Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Dated, inscribed, and twice signed by Tom Andrews. “May the Lord Jesus Christ bless the hemophiliac’s motorcycle…” begins the title poem of this collection; Tom Andrews (1961-2001) expresses his gratitude for being unknowingly blessed as a young adrenaline junkie unaware that any routine incident could be his end. Andrews was not diagnosed with hemophilia (a genetic disorder causing a...... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed and Signed by Tom Pohrt. "Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age of British poetry, the time of Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Coleridge. In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth as a poet of extraordinary humanity and great spirit. He was deeply resistant to the first years of England's..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harper & Row, 1969. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "You approach me carrying a book/ The instructions you read carry me back beyond birth/ To childhood and a courtyard bouncing a ball/ The town is silent there is only one recreation/ It's throwing the ball against the wall and waiting/ To see if it returns" ("Superballs," first six lines, pg. 11) An early collection of poems by..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. “The American poet Charles Olson (1910-70) was a large man, not only in physical size, energies, and appetites, but in the mythic dimension with which he invested both his work and his life. He believed that ‘the whole world & all experience is, no matter how real, only a system of metaphor for the allegory (Keats called it)..... More

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 flyers was standardized: center aligment reigned, and the venue title was always found floating like a thundercloud..... More

Cleavland, OH: Absolute Zero Press, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “Stanley D. Heilbrun, 28, from Cleveland's Psychedelic Row, is searching for the renaissance man. Heilbrun fled last week rather than appear in Common Pleas Court on charges of possession of marijuana and furnishing a 16-year-old girl with marijuana. He is the former owner of the Headquarters, a bookstore and gathering place for hippies at 11603 Euclid Avenue in University..... More

London, England, UK: Time Out Group, 1988. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Americans are the beloved noisemakers, the unschooled and the uncut, appreciated most at their simplest. Poet Charles Bukowski is the classic case of the American original who found his first audience abroad. In the USA, particularly in his hometown of Los Angeles, he is the dirty old man, boss vizier of the sleaze-o-rama pre-where transients slide into cheap rooms..... More

Wilson, NC: Loblolly Press, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the North Carolina literary journal chiefly edited by Tom Braswell features an essay, "Back Country Poet," by Gary Snyder (b. 1930), the Great Beat Generation- San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond poet-environmentalist who is still with us at age 94 as of this writing, & has taken his place in the canon of the Library of America. As noted preceding this most-enlightening..... More

Grants Pass, OR: Castle Peak Editions, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Signed and dated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “The original plan for this collection of essays and creative work dates back about ten years, to plans for a Festschrift to mark the poet’s seventieth birthday. Wayne Holder was the initiating editor. In the usual way contributions were requested; precisely on what basis is not now known. Whereupon–by indirections, revolutionary times, and California’s..... More

Bristol, England: Resuscitator, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Butterick & Glover, Section C, No. C166, p. 55). A UK-based literary journal edited by J.G. James and N.R. Wayne featuring Charles Olson (1910-1970), Robert Creeley (1926-2005) and others affiliated with the small press movement and Mimeograph Revolution. These include Scottish poet, Gael Turnbull (1928-2004); the Finnish poet and translator, Anselm Hollo (1934-2013); and the American poet & biographer, Tom Clark (1941-2018)..... More

New York, NY, USA: The New York Quarterly, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. This issue of the venerable high-quality poetry journal founded & then-edited by the legendary poet-polymath William Packard (1933-2002) features a Craft Interview with English poet Anna Adams (1926-2011) as well as contributions of poems by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994; Debritto, B1902, pg. 428), Jack Foley (b. 1940), Lyn Lifshin (1942-2019), Tom Rockwell (1933-2024), Elisavietta Ritchie (b. 1932), Antonio de..... More

New York, NY, USA: The Paris Review, Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "Time comes spirit weakens and goes blank apartments shuf- | fled through and forgotten | The dead in their cenotaphs locomotive high schools & Afri- | can cities smalltown motorcycle graves..." excerpt "Fragment 1957-The Names," pg. 57). This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by American writer and co-founder of "The Paris Review"..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2026. First Printing. Perfect Bound in Wrappers. This Latest-&-Greatest number of the magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a riveting article-interview concerning the early life & marriages of Joan Vollmer (1924-1951), before she became the common-law wife of William S. Burroughs- & had a tragic part in Beat history. Conducted by our good friend..... More