Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Lettered Edition; Limited Numbered Edition; First Trade Softcover Edition. Hardcovers; Softcovers. Lettered Edition signed by Tom Clark & with signed hand-drawing; numbered edition signed; softcover edition with titled & signed hand-drawing. "The humiliation of being/ constantly observed/ by a hostile or derisive eye/ is certainly no joke/ but neither is/ not being able to find/ your shoes" ("Commuting," first stanza, pg. 111)..... More

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2014. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The ashes of Neal Cassady are contained within a silver-gray rayon drawstring bag that fits within a crudely fancy box of varnished yellow wood shaped somewhat like a wedding cake on a platter, all of this weighing ten pounds on the bathroom scale of the woman who was his wife, the longest of three wives, in whose cupboard..... More

n/p: Joe Napora, 1983. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I have always hated the telephone. Yes, these are personal poems. My first memory of the phone, before then it must have only been another decoration, just as our coal stove was only furniture until I burned by fingers on it, was when I received a call from a friend and my mother handed me the phone but..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions Et Al. 2011. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "I liked readin' writin' n' arithmetic, but I never liked school and its silly rules. I never wanted to be around shitty-assed, snot nosed, dirty finks and bullies all day. I was never a joiner or a team player. I was spared "kindergarten"- invented by some German guy to make teachers the gardeners of the state..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Books, 1991. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I wanted to get out of here, to go a rangin' far to the/ south and east, to Cheyenne and Denver, Chicago,/ Cleveland, yes, even Cleveland drew me with its/ mysterious name and unknown streets paved all around," (first stanza, part I) An epic-satirical three-part poem by David Romtvedt, the acclaimed & award-winning American poet & musician. The full title &..... More

Louisville, KY: The Literary Renaissance, 1993. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large, slender broadside-poster (appx. 11" x 36") which announces & promotes the titled event, a Music & Poetry Festival described as a "59 Hour Non-Stop Insomniacathon" with a total of over 130 poets, writers, bands & musicians at a venue in Louisville, Kentucky which took place during October 7-10 of 1993. The creator-sponsor of this unprecedentedly monumental happening was..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Jon and Lou Webb were pivotal publishing figures in the early years of Charles Bukowski's writing life. The first significant book of his they did was It Catches My Heart in its Hands in October 1963...followed this with Crucifix in a Deathhand: Poems 1963-1965...The Webbs, as you will have read, also issued four editions of their Outsider magazine. To..... More