San Francisco, CA: 544 Natoma Performance Gallery, 1982. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2"x14") announcing performances of the play !The Feast! by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. This production of the play, originally written & performed in 1960, took place during late May through early June of 1982 at the 544 Natoma Gallery in San Francisco. With... More

Berkeley, CA: Black Oak Books, 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (6"x17") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. Published to celebrate a reading by the poet during March 1986, of unknown limitation. The poem first appeared in the compilation Jaguar Skies in 1975. Printed by Wesley B. Tanner. A desirable McClure collectible. In... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Michael McClure. A large broadside (18"x26") with the title poem by Michael McClure, a primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & beyond. Dedicated to Kenneth Rexroth, this poem originally appeared in issue No. 49 of the literary compilation New Directions in Prose & Poetry (1985). As noted in copyright/limitation information below... More

Berkeley, CA: Granary Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas McGrath. "I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk,/Little Olivetree, all stunted and stiffened, as you climbed/From the blue cove where the cold sea comes in and dies."(first stanza) A broadside (approx. 19&5/8"x12&7/8") with the title poem by Thomas McGrath (1916-1990), the great American poet whose work is regarded as a successor to... More

Winston-Salem, NC: The Palaemon Press, 1982. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Hand-initialed by Vassar Miller A broadside (approx. 8"x13&3/4") with the title poem by Vassar Miller (1924-1998), the acclaimed poet who overcame cerebral palsy to become the Poet Laureate of her native Texas, & a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. The poem is, typically, a meditation on illness & death, subtitled with a quote by the poet Thomas Merton which... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Zilzal Press, 1988. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8&1/2"x14") with a poem dated 9/30/86 & printed in 1988 by the acclaimed, award-winning poet Abd al-Hayy Moore. Born Daniel Moore, he published his first book of poems, Dawn Vision, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1964. He converted to Sufi Islam in 1970. Moore lived for a time in Morocco, & the poem includes a description... 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

n/p: Unknown, 1968. First Printing. Single Sheet. Hand-signed (abbreviated) by Edward Sanders. A broadside (11"x17") with an untitled, typically scurrilous poem by Ed Sanders, a key figure in literature, publishing & music (the Fugs) in the countercultural ferment of 1960s NYC & beyond. Issued as "My Dukes 3" as written on an illustration of a crown & clenched fists at lower left below poem, by an unknown printer/publisher. The last... More