San Francisco, CA: The Tenth Muse, 1972. First Printing. Softcover in Sewn Wrappers. Like to play Russian Roulette with literary obscurities? If so, today’s your day, and this volume, for you: Pacific Northwest-based poet Bill Deemer’s (1946-2018) “A Few for Lew,” published (in the present form) in 1972. Given the closeness in chronological proximity to the publication of this work, its title seems to reference the untraceable suicide of Lew..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious, scholastic analyses of typography in the work of Robert Creeley. The essays span the sea-wide scope of Creeley's output in a concise and informative thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the respect poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring several tributes to Michael McClure (1932-2020), Giant of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & beyond who passed away during May of 2020 at age 87. With firsthand reminiscences of McClure by..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More

Lincoln, England: Grosseteste Review, 1975. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Old one the dog stretches stiff-legged,/ soon he'll be underground. Spring's first fat bee/ buzzes yellow over new grass and dead leaves." (first stanza, untitled poem by Allen Ginsberg, pg. 14) This special number of the UK literary journal is edited by Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995), the noted Swiss-Italian artist & writer, & features two contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual, and artistic adventure. In these intimate..... More

San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Here we have a delectable collectible of the first order: approachable, alluring, and containing no less than five bona-fide champions of the San Francisco Renaissance. Volume 1, No. 2 of the San Francisco Review may have flown under the radar, but it comes “ready to play,” to put it mildly. Perhaps the most unique aspect of this issue of the San..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1965. First Edition. Stapled in wrappers. Printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 500 copies, On Out is the poet's fifth publication. In near fine condition with the covers worn around the edges since they overextend the pages as designed by the printer, & staples beginning to rust. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Near Fine. More

Berkeley, CA: Sand Dollar, 1970. Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Centuries and hordes of us / from every quarter of the Earth / now piling up / and each wave going back to get some more” (excerpted from title poem, pg. 1). Originally published in 1969, this is the Second Edition of ‘The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings,’ printed in Berkeley, CA by Jack Shoemaker in a limited run of 1,000 copies..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. “How they are provided for upon the earth (appearing at intervals) / How dear and dreadful they are to the earth / How they inure themselves as much as to any— / what a paradox, appears their age / How people respond to them, yet know them not / How there is something relentless in their fate all times / How..... More

Coventry, England: the Beat Scene Press, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 26 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is a small compilation of letters written by the great American poet Lew Welch, who in 1971 departed from his friend Gary Snyder's California property into the surrounding wilderness & disappeared. Including a letter to Jack Kerouac written on January..... More