San Francisco, CA: ManRoot, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Dated, inscribed & signed by Jack Micheline to Thomas Dawson (a/k/a Thomas Rain Crowe). "There is within poetry a distinct tradition that is becoming obsolete. The tradition is the poet or the troubador 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..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Magazine, 1975. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Counted first among the quite-nearly nonpareil rarities of the Second San Francisco Renaissance is this issue — No. 21 — of Beatitude Magazine, which was founded by Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) & John Kelly in 1959. Its founding, heavily influenced by Allen Ginsberg, was something of an annunciation for what it meant to be “Beat.” While Jack Kerouac and Herbert Huncke..... More

Stockton, CA: Wormword Review, 1970. First Limited Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Presented here is Volume 10 number 1 issue 37 of The Wormwood Review edited by Marvin Malone. This issue features some really tasty contributors — the highlight being Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) with his poems “One More Good One. Why Not?” and “Moonlight Ride”. Other notable features include Jack Micheline’s (1929-1988) insert of poems titled “Los Angeles - San Francisco Express”;..... More

Hoboken, NJ: Long Shot Productions, 1993. First Printing. Softcover. Signed & dated by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution. “Long Shot Vol.15 saw the addition of a new editor, Nancy Mercado, who supplied us with a needed shot of energy as well as the keys to a poetry world we had mostly been observers to, but not real participants in – The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.” (From dannyshot.com) Long Shot magazine, co-founded by..... 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

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

Dayton, OH: Wright State University, 1997. First Printing. Softcover. This double-number of the literary journal published by students at Wright State University edited by Mark Owens & co-edited by the legendary Ira Cohen features an "Allen Ginsberg Memorial Issue" dedicated to the Founding Father of the Beat generation-&-Beyond who passed away shortly before publication on April 5, 1997. With contributions of poetry in immediate reaction to Ginsberg's death as well..... 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