... More