San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. An important book to the Creeley scholar and poetry neophyte alike, "The Charm" collects poems that chart the development behind his magnitudinous "For Love" collection that were omitted from that book. Not only does "The Charm" contain omitted sleeper classics, but it also showcases the immense and fertile growth the poet was consistently engaged in cultivating. "The poems in this..... More

Bolinas, CA: Angel Hair Books, 1970. First Edition. Hand-Sewn Wrappers. Published by performance poet extraordinaire Anne Waldman (b.1945) & principal member of the second generation New York Poets Lewis Warsh’s (1944-2020) Angel Hair Books in 1970, Robert Creeley’s (1926-2005) “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..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Robert Creeley's (1926 – 2005) first published assembly of prose literary criticism and commentary was published by Don Allen's Four Seasons Foundation in 1970, and contains some of Creeley's best writing on the art of poetry. Creeley's investigative mind penetrates the surfaces and seeks to examine creativity at the root. He utilizes examples from other writers--their lives, and what they..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Trade Edition. Softcover in Sewn Binding. Inscribed and signed by Robert Creeley to Robin Eichele. “I’ll miss the small birds that come / for the sugar you put out / and the bread crumbs. They’ve / made the edge of the sea domestic / and, as I am, I welcome that. / Nights my head seemed twisted / with dreams and the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press/ Evergreen Books, 1960. First Softcover Edition, Ninth Printing. Softcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership initials & contributions. "This collection testifies to a uniquely vital movement in modern American literature only now beginning to be widely recognized. Abstract expressionist painting and jazz are known throughout the world today as America's finest achievements in contemporary culture. This anthology, the first serious attempt..... More

New York, NY: Yugen, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Hubert Selby Jr., and Kenneth Koch. (McNeil C75-C78, p.124 in “Gary Snyder: A Bibliography”; Charters C78, p. 60 in “A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac”). “‘Merde!’ screams Rimbaud / at Verlaine salons --- / Gossip in Paris---Verlaine Wife / is jealous of a boy / with no seats to his trousers / ---Love sends..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books (see our item No. 3071). Reprinted here is part of our interview..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press, 1979 & 1980. First Editions. Offered today are two incredibly rare and uniquely stacked volumes of the venerable Evergreen Review Reader. (1) Evergreen Review Reader Vol. 1: 1957-1961, a collection of Evergreen Review Reader issues from its inaugural issue in 1957 to 1961, the flagship issues that established the literary institutions assault on American culture. This collection features a number of incredible essays, poems..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Another very eclectic number of the scholarly journal, with a wide variety of subjects: Essays on John Ashbery's work by Margueritte S. Murphy, Elizabeth Bishop's by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Robert Bly's by Victoria Frenkel Harris & William Carlos Williams' by William Doreski; notes on Bob Dylan's poetry-lyrics by James W. Earl; reviews of works on Beat-related poets Robert Creeley &..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 48 holds two honorary tributes to the then-recently passed Hunter S. Thompson and a recovered interview with Robert Duncan, the influential poet and a primary organizing figure of the San Francisco Renaissance, whose soirees hosted swarms of now-notable names. Also present is an interview with rebel visionary poet and relentless social activist Ed Sanders, a feature on..... More

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More

Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY: Goliard & Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each of the contributors to ALL STARS was asked to present a selection of some twenty pages of new work; the result is a kind of monster magazine which contains 13 previously unpublished pamphlets." (from dust jacket back cover) A monumental compendium of poems by the primary figures of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, Black..... More

New York, NY: Bard College/Collier Books & Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal features an interview of Salman Rushdie conducted by Catherine Bush, after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses & shortly before the notorious "fatwa" death threat issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini. Also the short story including two poems, "The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud," by..... More