San Francisco, CA: Community Press, 1973. First Edition. David Moe (1937–2013) was part of the Second San Francisco Renaissance as chronicled in Third Mind Books debut publication, "Starting from San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books." (Ann Arbor, MI: Third Mind Books, 2018). According to Crowe, Moe was about ten years older than most of the "Beatitude cadre" (as Jack Hirschman used to refer to Thomas..... More

Berkeley, CA: Beatitude Press, 2005. First Edition Thus. Inscribed & signed by H.D. Moe to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Here’s an interesting and unique man and poet if there ever was one. I knew David well and spent a lot of time with and around him during the 70s. I even took a trip with him to France in 2007 to do a reading tour for the Baby Beat Generation Book…Moe..... More

Berkeley, CA: Deserted X Press, 2002. First Edition. Dated, inscribed & signed by H. David Moe to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Between low heaven & high earth / a feather cradles down / “Stone-Cloud roll deep to keymeat / Yes, Magellan jibbed his queery straits / while de Gama turned around the horn / & Columbus, lumbering along, walked a screwball sea / no ground to tether an egg to /..... More

San Francisco, CA: Pamela Mosher, 1976. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. Hand-titled, signed & dated by photographer Pamela Mosher. An original photographic print (measuring appx. 7&6/8" x 9&6/8" incl. margin) featuring the elder Baby Beat poet, David Moe (1937-2013) at the Proposition 15 Rally-Reading. As Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance notes in the Thomas Rain Crowe Archive catalog, “[The Proposition 15 Rally-Reading]..... 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: Love Lights, 1975. First Printing. Folded Single Sheets. Offered here is Vol. 3, Issue 44 of David Moe’s Love Lights magazine, of which little is known. The late American post-Beat poet, Andy Clausen (1943-2024), however — who commiserated & toured beside the original giants of the Beat Generation, along with their related colleagues & progeny, since the late 1960s — wrote of Love Lights in his memoir..... More

Berkeley, CA: Beatitude Press, 2011. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by H.D. Moe to acclaimed underground printer-publisher Charles Plymell. "Moe's 'Waltzing in the Submarine furthers his long-established zippy breaking of boundaries. These poems show a democratic Whitman broadened across subatomic particle physics and the amped-up scrambling of encoded expectation. This is a victory of the imagination." (Baby Beat poet Roderick Iverson, from back cover). David Moe was part of the..... More