Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Black Sparrow Press was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1966 by John Martin in order to publish the works of Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) and other avant-garde authors. Black Sparrow holds a legendary position in the history of transgressive, experimental, underground literature. Among its many, many publications, perhaps the most coveted and lauded by poets and readers alike is the beloved..... More

San Francisco, CA: Deliriodendron Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Sewn Binding. Signed by translator Jack Hirschman. “...a love poem of a woman as a force of nature, an everyday whirlwind of care. He gives her to us---with tenderness, humor and compassion---in the form of an action painting that is verbally figurative with the motions and spirit of his best beloved. It is she who is the poem in every..... More

Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc., 1971; 1978. First Printings; Manuscript Notes. Sheets in Bound Scrapbook-Portfolio. Including sheet of hand-written notes by Albert Glover. "Ten years ago I had the fortune of meeting a Yaqui Indian from Northwestern Mexico. I call him "don Juan." In Spanish, "don" is an appellative used to denote respect. I made don Juan's acquaintance under the most fortuitous circumstances. I was sitting with Bill, a friend of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Floating Bear, 1961. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “the gracious gods / the red man / and the white man / how deliberately Sam Adams parlayed / the “Battle of Lexington” as he had / previously set up the Boston / Massacre as well as led his Mohawks / out of Fanuel Hall to bring about / the Boston Tea Party – failing to get a constitutional..... More

Buffalo, NY: Audit/Poetry Incorporated, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The Caliph of Hunger remembering/lived out a full feast./Hearts like roasts laid themselves open./The wine flowd from the glasses/in themselves./The hearts beat with longing,/sweet to his taste.”--Robert Duncan, A Derivation from Rimbaud, first stanza, pg. 30. Robert Duncan (1919-1988), the great American poet & author of the Black Mountain School- San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond, is widely considered one of the finest poets..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. "The term Beat is better used for a smaller group of writers ... the immediate group around Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, plus Gregory Corso and a few others. Many of us ... belong together in the category of the San Francisco Renaissance. ... Still, beat can also be defined as a particular state of mind ... and I...... More

Devon, England: Beau Geste Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. "Decide on one note that you want to play. | Play it with the following accompaniment: | The woods from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. | in summer." ("Secret Piece," Yoko Ono, pg. 63). Lithuanian-American artist, art historian & art organizer George Maciunas (1931-1978) coined the name "Fluxus" in 1961, initially as the title of a magazine. It went on to..... More

South Slocan, BC: Scree, 1971. First Printing. Loose Sheets. The October 1971 issue of the rare literary journal founded by poet,Fred Wah (b. 1939). Wah was born in Saskatchewan, CAN but grew up in British Columbia, earning a BA in English Literature from the university there before transferring on to the University of New Mexico, where he met Robert Creeley (1926-2005). Wah soon left UNM to join forces with the..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Second Printing. “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / a stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea. / So twice five miles of fertile ground / With walls and towers were girded round; / And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, / Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;..... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Living, I want to depart to where I am." (D.H. Lawrence, front cover). This thirty-eighth number of the collectible "Sparrow" series of pamphlets published by the venerable Black Sparrow Press is dated November 1975 on the front cover and features Ron Loewinsohn's (1937-2014) eight short stories, "Eight Fairy Tales." The magazine was responsible for publishing many..... More

New York, NY, USA: Dover Publications, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual." (Nickolas Muray, quoted in introduction by Marianne Fulton Margolis). American writer, curator and Kent State student in 1970 Marianne Fulton Margolis curated this collection of photographs, "Celebrity Portraits..... More

Brighton, England: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968. Limited Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Jeff Nuttall. “bloodgaze / light through the skin of a thumbsmudge” begins this selection of poetic journal excerpts from the great Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004), the poet, publisher & Jazz musician who was a legendarily larger-than-life figure in the British 1960s counterculture. For our Third Mind-Burroughsian purposes, Nuttall is most notable to us for his mid-1960s "My Own Mag" series..... More

Canton, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1975. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “I’m looking for a house to live in. Just a 1 bedroom house. We’re expecting a baby 4 months from now, and we had to leave the place we were. It’s a low muggy day. I’m not sure where anything is here. I watched the fisherman cut a marlin. A man with a nice face in shorts was splitting..... More