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

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University / Library Partners Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover; Folded Single Sheets. Signed by Donald Beagle to Laurence Goldstein, with: [1] a typed letter from Goldstein to Beagle, most likely a retained copy; and [2] a typed return letter from Beagle to Goldstein, with Beagle's signature below his typed name. “We drive four hours to the path of totality, to this Fort offshore / from Charleston..... More

n/p: n/p, n/d. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "And with all this I'd like to add that I've never yet met a person of power (except myself) who gives themselves titles such as medicine person, power-person, or shaman. Even within a tribe or nation, the people know who to see for their particular needs, so why give them titles?" (pg. 7) This 9-page facsimile printing of a handwritten manuscript by the..... 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

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1975. First Printing. Various (Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheets). Signed by Jack Hirschman. “Jack wrote this collection of poems during the mid-1970s during everything that was going on with Beatitude magazine and press and various excursions and events. It was dedicated to [the poet] Kristen Wetterhahn (b. 1949), whom he had lovingly given the Russian nickname of "Kashtinah Segodnya." I was acting editor for Beatitude Press..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Magazine, 1976. Xerox Copy of Original Manuscript. Single Sheets. “Reds vs. Feds. All that I know. / Feds get up earlier than anyone else. They all look like somebody else. You’re never sure who. / Reds never sleep. They’re always alert. / A new age never comes. Books and newspapers keep being printed. It never ends. It is always forgotten the next day or the day..... More

Mallorca, Spain: Christopher Perret, c. 1964-1965. Original Artwork. Single Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Christopher Perret. An original postcard-collage by the French poet, Christopher Perret (1930-1965), who was Leni Sinclair’s (b. 1940) boyfriend before she met the legendary American poet, activist, & arts community organizer, John Sinclair (1941-2024). Leni and Rene met onboard a ship called the “Provence” that left for Genoa, Italy on August 28, 1963. They endeavored upon..... More

Stockton, CA: Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1996. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "once in a while i wish there were a god,/ mainly so that he could preside,/ as vengefully as possible,/ over a real lollapalooza of a last judgement." (Gerald Locklin, "The Last Round-Up,'" first stanza, pg. 97) This later number of the legendary literary journal edited by the late Marvin Malone is completely dedicated to the poetry of..... More

Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover; Single Sheet. With signed hand-colored illustration & signed autograph poem by Tom Clark. "At 3a.m., television tells/ its secrets to the/ armchair sleeper." ("TV Music") A slim volume with nine short, haiku-like subtly linked poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the profound poet, editor, novelist, biographer & artist who is the foremost poster figure for our category of "The Prolific &..... More

West Branch, IA; Santa Barbara, CA: Coffee House Press; Tom Clark, 1983; 1985. Limited First Editions; Autograph Poem Excerpt; Typed Manuscript Page. Sewn Wrappers; Single Sheets. Chapbook signed by Tom Clark; card with signed & dated autograph poem excerpt; signed typed manuscript page. "False Hildagos stripped to the waist conduct idle and/ fractious dialogues under the moonlit palms, stopping/ now and then to duel with knives, bodies flop to the..... More

Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “David Ignatow is “the one.” “The many,” of which the one is a part, are the others who shaped and inspired—or sometimes impeded—his life as a writer. This book is a memoir of an artist-in-process. It is, first, a work of memory of his early life in Brooklyn, the struggle to find the freedom to write, his life as reluctant son..... More

London, England: Terry Southern/ Fitzroy Films Ltd., n/d (Circa 1963). First Edition. Bound Sheets. A complete early film script by Terry Southern (1924-1995), the acclaimed Beat-&-Beyond novelist & screenwriter. Based on an original story by Robert Carrington (b. 1928) & his then-wife Jane Howard Hammerstein Carrington (1934-2022), screenwriters of note who collaborated on acclaimed films including Wait Until Dark (1967), this undated script was written by Southern during the early..... More