Boulder, CO: Kavyayantra Press, 1995. First Edition. Folded Sheets. Signed twice, dated, & inscribed by Rikki Ducornet to Brian Jacobs. “At dusk he was brought / before the Star Chamber. / We stripped him of his / clothes; we cut his belly / open so that he could hide / nothing. We taped up his / mouth and asked him to / speak. He would not / answer our questions..... More

n/p: Brian Jacobs, 1994. First Edition. Offered today are two photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), the legendary Beat poet extraordinaire who is widely considered the greatest American poet of the 20th century. Taken in 1994, these photos capture a specific day in 1994 when Allen and (then) assistant Brian Jacobs (b. 1969)—now phenomenal poet in his own right, retired professor, and our dear dear friend—attended an anti-Promise Keepers rally. The..... More

Boulder, CO: Kavyayantra Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. “I’m not real modest about the impact of this; there’s nothing like it in publishing history. Random House could never do this. In fact, neither did we. It was the artists and poets who did it, and we were the distributors, sending those cards on to our subscribers, generally other artists and writers, for over thirty years. It was fun.”..... More

1994: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Eileen Myles to Brian Jacobs. "Time passes. That's for sure. It's the nightmare of having what you want that I'm interested in today. I had a book party five years ago. It took place in New York where I live and it was the beginning of the end for me." (opening paragraph, "February 13, 1982,"..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988. First Edition Thus, Third Printing. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Hubert Selby Jr. to Brian Jacobs. "The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. (Hubert Selby Jr.'s) searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as..... More

New York, NY: The American Postcard Company, 1999. Original Postcard. Single Sheet. An original, handwritten postcard (measuring appx. 6” x 4") authored and sent by the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters (b. 1946) to the American poet and theorist, Brian L. Jacobs (b. 1969). While Jacobs was getting his MA at San Francisco State University, he wrote to Waters regarding his proposal to write a thesis on the women..... More