San Francisco, CA: n/p, 1976. Original Manuscript. Single Sheet. “Look inward / to the color prints on the wall, / the travel posters above the couch, / browse thru the library of your books, / turn-on, the neon-lights of your direction… / and await the sun / the might, burning fist / pushing, thru the night, / and remember the turn of the world, / the cause of change— /..... More

Poem-of-the-Month-Club, 1973. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Kingsley Amis. Two poems, “Wasted” and “Kipling at Bateman’s” from English poet, essayist, and novelist Sir Kingsley William Amis (1922-1995), father of Sir Martin Louis Amis (1949-2023) best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields(1989) and who was named one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 by The Times. While they were very much two different people, father..... More

Clinton Township, MI, USA: Jahlion Graphics, 2000. First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by members of Great Big Sea. Alan Doyle (b. 1969), Bob Hallett (b. 1966), Séan McCann (b. 1967), Darrell Power (b. 1968) performed together as Great Big Sea from 1993 to 2013. Their energetic rock performances included interpretations of traditional folk songs and sea shanties from their homeland of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with heavy influence from the..... More

Madison Heights, MI, USA: SF&A, 1994. First Edition. Single Sheet. This poster (appx. 10 ½" x 22 1/8") promotes the two performances by the legendarily precocious pianist, singer, and songwriter Tori Amos (b. 1963) happening during October of 1994. At the age of five, Amos received a scholarship to the Peabody Institute, the private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. After six..... More

Sacramento, CA, USA: Artists Contemporary Gallery, 1968. First Edition. Single Sheet. The Artists Contemporary Gallery was located at 5770 Freeport Blvd in Sacramento, California, though now that address is a shopping center. The gallery itself was probably absorbed or outlasted by other art centers in the city. The Artists’ Collaborative Gallery resides just a short walk away from the Crocker Art Museum. The list of featured sculptors includes Jeremy Anderson..... More

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

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1967. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. This postcard announces a six-concert series produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991) during June 27- July 2, 1967 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco with performances headlined by Chuck Berry, along with Eric Burden & the Animals & the Steve Miller Blues Band. The brilliant American poster, underground comix & animation artist Greg Irons (b. Gregory Rodman..... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1968. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. "Take another little piece of my heart now, baby | Oh, oh, break it | Break another little bit of my heart now, darling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah | Oh, oh, have a | Have another little piece of my heart now, baby | Well, you know you got it, if it makes you feel good | Oh..... More

Boulder, CO: Kavyayantra Press, 1995. First Edition. Folded Single Sheet. “Let pass let pass / the butterfly / the dark spaces between / larkspur / in the city-twilight / the winking pumpkin / laughter, not a ghoul / or skeleton among them / tutus, and gypsies / in the child eye’s languor / sweet, burned face / of imagination / clowns and raggedy ann, / red headed / sweet, burned..... More

Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Peter Blue Cloud to Thomas Rain Crowe; & with ephemera signed/endorsed by Crowe & Blue Cloud. "'Coyote, how did it all begin?"// It was beyond night or even the concept of night. It was a blackness so dense that it swallowed all else./ There was a howling beyond the puny sound of storms,/ and yet there..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Stiff Wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Janice Blue to Thomas Rain Crowe. “You say women have caused you sorrow? / Sorrow?! / Why sorrow is good for you, boy! / Sorrow is the by-god suPERior tool against evil, boy.” (first lines of poem) Iranian publisher Soheyl Dahi (b. 1954) founded the Sore Dove Press in 1986 after..... More

San Francisco, CA: Fugitive Press, 1975. First Edition, Single Sheet. "Now in the surge of demon progress, | you more & more become a tomb, | filled with drunken zombies | with hordes of modern vampires | sucking the dreams from your blood, | leaving but a husk | corrupt & floundering | in its own senescence" (fourth stanza). A broadside (appx. 8.5" x 14") with the evocative and cynical..... More

Boulder, CO: Kavyayantra Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Single Sheet. “Able laser seer in rose | An eros orb or ball | Rare, rare lobelia rails | A noble nib | Robed and born” (“Present Beau Robin Blaser,” Lee Ann Brown) This short poem in broadside format by poet and publisher Lee Ann Brown (b. 1963) was published in July 1995 for the 70th birthday of Robin Blaser (1925-2009)..... More