San Francisco, CA: Silver Moon Studios, 1978. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by artist Randy Tuten. This poster (appx. 11” x 17”) designed by Randy Tuten (b. 1946) promotes a 1978 Halloween night performance by surrealist street theatre troupe the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo with soul/R&B duo Rick & Ruby. Sponsored by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991), this appearance at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA was..... More

Detroit, MI, USA: Detroit River Press, n/d. First Printing. Single Sheet. Poet, playwright, and translator, Christine Tysh has long been a creative powerhouse, along with her husband the literary underground legend George Tysh (b. 1942); the first editor of the Monteith Journal and the artistic director of the Red Door Gallery along with Carl Schurer. He was a founding member and one of the prime architects of the DAW (Detroit..... More

Ann Arbor, MI, USA: University of Michigan Office of Major Events, 1985. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Harry Belafonte. This poster (appx. 14” x 20”) promotes a performance by calypso superstar Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) at the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI, on October 27, 1985. This performance was a memorial concert for Hedy B. Berger (1907-1984) an alumna of the University of Michigan, medical librarian, and local philanthropist..... More

Ann Arbor, MI, USA: n/p, 1988. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Santi Debriano, Thoko Ndlozi, Vusi Khumalo. This concert falls within the timeline of a significant historical development for the civil rights and anti-apartheid movement of South Africa. Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) a.k.a. Mama Africa was a singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist born in South Africa. She began to sing professionally in the 1950s..... More

n/p: n/p, 1981. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by [unconfirmed artist] Bob Damen. This poster (appx. 20” x 26 3/8”) presents a challenge in identifying both artist and subject. “American Art Incorporated” is not a known entity or organization anywhere on the internet, and the only source that names anything similarly is the Smithsonian Institution’s Marvin Lipofsky papers within the “Exhibitions and Gallery Files, 1966-2016" section. This indicates that..... More

No Place: No Publisher, n/d. Presumed First Printing. Single Sheet. “but my gloved hand / pulls / clumps of trans- / migrating souls; / turn the worms / to green paste / beneath black boots. / For I am dedicated to / a harvest of apples, / pruning back the / excess / of Paradis” (from “No More Chemical Spray”). A gorgeous, unattributed broadside (measuring appx. 25 x 19,” with..... More

Cento, Italy: Siaca Arti Grafiche, 1968. First Edition. Single Sheet. This poster (appx. 10 7/8” x 15”) promotes an exhibition of the modern Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919-2006) at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, Italy. The Galleria civica d'arte moderna is located in Turin, Italy, and is home to modern and contemporary art from the likes of Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. The Galleria was involved in..... More

San Francisco, CA: Malvina Coffee, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. “even the sidewalk / discovers your breast / and if you were old / you are young / and if you were lost / you are found / buried tomorrow / in your snapshot of bones / own token of flesh / to the tips of your toes / the mountain crows / the sun shakes / even a tree..... More

Encinitas, California: FreeThought Publications, 2001. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Pamela "Cupcakes" Miller and photographer Michael Montfort. “I came bouncing into Hank’s living room. I found him sitting in his favorite, overstuffed, gold and brown striped chair, looking like a broken man. ‘What the hell happened to you?’ I asked. He was slumped in his chair with his head down, he slowly looked up at me with those..... More

Detroit, MI, USA: Detroit Artist Workshop, Cir. Early 1970s. Stapled Sheets. Offered here today is a uniquely rare & distinctly interesting piece of not only literary history, but of potential scholarship. While its origins are broadly unknown, it seems that its purpose was to act as a sort of literary "white pages", a directory for hoary old poets to keep in touch with the goings-on of the burgeoning literary scene..... More

Cleveland, OH: d.a.levy, 1967. First Printing. Single Sheet. “Among the many obscene (?) [sic] publications seized by the police in their recent ‘hitlerian anti-intellectual’ blitz on cleveland’s Asphodel Book Shop were…” begins this 4 pp. corner-stapled document relating to the December 1966 raid on Jim Lowell’s (1932-2004) Asphodel Book Shop in Cleveland, OH. There are two copies of the document offered here — which was officially titled, The James R...... More

New York, NY, USA: The John Burroughs Memorial Association, Incorporated, 1922; 1923. First Editions. Sewn Wrappers. John Burroughs: In Remembrance annotated & signed by Clara Barrus. Two rare pamphlets issued following the death of John Burroughs (1837-1921), the great American naturalist & conservationist: (1) John Burroughs: In Remembrance, large pamphlet in sewn wrappers with grey paper stock, with texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, the Bible, Burroughs..... More

London, England, UK: Northern Lights Publishers, 1984-1991. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheets. “Sound end silence / between denizens of islands // madness / and light reflections in light // reflect, light shuns / between denizens of islands // silence in islands / sound’s essence // sound condenses in dens set / against light / inflections of sound.”--Isaac Jarnot (formerly Lisa Jarnot), “Burning,” The International Poetry Series, Number 28. Founded in..... More