Berkeley, CA: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet & noted founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. There are few, if any widely-known connections between Cornell University in Ithaca, NY — and this, even though several visionary non-Beat authors have taught there to great effect: have been received, warmly by talented students who are eager-to-contribute; by responsive readers, and responsive..... More

Troy, NY, USA: Black Fig Press, 2023. Limited Second Edition; First American Edition. Sewn Sheets. Inscribed, signed, & numbered by Ronald Baatz and publisher Andra Sheinkopf. Ronald Baatz is a notoriously elusive poet who has been featured in literary journals like Wormwood Review alongside other legendary Beat-&-Beyond writers like Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the so-called “poet laureate of American Lowlife,” and Gerald Locklin (1941-2021), the former poetry editor at Chiron Review..... More

Niagara Falls, NY: press : today : niagara, 1966. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Thirty-three floors up | is the high roof above streets | where cars are bright toys." (first stanza). Anomia is a poem published by Press:Today:Niagara written by E.R. Baxter (1938-2023), a poet, fiction writer, essayist, teacher, and environmental activist based in the Niagara Falls region of Western New York. Baxter was a participant in the 1960s..... More

New York, NY: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Ted Berrigan to the poet & noted mimeograph revolutionary, Lee Harwood. The debut volume of poetry by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the great American poet, publisher, and mimeograph revolutionary most closely affiliated with the “New York School” of poets. In 1978, while writing to Anne Waldman (b. 1945), Berrigan described the “technical achievement”..... More

Buffalo, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1972. Limited First Edition. 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

Cambridge, MA: n/p, c. 2000. First Edition. Signed twice by Daniel Bosch. “Pity, the lump in your own through | Self-pious Pity; Pity the wishbone. | Pity, the self-employed esthetician | Contracted for us by the government. | Pity, the shingle. Pity, the physician. | Pity, sipped from an inverted paper cone.” (First stanza, Homage to Christopher Smart, Daniel Bosch). A self-published collection of poetry by Daniel Bosch, an American..... More

Little River, CA: Wilderness Poetry Press, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. “Luke Breit was part of the group of us younger poets who resurrected and revised Beatitude magazine. He was the editor of the initial revision issue Beatitude No. 21. He is the son of Harvey Breit, who was a well-known writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and part of the New York literary establishment during a previous..... More

San Francisco, CA: Second Coming Press, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheets. "I get many phonecalls [sic] now. / they are similar: / "are you Charles Bukowski, / the writer?" / "yes," I tell them. / and they tell me / that they understand my / writing, / and some of them are writers / or want to be writers / and they have dull and / torturous jobs / and..... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet. “Vallejo writing about / loneliness while starving to / death; / Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a / whore; / Rimbaud running off to Africa / to look for gold and finding / an incurable case of syphilis; / Beethoven gone deaf; / Pound dragged through the streets / in a cage; / Chatterton taking rat poison;..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1966. Second Edition. Softcover. "Every birth a crime, / every sentence life. / Wiped of mould and mites / would the ball run true? / No hope of going back. Hounds falter and stray, / shame defects the pen. / Love murdered neither bleeds nor stifles / but jogs the draftsman's elbow. / What can he, changed, tell / her, changed, perhaps dead? / Delight..... More

Brighton, Sussex, England: Urgency Ripoff Press, 1973. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, 1967. Variant First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A gathering of three works, authored or heavily influenced by William S. Burroughs & his cut-up methods at their late high point (in order): "Objective Galactic Time Demolition Plan 23" by Claude Pelieu (1934-2002), the French avant-garde artist & writer who with his wife Mary Beach was a friend & collaborator with WSB & the publisher..... More

Storrs, CT: The University of Connecticut Library, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. “There can be no question that the making of The Maximus Poems, or at least the final volume of the series, is one of the more unusual events in recent poetry. Although there have been a number of instances where an author’s work has been finished for him by a colleague or editor or other professional, there is no..... More