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

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "James Agee achieved the fame he deserved only after his tragically early death- of a heart attack, in a New York taxi- at forty-five...This book contains James Agee's previously uncollected prose: pieces ranging from Harvard days to his last years. In addition to short stories, there are notes for motion pictures (a medium that held deep fascination for him), scenarios, and..... More

Pennsylvania, CA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1980. First Printing. Softcover. This commemorative tenth anniversary issue of the pioneering series of Beat Generation anthologies, edited & published by Arthur (1937-2012) & Kit Knight, features letters, drawings, prose & poems spanning the beginnings of the Beats through the end of the 1970s, when most of the original figures were still quite in their prime: Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert..... More

London, England: Geoffrey Cumberlege/ Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "Marc Bloch, a world-renowned medieval historian who was read and valued by scholars far beyond the Sorbonne, of which he was a distinguished member, had many devoted friends in England. He fought in both World Wars, and in 1942, when fifty, became active in the French Resistance. Two years later he was caught by the Germans, tortured, and executed..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1980 (1960). Second Edition. 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 billion years..... More

Cambridge, England: Henri Chopin/ Blackmoor Head Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. "I have frequently spoken of word and image as viruses or as acting as viruses, and this is not an allegorical comparison. It will be seen that the falsifications in syllabic Western languages are in point of fact the virus mechanism. If we can infer purpose from behaviour, then the purpose of a virus is TO SURVIVE..... More

New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. "...William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. He has laid bare the seamy side of human existence, exposed the blatant hypocrisies of politics, science, and big business, and stripped the veneer from the surface respectability of the middle-class world. His satire is acidly funny, his sexual fantasies as wild as they are deeply disturbing..... 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

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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "A North American poet visits revolutionary Nicaragua (traditionally known as "the Land of the Poets") and reports on what he sees and hears and surmises. Considering himself "a tourist of revolution" (having traveled much in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Haiti, and Castro's Cuba) he approaches Nicaragua with the eye of a civil libertarian "with anarchist sympathies,"..... More

New York, NY: National Gallery of Art/ SCALO, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Robert Frank (b. 1924) is without question the most important photographer to emerge since World War II. In the early 1950s he pioneered an original and sophisticated way of looking at the world that has dominated the art of photography for many years. It was not simply the raw style of his work that made Frank so controversial..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. “In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem, ‘Howl’ and Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’ Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Throughout this course, which he taught first at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present a...... More

New York, NY: Doubleday/ Random House, Inc., 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "After the attacks of 9/11, many said the world had changed forever, but no one could say exactly how. In Ripples of Battle, military historian Victor Davis Hanson looks at three important battles that changed the course of Western history in order to show how battles fought long ago and far away can still affect the way we think..... More