Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, n/d (circa 1986). First Printings. Single Sheets. Two broadsides both signed by Clayton Eshleman. Two related oblong broadside-posters, both relating to a literary event held at the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 2, circa 1986 featuring Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed, prolific poet, editor, educator & translator: (1) An approx. 14"x8&1/2" announcement of a multi-media event featuring readings of the works of Antonin Artaud..... More

New York, NY: Michael Andre, 1986. First Edition. Loose Folded Sheets. Signed by Gregory Corso This issue of the literary journal features contributions by Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, John Giorno, Ezra Pound (The Cantos 125-143) & many others. Signed by Gregory Corso on front cover. Large format, printed on newspaper-quality sheets. In fine condition, with edges yellowing & starting to become brittle, & very small closed tears on..... More

Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Community College, circa 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. A letter-size (8&1/2"x11") flyer-announcement of "A Dramatic Reading from the Letters, Essays, and Poems of Antonin Artaud" featuring Clayton Eshleman, the esteemed poet, translator & educator; & the actor Earl Kingston. The event took place at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, MI on December 1 of what was most likely the year of..... More

New Haven, CT & Athens, Greece: Pharos/Athens, 1990. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "(Henry Miller) went to Greece at a time when his creative and personal life was at its lowest point, and when the realities of Nazism and the horrors of war refuted with finality the established values of high-culture Europe which he himself had already questioned. Greece- and certainly (George) Katsimbalis, (George) Seferis and their circle- awakened a...... More

New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gerard Malanga to Charles Plymell. "Thomas Merton called Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo "the greatest universal poet since Dante." British poet, critic, and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, identified Vallejo as "...the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." And in the forceful, brilliant poetry of Vallejo, poet/photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More

San Diego, CA: Atticus Books, 1982. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This first number of the literary journal features an authorized reprint of a short, satirical essay by Ezra Pound, "The Printing Press Press Was Invented" from 1936; as well as contemporary contributions of poetry & prose from John M. Bennett, Michael Creedon, Ronald Davis, Rod Moore, Harry Polkinhorn (also co-editor) & many others. With a series of illustrations by richard..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Glee Knight, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This issue is dedicated to Henry Miller, a great artist, on his 81st birthday." (from contents-copyright page) Thus do the late Arthur (1937-2012) & Glee (a/k/a Kit?) Knight state the main theme of this vintage issue of their acclaimed, pioneering series of Beat-related publications under the umbrella title of "The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual." Henry Miller, the great..... More

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Thirty-Five contemporary American poets appear in this classic collection edited by Helen Vendler, New Yorker poetry critic & Harvard English Professor. Including works by Wallace Stevens, Langston Huges, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath & many others. Book in very fine condition with only spotting to edges, dj near fine with..... More