San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1968. First Edition. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by Lee Conklin promotes a concert series which took place on February 22-24, 1968 at the Fillmore and the Winterland Ballroom featuring The Who, Cannonball Adderly, and the Vagrants produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). Lee Conklin is known as the creator of the album cover art for Santana’s debut album in 1969, and his..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1968. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by Lee Conklin promotes a concert series which took place on June 18-20 & June 21-23, 1968 featuring the Chambers Brothers, [It’s a] Beautiful Day, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Sly and the Family Stone, produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). Lee Conklin is known as the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by Lee Conklin promotes a concert series which took place during October 31 to November 2, 1968 at the Fillmore West featuring Procol Harum, Santana, and Salloom-Sinclair produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). Lee Conklin is known as the creator of the album cover art for Santana’s debut album in 1969, and his..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Free Press, 1965. First Edition. Single Sheets. "A bearded Wayne State University student arrested with six others in a narcotics raid at his apartment, told police Tuesday he sees nothing wrong with smoking marijuana." Thus begins this article in the Detroit Free Press edition of August 18, 1965 written by Staff Writer Robert Cotter, concerning an incident the previous day. The "Bearded WSU student" was John Sinclair..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1969. First Edition. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 13&3/4" x 21") announcing a concert produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991), with performances headlined by Country Joe & The Fish, Albert King, Blodwyn Pig, and visuals by the Brotherhood of Light in San Francisco during October 9-12, 1969 at the legendary Fillmore West. Designed by the acclaimed American artist, Randy Tuten (b. 1946), this..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1968. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. This postcard (appx. 4 & 5/8" x 7”) designed by Rick Griffin promotes a concert series which took place during September 19th to the 21st, 1968 at the Fillmore West featuring Creedence Clearwater Revival, Albert King, and Black Pearl produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). American psychedelic artist Rick Griffin (b. Richard Alden Griffin, 1944-1991) created..... More

N/P: First Independent Films Limited, 1991. First Editions. Single Sheets. Five original glossy publicity photographs produced for the 1991 film version of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch directed by David Cronenberg. Each captioned photograph presents a still image from the film: Peter Weller as WSB nodding off beside his typewriter; Weller as WSB at his home aiming his pistol; Weller as WSB "(enjoying) a cocktail with a friend"- an actor..... More

No Place: n/p, n/d. First Printing. “How do I see myself as a writer? I don’t spend too much time looking in the mirror–unlike our current President. My gaze is mostly outward and to the future. There is no literary family tree or anyone, really, in my genetic heritage that I know of who was a writer, except maybe in the MacGregors on my mother’s side from Scotland, who were..... More

Saluda, NC: New Native Press, 1979. Limited First Edition. “How do I see myself as a writer? I don’t spend too much time looking in the mirror–unlike our current President. My gaze is mostly outward and to the future. There is no literary family tree or anyone, really, in my genetic heritage that I know of who was a writer, except maybe in the MacGregors on my mother’s side from..... More

San Francisco, CA: Relevé Press, 1978. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “I am through with my love of suffering, / And the words that describe that love. / I am going to carry on a magnificent / affair with the wind / […] / I am looking for the stones. / The stones that lay to the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Caffe Malvina, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring appx. 11 x 14”) advertising a poetry reading at the cult-famous Malvina Coffee House — which, during the mid-to-late 1970s, was mobilized as a venue by the authors of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. The layout and format for MCH flyers was standardized: center aligment reigned, and the venue title was always found floating like a thundercloud..... More

Topanga Canyon, CA: n/p, 2006. First Printing. Single Sheets. Signed by Philip Daughtry. “On a windy Alaskan headland overlooking / Cook Inlet, Ninilchik’s Russian Orthodox Church / stands sentinel over wooden crosses that crowd / its weedy cemetery of long forgotten fishermen. / Outside the moss stained [sic] fence a headstone / marks the resting place of a soldier / killed in Iraq. Joining the vigil of frosty milk weed..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by Diane di Prima. "Under the black cliffs washed w / salt/ where we first plucked tokens of life/ from phosphorescent oceans glowing beneath our gaze/ I saw the veins of yr hands/ among the muscular rocks." (first stanza) A poem by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), the primary female poet of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. Subtitled..... More