Ann Arbor, MI: Q Ltd., 2019. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by most festival performers. This poster (appx. 18” x 24”) memorializes the 42nd annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival which took place during January 25 and 26, 2019 at the Hill Auditorium. Friday January 25 was headlined by the award-winning icon Brandi Carlile (b. 1981) whose 2018 album By the Way, I Forgive You won a Grammy Award for Best Americana..... More

San Francisco, CA: Oracle Eternal, 1967. First Printing. “Several years ago Nanao SAKAKI, the wanderer and poet, was travelling on a small inter-island freighter between Kyushu and Amami Oshima and got into a conversation with a fellow passenger, an islander, who casually invited Nanao to come visit his island. Nanao did, another year, and just when a typhoon came; so he was holed up for over a week in a...... More

New York, NY, USA: Contact II Publications, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “What we were eventually left with was the work of three poets: Ines Asinc Ramos who writes of the day to day joys and miseries of a people victimized by militarism and underdevelopment; Rafael Ymasato, who during a consuming illness, wrote poems celebrating the sexual encounters of two passionate lovers; and Jose Watanabe whose candid voice and provincial..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker, 1995. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literay-cultural-art Journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a deep, variously insightful later discussion/interview with Paul Bowles (1910-1999), the Great American-expatriate Beat-&-Beyond author & composer, conducted by Charles Sheldon during June 15, 1993 at Bowles' home in Tangier, Morocco (pgs. 6-13). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry, prose & illustration..... More

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Inscribed & signed by Alan M. Wald to Laurence Goldstein. “On 9 July 1945, Guy Endore, a popular novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, awoke as usual before dawn. Of wiry build with brownish blond hair and blue eyes, Endore weighed a trim 145 pounds and stood five feet seven-and-a-half inches tall, looking at least a decade younger..... More

New York, NY: The Floating Bear, 1965. First Printing. Diane di Prima (1934-2020) founded the semi-monthly journal "The Floating Bear," with LeRoi Jones (1934-2014), in 1961 in New York, publishing 16 issues in its first year and leading to the arrest of Jones for distributing obscene materials through the mail. Jones' play "The System of Dante's Hell" and William S. Burroughs' "The Routine" in issue No. 9 were the subject..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

Amherst, MA: The Massachusetts Review, Inc., 1998. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the venerable academic-literary journal chiefly edited by Ellen Dore Watson is sub-titled "A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and American Poetry." Published the year following Ginsberg's death, this very special issue features many contributions by & about the Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, including an article on Ginsberg's famous "King of May" episode in Prague during 1965..... More

New York, NY: Poet's Press, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “There is a sense to him that intrigues me—of an Ancient Person, a curiously insistent Messenger. / … / We were in New York. He had knocked on the door and now entered, wearing a lovely Edwardian suit, a lovely cloth it was, wool. He handed my wife and myself the pipe, and again moments later, we were walking on..... More

Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "No spirit of community is found amongst men who only work/ in common without communion to impose on a world which/ refuses the changing of it which they desire." (first paragraph, inner front cover preamble) The fourth number in the fourth series of the legendary literary journal edited, published & with contribution by the great expatriate American poet & translator Cid..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1987. First Printing. Stapled. “You might have to make up your mind about Jack Kerouac. He writes long sentences, sometimes a page long, which contain digressions, false starts and perplexing jumps in narrative events….There have always been some cracks in the hole, and the boys in the gang are trying to mend things straight. And when I say ‘boys’ I am being completely non-sexist, -..... More