San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2022. First Edition. Softcover. “’Get the Money!’ was Ted Berrigan’s mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet. This long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts he produced for hire, as well as material from his journals, travelogues, and assorted, unclassifiable creative texts. Documenting his innovative..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14" x 20") announcing performances headlined by the Great Society & also featuring Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Grass Roots & Quicksilver Messenger Service (referred here in its early form as "Quick Silver Messenger Service") during February 26, 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco under the title of "King Kong..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&1/2") announcing "The Laugh Cure Dance and Concert" with performances headlined by the Blues Project, along with the Quicksilver Messenger Service & the Sons of Adam, during May 13-14, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, &..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. "On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. "That this book argues a revolutionary position is clear. But whether or not one agrees with that position, or its advocates, it is clear that there is a good deal to be learned here by black and white Americans. Only the tests of time and politics will determine the validity of Messrs. (Stokely) Carmichael and (Charles V.) Hamilton's arguments. But..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971; 1981. First Edition, Fourth Printing; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. "For a time I held a unique position. Among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver, there was not one so young as myself. Amid these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark, & with signed ephemera. 'Nothing inside/ a space/ the surface of which/ is filled/ with tiny messages" ("TV," pg. 15) A collection with the title poem & many other short works along with the final, longer "A Sailor's Life," by Tom Clark (1941-2018). Clark, the prodigious & prolific poet, editor & biographer, has left us..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "At twenty-seven, Tom Clark has been Poetry Editor of the Paris Review for five years, has received two Hopwood awards, and one of Poetry's annual awards. His readings draw huge, enthusiastic audiences that would be the envy of many an Establishment poet twice his age. The reasons for such attention are clearly in evidence in Stones, the first collection of..... More

Bolinas, CA: Angel Hair Books, 1969. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Tom Clark (twice) & Lewis Warsh. A large chapbook of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the great poet, editor & biographer; in collaboration with Lewis Warsh, poet-polymath who at the time was married to NYC Beat-&-Beyond icon Anne Waldman. The book as a whole is dedicated to the writer Edwin Denby (1903-1983), & each poem is dedicated..... More

Frankfurt, Germany: Zweitausendeins, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. One of the elusive "German Facsimile Sketchbooks" from the great, subversive Underground Comix genius R. Crumb--found here in virtually unread condition. Hardcover bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on spine with ribbon marker bound in. Complete with German translation Booklet, and housed in original cardboard slipcase with printed label affixed to the spine. From the outset this work proves itself..... More

New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group, 2001. First Hardcover Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. "...Diane di Prima's evocative memoir, in which she explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life and how she came to define herself as a woman. She grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s in an Italian American family, and only by heroic effort was she able to break away and..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/8" x 19&3/4") announcing a concert with performances headlined by Bo Diddley, along with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, during July 28-30, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with the iconic American poster..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Limited Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The struggle of clothes up the wash-board./ The slow web of no money but sunlight./ Sunlight. Hard at the sungate, in it, o-/ ver her hands// he stands/ like the light/ that moves/ her// yet he stands/ behind her/ slightly to the left/ forever" ("Sungate," first three stanzas, pg. 29) A collection of poems by Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021)..... More