New York, NY, USA: C Press, 1965. Second Limited Edition. Stapled Sheets. "Now it is over and everyone knew it | The bad grass surrendered in unison and with much emotion | The long-awaited became despised | Everyone got tired and concluded that phase" (opening stanza, "Wind," unpaginated). In Advance of the Broken Arm is the debut poetry collection from American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator & member of the..... More

Tulsa, OK: Boke Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Joe Brainard & Ron Padgett. "Little red apple/ Lived on a tree./ Little red apple/ Looked down at me.// Little red apple/ was shiny and red./ Little red apple/ Fell on my head." ("Red Apples," unpaginated) A collaborative work of poetry & illustrations by two legendary New York School Giants: Ron Padgett (b. 1942) & Joe Brainard (1942-1994)..... More

New York, NY, USA: Floating Bear, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “It was this way in the origins: / How To Be Born / Coming from a native land (Switzer) and what it means / catching a glimpse or grasp on life (Mental) / Talking about their differences now…… / Fly now over raised map bob up again / A town’s binoculars at your throat / He is watching /..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1965. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the prestigious literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton (1927-2003) features the first appearance of one of the most well-known & important interviews of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, the Very Patron-Icon of our enterprise), which took place at his birthplace of St. Louis, Missouri when he revisited there briefly during 1965. Conducted by the acclaimed biographer-journalist Conrad..... More

New York, NY: Angel Hair, 1968. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The ground is white with snow. / It’s morning, of New Year’s Eve, 1968, & clean / City air is alive with snow, it’s quiet / Driving. I am 33. Good wishes, brothers, everywhere / & Don’t You Tread On Me” (“Resolution,” by the great Ted Berrigan [1934-1983]). The fifth number of the poetry journal co-edited, published & with contributions..... More

New York, NY: Angel Hair, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Laundry so near the ocean bothered Frank. / The lack of medicine on the shelves / also confused his emotional stance. / A moth fluttered against his leg. / A gust of wind made his Pepsi keen / as its foam trickled down inside” (from “Duo-Tang” Kenward Elmslie, p. 4). The fourth number of the poetry journal co-edited, published &..... More

Kent, England: Transgravity Press, 1978. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Signed by George Tysh to Robin Eichele, Noted Mimeography Revolutionary. While Your Devoted Managing Curator & MC-at-Large has no problem “throwing the curatorial deep ball” — taking swings and stands as the opportunities present themselves, unabashedly and unreservedly telling You, our Beat-&-Beyond, Baudelairian “Reader” whatever the curatorial moment demands, the curious thin volume here offered brings to the table all of..... 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

New York, NY: The Poetry Project, 1967. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is an especially alluring issue (No. 9) of the Anne Waldman-edited, co-parented Brainchild of St. Mark’s Poetry Project, “The World.” The poets at the famed Poetry Project started “The World” in part to showcase how wide a breadth of creative ferocity was coursing through the veins of literary New York at that time. Similar to the Editorial..... More