Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark, & with signed ephemera. 'Nothing inside/ a space/ the surface of which/ is filled/ with tiny messages" ("TV," pg. 15) A collection with the title poem & many other short works along with the final, longer "A Sailor's Life," by Tom Clark (1941-2018). Clark, the prodigious & prolific poet, editor & biographer, has left us..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "At twenty-seven, Tom Clark has been Poetry Editor of the Paris Review for five years, has received two Hopwood awards, and one of Poetry's annual awards. His readings draw huge, enthusiastic audiences that would be the envy of many an Establishment poet twice his age. The reasons for such attention are clearly in evidence in Stones, the first collection of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1967. First Edition. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14" x 20") announcing "The Dance of the Full Moon Concert" with performances headlined by Country Joe (McDonald) & the Fish, along with the Sparrow & the Kaleidoscope, during February 3-4, 1967 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The great Spanish-American artist Victor Moscoso (b. 1936) created the artworks & graphics reproduced here, & "Moscoso"..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/8" x 20&1/2") announcing a concert with performances headlined by the Daily Flash, along with Country Joe & the Fish, during October 21-22, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with the noted..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&1/2") announcing "An Air Conditioned Dance-Concert/ Euphoria" with performances headlined by the Daily Flash & the Rising Son, along with Big Brother & the Holding Company & the Charlatans during May 6-7, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics..... More

New York, NY: Other Press, 2013. First Printing. Hardcover. My first exposure to the life and art of Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006) was "by accident," if you could call it that. It had something in common with the half-interested surfeit one arrives at after being on vacation too long--you know, that point where you don't mind walking past things (& places) that people plan entire vacations around? These were the conditions..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14 &1/8" x 20 & 1/3") announcing a concert with performances headlined by Bo Diddley, along with Big Brother & the Holding Company, during August 12-13, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. “Madame Dieudonne arose, stark and stripped, in her underground villa at 0600 as was her wont, turned on the shortwave radio and heard the report from Laos that Captain Clancy was dead, and then she walked, still naked, to her jewel box, removed a small, black, heavy object, raised it to her head and blew her pretty French brains out..... 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

New York, NY: Equinox Books/ Avon Books; Ace Books, 1975 (1964); 1965; 1977. First Edition Thus; First Editions. Softcovers. Three classic works of science fiction by Philip Jose Farmer (1918-2009), the pioneering, prolific & highly influential American author: (1) Inside Outside, originally published in 1964, reissued in this first edition thus by Avon books' Equinox imprint as No. 7 of its "SF Rediscovery Series, dedicated to making important and influential..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Jean Genet needs no introduction to American readers. During the past decade his plays- The Maids, Deathwatch, The Balcony, The Blacks, and his soon-to-be performed The Screens- have acquired the status of modern classics and established their author in the forefront of contemporary dramatists. (Genet) first burst upon the literary scene with this novel, Our Lady of the Flowers..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The text of a speech delivered by French avant-garde playwright, novelist & activist Jean Genet (1910-1986) on May Day (May 1), 1970, at Yale University, on behalf of the Black Panther Party & its then-jailed founder Bobby Seale. Genet had participated with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & others in the protests at Chicago during the Democratic National Convention..... More

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. There was a moment in time, roughly from 1967 to 1972, where the revolutionary “free love” sexual emancipation movement enmeshed itself into the mind-melting, paisley and tie-dye encrusted recreational drug era, thus giving birth to the age of “psychedelic sex”. While the children of the “greatest generation” were melting their minds and dancing naked in the streets, porno mag publishers were..... More