San Francisco, CA: The Auerhahn Press, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "It's a real rock / (believe this first) / Resting on actual sand at the surf's edge: / Muir Beach, California / (like everything else I have / somebody showed it to me and found it by myself)" [Pg. 1]." We are privileged to offer this much-desired relic of the San Francisco Renaissance, "Wobbly Rock" by the Beat-&-Beyond Giant..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2009. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This special issue of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK is devoted to Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & begins with a robust, rollicking prose letter from John Clellon Holmes to Kerouac written in 1958. This rare, often overlooked letter was remarkably not included in the Kerouac Selected Letters..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. There is a reason why the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965 lives on, spoken of in hushed tones and sunned by the rays of legend. Some events require the passage of time to apprehend their magnitude. Not so with the Berkeley Poetry Conference, where all who attended—lecturers and attendees alike—were quick to speak of it, write of it..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More

San Francisco, CA: Intersection Coffee Gallery/Amaranth Press, 1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (20"x13") announcing the exhibit "Poems on Paper: An Exhibit of Bay Area Broadsides 1955-1977" which was held at the Intersection Coffee Gallery in San Francisco during March 22-May 5, 1977. Among the poets whose broadsides were exhibited were Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen..... More

San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Despite the fact of its offices having been headquartered mere moments away from City Lights Books, and that its own literary-editorial stock saw itself rise alongside the tsunamic tide of the Beat Generation, -- there's not that many Beats in San Francisco review. They rarely "take over" an issue of this (wildly underappreciated) trade-format literary journal--but, as is so often the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Not yet 40, my beard is already white./ Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red,/ like a child who has cried too much." (first (untitled) poem, first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of nine untitled poems by Lew Welch (1926-1971?), the great American poet who towers over & haunts the Beat Generation. Welch departed from his friend..... More

San Francisco, CA: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside. Signed by Author This "Poetry Card" is one sheet printed letterpress by Nicholas Muska. 450 copies were published on the occasion of Lew Welch's poetry reading on April 22, 1967 at the Unicorn Book Shop. This copy is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Welch. This is Copy "F". Although all copies were supposed to be issued folded to make..... More

Albany, California: Sand Dollar, 1976. First Edition. Broadside. Published as a greeting by the Sand Dollar press, this poem by Lew Welch begins "First you must love your body." This is one sheet folded to make a small broadside. The poem was written in 1960 and discovered within the body of a letter Welch wrote to Joanne Kyger. Printed by Wesley Tanner and James Monday at the Arif Press. Very..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Lew Welch narrates the story of his life in these letters written to his mother and his friends and mentors, from his Reed College days, through the years of exile in New York and Chicago, to his return to his native California in 1957 and his active participation thereafter in the San Francisco scene " - from the back cover..... More