Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs-Smith, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (in full). "When I Look at Pictures" is an exquisite production from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, renowned poet, painter, & publisher who so frequently alluded to the great paintings of the past in his myriad inimitable masterworks. This collection is made essential by its assembly of twenty-one poems from Ferlinghetti's celebrated output juxtaposed by pictures... More

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "About two months later we ran into some people who knew how to smoke, and Jesus, the first time I turned on, I couldn't stop laughing...Like somebody had pasted a smile on my face and I couldn't take it off. Everything I looked at seemed hilarious. I really enjoyed it. But my real interest was beginning to develop in H, in... More

Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Softcover. "...From his conception at West Point, "the night after alcohol became an illegal drug," through his own year as a cadet, from his life as an award-winning psychologist, to his ten-year jail sentence for possession of half an ounce of marijuana; from his dramatic prison escape and life as an international fugitive, through his present life as a lecturer... More

Kerhonkson, NY: The Poets Press, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The first book of poetry by Clive Matson, the poet's-poet & acclaimed educator whose early career was highly influenced by the members of the original Beat Generation in the East Village of NYC; he was particularly close to Herbert Huncke. An exquisite production with handmade textured paper by Diane di Prima's Poets Press, an iconic collectible imprint. With an introduction... More

New York, NY: Nadada, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second & last number of the exceedingly rare & significant literary-art journal edited & with contributions by Timothy Baum, Robert Cordier & Gerard Malanga, the esteemed poet & photographer who at the time of this issue was a key associate of Andy Warhol. Baum's specialty in his subsequent writing & curatorial career has been Dada & Surrealism, & this... More

San Francisco, CA: Bastard Angel / Harold Norse, 1972. First Printing. Single Sheet. At the end of 1971, Harold Norse moved permanently to San Francisco, repatriating himself in an effort to live amongst a group of poets once again. By this time, Norse had become accustomed to expatriate sojourns in exotic locales, often surrounding himself with one, two or three highly notable others. Despite this, Harold desired a community of... More

Washington DC: The Black Sun Press / Caresse Crosby, 1950 (1948). Second Edition (In This Case Also Referred to as the "Trade" Edition"). Stapled Wrappers. When Charles Olson arrived at an already historic Black Mountain College, he had only this book of poems and his study of Melville, "Call Me Ishmael" (1947) published under his name. To think of all that Olson published post-Black Mountain, and his rising fame in... More

Mexico City, MX: Ediciones El Corno Emplumando, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A bi-lingual collection of poems by Jerome Rothenberg, the venerable poet, editor, essayist & founder-central figure of the ethno-poetics movement. All the poems relate to the artist Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948), whose short, brilliant, turbulent & tragic life & work are referred to obliquely, "...for the last thing I would have learned from Gorky is to write... More

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. "Caustically funny, politically trenchant, and defiantly intolerant of intolerance, he provoked police raids and censorial judges, and created a beautiful, haunting, poignant, outrageous, orgiastic body of work that transformed the artistic landscape of the New York underground..." says the Museum of Modern Art's short online biography of Smith. Jack Smith's name was solidified by two major works, 1962's... More

New York, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. "Two philosophies are now struggling in this world: the philosophy of disbelief, of pessimism, and the philosophy of belief in an enlightened future for humanity. I have seen the living incarnation of this belief in many wonderful people whom I met at Bratsk. In the new Siberia... More