Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. "The moon must be in Perigee the sea/ is on the land so I think someone has cut/ and no it is the sea is new-mown// Talk to me I say to it from the snap/ of it behind me as I walk it/ talk to me as a gull did two days/ ago rattling off even making duck sounds" (first..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1971. First Edition. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by Norman Orr promoted a 1971 show at Fillmore West produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). The verso of this postcard shows a calendar of shows for the month of February, including Neil Young and Van Morrison. Norman Orr’s artistic career began with the dozen rock posters that he designed for Bill Graham in the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by David Singer (b. 1941) promotes a concert series which took place on July 9-12, 1970 at the Fillmore West featuring Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mott the Hoople, and the Brotherhood of Light and was produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). David Singer is a pioneering rock poster artist who designed over 75 posters..... More

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover; Single Sheet. Signed by Eugene Ruggles to Thomas Rain Crowe, the Co-Authorial Founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. An extremely rare copy of the most celebrated book of poems by the noted American poet, Eugene Ruggles (1935-2004). Ruggles, despite being affiliated with The Beat Generation (and with the San Francisco & Marin Co. scenes, respectively), was born in Pontiac..... More

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Chronicle, 1977. First Edition. Single Sheet. "Thirteen major poets throughout the United States will take part in a reading at 8 p.m. Friday at Nourse Auditorium, as a tribute to Amnesty International. The world-wide human rights organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on behalf of securing the release of political prisoners in oppressed countries. The program will include three poets..... More

Buffalo, NY: SUNY Buffalo, 1967. First Printing. Single Sheet. A horizontally-formatted broadside (measuring 17" x 11”) advertising a reading at SUNY Buffalo’s Diefendorf Hall (on May 3, 1967) featuring the great American Mimeograph Revolutionary, Ed Sanders (b. 1930). Sanders, during the 1960s studied Egyptology at the New School, as he writes of in his classic 2011 memoir, Fug You. Egyptian motifs were also frequently (& hilariously) used in the many..... More

San Francisco, CA: American Indian Movement, 1977; 1978. First Printing. Single Sheets; Folded Single Sheet. Like others lately offered by Third Mind Books and affiliated with the legacy of the Second San Francisco Renaissance, this bundle attests to the intense and varied political involvement of its authors, and to the larger literary & activistic gestalt in which they played a seminal part. This segment of that history deals with the..... More

Berkeley, CA: n/p, 1977. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. Signed at Recto by Photographer, Sam Silver An original photographic print (appx. 7 & 6/8" x 9 & 6/8" including margins) featuring two great Second San Francisco Renaissance poets, Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) & Philip Daughtry (a/k/a Philip Suntree; b. 1942), the great & greatly varied British-American poet who among many other things is a descendant of Frank & Jesse James, the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Sam Silver, 1976. Original Photograph. "Orange Voice was written by the Russian poet-painter, Alexander Kohav, in Jerusalem in 1974. I translated it, with the help of the author and the guiding light of Kristen Wetterhahn (Kashtan-vinyah Segodnyah?), in the cafes of North Beach during the summer of 1976. As a media-poem which counterpoints the four elements symphonically and utilizes the page graphically, Orange Voice seems to me expressly..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sam Silver, 1976. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. “The original core group of those who came up with the idea and began to act on it were [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), [Neeli] Cherkovski (1945-2024), Peter LeBlanc (b. 1930) and myself. Over time others became part of the organizing dynamic in one way or another…Neeli was the bullhorn, the provocateur, for the event—talking up the idea and later doing PR..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “John Sinclair and Robin Eichele will read from their published and unpublished work. Both poets are well known to Detroit audiences through their readings and publications here. Sinclair read his work at the Berkeley Poetry Conference this summer at the invitation of Richard Baker, Director of the Conference, as did Eichele. Both poets read in groups of young poets from..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “Today’s program marks our first six months of operation. We celebrate by continuing our policy of presenting Detroit’s best jazz, poetry, & graphics, free, to people of the Workshop community. Our weekly programs take place here at the Artists’ Workshop each Sunday afternoon at 3:00 P.M." (first paragraph) The twenty-fifth flyer-announcement produced by John Sinclair & Robin Eichele’s Detroit Artists’..... More

Detroit, MI: WSU Artists' Society, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Single Sheet. "It is our belief that jazz musical forms must be extended to meet an entirely new set of artistic, social, cultural, and economic circumstances....The artist presumes to judge life, to assess it for all men, to accept it, to reject it. Both as men and artists in a complex, oftentimes grievously unjust world we accept the challenge this..... More