Bolinas, CA: Angel Hair Books, Very Fine. First Edition. Hand-Sewn Wrappers. Published by Anne Waldman & Lewis Warsh’s Angel Hair Books in 1970, Robert Creeley’s “In London” is a true counterculture production. Not only is it published by Waldman & Warsh, it’s printed by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn’s “Grabhorn-Hoyem” printing out in San Francisco, and records Creeley’s poetic flashes from London in 1969—exemplary intercontinental Beatdom, to be sure. It..... More

New York, NY: DIA Art Foundation, 1987. Limited First Printing. Softcover. (1/500 Unnumbered Copies). Robert Creeley’s “Some Time: A Selection, 1945-1987” was “…published on the occasion of a reading of these poems by the poet, November 12, 1987, DIA Art Foundation, New York, New York. The reading and a moderated discussion with the poet following the reading were videotaped.” This slim selection of Creeley culls the some of the finest..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More

Frankfurt, Germany: Zweitausendeins, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. One of the elusive "German Facsimile Sketchbooks" from the great, subversive Underground Comix genius R. Crumb--found here in virtually unread condition. Hardcover bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on spine with ribbon marker bound in. Complete with German translation Booklet, and housed in original cardboard slipcase with printed label affixed to the spine. From the outset this work proves itself..... More

New York, NY: Croton Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. “Time is ironic (at Black Mountain there was no time); point of view from the outside world I was there for four years and four and a half summers in a row….When you went between the low white paint-chipped and tilting fences, with the chipped black and white calmly bewitched little sign, that in one of the biggest understatements of my..... More

New York, NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Mandalay Dream is a novel in the form of emotional memories and experiences involving childhood and manhood simultaneously, pivoting on the power and effect of touch- physical as well as metaphorical- through stories, vignettes, fantasy, dreams, and a strong first-person narrative. A man whose marriage has failed has encounters and experiences that cause his childhood to come into..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This book, which I was tempted to call a novel, completed a circle which began with the writing of the story "Krazy Kat" at Black Mountain, and ended with the title story here; I had developed a prototype. But the work I had ahead of me, the change I was unwittingly--and unwillingly--approaching, hit and stayed with me regardless..... More

New York, NY: Telephone Books, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (1/1000 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). Celebrated counterculture icon and original Beat poet Ed Sanders has this to say about Fielding Dawson: "I have said he is the new Chekhov." Hefty words for Sanders, the respected poet (and Chekhov scholar) whose immortal "Poem from Jail" was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1963. Unique to this collection is the fact..... More

Lowell, MA: Dharma Beat, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Thirty dollars. The figure stands out to me. That's how much money Jack Kerouac needed, to buy a Greyhound bus ticket from Orlando [Florida] to New York. It was summer of 1957. Though he'd already written more than a million words by his own count, Kerouac had very little fame to show for it, and practically no money. His girlfriend at..... More

Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1993. First Printing. Single Sheet. "You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology/ a cosmogony/ laid out, before all eyes" (first stanza) A large broadside (appx. 24" x 34&7/8") with the title poem by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond, among the few females in that original group who very recently as of this writing..... More

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2016 (1974). Third Edition. Softcover; Folded Sheet. Signed by Elsa Dorfman; & with her hand-written, signed note. The classic work of photo-journalism by Elsa Dorfman (1937-2020). After working for Grove Press in NYC during the early 1960s height of its literary ferment, Dorfman moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts but kept in touch with the literary luminaries she had befriended. They visited her & she photographed them..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "These are poems of an irregularity. From the beginning I had sought not the poem as a discipline or paradigm of my thought and feeling but as a source of feeling and thought, following the movement of an inner impulse and tension rising in the flow of returning vowel sounds and in measuring stresses that formed phrases of a music for..... More

Kent, OH: The Kent State University Libraries, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The Genius mixd too strong a cup./ At noon the lethargy remains./ We cannot shake it off.// Sleep lingers all our lifetime in our eyes/ as night at midday hovers/ in the fir tree boughs./ The Genius brews his lethal cup./ All things swim and glitter." ("The Dreamers," first two stanzas, unpaginated) A collection of poems..... More