San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring 8.5 x 11') advertising a Beatitude Magazine benefit reading that took place on June 21st, 1976, and featured several Baby Beat luminaries in concert with a few Beat predecessors. Among the predecessors, we have David Meltzer, for example — whose inclusion in Don Allen’s legendary anthology of 1960, The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 firmly established him as..... More

Canton, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Sometime after Charles Olson’s death in January 1970, I told Jack Clarke I wanted to publish some kind of tribute to Olson. He responded by sending me a copy of “A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul,” which Olson had sent to us for publication in "The Magazine of Further Studies  No. 5." On the copy Jack..... More

San Francisco, CA: Greenlight Press, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “Everyone likes to go over their own stories, echo-laden sanctuaries—you were here, here, here. Suffice it to say that I was the middle of three daughters to a small tobacco farmer in the extreme western edge of Kentucky, some fifteen miles before its key shape touches the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, where they juncture. Hill country. I...... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press, 1957. First Edition. Softcover. “These poems are out of the whole cloth of Make-Believe, patched through with the honest-to-goodness threads of a Mad Jenny’s indomitable selfhood and the rich yarn of a Queen of Sheba’s ‘heaviness all heart’ [sic]. But it is Make-Believe with an urgency that runs deep, beyond what Yeats and Flaubert have so oddly contributed to the concoction. For the Temptation..... More

San Francisco, CA: Klean Kharma Press, 1976. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. “It’s that time of year again. The Yak Karnak School for Wayward Boys and Disembodied Women is opening its Fall Season with a star-studded cast of poets, consciousness-expanding media freaks, New York intellectuals, and pampered Buddhists from various universities. / … / Michael McFury, author of WHALE MEAT AND OTHER POEMS, will be on hand with his herd..... More

San Francisco, CA: Street Publications, 1975. First Edition. “Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”--Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution. Neeli Cherkovski (1945–2024) was an American poet and memoirist, and is widely considered one of the greatest writers of his generation. Cherkovski authored Whitman’s Wild Children, a collection of essays about twelve poets he has known: Michael McClure (1932–2020), Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), John Wieners (1934–2002), James Broughton (1913–1999), Philip..... More

San Francisco, CA: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "THE GOD I WORSHIP IS A LION / and I pray to him for / SPEED / POWER / DETERMINATION / & / COURAGE!" So writes the great, West-Coast literary eminence, Michael McClure (1932-2020) in the (comparatively untitled) "Dot/Circle." This unique 1966 work from McClure was composed, collaboratively alongside Bruce Conner (1933-2008) a West-Coast Pop artist strongly affiliated with the..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1969. First Edition Thus (Facsimile). Softcover. Signed by Gregory Corso. "Corso's attitudes and subject matter range in apparently helter skelter fashion throughout these pages. But the potpourri may nonetheless indicate to the reader that Corso's overall vision is a fundamentally organic one, a vision having deeply instinctive sources of vitality. His images, many of them recurring over and over again, have an irrepressible way..... More

San Francisco, CA: No Publisher, 1975. Original Handwritten Manuscript. Single Sheet. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. Presented here is an original handwritten manuscript by Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949) featuring a sonorous and affirmative poem, titled “Of Thee I Sing,” which Crowe composed in April of the Second San Francisco Renaissance’s ‘sophomore’ year, if you will. By April of 1975, the..... More

Santa Cruz, CA: Sanguine Books, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by James Dalessandro to Thomas Rain Crowe. “'The poet is the Thief of Fire' said Rimbaud, and these poems and prose poems are filled with the fire of a young poet whose work runs the gamut from, 'the history and the passion of my people and my times, to the ultimate goal of poetry, the anarchy of language.'..... More

Minneapolis, MN: West End Press, 1982. First Edition. Inscribed, signed & dated by Sharon Doubiago to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Sharon was living up in Mendocino during the 1970s, having come from Los Angeles. She was just finding her wings as a poet and would come down to San Francisco on occasion to check out what was going on. And then later she staged “Readings of SF Poets” up in Mendocino–to..... More

San Francisco, CA: Open Space, 1965. First Edition. “You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its fragrance awakened me.” Robert Duncan. Poet Richard Duerden (1927-2000) was born in Utah and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He joined the Merchant Marines and the Marine Corps, like so many Beat figures, and was educated at the University of California. A member of the San Francisco Renaissance poetry movement..... More

San Francisco, CA; Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Gnomon Press/ Island Press, 1966. First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Signed, placed & dated by Robert Duncan. "Unkingd by affection? One exchanges/ the empire of ones desire for the anarchy/ of pleasures. But pleasures themselves/ one finds are not domesticated. And the/ troubles of the soul cast jewel-like/ reflections upon the daily surfaces." ("Unkingd by Affection," first lines, unpaginated) A collection of poems by..... More