San Francisco, CA: Last Gasp Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Legendary Underground Comix Artist, Robert Williams. “Listening to an interview on Milk Street Radio, I marveled at the humility and worldview of renowned French Chef Eric Ripert. At the conclusion, host Christopher Kimball noted how Ripert perceives himself more artisan than artist, attributing that to the chef’s sensibility of elevating craft above art: ‘One feeds mankind, the other..... More

Bedford Square, UK: Billing and Sons Limited, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Han Suyin (September 12, 1916-November 2, 2012) was born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou in Xinyang, Hunan, Republic of China. Over the course of her wild, storied life, Han Suyin was—at one time or other—all of the following things: a wife, a midwife, and fiery intellectual; a biographer, a novelist, and revolutionary. “My House Has Two Doors” is one..... More

Woodstock, NY: Shivastan Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “real men do not knit or drink herbal tea / real men eat steak & freedom fries / real men do not eat tofu / real men do not want to protect the environment / real men are a bunch of animals / real men like dogs, not cats / real men like pussy more than anything / … / real..... More

Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852. First Edition, Mixed Issue. Hardcover. Offered here is the Ralph Waldo Emerson-edited, love-laborious compendium of “memoirs” by & about Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), a central organizing force-&-figure both in American Transcendentalism as a movement, and in the greater Concord/Boston area, writ large. Now, to the matter at hand: the “problem” of discovering what it is (once and forever) that makes a First, Second, Third..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Edition, Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Legendary Literary Outlaw, Charles Plymell. In 2007, photographer Phil Scalia wrote down some of his conversations with late great free jazz pianist Paul Bley (1932–2016). Cogent, lucid, and reflective, these notes do testamentary justice to the Scalia’s lofty assignations. They can, in fact, reasonably ascribe to Bley the potency or power their prose readily affords..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2013. Limited First Edition Thus. Signed by Iain Sinclair. "Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m.. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing, his right hand on the dog's collar. Two minutes later, you feel, and he'd be gone. But this is..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Perfect Bound. This number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features several articles about Gary Snyder, the great primary Beat- San Francisco Renaissance poet, in tribute to his ninetieth birthday (& still going strong at 92 as of this writing!): Transcript of Snyder's first letter to Allen Ginsberg..... More

North Charleston, SC: Michael Hill, 2017. First Printing. Softcover. “’War Poet’ is a biography of American poet, Alan Seeger, killed during the battle of the Somme in July 1916, and author of ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death,’ the favorite poem of President John F. Kennedy and one of the most powerful and memorable war poems of all time. Seeger’s death in World War I was seen as ‘one of..... More

New York, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 2017. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A Beat-literary Cut-Up Classic, reissued—at long last—with consummate dignity: “Electric Bananas” [initially titled “Electric Banana”], the William S. Burroughs-inspired assembly of (brilliantly confounding) clusterfucks-in-prose first issued in 1975. Happily reprinted here is Burroughs’ key introduction to the work, for his imprimatur here is not “unthinking” in its praise. It speaks less to the friend-considerate, Beat-writerly “ritual favor” of “Introduction-gifting”..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&1/2") announcing "The Laugh Cure Dance and Concert" with performances headlined by the Blues Project, along with the Quicksilver Messenger Service & the Sons of Adam, during May 13-14, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, &..... More