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

Roosevelt Town, NY: n/p, 1984. Original Manuscript. Inscribed & signed by Peter Blue Cloud to Thomas Rain Crowe. “Peter was of Iroquois Native American descent, of the Beat-era generation, and was a descendant of a tribe in Southern Canada. He was living up on the San Juan Ridge in the community surrounding Gary Snyder and the Kuksu group of poets. He had married a younger woman who was part of..... More

San Francisco, CA: n/p, 2003. Original Correspondence. Single Sheets. A packet of correspondence from Second San Francisco Renaissance poet, Janice Blue (1942-2017) and Thomas Rain Crowe (b. 1949), the Renaissance’s co-authorial founder. The correspondence contains, among other things, [1] A cover letter from Janice Blue to Thomas Rain Crowe regarding his requests for material (poems; & a short biography) eventually published in France by La Main Courante as Baby Beat..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2006. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Janice Blue to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Since the 60s, poetry has poured forth from microphones all over the cafés and parks and schools of this land. Most poems, when you see them on the page, are rather staid; that is, they're literary writing that the poet has publicly voiced. With Blue's, something else is..... More

San Francisco, CA: Golden Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. Signed by Luke Breit. “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..... More

San Francisco, CA: Caffe Malvina, 1975. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring appx. 11 x 14”) advertising a poetry reading at the cult-famous Malvina Coffee House — which, during the mid-to-late 1970s, was mobilized as a venue by the authors of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. The layout and format for MCH posters was standardized: center alignment reigned, and the venue title was always found floating like a thundercloud..... More

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1998. First Edition. Signed by Jack Hirschman. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”--Antonio Gramsci, "The Prison Notebooks". Ferruccio Brugnaro (b. 1936) wa born in Mestre, outside Venice, and spent most of his adult years toiling in the caustic, Pandemonium-esque-machine-and-chemical-suffused hellscape of the factories of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Twenty-Two Press, 1976. First Edition. Single Sheet. Inscribed, dated, and signed with illustration by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe. “I met Neeli early on and we became ‘compatriots’ almost immediately. He was really the person who introduced me to everyone and to what was going on in San Francisco during my first weeks and months there. In that sense he was very generous with his time..... More

Penn Valley, CA: R.L. Crow Publications, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Dated, inscribed, signed & with drawings by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe. "From Los Angeles to San Francisco, from 1953 to now- Neeli Cherkovski uses bar scenes, cafe insights, family confessions, heartbreak and redemption, meditations on morality and the acceptance of self to transform memory, time and myth into an intimate poetic-memoir. He creates a window to the past..... More

Northville, MI: Sun Dog Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder[s] of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. “We walked into the Co-Existence Bagel Shop back in 1958–I was thirteen years of age—and there was the poet himself sitting across from Tiny Trent, an old hanger-on from the 30s, a guy named Mad Alex and several other North Beach regulars. Kaufman wore..... More

n/p: n/p, 1976. First & Only Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Neeli Cherkovski and Diana Foldvary. “I met Neeli early on and we became ‘compatriots’ almost immediately. He was really the person who introduced me to everyone and to what was going on in San Francisco during my first weeks and months there. In that sense he was very generous with his time and energy (which he had a lot..... More

Berkeley, CA: Marimbo, 2005. First Edition. Inscribed, Signed, and Dated by Jack Hirschman to Thomas Rain Crowe. “I’m pleased to introduce this young Italian poet to an American audience. Igor Costanzo, at just 25 years of age, reveals a natural ease with the development of the forms of contemporary poetry to exhale a wonderful lyricism of imagery, i.e., ‘rib of moon / relic of Adam, / Diana’s vagina / frozen..... More

No Place: n/p, n/d. First Printing. “How do I see myself as a writer? I don’t spend too much time looking in the mirror–unlike our current President. My gaze is mostly outward and to the future. There is no literary family tree or anyone, really, in my genetic heritage that I know of who was a writer, except maybe in the MacGregors on my mother’s side from Scotland, who were..... More