Chicago, IL: Allied Radio Corporation, 1945. Tenth Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Nelson Magor Cooke (28 November 1903 – 30 November 1965) was a leader in developing electronic schools of the United States Navy, the recipient of the Navy Commendation Medal and Medal for Humane Action, a post-war engineering entrepreneur, and an author of books on applied mathematics and basic electronics. Authoring and editing several books on technical engineering and electronics, Cooke..... More

San Francisco, CA, USA: The Rock Poster Society, 2003. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by artist Lucky Lockhart. This poster (appx. 11½" x 20¾") announces the annual Festival of Rock Posters held during November 15, 2003, at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. TRPS is the planet’s largest organized group of rock poster collectors, artists, and dealers founded in 1998 seeking to perpetuate and promote the..... More

Rumford, ME: Rumford Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Staplebound. This 90-year-old relic is emblematic of early small-town America. Established as a sleepy farming community in the 18th century, the town of Rumford in Oxford County, Maine, was officially incorporated in the year 1800. The Androscoggin River and the Rumford Falls are the center of the community as a hydroelectric power source for the milling industry; the surge of population growth..... More

New York, NY: Portents, 1969. First Printing. Broadside. Issued as Portents 13 by Ann Charters (author of the first major biography of Jack Kerouac), this 6"x15" broadside is a prospectus for a special Herman Melville-related box of which only 25 were produced. "This Melville box attempts to give a sense of Melville's presence in the Berkshires by offering a construct of objects, some contemporary to Melville, others from our own..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Peter Engstler Verlag, 2008. First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 16&1/4" x 23&3/8") promoting the publication of a 2008 German edition of Mary Beach's Electric Banana. One of many iterations of this now-classic work influenced & with an introduction by William S. Burroughs, who collaborated with Beach (1919-2006) & her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002). WSB is briefly quoted here in German translation. Beach's daughter Pamela Beach Plymell..... 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

Ventura, CA: X-Ray Book Company, 2005. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. "...the cell pretends / protection but I sit unsatisfied / with oral walls which whisper words / & say 'the life's prolonged / supposition here is strong.'" (from Title Poem, "Cat Digging Walls"). A limited edition poetry broadside measuring 5" x 7" and printed letterpress on card stock by Master Printer Johnny Brewton at the X-Ray Book Company. Issued..... More

n/p (London, England & San Francisco, CA); New York, NY: William S. Burroughs; Malcolm McNeill; Abrams, 1973; 2011. Original Manuscript; Original Artwork; First Edition. Three Single Sheets in One Frame; Hardcover. Original text & artwork by William S. Burroughs & Malcolm McNeill. During the early 1970s, French-Canadian humorist & impresario Michel Choquette planned a compilation of comic strips that would all relate to the just-past decade of the 1960s. He..... More

Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 2019. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Michael Casey. A small broadside (appx. 6&1/4" x 9&1/2") with the title poem by Michael Casey, a venerable American poet who is a Vietnam War veteran & whose first collection of poems, Obscenities (1972), is considered among the earliest to protest the war as it was still being fought. Casey was also born & raised in Lowell, Massachusetts..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1976. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. “My first response to Neeli was that he was a lot like a young version of Allen Ginsberg. A kind of publicist and traffic cop for what was going on around him. This kind of energy and enthusiasm attracted all kinds of people, both younger and older than him. In this sense, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that..... More

Berkeley, CA; East Lansing, MI: Moe's Books/ Wesley B. Tanner; Robert Turney, 1991; n/d (circa 1987). First Printings. Single Sheets. Two rare pieces of ephemera by or of Tom Clark (1941-2018)- the great American poet, editor, novelist, biographer & artist who was originally associated with the New York School but ultimately developed a concise, varied style all his own: (1) A broadside (appx. 6&3/4" x 12") with the poem "Solstice,"..... More

St. Paul, MN: The Toothpaste Press, 1984. Limited First Edition. Broadside. Signed by Robert Creeley. A small (approx. 6"x9&1/2"), beautiful broadside with the title poem by Robert Creeley (1926-2005), associated with the Beats & the Black Mountain group of poets, & one of the key figures in the American poetry canon. One of a limited edition of 150, this is copy No. 111/150, "printed at Toothpaste Press. Walker Art Center..... More

San Francisco, CA; Cullowhee, NC; n/p: Landlocked Press; New Native Press; Releve Press; n/p, 1978; 1984; 1990. First Printings. Single Sheets. The first of a projected three bundled offerings of rare broadsides by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting From San Francisco, Item No. 3071, Deluxe Edition..... More