Best of San Francisco Beat Poetry & Arts

San Francisco: Beat Poetry and Arts/BEST of San Francisco, 1994.

SIGNED by Jack Hirschman (1933-2021) on the contents page. An anthology featuring numerous San Francisco poets. Hirschman, a former poet laureate of San Francisco and radical activist, has contributed a piece, "A Village Poem."

Besides Hirschman, the anthology includes Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, Paul Landry (photo on the cover), Jack Mueller, Howard Hart, Jack Micheline, Mary Rudge, Neeli Cherkovski, Alice Rogoff, Michelle Maria Boleyn (listed here as the publisher), Phillip Lamantia, and many others. With numerous photos and adverts.

OCLC shows a handful of institutional holdings of this book: SUNY at Buffalo, University of California Berkeley and Davis, San Francisco Public Library, University of Southern California, and Utah State University (OCLC 44633920). None in commerce. SCARCE SIGNED.

PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 x 7 1/4 inches; 228 x 184 mm), 121, [1] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover).

CONDITION: Moderate soiling to wrappers, lower corner bumped and showing small black mark, light creasing to some page corners, couple of light fingerprint marks on a page. About Very Good overall.