New York, NY: The New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, Inc., 1970. First Printing. Softcover. "There are, we believe, certain basic craft considerations to be found in a poem by a confessional poet, a Black Mountain poet, a "beat" poet, a subjective imagist poet, a New York School poet, a rock lyric poet, or any other dominant or emerging school of poetry writing today...The concept, then, is craft. And the..... 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: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "From Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1960, American Bohemianism has had a long, colorful, and usually somewhat fantastic history. This is the only complete record of that story- with hoboes, cranks and starving poets as its heroes; suffragettes and artists' models as its heroines; and banquets, suicides, and ferocious literary rivalries..... More

Ostheim/Rohn, Germany; San Francisco, CA: Verlag Peter Ensler; Self-Published, 2009. First Edition Thus; Original Photograph-Greeting Cards. Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheet; Photograph-Cards in Envelope. Mindeater: Altes Land signed by Charles Plymell; One of two Holiday greeting cards inscribed & signed from S. Clay Wilson & Lorraine Chamberlain to Charles & Pamela Plymell. Two collectibles, one quite rare & the other one-of-a-kind, relating to Charles Plymell. As poet, prose writer, editor &..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Edition. Softcover. "The intent of the present exhibition is to draw together a multitude of artistic manifestations of a given moment in order to demonstrate the transformational primal ground which they hold in common, and within this moment to distinguish one particularly important current." (from introductory essay, "Poets of the Cities: Levelling of Meaning" by Neil A. Chassman) Published in..... More

San Francisco, CA: Apex Novelties/The Print Mint, 1972. Fourth Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second number of the infamous series of small-format (5"x7") underground comix booklets that broke all barriers & depicted the most explicit sexual fantasies of Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson & other primary figures of the countercultural golden age. Still shocking in its satirical offensiveness, with Crumb's caricature Angelfood McSpade on front cover & his "The Family that..... More

San Francisco, CA: Apex Novelties/The Print Mint, 1972. Fourth Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The first number of the small-format (5"x7") series of underground comix booklets which, along with their cohorts Felch, Jiz & Pork, present the epitome (nadir?) of hardcore smut, feverishly depicted in this issue by primary counterculture writer-artists Robert Crumb & S. Clay Wilson. Mostly one or two-page cartoons with a few longer episodes including Crumb's "The Fight." The..... More

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman & Diane Wakoski. This vintage double number of the esteemed literary journal edited & with contributions by Dan Gerber & Jim Harrison features two poems ("Race Point" & "Altars") by Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, translator & scholar who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. On the title page of..... More

Philadelphia, PA (1) / New York, NY (2): Running Press (1) / Anchor Books (2), 2007 (1) / (2) 1965. First Printing. Hardcover (1) / Softcover (2). (1) If the descriptor "a great coffee table book" did not mean a book whose entire existence consists of rarely being looked at, needlessly occupying table space and hopefully dodging spills and stains from them--and if it meant a book which can be..... More

London, England: Phoenix, 1996. First Abridged Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by R.S. Thomas (to Thomas Rain Crowe). "Shelley dreamed it. Now the dream decays,/ The props crumble. The familiar ways/ Are stale with tears trodden underfoot./ The heart's flower withers at the root./ Bury it, then, in history's sterile dust./ The slow years shall tame your tawny lust." ("Song at the Year's Turning," first stanza, pg. 4). A...... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1983. First Printing. Softcover. “Dear Ralph, I think we have a live one this time, old sport. Some dingbat named Perry up in Oregon wants to give us a month in Hawaii for Christmas and all we have to do is cover the Honolulu Marathon for his magazine…Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, Ralph. You’re pacing around over there in the war room at the..... More

Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than five decades after the publication of his first bestselling book, Hunter S. Thompson remains a cultural icon. A steady stream of publications and films have told his remarkable story, several in detail. Most of these accounts- which feature his drug and alcohol consumption, gun fetish, and "fortified compound"- are centered in Woody Creek, Colorado, where Thompson lived from..... More