Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. "If there had been only/ one Buddha in the woodpile/ In Waco Texas/ to teach us how to sit still/ one saffron Buddhist in the Back rooms/ just one Tibetan Lama/ just one Taoist/ Just one Zen/ just one Thomas Merton Trappist/ just one saint in the wilderness/ of Waco USA" (first lines) A large broadside (appx..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit” (pg. 4). “I am signaling you through the flames,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) writes in the opening line of “Poetry as Insurgent Art,” an..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. (Dowden Section A, pg. 8-9; Cook No. 14, pg. 42-43; Morgan A4, a1.1). "Kaddish and Other Poems," the esteemed 1961 follow-up to his breakthrough publication, 1956's "Howl and Other Poems" is Ginsberg at his most messianic. From the firing gun of the poem's opening lines, Ginsberg emerges with swaggering stylistic surety, his voice now polished and lending itself masterfully to..... More

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1988. Second Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. (Morgan A53, a2). “There are similar revolutionary conditions now as in Blake’s time, similar social and emotional problems. Blake’s books are useful now as explorations of the same problems we have, somewhat related to the revolutionary fervor of the Sixties in America and a subsequent so-called ‘disillusionment.’ So actually Blake is up to date in the psychology of..... 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

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection was inspired by the death of Jack Micheline (1929-1998), one of the original beat poets and artists of Greenwich Village (see item #2810, #5459, #1284, #4917), and it is dedicated to him, “the greatest Outlaw Poet of all time, and to Outlaws everywhere, living or dead, who have stayed one step ahead of all laws, chasing after the..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. “‘I want to be anonymous,’ Bob Kaufman said one rainy night in a San Francisco saloon. I had sought out the reclusive and uncommunicative poet for nearly a year before he appeared suddenly in a café and took me by the arm to a deserted Chinatown bar. Alone together, his pronouncements were extreme and final. ‘I don’t know how you get..... More

Palo Alto, CA: Fels & Firn Press, 1976. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. "In media res, into the memoir revealing secret lives and West Coast whispers, of John Montgomery doing business as Henry Morley, a.k.a. Alex Fairbrother and a walk-on straight, three roles for Jack Kerouac bookmovie Eisenstein impresario of the Duluoz legend (o the alias ploy!) and even Neal's Carolyn an utter realist, once the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1992. First Edition, Second State. Softcover. “The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac’s death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his ‘Mexico City Blues,’ here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns and songs of God, drug poems, wine..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. In this revealing, gossip-ridden article from poet & biographer Tom Clark, we see Jack Kerouac & friends just, well…acting like idiots. Yeah, that’s it. These are pages from the rag-mags of literary history, the Beat version of Page Six. In “Jack Kerouac in San Francisco,” we learn of the Rexroth-Creeley-Rexroth (Marthe Rexroth, the poet's former wife) love triangle, and..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "Widely regarded as the cradle of revolution, California’s Haight-Ashbury grew in the sixties from a small neighborhood in San Francisco to a worldwide phenomenon—a concept that extended far beyond the boundaries of the street intersection itself. Jim Marshall visually chronicled the neighborhood as perhaps no one else did. Renowned for his powerful portraits of some of the greatest musicians of..... More

New York, NY: Poets Press, 1968. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Michael McClure. “THE SALMON IS A SWAN IN THE COLD WATER,” — a prototypically McClure-ean flourish, to be sure—and bursts of poesy of precisely this sort seem here everywhere found, enriching the work considerably. McClure’s trademark authorial enthusiasm works in concert with the concerns and aesthetic forces here at play, and the result is a deep-cut to..... More

New York, NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Limited First Edition. Hand-Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Michael McClure. "BE HUNGRY / BITE HARD / CHEW WELL / STAY HUNGRY / HEAD OPEN / eyes / ears / nose / black holes / KNOW / what you want / GET IT!" (from "WISDOM AS SUCH," the inaugural poem of this collection). "Plane Pomes" is a super deluxe chapbook from Michael McClure (1932-2020) whose..... More