Berkeley, CA: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet & noted founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. There are few, if any widely-known connections between Cornell University in Ithaca, NY — and this, even though several visionary non-Beat authors have taught there to great effect: have been received, warmly by talented students who are eager-to-contribute; by responsive readers, and responsive..... More

New York, NY, USA: Portents (Ann and Samuel Charters) / Gotham Book Mart, 1970. Limited Trade Edition. With autograph postcard from Ann Charters to Albert Glover. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were known only..... More

San Francisco, CA: New Coffee Gallery, 1976. First Edition. Offered today is a unique rarity from the Second San Francisco Renaissance/Baby Beat Generation, the broadside Reading at New Coffee Gallery (August 11, 1976). This reading, as many of the readings in The Bay Area at the time were, was packed with the most skilled and respected cadre of the SSFR/BBG. Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), a.k.a. Thomas Dawson, co-founding member..... More

Berkeley, CA, USA: Free University of Berkeley, 1969. First Edition. Single Sheets. The Free University of Berkeley (F.U.B.) was founded by Paul Goodman and Mario Savio in 1965 following the Free Speech Movement protest which took over the campus during the 1964-1965 academic year, led by Savio. This protest was the first mass act of civil disobedience on American college campuses in the 1960s though many more were to follow..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. “Most of the profound cultural and social changes characterizing the latter half of the 20th century, often identified as having been triggered in the liberated atmosphere of the 60s, had their roots firmly in the post-war years of the late 40s and early 50s. This manifested itself in innumerable ways in an otherwise largely conservative society, particularly in the US; from the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Revised, Expanded Edition Thus. Softcover. "No matter where Jack (Kerouac) went he always knew he'd return to Lowell, the town he hated and loved, that he felt secure in, the one place he could never really leave." (from "Part Three: A Note on Kerouac's City," pg. 59) This is the chronicle by Barry Gifford (b. 1946) of his visit to Lowell, Massachusetts..... More

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “In the Spring of 1994, I published a translation of a Greek poem written about the Polytechnic revolt in 1973 by one Dorou Leftheria. The name had always struck me (as it had Greek friends to whom I'd shown..... More

San Francisco, CA: Blake Hand Books & Street Publications, 1976. First Printing. “In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis”--Michael Parenti. There are few writers who, over the course of their lives, have been as in-touch with and contributed to a scene as much as Jack Hirschman (1933–2021)..... More

Berkeley, CA: Tree Books, Texts and Documents, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. With postcard signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe, his apprentice, friend & the co-authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “I first met Thomas Crowe (the later adopted continental-american name, literally taken from the name Dawson by which he was known to me for four years on the streets of North Beach, S.F. He asked after..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman. “O happy beginning, baby step year, unfold / as a love affair knowing no past, going / breathlessly / forward toward where you came from and are: / —all future, with caresses of innocence. / I dont want last year’s desert of snow, / bodies face-down dead of war on my own..... More

Santa Fe, NM: The Great Blafigria, c. 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. “And no one without the fire / flashing blush of our animal faces. / And one without / the glow of a working / c;ass [sic] / even in the dissolute heart / even in the heights / of Maccu Picciu / the proletarial [sic] star, / the drosophilia / drop of blood growing rays, / and the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Serendipity Books, 1975. First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “...The guerilla is like a poet. / He moves with the green brown multitude / In bush burning with red flowers / That crown and hearten all / Swarming the terrain as a flood / Marching at last against the stronghold. / An endless movement of strength / Behold the protracted theme: /..... More

WIllimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “That poet you admire so — / in my fifteen years / in the workers’ movement / I’ve never seen him / in attendance at / a demonstration against / social injustice, or at / a memorial honoring / a revolutionary hero, / or at a rally in support / of an uprising people —..... More