Cherry Valley, NY: Mary Beach, 2001. Original Artwork. Single Sheet. Signed by Mary Beach. Offered here is an original, untitled 2001 collage artwork (appx. 11 x 14”) by Mary Beach (1919-2006), who along with her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002) was at the Paris-based center of cutting-edge cut-up writing & collage art. She was also the mother of Pamela Beach Plymell & therefore the mother-in-law of Legendary Literary Outlaw Extraordinaire Charles..... More

Walkill, NY: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2015. Limited First Edition. Photograph in Envelope. Gerard Malanga, noted associate of Andy Warhol & long-time poet, photographer, filmmaker & archivist, collaborates here with legendary literary outlaw, Charles Plymell (the subject of this unique photographic study) in a unique photographic form called the “ambrotype.” It’s a tad more accurate to say this is a “reflection on the medium of ambrotype” rather than an ambrotype..... More

New York, NY: Claude Pelieu, 1999. Original Collage Artwork. Single Sheet. An original, untitled 1999 collage artwork (appx. 14" x 11") by Claude Pelieu (1934-2002), an acclaimed French artist & writer who along with his wife Mary Beach (1919-2006) was at the Paris-based center of cutting-edge cut-up writing & collage art. He was also the stepfather of Pamela Beach Plymell & therefore the stepfather-in-law of Charles Plymell, Legendary Literary Outlaws..... More

Marietta, GA: La Vita Poetica Press, 2014. Book. Sewn Wrappers. Inscribed & signed (twice) by Christopher Martin to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Out of breath, I finish my run,/ turn back on the lake trail toward home./ Years ago, I could've run both ways;/ soon, perhaps, I will again, but for now/ I'm content to walk, let my heart settle,/ try to focus on nothing but my lungs taking air,/ same..... More

Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press, 1982. Limited First Edition. With signed autograph poem by Tom Clark; & original drawing. "A project begun in 1980, and culminating in the present edition, Under The Fortune Palms is a sequence of sixty poems anatomizing in verse that complex cultural, sociological and geographical entity known as "So Cal." " (from prospectus) A collection of poems about the place-phenomenon of Southern California by Tom Clark..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Lettered Edition; Limited Numbered Edition; First Trade Softcover Edition. Hardcovers; Softcovers. Lettered Edition signed by Tom Clark & with signed hand-drawing; numbered edition signed; softcover edition with titled & signed hand-drawing. "The humiliation of being/ constantly observed/ by a hostile or derisive eye/ is certainly no joke/ but neither is/ not being able to find/ your shoes" ("Commuting," first stanza, pg. 111)..... More

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Limited First Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. Lettered edition signed & with an original signed drawing by Tom Clark; softcover edition with original signed drawing. "Death greets life in a moment of liftoff./ In this moment one may read divine intent,/ Less ominous than luminous, less fade than loft:/ A plum light, Mars violet, blent/ By angled sunlight in an expansive flooding."..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition Review Copy; Limited First Hardcover Edition. Softcover; Hardcover. Review Copy signed by Tom Clark & with signed illustration, autograph poem; hardcover edition signed by Tom Clark. "Goodbye to love, life and art is on every tongue/ Our time tiptoes to the edge of the extinct volcano/ The future holds hands desperately with the past/ The way the Flatirons look at..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books/ Immediate Editions, 1981. Limited First Editions; First Editions. Stapled Sheets. Hand-lettered edition signed by Tom Clark with original painting on canvas affixed to front cover; hand-numbered edition signed by Clark; first edition signed by Clark with original drawing; first edition. "Cecil Rhodes/ wd. have liked it here/ excellent climate/ plenty of nat. resources/ high prop. value/ & natives nearly as totally subdued/ (&/or supine)/..... More