Carbondale, IL / Santa Barbara, CA: Southern Illinois University Press / Table Talk Press, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Single Sheets / Broadside / Postcards. 10 Signed Items from noted San Francisco Renaissance poet & Essayist Michael McClure. This supreme package of McClure-iana contains what is quite possibly one of the most impressive and alluring assemblages of items by and relating to Michael McClure ever brought to market. This..... More

Berkeley, CA: Moe's Books/Wesley B. Tanner, 1988. Single Sheet. A broadside (10"x17&1/2") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. As noted below the poem, this is "A gift from Moe's Books for the New Year, 1988. Printed by Wesley B. Tanner, Berkeley." Of unknown limitation, there may be copies with an alternate line of information..... More

Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, Circa 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (14"x20&1/2") with the title poem by Duncan McNaughton, an acclaimed "poet's poet" now residing & teaching in San Francisco. A short work printed in a facsimile of (the poet's?) cursive writing at the upper left (blank sky) area of a photograph which covers the nearly the entire surface. The image, entitled "Two Pipes" & taken in Segrate, Italy..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Fels & Firn Press, 1974. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large broadside (18"x29") with the title poem by John Montgomery, a long-time friend of Jack Kerouac who appears as the mountain-climbing character "Henry Morley" in Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums. Montgomery edited & contributed to two compilations of Kerouac essays & reminiscences, Kerouac at the "Wild Boar" (1986); & The Kerouac We Knew (1987). The same publisher..... More

Milwaukee, WI: Carnaby Mfg. Co., 1970. First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (18" x 28 &1/2") spoofing the U.S. Department of Defense Civil Defense system, in the form of a notice, flanked by official logos, with "Instruction to Patrons on Premises in Case of Nuclear Attack:" The last of seven instructions famously states: "Then kiss your ass goodbye." A classic relic of the idealism of the 1960s curdling into bitter..... More

Grindstone City, MI: The Alternative Press, Circa 1980s. First Printing. Single Sheet. A letter-size broadside (8&1/2"x11") with the title prose-poem by Maureen Owen, an acclaimed poet who is now on the faculty of Naropa University in Boulder, CO. The subject of this piece is Jack Kerouac's sexism in his work & life, from a feminist-literary perspective. Published by the legendary Alternative Press, the imprint of Ken Mikolowski & his late..... More

Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, Circa 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (25"x19") with the title poem by Louis Patler. With illustration by Dennis Sabra. Published & printed by Yanagi as part of its Yanagi VI Broadside Series, one of an edition of 300 hand-numbered copies. This is copy No. 86/300. No date is noted, but we have seen an unofficial reference to 1977. A beautiful production, & a desirable..... More

Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo. A broadside (11"x17") with 10 short poems by Robert Peters on verso; & a drawing by Harley Elliot, along with colophon & other information of publisher on front side. Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed & prolific poet, critic & educator, would later publish most of these poems along with many others in..... More

San Francisco, CA: 1965. Original Artwork. Original Collage Artwork on Stiff Board. Original Collage Artwork by Charles Plymell. By 1965, Charles Plymell was at the forefront of avant-garde printing & publishing, and like other legendary Beat authors and artists, had lived at 1403 Gough St. in San Francisco. Contextualizing the larger literary scene at the time, what is nebulously referred to as “The Mimeograph Revolution” was well under way. Ed..... More

Santa Barbara, California: Unicorn Press, 1971. First Printing. 12" x 19" Broadside. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap A broadside produced by the venerable Unicorn Press, officially designated as Unicorn Broadside Series II Number 9, in an unknown limitation. Featuring the title poem by Jerome Rothenberg, the renowned poet & ethnopoeticist. The poem is dedicated to Paul Blackburn (1926-1971), a contemporary of Rothenberg associated with the Black Mountain School..... More

Bolinas, CA: Yanagi, 1977. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. One of 26 Lettered copies, Signed by Edward Sanders & with his hand-correction. A large broadside (17"x22") with the title poem by Ed Sanders, the legendary, still quite active figure in the literary, publishing & musical counterculture of 1960s NYC & beyond. There is a reference to John Keats in the first line ("Keats is dead..."), & an illustration of a...... More

n/p: Unknown, Circa 1980. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Edward Sanders. A broadside (11"x17") with a poem by Ed Sanders, the Beat-to-Hippie countercultural icon of poetry, publishing & music. This appears to be a translation by Sanders of a work by the ancient Greek poet Sappho- above the English text is a facsimile of handwritten Greek words & phrases, with diagrammatic arrows & lines leading to..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Tenth Muse, 1972. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (13&1/8"x20") with the title poem by Aram Saroyan, the famously minimalist poet- indeed, the title is also the entire text of the poem. With silk-screen image of a little girl. Also a playwright, prose writer & memoirist, Saroyan is the son of William Saroyan, the late acclaimed writer; & was the stepson of the late actor Walter..... More