San Francisco, CA: White Star Graphics, 1987. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Jack Micheline. Like his fellow haloed street-bard, Bob Kaufman, Beat troubadour Jack Micheline (1929-1998) could also be found wandering the streets of New York during the Beat Generation’s breakthrough halcyon-heyday of the mid-late 1950s. Unlike Kaufman, however, Micheline made significant contact with the Mount Rushmore Beats, and did so during the period in which their cardinal contributions..... More

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1986; 1990. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. One of two editions signed by editor-publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. An anthology of writings by & about greater-&-lesser known members of the Beat Generation & their contemporaries. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Jeffrey H. Weinberg, whose Water Row imprint & bookselling enterprise is among the first & greatest in our specialization. With a story by William..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Over the past few years people have asked when are we going to reprint early issues of Beat Scene Magazine. The short answer is, we're not going to...But what we have done is collect some of the best material from those long gone issues in this slim volume here. Not all material was published in Beat Scene, some of..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This summer 2004 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an interview conducted by Ring with Greg Keeler on his friendship with Richard Brautigan, resulting in the memoir Waltzing with the Captain. Also a thoughtful essay on Allen Ginsberg by Vojo Sindolic, "Was Allen Ginsberg a Religious Poet?"; an interview..... More

London, England: Love Books / Barry Miles, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Plymell. Long Hair Number 1 was published in 1965 by Love Books in London by Barry Miles, manager of the Indica Bookshop & Gallery in London & later bibliographer & biographer of William S. Burroughs. This quintessential counterculture publication contains contributions from a panoply of notable Beat & New York poets. As the title portends, "Long..... More

South San Francisco, CA: ManRoot, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jack Micheline. "There is within poetry a distinct tradition that is becoming obsolete. The tradition is the poet or the troubadour who goes about or wanders, roams over the country trading his songs and poems for bread and butter...There is only one poet who comes close to chronicling a similar lifestyle, trading his poems, songs and drawings for..... More

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1989. Advance Review Copy. Stapled Wrappers. "Robert Frost once said that the test of a poet is whether or not his poetry endures. Jack Micheline's work has already passed that test. Jack began writing his poems almost forty years ago, and even those early poems--often just simple street songs or chants--still strike one with the high power of honesty in a dishonest world. Over the years..... More

Ellenburg, WA: Vagabond Press/The Smith, 1999. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. Sealed First softcover edition of this tribute volume published after the death of Beat poet Jack Micheline, featuring contributions by Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jeffrey Weinberg, Linda King, Janine Pommy-Vega, Charles Plymell, T.L. Kryss, Hubert Selby, Jr., and many others. Also contains work by Jack Micheline as well as plenty of scarce photographs. Edited by Vagabond Press publisher &..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977; 1978; 1979. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Four vintage, contiguous numbers of the literary review journal subtitled "A Small Press Review Magazine" co-published & with contributions by Legendary Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell, & chiefly edited by his wife & co-publisher Pamela Beach Plymell, productions of their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 2 No. 8 & 9 (1977)- this issue features a lengthy..... 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

New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1963. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The fifth volume in the series of poetry anthologies compiled & edited by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist, published by his imprint, Hawk's Well Press. This issue features poems by Beat Generation & other important figures including Robert Duncan ("Four Songs the Night-Nurse Sang"); Harry Fainlight ("Sussicran"); David Ignatow ("At Home"); Robert Kelly ("The Road at the..... More