Northville, MI: Sun Dog Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder[s] of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “We walked into the Co-Existence Bagel Shop back in 1958–I was thirteen years of age—and there was the poet himself sitting across from Tiny Trent, an old hanger-on from the 30s, a guy named Mad Alex and several other North Beach regulars. Kaufman wore..... 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

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. The brain-child of Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), one of the most important–and most original–poets of the twentieth century, Beatitude has been a staple of San Francisco poetry for decades–going so far as to transcend the Bay Area and have a not insignificant impact on the literary world writ large. A legion of poets have manned the helm since Bob initially conceived of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Magpie Literary Press, 2008. Limited Second Edition. “Come, my friends,/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world./Push off, and sitting well in order smite/The sounding furrows, for my purpose holds/To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths/of all the western stars, until I die./It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;/It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,/And see the great Achilles..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This issue of the profound, pioneering anthology series edited by Arthur (1937-2012) & Kit Knight features prose, poems, letters & interviews by & about many of the key original founding figures of the Beat Generation: A letter written by William S. Burroughs dated December 4, 1957 to Jack Kerouac from Tangier; an essay by Carolyn Cassady on myth vs. reality..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beat Poetry & Arts, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. From what we can gather, "The Best of San Francisco's BEAT Poetry & the Arts" compiles 'the best' of what were initially smaller issues of Beat Poetry & Arts: A Classic & Contemporary International Forum," a west coast literary magazine published & edited by one Michelle Maria Boleyn. As the title infers, the magazine features a panoply of West..... More

San Francisco, CA: Jacob Herman; Gail Dusenbery, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. This second number of the literary journal edited & published by Jacob Herman & Gail Dusenbery features two contributions by William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, as well as the iconic figure of our very enterprise: "Salt Chunk Mary" & "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier," exemplary short classics that mark WSB's later-1960s transition from his..... More

Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Heyday books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. "What catches Ira Nowinski's eye and what he captures with his lens are people- the beat poets of North Beach, opera divas radiating passion and delighting in adulation, cigar-smoking old Italians, tenant organizers, and an alert shirtless old man in a boxer's stance. These are photographs from three decades that speak eloquently and powerfully about..... More