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

No Place: n/p, n/d. First Printing. “How do I see myself as a writer? I don’t spend too much time looking in the mirror–unlike our current President. My gaze is mostly outward and to the future. There is no literary family tree or anyone, really, in my genetic heritage that I know of who was a writer, except maybe in the MacGregors on my mother’s side from Scotland, who were..... More

Saluda, NC: New Native Press, 1979. Limited First Edition. “How do I see myself as a writer? I don’t spend too much time looking in the mirror–unlike our current President. My gaze is mostly outward and to the future. There is no literary family tree or anyone, really, in my genetic heritage that I know of who was a writer, except maybe in the MacGregors on my mother’s side from..... More

San Francisco, CA: Relevé Press, 1978. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “I am through with my love of suffering, / And the words that describe that love. / I am going to carry on a magnificent / affair with the wind / […] / I am looking for the stones. / The stones that lay to the..... More

San Francisco, CA: n/p, 1975. Original Manuscript. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. An original handwritten manuscript (on newsprint) by Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) featuring a poem — quoted in full, above — that we believe was composed as some sort of hard-edged ode to..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1998. First Printing. Coil-Bound. “Like candles near the corpse of / wales [sic] and caitlin screaming at / the mad wake of dylan gone gone / gone to ring bells now in / Kathmandu…” (from “Like Candles,” the ninth poem in this unpaginated collection). Composed over an eight-month period in 1988, this impressive, mid-period work by Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) — best known to..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Books, 1991. First Edition. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. “ HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!”--Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings. Offered today is a particularly rare and interesting collection of poetry, Poems for Che Guevara’s Dream (1991) by the ineffable Second San Francisco Renaissance/Baby Beat Generation legend Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949). Poems for Che Guevara’s Dream is a collection of experimental, proletarian poetry..... More

Cullowhee, N.C.; New York, NY; Norfolk, CT: Thomas Rain Crowe; James Laughlin, 1992; 1994. One Original Signed Letter; Two Retained Copies. Stapled Sheets; Folded Letter in Envelope. An intriguing & valuable collection of correspondence between Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the acclaimed American poet who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s; & James Laughlin (1914-1997), the great founding publisher of..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed and Numbered by Thomas Rain Crowe. “Literary 'student' of Baudelaire, contemporarian and 'protege' of Arthur Rimbaud; Hughes-Alain Dal, author of a first book of poems entitled Pourquoi Je Suis Un Monstre, is a mystery. During the past year in which I have worked slowly and sensitively in an attempt to render true to the American idiom, through French landscape..... More

Berkeley, CA: n/p, 1977. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. Signed at Recto by Photographer, Sam Silver An original photographic print (appx. 7 & 6/8" x 9 & 6/8" including margins) featuring two great Second San Francisco Renaissance poets, Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) & Philip Daughtry (a/k/a Philip Suntree; b. 1942), the great & greatly varied British-American poet who among many other things is a descendant of Frank & Jesse James, the..... More

Portland, OR: Locust Records / Nexus, 1989. First Edition. LP. “The title Breathe on the Living comes from a poem by Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), an Ohio poet and watercolorist who was perhaps 50 years ahead of his time with his visions of peace and ecological sanity. And so this record is for him more than anyone else. I think he would dig it. It is also for all the Chinese..... More

San Francisco, CA: Committee on the Breytenbach Case, 1977. First Printings. Single Sheets. "It was actually Stephen Schwartz who was first to call our attention to Breytenbach’s case. He, being the vocal presence that he was, got fired up about the injustices being brought to bear on Breytenbach and had actually written up a flyer of his own that he was distributing around North Beach to everyone. That flyer eventually..... More

Ann Arbor: Third Mind Books, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks." Starting from San Francisco measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970's who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their predecessors..... More