Ann Arbor, MI: Third Mind Books, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. 'Starting from San Francisco' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond... More

New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. First Printing. Softcover. "Quarterlia" is the quarterly publication of the Quality Paperback Club. Edited by Kathy Kiernan, this issue contains a plethora of intriguing contributions worth the price of admission alone. Among these are Jerry Tallmer's essay "Jack Kerouac: Back to the Village--But Still On the Road"; memories of Robert Lowell from one of his cousins; and a contribution from poet Deborah... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. "Plymell has as much in depth to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation still-born into a world that can offer nothing...a manifesto of ashes." (William S. Burroughs, from Back Cover). Published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in 1971, "Last of the Moccasins" has been hailed "a... More

New York, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1963 (1974). Second Edition. Staplebound. "These poems by Roxie Powell are free of literature and, superficially, of sense. Which is to say that they are very original and have the sound of the raw edge of awareness. But if art is more important than madness, then these poems, which are unquestionably art, must be read...These poems are transcriptions of reality unmitigated by illusions of... More

New York, NY: The Portable Lower East Side, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. "Manhattan is a marvelous, fantastic, multi-faceted world of high culture. There are people there whose talents and genius have no challengers, people whom only the gods stand beside now. Manhattan is the sun at the center of all the wealth in the universe. No power on earth...is greater than the power emanating from Manhattan...But there are streets of... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. "It was during the Cuban Missile Criss in 1962 that I first considered myself a leftist. I come from a very conservative family. My rejection of my parents' rightist politics was therefore a dramatic, indeed traumatic, change in my life...My terror was quite understandable considering that for a time it appeared that the world was poised on the brink... More

Carbondale, IL / Santa Barbara, CA: Southern Illinois University Press / Table Talk Press, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Single Sheets / Broadside / Postcards. 10 Signed Items from noted San Francisco Renaissance poet & Essayist Michael McClure. This supreme package of McClure-iana contains what is quite possibly one of the most impressive and alluring assemblages of items by and relating to Michael McClure ever brought to market. This... More

New York, NY: New, 1970. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In 1956 (sic--should be '55) I asked the proprietors of the Six Gallery, one of the launching pads of Abstract Expressionism, if they would sponsor a reading by Walter Lowenfels who could not get a hall anywhere in San Francisco because he was under indictment for violation of the Smith Act. He was an editor of the Philadelphia edition of... More

Detroit, MI: Self-Published, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Co-Founder of Detroit's Artists' Workshop, George Tysh. George Tysh was a founding member and one of the prime architects of the Detroit Artists' Workshop. Before the Workshop existed, Tysh was part of a group of students belonging to Monteith College, an experimental college in Detroit on the campus of Wayne State University. "Professor Otto Feinstein and other Monteith professors converted an... More

San Francisco, CA: Black Rabbit Press, 1969. First Printing. Sewn Sheets in Folded Wraps. From the Collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's Visionary "Alternative Press," publishers of many "Beat/Black Mountain/N.Y. School"-affiliated authors. "Songs for Dead Children" is a very early posthumous publication by poet, publisher, impresario and countercultural martyr d.a. levy of Cleveland, Ohio. levy was born in 1942 in West Cleveland, growing up along the Cuyahoga... More

San Francisco, CA: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. James Perrizo's copy with his hand-written marginalia & underlining. The now-classic early collection of poems by the legendary Charles Plymell, an important member of the Beat Generation & beyond as writer, printer & publisher. With the incisive introduction by Allen Ginsberg in which Plymell & friends are declared to have invented the "Wichita Vortex," referring to their origins in Kansas... More

Dover, DE: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2010. Limited First Edition / Association Copy. Softcover in Stiff Wraps. This alluring production from Delaware's respected Bottle of Smoke Press is A.D. Winans' "Drowning Like Li Po in a River of Red Wine," a compilation of selected poems spanning the 40 years between 1970-2010. Of this limited first edition there were 100 unnumbered copies in stiff letterpress wraps, of which this is one... More

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1987. First Edition / Association Copy. Signed (Twice) by Kenward Elmslie. From the Collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, founders of Detroit's Visionary "Alternative Press," Publishers & Friends of Many Beat/"New York School"/"Black Mountain"-affiliated Authors. "26 Bars is an alphabet work of drinking establishments situated in a fantasy USA. The collaboration between Donna Dennis (artist) and Kenward Elmslie (poet) breaks down the barrier between image and... More