New Orleans, LA: Aphrodisia Press, 1968. Second Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. Signed by Marcus J. Grapes “Marcus J. Grapes has never read a poem in his life. He was born in a sunset & fell to earth like a smoothly flaming red yoke but as he fell nobody saw him and all through his twenty-some-odd years nobody has seen him except himself. It is this that he knows best..... More

Cardiff, Wales, UK: Y Wasg Israddol, 1995. Limited First Edition. Sewn Binding in Loose Over-Wrap. Inscribed & signed by David Greenslade to Thomas Rain Crowe. A large chapbook with poems by David Greenslade, the acclaimed Welsh poet, essayist & educator. All text in the Welsh language; with three gatefold illustrations, two by Iwan Bala & one by Lluis Penaranda. Large chapbook in blank wrappers with sewn binding & green over-wrap..... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2022. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. With "Scrap" from the James Joyce Library Signed by Mick Guffan. “Easy really. / Dollop of sin here / slight paunch there. / Throw in a double-chin / some bitten-to-the-quick fingernails / a lifetime of sleepless nights and / near heart attacks. / Getting there, getting closer… / Burn your birth certificate / (as if you needed to be told) /..... More

Oxford, England: Sycamore Press, 1969. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (13"x8") with the title poem by Thom Gunn (1929-2004), the Anglo-American poet originally associated with "The Movement" style along with Philip Larkin et al. in England, & later a pioneer in the exploration of gay themes while residing in San Francisco. The poem is dedicated to Jere Franzway. Issued as Sycamore Broadsheet 6, in what we have seen references..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Medien Streu c/o Verlag Peter Engstler, 2005, 2008, 2009. First Editions. All three volumes inscribed & signed by Egon Gunther to Charles Plymell. A catalog of artworks & two volumes of poetry by Egon Gunther, a German artist & writer born in 1953, therefore not the acclaimed filmmaker of the same name (1927-2017) although they may be related: (1) Bienenstock (beehive), catalog of artworks all entitled Bienenstock 1-29..... More

Cherry Valley, NY; Madison, WI: Benjamin Harnett; Mica Press, 2017; 2001. First Editions. Softcovers. Inscribed & signed to Charles Plymell by Benjamin Harnett; signed by poet Chuck Miller & publisher-designer Joe Grant. A bundle of two poetry volumes by talented poets, both from the collection of & somewhat relating to Charles Plymell, the great American poet, printer, publisher & Legendary Literary Outlaw: (1) Vegetable: Poems by Benjamin Harnett, a slim..... More

Manchester, England: Carcanet Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. “I’ve watched memory wound you./I felt nothing but envy./Having slept in wet meadows,/I was not through desiring./Imagine January and the beach,/A bleached sky, gulls. And/look seaward: what is not there/is there, isn't it, the huge/bird of the first light/arched above first waters/beyond our touching or intention/or the reasonable shore.” –Robert Hass, To A Reader pg 25. “Praise”, is a collection of poetry..... More

Fairfax, CA: The Red Hill Press, 1977. First Limited Trade Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo. "A series of poems adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's American Notebooks, The Wayside Edition of Hawthorne's Works (Boston, 1891), XVII and XVIII, with additions from the version expanded and edited by Claude M. Simpson (Columbus, 1973)." (from editor's note/ acknowledgments) In this beautiful production, the above-noted poems of the great..... More

Paris, France: Les Presses de la Plaque, 1988. First Edition. Loose Folded Sheets in Loose Wrappers. "Why dance? Why dance when I feel my physical abilities are so limited and the threat of failure is so constant? Often all I can remember is the possibility of getting high. In fact, the daily business of dancing IS getting high. It's called getting up, standing up, BEING on your legs!" (from Dancetales..... More

Portland, OR: The Yes! Press, 1971. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (8"x12&1/2") with the title poem by Jack Hirschman, the renowned poet, translator & activist who was the Poet Laureate of San Francisco & founded the International Poetry Festival there. Issued in 1971 as "No. 10 in a series of free poems for your pleasure...," in an unknown limitation by the Yes! Press in Portland, Oregon. A stark production..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1976. First Printing. Softcover. “Almost every poem in ‘Lyripol’ was composed between the summer of 1974 and the present, this book is an enlargement of work-concerns announced in two recent North Beach books of mine, ‘Kashtinah Segodnyah’ (Beatitude, San Francisco, 1976) and ‘The Cool Boyetz Cycle’ (Golden Mountain Press, San Francisco, 1975)…’Lyripol’ is Our Book as a message of a mass demonstration or séance..... More

n/p: Unknown, Circa 1960. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside (11"x14") with an untitled poem (first line: "This is a coop"/) by Jack Hirschman, printed in a facsimile of his handwriting & signature on cream-colored paper. Hirschman's long, prolific career as an acclaimed poet, translator & activist has included his appointment as Poet Laureate of San Francisco & founding of the International Poetry Festival there. He is authentically of the..... More

London, England: The Goliard Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. A broadside (7&1/2"x12&3/4") with an untitled poem (first line: "Wasn't it like"/) by Jack Hirschman, the prolific poet, translator & activist who was the Poet Laureate of San Francisco & founded the International Poetry Festival there. One of an edition of 100 copies, not numbered, out of which 75 copies are unsigned as here. An exquisite production by the..... More