Book of the Month – Thin Kimono by Michael Earl Craig
This month’s feature is a limited, first edition hardcover of Thin Kimono by my favorite Livingston poet (with apologies to myself). He’s also my favorite farrier, though to be fair, I only know two and the other one is Earl’s apprentice. One doesn’t so much read a Craig poem as one ricochets through it, bouncing [...]
Book of the Month – Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
This month’s feature is perhaps the greatest anti-war novel yet written, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. We have a very good hardcover copy of the 10th printing from 1970 that includes an addendum to the author’s introduction concerning the Vietn
Book of the Month – Catcher in the Rye
This month we feature a beautiful edition of a perennial classic, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye — the book that inspired countless writers of anti-hero, youth angst novels, everything from The Bell Jar to Less than Zero (and, of course, CIA-pro
Book of the Month – “All that Jazz” by Matt Phillips
All That Jazz By Matt Phillips Berkeley, California: Editions Koch, 2008. 14.5 x 19″; 16 leaves. 12 monoprints. Drypoints printed by Rebecca Peters and hand colored by the artist. Housed in blue cloth covered clamshell box by John DeMerritt.
First Editions and Revisiting Wolfe
We’ve teamed up with Gatz Hjortsberg to put his collection of first edition, 20th century writers on the shelves. A lot of good, solid fiction, but a couple stand out in particular: a 1951 Book of the Month Club edition of Catcher in the Rye with J
