Santa Barbara, CA; n/p: University Center Gallery, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1983; Unknown. First Printings. Single Sheets. Both broadsides signed by Tom Clark. "The closer the bone the sweeter the bite:/ Among dark thoughts of slips between/ Cups and lips, afternoon meets night/ In the shadowed Hopper picture window" ("Somewhere in the West- A Riddle," first stanza) Two very rare broadsides by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the American poet, editor, novelist, biographer..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Illuminati, 1984. Lettered Artist's Edition. Stapled in Over-Wraps. Signed by Tom Clark & with signed autograph poem-artwork. "Local as a mobile, you don't need a credit/ card. Don't sign the form. Don't tell me your/ phone number. There is no membership fee./ Your acreage will be mailed to you in the near/ future. Please do not attempt to reply to this/ note." (fourth poem-commentary) A chapbook with..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Written with ferocious intensity, this novel is a fictional re-creation of the seven-year exile of perhaps the most controversial figure in all of twentieth-century literature. Celine: author of Journey to the End of the night and Death on the Installment Plan...dedicated doctor, vociferous anti-Semite, accused Nazi sympathizer...on the lam, hunted and haunted by the French Resistance..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Lettered Edition; Limited Numbered Edition; First Trade Softcover Edition. Hardcovers; Softcovers. Lettered Edition signed by Tom Clark & with signed hand-drawing; numbered edition signed; softcover edition with titled & signed hand-drawing. "The humiliation of being/ constantly observed/ by a hostile or derisive eye/ is certainly no joke/ but neither is/ not being able to find/ your shoes" ("Commuting," first stanza, pg. 111)..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Limited First Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. Lettered edition signed & with an original signed drawing by Tom Clark; softcover edition with original signed drawing. "Death greets life in a moment of liftoff./ In this moment one may read divine intent,/ Less ominous than luminous, less fade than loft:/ A plum light, Mars violet, blent/ By angled sunlight in an expansive flooding."..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ it is like a good/ kind of tiredness in/ the moment before sleep/ by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will..... More

Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, 1993. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Kenward Elmslie to Ken & Ann Mikolowski. "Postcards on Parade explores the glorious traditions of the American musical, gives them a spin, and injects them with surreal pizzaz and linguistic highs in this concept musical for the 1990s. Three gatherings of dealers and collectors of old postcards provide a reality that is constantly confronted and undermined..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an essay on nighttime Paris by one of its foremost authorities, the great proto-Beat mentor Henry Miller, interspersed with classic images of the nocturnal city by Brassai (Gyula Halasz), the acclaimed photographer. Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Beat poet-..... More

Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. "First published in Poetry, Partisan Review, Harper's, Poetry Northwest, and other journals, the poems in this selection represent the evolution of Holmes' style, from his early journeyman efforts in traditional forms, through the development of his later voice in free verse. Like his essays and fiction, Holmes' poetry focuses on the individual's self-affirmations in the face of numbing institutions--state or..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2013. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Book. This forty-first number of the Beat Scene Press Pocket Books series of limited-edition chapbooks published by Kevin Ring in the UK features the transcript of an interview with Herbert Huncke (1915-1996), among the foremost figures of the Beat Generation along with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac, all of whom he critically influenced (in lifestyle as..... More

New Paltz, NY: Treacle Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. "I am one of those heretics glad in rain, / love fog, wind, all business of the lower air / whose caresses / keep the mindsphere turbulent / over the cities & the periwinkle." (Excerpted from "1," the first poem in the present collection). "The Book of Persephone" is a mystifying-though-rewarding mosaic of poems by Robert Kelly (1935-2021), the great American..... More

Los Angeles, CA; Berkeley, CA: Arif Press; Black Sparrow Press, 1970; 1971. Limited First Editions. Softcover; Sewn Wrappers. "Desecheo/ off West Coast Puerto Rico/ 1 1/2 miles long/ 1 mile wide/ the end point of/ an upheaval that happened/ in the Caribbean" (from back cover, Desecheo Notebook) two vintage volumes of poetry by Joanne Kyger (1934-2017), the prolific poet associated with the Beat Generation (especially during her marriage to Gary..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered by Gerard Malanga, with: Original Manuscript Poem. “Dearest Cristina, how to read Olson: there is nothing that did / not interest him. As a poet, moreover, he would naturally look / for chances to use his dramatic, lyric & didactic powers. So / with his structure firmly determined by its basic economy Olson / was free..... More