Longmont, CO: Cityful Press, 2006. First / First. White graphic card cover. 7.5" x 5", [8] 9 - 79 pp. Incidental rub to front cover, otherwise fine. Gordon Ball took informal photographs of poet Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation for twenty-eight years. As well as being exhibited at five..... More

Companysha Ltd. / Elbow Cityful Press, March 2020. Japanese Edition. Glossy pictorial cover with Smith on the front; "Transforming milk into milk" by Allen Ginsberg. 7.5" x 4.25", 16 pp. of color graphics from Smith's archive, [7] 8 - 275, xi pp. Uncommon, limited printing, out of print. In this..... More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. Maroon leather spine with original cloth spine adhered, boards covered in cloth with gilt bear on the cover, new classic marbled endpapers. 7" x 4.5", 4 pp. of advertisements beginning with 'Thoughts About Art', pp. [3], 4-299. Embossed Circulating Library stamp on dedication page and table..... More

Self-published, 1990. Hand made, chain link paper ruffled at the left and bottom margins. 11,5" x 9" Broadside. Autograph poem, short, poignant, Beat. Includes two simple graphics, one, perhaps an invading sperm, the other a random mapping route. Ed Sanders (b. 1939) is a publisher, poet, poet historian and musician..... More

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1936. British (Fourth Revised), American (Fifth Revised Edition). Half brown leather with matching brown cloth, five (5) raised bands and titling in gilt on spine with decorative panel and gilt trim to cover corners. Attractive matching marbled end papers. 7" x 9.75", V...... More

San Francisco, CA: A Cranium Free Poem. 14" x 8.5", Broadside on light brown paper, with graphic in lichen green in the lower half. Insignificant (< 1/4") tear on lower left margin, light crease at top right corner. Printed in pencil on the rear, "Printed by Clifford Burke" Lew Welch (1926 - 1971?) was a central character in the Beat movement. While attending Reed College his roommate was Gary Snyder and he was close to Phil Whalen. In the novel "Big Sur", Kerouac based his character, Dave Wain, on Welch. Later in life he lived a common law life with Polish refugee Maria Magdalena Cregg. Welch acted as the stepfather to her son, later known as the rocker Huey Lewis. In 1971 Welch walked into the California mountains with a handgun, leaving behind a suicide note. His body was never discovered. Clifford Burke: "I found myself in the early Sixties smack in the middle of the political and literary upheavals of Berkeley and San Francisco and so the craft of printing and political activism and literary bookmaking all came together in an "underground" print shop called Cranium Press." He later went on to found Desert Rose Press in San Jose, NM. "Here they are, blooming! Trail rock, talus and scree, all dusted with it: rust, ivory, brilliant yellow green and cliffs like murals!"..... More