Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Black Sparrow Press was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1966 by John Martin in order to publish the works of Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) and other avant-garde authors. Black Sparrow holds a legendary position in the history of transgressive, experimental, underground literature. Among its many, many publications, perhaps the most coveted and lauded by poets and readers alike is the beloved..... More

Chicago, IL: Big Table Inc., 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "Dear Allen: On my way back to Bogota with nothing accomplished." (William S. Burroughs, pg. 44). The second issue of the renegade publication, edited by Paul Carroll (1924-1996) & created in reaction to the suppression of then-controversial literature proposed for inclusion in The Chicago Review. This issue contains "In Quest of Yage" (pgs. 44-64), the first appearance of excerpts..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Signed, placed, dated & inscribed by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution to Richard Cupidi. "We hope we have here an open place where normally apolitical men may speak uncensored upon any subject they feel most hotly & cooly about in a world which politics has made. We are not interested in protecting beings from themselves, we cannot help the deaths..... More

Fairfax, CA, USA: The Red Hill Press, 1972. First Edition. Folded Sheets. This sixth issue of Invisible City exclusively features the dada & surrealist legend Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), translated from the French by former poet laureate of San Francisco Jack Hirschman (1933–2021). Poet, translator, and editor of poetry anthologies and journals, Paul Vangelisti (b. 1945) founded the Red Hill Press with his friend John McBride, and they published Invisible City..... More

N/P: Filthythumb Press, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. On approaching the work of French dramatist, poet, essayist & actor Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), one is by turns intrigued and bewildered, but is perhaps most notably (albeit occasionally) brought to epiphany. If the contemporary English slang adjective "batshit" was then in use, it would have been employed in virtually all descriptions of Artaud. An unlikely casualty of medical misdiagnoses as a child..... More

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1981. First Printings. Softcovers. Both issues signed by editor & contributor Clayton Eshleman. The first two numbers of the deep & varied literary journal subtitled "A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art" founded, chiefly edited & with contributions by the great Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021), the award-winning American poet, editor, translator & academician who was our local friend & mentor: (1) Sulfur Vol. 1 No..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 4 No. 11 (January-February 1960)- this issue features William S. Burroughs' "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness," the classic essay that went on to serve as a fore- or afterword to most editions of WSB's..... More