Flint, MI: Fenian Head Centre Press, c. 1966. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. An oblong, small-format broadside (measuring appx. 5 & 3/8” x 16”) featuring a poem by Carl Linder (1940-2021), an American poet & onetime professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: the institution from which Linder obtained his PhD during the mid-1960s. Scholars of the New American Poetry might recall that UW-Madison was quite a happening place at the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1968. First Edition. Single Sheet. (King BG-102-OPC-A, p. 441). This postcard designed by Bonnie MacLean (1938-2020) promotes a concert series (featuring the Chambers Brothers, Sunshine Company, and Siegal Schwall) which took place during January 11th to the 13th, 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium. MacLean had been painting noticeboards at the Fillmore in the psychedelic style while Wes Wilson (1937-2020) worked as the primary poster designer..... More

Detroit, MI, USA: Red Hanrahan Press, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. “Dried out scrambled eggs left in the skillet / Are ghostly yellow, deformed faces. A thin / Trickle of water drips incessantly / From the tap into the dirty dishes / Stacked precariously—half filled with mouldy / Eggs and bacon fat, shimmering / Under the water like reflected yellow moons.” (first stanza) Presented here is Barbara Mager’s “Absence,” a...... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Zeke Mallory, 1995. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by most festival performers. This poster memorializes the 18th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival which took place on January 28, 1995 at the Hill Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus. This poster was designed and printed by local artist Zeke Mallory, and the roster lists ten acts slated to perform, including Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, Alison Krauss &..... More

Ann Arbor, MI, USA: Zeke Mallory, 1997. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by most festival performers. This poster (appx. 17” x 24”) memorializes the 20th annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival which took place on January 26th, 1997, at the Hill Auditorium. The Ark hosted their 47th annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival this past January 2024. This poster was designed and printed by local artist Zeke Mallory and features photos of..... More

Ypsilanti, MI, USA: Zeke Mallory, 1996. First Edition. Single Sheet. “New Orleans Night” featured Charlie Gabriel’s New Orleans Jazz Band, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Cha’s, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, and Al Rapone & Zydeco Express. Charlie Gabriel (b. 1932) is a Black jazz musician who plays saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, and flute. He is now musical director of the Preservation Hall Foundation in New Orleans. Nathan and the Zydeco..... More

n/p: n/p, n/d. unknown. Single Sheet. Offered today is a poster featuring lyrics from "Redemption Song," a song by Jamaican Reggae Musician Bob Marley (1945-1981), written in 1979. "Redemption Song" is the final track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' twelfth album, Uprising, released by Island Records. The song is considered one of Marley's greatest works with some key lyrics derived from a speech given by the Pan-Africanist orator Marcus..... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Table-Talk Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. Signed and inscribed by Michael McClure to Gregory Stephenson. "ECRASEZ L’INFÂME! AND DAMN THE SYSTEM CRUSHING US, / GODDAMN THE FEAR THAT HALTS / our Art and Love and twists into the robot shapes / that spray out baths of lies / and drizzle sewage in / the spirit’s ears and eyes.” This poem by Michael McClure (1932-2020), a...... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by David Meltzer. “Speak thru husks of shell’s past / snail leaves its shell behind / snake leaves shed form on the road / what’s left behind is / journey’s history / already losing clarity of detail / of course the products that march us / soldiers thru neon banks of plastic / stuff spastics..... More

San Francisco, CA: Pamela Mosher, 1976. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. Hand-titled, signed & dated by photographer Pamela Mosher. An original photographic print (measuring appx. 7&6/8" x 9&6/8" incl. margin) featuring the elder Baby Beat poet, David Moe (1937-2013) at the Proposition 15 Rally-Reading. As Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance notes in the Thomas Rain Crowe Archive catalog, “[The Proposition 15 Rally-Reading]..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1967. First Edition. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by the acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) in collaboration with the great American poster & album cover artist Alton Kelley (1940-2008, known as "Kelley") advertises a series of performances at the Fillmore Auditorium featuring Buffalo Springfield, the Collectors, and Hour Glass during December 21 through 23rd, 1967 produced by the legendary impresario..... More

Hanover, NH: Center for Paleocybernetic Research, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. “It must be demonstrated ceaselessly, that a continually “growing economy” is not only unhealthy, but a cancer. And that the criminal waste which is allowed in the name of competition–especially that ultimate in wasteful needless competition, hot wars and cold wars between any and all of the modern bureaucratic and hierarchical nation-states–must be halted totally with ferocious energy and..... More

Ypsilanti, MI, USA: eieiolsen, 2001. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Geri Allen, Natalie MacMaster, Dave McMurray, & Robert Penn. For almost twenty years, the Frog Island Music Festival promoted the musical heritage of the African American community with three nights of jazz, blues, zydeco, and more. Starting in 1982, “the world’s biggest block party” annually hosted local artists at the 5-acre Frog Island Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This poster..... More