San Francisco, CA: Caffe Malvina, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring appx. 11 x 14”) advertising a poetry reading at the cult-famous Malvina Coffee House — which, during the mid-to-late 1970s, was mobilized as a venue by the authors of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. The layout and format for MCH posters was standardized: center alignment reigned, and the venue title was always found floating like a thundercloud..... More

San Francisco, CA: Twenty-Two Press, 1976. First Edition. Single Sheet. Inscribed, dated, and signed with illustration by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe. “I met Neeli early on and we became ‘compatriots’ almost immediately. He was really the person who introduced me to everyone and to what was going on in San Francisco during my first weeks and months there. In that sense he was very generous with his time..... More

Penn Valley, CA: R.L. Crow Publications, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Dated, inscribed, signed & with drawings by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe. "From Los Angeles to San Francisco, from 1953 to now- Neeli Cherkovski uses bar scenes, cafe insights, family confessions, heartbreak and redemption, meditations on morality and the acceptance of self to transform memory, time and myth into an intimate poetic-memoir. He creates a window to the past..... More

San Francisco, CA: No Publisher, 1975. First Edition. Inscribed & signed by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe. “I met Neeli early on and we became ‘compatriots’ almost immediately. He was really the person who introduced me to everyone and to what was going on in San Francisco during my first weeks and months there. In that sense he was very generous with his time and energy (which he had..... More

San Francisco, CA: Street Publications, 1975. First Edition. “Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”--Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution. Neeli Cherkovski (1945–2024) was an American poet and memoirist, and is widely considered one of the greatest writers of his generation. Cherkovski authored Whitman’s Wild Children, a collection of essays about twelve poets he has known: Michael McClure (1932–2020), Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), John Wieners (1934–2002), James Broughton (1913–1999), Philip..... More

San Francisco, CA: S.F. Poets Against Repression in South Korea, 1976. First Edition. “The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”--Kim Il-Sung. Kim Chi Ha (1941–2022), born Kim Yeongil, was a South Korean poet and playwright. As a student, Kim participated in the April Revolution which saw the toppling of the oppressive regime of Syngman Rhee (1875–1965) in April..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude, 1980. First Printing. Wrappers. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Joanna McClure. "i've sailed on ships created from paper/ to ports where the sun is not half so real/ as when it pours into my window/ awakening me from thoughts of love// through stormy waters i travelled/ shaping mast into body and soul/ of wise magicians who stood on cliffs/ above plains of slaughter long ago" (Neeli..... More

Fairfax, CA: The Red Hill Press, 1976. First Edition. Folded Sheets. “Many of us writers, who are experiencing atrocities of Fascism and are outraged by them, have not yet understood this doctrine [i.e., ‘that the roots of all evil lie in our property relations.’] and have not yet discovered the root of brutality that outrages them. For them the danger exists of treating the horrors of Fascism as unnecessary horrors..... More

San Francisco, CA: Magpie Literary Press, 2008. Limited Second Edition. “Come, my friends,/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world./Push off, and sitting well in order smite/The sounding furrows, for my purpose holds/To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths/of all the western stars, until I die./It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;/It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,/And see the great Achilles..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1977. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beatitude 26 is made especially collectible by its unique editorial pairing of two Second San Francisco Renaissance giants: Ken Wainio (1952-2006), the movement’s noted, premier surrealist; and Philip Daughtry [a/k/a Philip Suntree; b. 1942], a key associate of the movement’s co-authorial founder, Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949). Of Daughtry, Crowe writes: “Philip actually studied with Galway Kinnell and Robert Bly..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1976. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. “My first response to Neeli was that he was a lot like a young version of Allen Ginsberg. A kind of publicist and traffic cop for what was going on around him. This kind of energy and enthusiasm attracted all kinds of people, both younger and older than him. In this sense, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that..... More

Fruita, CO: Lithic Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. “Then [William Carlos] Williams was so anti-Wasteland (sic), and he thought it ruined American poetry, and set it back how many decades. And so, I was ready to be there with him on that, at the barricades; because I loved him so much and understood him, I thought. And I didn’t even read Eliot until years later. And then I realized he..... More

Escondido, CA: The Kerouac Connection, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. “The conference itself was long, crazy hours of reading papers, listening to papers, meeting people, shaking hands, forgetting names, no sleep, no sleep, until pass out at another endless panel, New York sites, places, bagels, croissants, pizza, lo mein chicken, the usual great food and nasty people, rare books for sale, steam rising thru the streets, garbage collected in the gutters..... More