Sarasota. FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This issue of the literary journal chiefly edited & with contribution by John Weber is an especially rich gathering of works by some of the most notable poets of different generations & schools: An early poem by Margaret Atwood ("Lying Here"), who would go on to write the prize-winning & explosively influential The Handmaid's Tale & its sequel;..... More

San Francisco, CA: Latif Harris, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Contributor, Gerald Nicosia. “It was 1959, the year of the first ‘Beatitude,’ and I was 18 years old. When I arrived in San Francisco, you could rent a room for 30 dollars a month and eat well on a couple of dollars a day. I could catch a street car or trolley for 15 cents and take a round..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. First Printing. Softcover. The fourth number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic City Lights Books imprint, here edited by Mendes Monsanto. With a staggeringly rich roster of poets & prose writers at the forefront of the Beat Generation & San Francisco Renaissance, as well as their progeny-proteges of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance..... More

New York, NY: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "The hand and face of the poet-- birdtracks, wrinkles, leaves blown in dust, it's good to see hand and face brought together here by Chris Felver. Neither can lie, calligraphy is character, and we measure each other "at the crossroads of the new world" by the look in the eye. Chris draws both out with his gentle, insistent..... More

London, England: The Goliard Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (7&1/2"x12&3/4") with an untitled poem (first line: "Wasn't it like"/) by Jack Hirschman, the prolific poet, translator & activist who was the Poet Laureate of San Francisco & founded the International Poetry Festival there. One of an edition of 100 copies, not numbered, out of which 75 copies are unsigned as here. An exquisite production by the..... More

Portland, OR: The Yes! Press, 1971. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8"x12&1/2") with the title poem by Jack Hirschman, the renowned poet, translator & activist who was the Poet Laureate of San Francisco & founded the International Poetry Festival there. Issued in 1971 as "No. 10 in a series of free poems for your pleasure...," in an unknown limitation by the Yes! Press in Portland, Oregon. A stark production..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1976. First Printing. Softcover. “Almost every poem in ‘Lyripol’ was composed between the summer of 1974 and the present, this book is an enlargement of work-concerns announced in two recent North Beach books of mine, ‘Kashtinah Segodnyah’ (Beatitude, San Francisco, 1976) and ‘The Cool Boyetz Cycle’ (Golden Mountain Press, San Francisco, 1975)…’Lyripol’ is Our Book as a message of a mass demonstration or séance..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2002. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. "In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist and communist, Hirschman has published more than 60 books of his own poetry. This representative selection is a cross-section of Hirschman's poetic output, spanning many years and mutations." (back cover) A sweeping anthology of..... More

Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. A collection of poems by Jack Hirschman, the legendary & prolific former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, firebrand radical & acclaimed translator. As Hirschman explains in his introduction, this text, originally written in 1972, was lost for many years & finally turned up in 2012, making this "A Miracle Book" as he..... More

Dayton, OH: Wright State University, 1997. First Printing. Softcover. This double-number of the literary journal published by students at Wright State University edited by Mark Owens & co-edited by the legendary Ira Cohen features an "Allen Ginsberg Memorial Issue" dedicated to the Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who passed away shortly before publication on April 5, 1997. With contributions of poetry in immediate reaction to Ginsberg's death as well..... 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: Unmuzzled Ox, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary, art & culture journal edited by the longtime poet-activist Michael Andre, & designed by his former wife Erika Rothenberg, features a wealth of Beat-&-Beyond contributions: A poem by Daniel Berrigan; two by Gregory Corso including a group of five short poems augmented with his drawings of birds & cats, & a photo of Corso..... More