Scappoose, OR: RBA Publishing, 2006. First edition - A memoir of the 1950s and the Beat era, the pivotal decade of the 20th Century in which a Beat Generation revised the awareness of consciousness at the same time as a deceptive military-industrial complex was corporatizing the Cold War. Poet David Meltzer commented that this "is the book within the book, the history within the mystery, the mythology of the '50s, the so-called Beat Generation. Briggs reveals the real deal as a participant in that confounding history. His work is a remarkable embodiment of the personal as the political; a brave demonstration of tough insight, survival and triumph. Briggs brings it all into play - as the ongoing and complex struggle all dissident spirits had to contend with in dark yet illuminated days." Illustrated with photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Large format. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-931191213.

New York: Macmillan, 1940. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's important first book; a four-part collection of 31 poems, many related to California, especially in the long first section "Lessons in Geography and History." The fourth and final section consists of just one long poem "Ice Shall Cover Ninevah." A presentation copy boldy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To Jim and Evelyn, in token of a beautiful week, July 1948" and signed simply as Kenneth. Evelyn was Evelyn Dawson, a friend of Juliet, Man Ray's wife, and an occasional model for Man Ray; Jim was her first husband, the photographer James Fitzsimmons. In 1948, the year in which this book was inscribed, both Fitzsimmons and Man Ray were represented at a photography show at the Los Angeles County Museum. Known as the "father of the Beat generation" (although he later disassociated himself from that movement), he was a founder of the San Francisco Poetry Center, along with Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Rexroth was a radical activist and supporter of the IWW in his early years in Chicago, a conscientious objector during World War II who was also involved in helping Japanese evade internment, a painter and a scholar of jazz, an integral part of the San Francisco Renaissance, and in his later years known for his translations from Japanese and Chinese. Mimeographed errata sheet taped to rear free endpaper. 83 pp.