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Our supplies of these rare books are limited. Rare books are available online only. You can also order these books directly from our web site, simply click on the "add to cart" button next to the book of your choice. All orders will be sent by US Insured Mail. For expedited shipping or international orders, please see our Ordering Information .
Reach for the Sun Volume 3
Reach for the Sun Volume 3
Charles Bukowski
Black Sparrow Press, California, 1999. Hard Cover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Limited/Numbered. ISBN:0-87685-915-5. Only 376 copies bound in boards by Earle Gray and with an original serigraph by Charles Bukowski. #'s 30, 331, 333, & 334
$200.00.

Reach for the Sun Volume 3
Charles Bukowski
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A., 1993. Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: As New. Glassine Dust Wrapper. First Edition. 1 of 750 cloth First editions. New, 1 of 750 cloth trade copies printed in 1999.
$60.00

Reach for the Sun Volume 3
Fast Speaking Woman
Fast Speaking Woman
Anne Waldman
City Lights, 1978, 1978. " Second enlarged edition: August 1978" First Printing of this edition. 87 pages. As new. Pocket Poets Series book # 33.
$30.00.


From Nicaragua with Love
Ernesto Cardenal
San Francisco City Lights 1986, 1986. First edition 79pp. Slight wear to wraps; near fine. Pocket Poets series book number 43. New, 1st Edition
$40.00.

From Nicaragua with Love

The Old Ways
The Night Torn With Mad Footsteps
Bukowski, Charles
Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. Limited Edition Numbers 107 and 16 of 526 containing an original serigraph print by Charles Bukowski. Mint condition in acetate dust jacket.
$175.00


On the Barricades: Journal for the Protection of All Beings #2
No 2 Journel for the Protection Of All Bengs 1968, City Lights Books 1968 Bastille Day, 1968. Soft cover. Book Condition: Good but worn condition. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Extremely scarce photos. One of a kind collector's item. First issue of this Journal was 1961 No. 1 this is No 2 1968 a first edition. Cartoons photos by Caron. Herbert Marcuse on back of cover.
$35.00

On the Barricades

Twenty-four Love Songs
Twenty-four Love Songs
Dorn, Ed
San Francisco: Frontier Press, (1969) First Edition, 8vo, 32 pages. Fine in printed, stapled wrappers.
$25.00


A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories 1970-1978
Codrescu, Andrei
First edition. 237 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Limited Edition Numbers 51 and 52 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Codrescu.
$50.00

A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories 1970-1978

Ascending Over Ohio
Ascending Over Ohio
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Warren, OH: Fantome Press, [1989]., 1989. Pamphlet. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Ferlinghetti on cover envelope. Very Fine in the publisher's printed envelope. New, 1st edition, in the publisher's printed envelope.
$50.00

Ascending Over Ohio

Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
L. Ferlinghetti, San Francisco, 1970. Book Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (illustrator); 11 b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Very Good. [56] pages (unpaginated). Reworkings of several of Basho's original haiku, printed in a small edition ("A few copies for friends of the author"; title page verso). One of 500 copies, published September 1, 1970 (in author's facsimile holograph). A very desireable copy of a very rare item. Signed by author. Illustrated by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (illustrator); 11 b/w Illustrations (including Upper wrapper). First Edition. New.
$250.00.

Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho

The Street's Kiss
The Street's Kiss
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Boise: Limberlost Press, (1998) 8vo, 13 pages. One of 750 copies printed by letterpress on fine paper. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the title page. As new in printed wrappers.
$75.00.


Shock Treatment
Finley, Karen
San Francisco: City Lights., (1990) First Edition. 8vo, 145 pages. Signed by Finley on the title page. Fine in pictorial wrappers.
$40.00.

Shock Treatment

The Fall of America
The Fall of America
Ginsberg, Allen
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1972). First Edition, 16mo, 200 pages. As new in printed wrappers.
$50.00


Kaddish
Ginsberg, Allen
San Francisco: City Lights, (1961) First Edition. 16mo, 100 pages. Fine in printed wrappers
$200.00

Kaddish

Planet News
Planet News 1961—1967
Ginsberg, Allen
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1968). First Edition, letterpress, 16mo, 144 pages. As new in printed wrappers.
$75.00.


Ginsberg, Allen
T.V. Baby Poem
San Francisco, Beach Books, Texts and Documents, (1968). First Edition, 4to, 16 pages. Fine in printed brown stapled wrappers.
$40.00.

TV Baby

Selected Poems 1943—1966
Selected Poems 1943—1966
Lamantia, Philip
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1967). First Edition. 16mo, 100 pages. As new in printed wrappers.
$75.00


Touch of the Marvelous
Lamantia, Philip
Oyez, No Place, 1966. As new. Selected works of the poet. Edition limited to 1500 copies.st. New, 1st edition (letter press)
$30.00.

Touch of the Marvelous

Destroyed Works
Destroyed Works
Lamantia, Philip
Hypodermic Light, Mantic Notebook, Still Poems, Spansule. (San Francisco): Auerhahn, 1962. Pp. [43], unpaginated. 8vo, card covers illustrated with black and white photographic collage. This edition is limited to 1250 copies. 1st edition. As new. $60.00


The Old Ways
Snyder, Gary
San Francisco, City Lights Books (1977). First Edition, 12mo, 96 pages, Fine in wrappers.
$125.00.

The Old Ways

Thus Spake the Corpse - An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 Volume I - Poetry and Essays
Thus Spake the Corpse - An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 Volume I - Poetry and Essays
Codrescu, Andrei & Laura Rosenthal editors
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1999. First edition. 33 and 36 of 100 hardcover copies SIGNED by the editors. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket.
$65.00




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