Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. 101pp. Octavo [21cm]. Red papered boards with a silver spine stamp. New. New / new. Item #53310 ISBN: 9781477315798 "In this eloquent memoir, [Abbey's] friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up 'what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.' The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life."Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea.

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Mount Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1993. Henrik Drescher. Limited Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Coptic-bound in wraps of pale grey Shadwell handmade paper with like jacket. Text and illustrations on handmade Sekishu paper. Middle signature still unopened. Fine. Item #49977 Association copy. Inscribed to illustrator Henrik Drescher from printer Walter Hamady on colophon, and in turn inscribed from Drescher to to a friend on front endpaper. Number 73 of an edition of 150.A collection of off-color poetry perfectly paired with frenetic line drawings by Henrik Drescher.

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New York: New Directions, 1974. First clothbound U.S. edition. Hardcover. 114pp. Octavo [21 cm] Chartreuse cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The spine is discolored. The dust jacket is in Very good condition as well. A sticker announcing the book as a Pulitzer Prize winner has been adhered to the front panel. The edges of the rear panel are barely perceptibly foxed. Item #47070 ISBN: 0811205452 Turtle Island received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. From the jacket- "The nearly five dozen poems in the book range from the lucid, lyrical, almost mystical to the mythobiotic, while a few are frankly political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of this land and the ways by which we might become natives of the place, ceasing to think and act (after all these centuries) as newcomers and invaders."

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Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. First edition. 84pp. Octavo [21 cm] Full blue cloth with title gilt stamped on backstrip. Fine/Fine. Translated from the Swedish by May Swenson. Item #45443 Swenson's translation won a medal from the International Poetry Forum, and May Swenson also penned the preface. Signed by the translator on the title page. Transtromer was the 2011 Nobel Prize winner for literature.

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St. Marks Church In-the-Bowery: The Poetry Project, 1967. Original editions. Paperback. Folio [35.5 cm] Black and white illustrated wraps with a stapled binding. Very good. The covers are mildly age-toned. Very occasionally, the blank pages at the back have come loose. The following issues are present: Number 9, 12/67; Number 12, 6/68; Number 13, 11/68 (with the supplement tucked in - John Giorno's Tarot Cards); Number 14, 12/68; Number 15, 3/69; Number 15, Part 2; Number 16, 6/69; Number 17, 11-12/69; Number 18, 2-3/70; Number 19, 5/70; Number 21, 1/71; Number 23, Summer 1971; Number 24, Winter 1972; Number 25, The Present, 1972; Number 27 (Translation Issue) April 4, 1973; Number 28, May, 1973 (Autobiographical Issue). Item #44770 Sixteen issues of a poetry magazine which routinely featured the work and collaborations of Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Jim Carroll, Andrei Codrescu, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, John Ashberry, Frank O'Hara, John Giorno, Tom Clark, Keith Abbott, Joanne Kyger, among many others.

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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. First edition in English. Hardcover. SIGNED. 85pp. Octavo [21 cm] in boards over cloth spine. Very light edgewear to price-clipped jacket; slight bump to front board at top, else boards are crisp and unworn. Near fine / very good. Item #52084 Signed by Grass on half-title. Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

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