London, England: The Bodley Head, 1988. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Spring 1968: while the streets of Paris reverberate with the student protest which is to sweep through the country in a wave of revolutionary fervour, an unlikely love affair springs up between Annie, an American expatriate painter...and Julian, an affluent middle-aged banker and armchair anarchist. Their relationship matures amidst the heady mixture of anger and euphoria erupting from cafes and..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. "A sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind (written forty years after the original in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year), A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a sequence of one hundred and one related poems with recurrent themes. The author also thinks of it as a kind of caustic..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1977. First Edition. Softcovers. [Cook 123, pg. 129; Morgan A37, a2.1]. (1) "MIND BREATHS: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing Crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the first Noble Truth, inspiring quiet Sun sunlit greybeard soliloquies, English moonlit night-gleams, ambitious mid-life fantasies, Ah crossed-legged thoughts sitting straight-spine paying attention to empty breath flowing round the globe; then Dharma elegy..... More

Isshiki, Japan: Autumn Press, 1974. First Edition Softcover Original. Softcover. In 1976, during the height of the Second San Francisco Renaissance, mentor-participant Jack Hirschman alerted the group of friends & protégés he called “the Beatitude cadre” to a viscerally-relevant anticensorship human rights concern which struck at the heart of Beat literary ethics. This was the story of South Korean poet Kim Chi Ha, who was on trial for (yes, you..... More

San Francisco, CA: manic d press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. "A hammersickle/ tattoo on his inside lip/ the ex-con pulled out." ("Folsom Prison Haiku," unpaginated) A collection of poems by Jack Hirschman, the legendary & prolific former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, firebrand radical & acclaimed translator. Chapbook-format softcover original, first edition, with no colophon, limitation or reference to any subsequent printings. A starkly attractive production with front & back..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. "There is deep excitement in the originality and power of Bob Kaufman's poems. Perhaps the first to "discover" this young American Negro writer was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who published him in two City Lights broadsides (San Francisco, 1959 and 1960). Now Kaufman has assembled the work of ten years in Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, a collection that will have tremendous impact..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of miscellaneous poems, letters & short biographical writings by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Donald Allen (1912-2004), the great editor & publisher well-known for his groundbreaking anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960, which includes contributions by Kerouac. As Allen states in his Editor's Note, "This book belatedly collects..... More

n/p; New York, NY: Pacific Red Car; Penguin Books, 1991; 1995. First Editions Thus. Chapbook; Softcover. Two collectible editions of the classic cycle of poems by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) San Francisco Blues, chapbook in stapled wrappers published by Pacific Red Car in 1991 per back cover. The lack of a copyright page, place, ISBN number etc. indicate that this is likely an unauthorized bootleg..... More

San Francisco, CA: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is the highly sought-after 1959 work of the Beat Generation's 'Chairman of Surrealism,' Philip Lamantia (1927-2005): the fiery-&-notorious underground classic, "Narcotica." The objectively confrontational avant-garde bona-fides of "Narcotica" announce themselves before one even reaches the text; this, of course, comes in the form of cover art & design by the eternally fascinating (and hauntingly fabled) underground artist-&-publisher, Wallace..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1981. First Printing. Softcover. “Crystallizing echoes from strange landscapes and forgotten history, Lamantia follows the signposts of traditional myth into new configurations of our own shadowed times. You will not find here the spare descriptions of things nor the colloquial translations of thought into verse that inhabit mainstream tradition. With roots in surrealism, Lamantia engages the wonders of language as revolutionary powers. Calling for..... More

San Francisco, CA: Level Press, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Softcover. "The Hasheesh Eater is the first full-length study of the psychological states and physiological effects of psychoactive drug use in American literature. Written by a 20-year-old college student, this (Thomas) De Quincey-inspired memoir steeped in mysticism caused a sensation when it was published in 1857. Since that time it has been generally ignored and forgotten, except by a few..... More

St. Paul, MN: Fish in the Sky, 1979. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Michael McClure. A broadside (8&1/2" x 14") with the title poem by Michael McClure (1932-2020), the primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & Beyond who recently passed away. As noted in colophon, this is one of 100 copies, hand-numbered & signed by McClure below his printed name at bottom..... More