New York: Bantam Books, 1996-2011. First American Editions. Handsome set of Martin's best-selling Song of Ice and Fire series, basis for HBO's Emmy Award-winning series Game of Thrones. Each volume inscribed to Martin's long-time friends Mike and Mary Fitzsimmons, who together with Mike's first wife, Barbara, founded and ran Archon..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Substantial collection of verse by the New York School poet, including the text of a panel discussion Miles participated in at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown, MA on August 8, 1999. A superb association copy; Martin would publish four key works by..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. Attractive copy of Ginsberg's paean to the area surrounding the Bixby Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, one of the central locations frequented by the Beats for solitude and creative inspiration. Illustrated throughout with photographs by William Webb. A significant copy inscribed to..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Bukowski's first book published by Black Sparrow Press, a collection of early poems describing L.A. and Hollywood as cold and inhospitable, containing a marvelous and lengthy inscription, composed two weeks after publication, to poet John Thomas Idlet (1930-2002). Bukowski and Thomas maintained..... More