Alberqueque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Anne Valley-Fox to Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “Summer evenings the writer breaks from the bar to / slurred melon pastels. Tonight a snowstorm has soundlessly / changed the world. A pickup truck leaving the lot turns / too wide and mounts the sidewalk, missing the lone / pedestrian by..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Magazine, 1975. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Counted first among the quite-nearly nonpareil rarities of the Second San Francisco Renaissance is this issue — No. 21 — of Beatitude Magazine, which was founded by Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) & John Kelly in 1959. Its founding, heavily influenced by Allen Ginsberg, was something of an annunciation for what it meant to be “Beat.” While Jack Kerouac and Herbert Huncke..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by editor, publisher & subject Thomas Rain Crowe. "This is a collection that will be new to readers both outside and inside of the U.S. A collection of interviews with such a broad brushstroke, such a wide arc of voice and achievement as to be unique...This, then, is a major sampling of poets that would best represent the qualities of..... More