Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1999. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Book. This vintage number of the magazine-format journal devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK, is "A Jack Kerouac Special Issue Marking Thirty Years Since His Death." (front cover) Among the outstanding Kerouac-related articles, essays, interviews & reviews are an interview with the indefatigable musician David Amram (still active at age 92 as of this..... 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

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

London, England: Riflemaker Gallery, 2005. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "(William S.) Burroughs had been exhibiting his artworks professionally worldwide for several years when he began this series in 1992, and these "Shot Sheriff" works on paper should be seen in context as home-made pistol-shooting targets, depicting bad guys- but also as intentional works of art...What is peculiar to this series is that- although Burroughs always denied having any talent at..... More

London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation. However..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., n/d (c. 1977). First Edition. Hardcover. "Since the dawn of time, dolls have been cherished by children, worshipped by primitive peoples, invoked as magical weapons for good and evil. This extraordinary book reveals the many aspects of the doll through the superb photography of H. Landshoff, whose photographs for Abrams' The Shell have received great critical acclaim, and the text and commentaries of..... More

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz provides the definitive account of the everyday war of the German front soldier. The personal documents of these soldiers, most from the Russian front, where the majority of German infantrymen saw service, paint 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

n/p: Pacific Red Car, 1993. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "It's a Sunday afternoon in New England just three days before Christmas- Ma's making the roast in the kitchen range, also tapioca pudding so when sister Nin comes in from outdoors with the shovel she's been wielding in the blizzard there are cold waves of snowy air mixing with the heat steams of tapioca over the stove and in..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... More

College Station, TX: Virtual Book Worm Publishing, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. “The ‘bad trip’ of Kerouac’s was henceforth reflected in his work. He never had anything good to say about hallucinogens. He supported the idea that LSD was part of a Russian plot to subvert the country by attacking its young people. Contrary to the usual reactions to this powerful and remarkable drug, he found none of the mystical or..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "S.S. France of 1962 was a paradigm of elegance, style and speed. Christened by Madame de Gaulle, she was, at 1035 feet, the world's longest passenger vessel, perfectly attuned to postwar demographics with a select first class and huge tourist class. But the escalating price of fuel- at speed, she devoured a ton a mile- and a truculent crew..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. "Franklin Roosevelt was not a simple man...He was the most complicated human being I ever knew; and out of this complicated nature there sprang much of the drive which brought achievement, much of the sympathy which made him like, and liked by, such oddly different types of people, much of the detachment which enabled him to forget his..... More