Collectible Literature

Jack Spicer – Lament for the Maker

American poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University of California and started writing and publishing poetry. Together with his friends Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer set out to create a new kind of poetry….

Sadegh Hedayat – De blinde uil

Sadegh Hedayat was born into an aristocratic family in Tehran in 1903. He briefly studied engineering in Belgium in 1925 followed by architecture and dentistry in France, where he stayed for four years and was rescued from a suicide attempt. In 1930 he returned to Iran without having taken a degree and devoted the rest of his life to the studies of Western literature and Iranian folklore. Inspired by Rilke, Poe, Kafka and Chekhov…

€ 10.00

Stroker #19

Stroker was a magazine of literature and arts that ran from 1974 to 1994. It was published from New York – and later from Nagano, Japan – by American artist and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004). Stettner, a friend of Henry Miller’s, lived many years as an ex-pat in France, Morocco, Japan and other countries. Apart from Henry Miller, who contributed to Stroker during the last two-and-a-half years of his life, leading authors such as…

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Ernest Ryman – Teddy Boy (first printing)

Teddy Boys and Girls were a British rock’n’ roll subculture in the 1950s. Drawing inspiration from British Edwardian-era dandies Teddy Boys wore drape jackets, drainpipe trousers, loose-collared white shirts, Slim Jim ties and suede creepers, while Teddy Girls (or Judies) wore drape jackets, pencil skirts, rolled-up jeans, cameo brooches and clutch bags. The violent and delinquent life-style…

Ace Farren Ford – Exiled Once More to the Island of Thursdays

This selection of poems by Ace Farren Ford spans the period of 1982-1999. Exiled Once More To The Island Of Thursdays is Ford’s third volume of poetry. The free-form poems were xeroxed and staple-bound in a cover showing artwork by Ford on all four sides. The book is as roughly cut and put together as the poems themselves. This book is raw. It’s uncompromising. Each copy is battered and real. Get one if you think you can handle it.

€ 20.00