Los Angeles, CA: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1982. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by John Cheever. "To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim. It's an impossible situation. This will be apparent to everyone, and it was to me, a country boy brought up on a farm- or, to be precise, in a country house- just outside the village..... More

New Haven, CT: Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 1999. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Dave Church; & with photograph hand-written by Church on Verso. "The gruff voice of Dave Church drives home a truth that 'street poetry' is as modulated and full of nuance as anything from academe. The forty-odd poems in Under the Influence depict a- chosen- hard life, but that life includes sharp sensibility and wry humor; an..... More

New York, NY: Angel Hair Books, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Hello. May I be alive in your dream of unconsciousness?" (first sentence/ entire first page) An early work by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the brilliant & prolific poet, editor & biographer associated with but distinct from many Beat-&-Beyond writers & schools; in collaboration with his contemporary Ron Padgett, the New York School master poet who is still with us..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Hand-numbered & signed by Tom Clark, with additional signature on loose prospectus card. "It is/ time/ to protest/ everywhere/ and in/ every/ way/ that the/ system/ of repression/ presently/ in force/ is more/ monstrous/ and degrading/ to/ mankind/ than any/ other/ that has/ ever/ been/ applied." ("applied," pg. 35) A collection of early (yet all-too-still-relevant) poems by Tom Clark..... More

New York, NY: Bouwerie Editions, 1972. Limited First Printing. Staplebound in Folder. "These pages of Robert Creeley's Notebook, 6/7/70-6/19/70, are published here in a First Edition of 350 examples, of which 100 examples are reserved for the poet and publisher." Published in 1972 by one "Bouwerie Editions" (a fun phonetic spelling of "Bowery" a la The Bowery in NYC), this is a textbook (pun intended?) example of how absolutely respected..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More

Cullowhee, NC; San Diego, CA; n/p: New Native Press; n/p, 1994; 2001; 2005; 2015; n/d. First Printings. Single Sheets; Miniature Chapbooks. Five broadsides signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. We present the second of a projected three bundled offerings of rare broadsides (this part including several miniature chapbooks) by Thomas Rain Crowe, the acclaimed poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance..... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2022. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “To be saved/ it’s no small thing/ to feel the tenderness/ of the world.” (Anna Wall, ‘To Be Drowned’). Issued by the venerable Tangerine Press, “Cut-purse” is a literary chapbook filled with poems and short stories that are sure to leave the reader awed, and yearning for more. An eclectic collection of writers and poets who craft their art with as..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2019. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Natasha Dennerstein. The title story by Natasha Dennerstein, an acclaimed Australian-born poet & writer whose former career as a psychiatric nurse has given her "...an interesting perspective on the human condition." (from short biography, final page). Chapbook in sewn binding, a handsome, high-quality production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of Tangerine Press..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Victor Dove permits a fresh look into Black lifestyles,” legendary outlaw poet, raconteur, and publisher Charles Plymell of Cherry Valley Editions writes in his concise yet inviting introduction to this 1984 work by the underground poet Victor Vacarno Dove. Plymell continues: “He [Dove] says what we can’t, as did Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, that is, those of us..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The struggle of clothes up the wash-board./ The slow web of no money but sunlight./ Sunlight. Hard at the sungate, in it, o-/ ver her hands// he stands/ like the light/ that moves/ her// yet he stands/ behind her/ slightly to the left/ forever" ("Sungate," first three stanzas, pg. 29) A collection of poems by Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021)..... More

Cherry Vally, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1979. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Henri Ford to Reginald Boss A disjointed, Joycean fondue-of-a-poem in 39 stanzas with an epilogue of 5 elegies (including elegies for Ford's dear departed friends Max Ernst, Nobel Prize-winning Surrealist St. John Perse and Warhol Superstar Candy Darling). Signed twice by the poet--once at the end of the book in red pen ink under the author..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1986. First Printing. Softcover. "When, in the spring of 1981, five years after I'd written them, I started to try to edit down my original Spanish journals from over a thousand pages to less than a hundred, I found Der Herr Professor in me creating a purely political literary book, selectively discarding anything but the lightning flicker political backdrop that was omnipresent in Spain..... More