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2 volumes. First Editions. Includes:

• Happiness Bastard. (12mo), illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by Doyle on the first page to Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine No.32: "Dear Nathan May - These works written b'th' hand of crude petroleum oils. The universe is an apparent illusion, yr pal, Kirby Doyle, SF, '83." North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, [1968].
• The Collected Poems of Kirby Doyle. (12mo), decorative wrappers. Signed by Doyle on the title page. With small photograph of the author laid in. One of 750 copies. San Francisco: Greenlight Press, 1983. 

Kirby Doyle was an American poet featured in the New American Poetry anthology, with the so-called "third generation" of American modernist poets. He was one of the San Francisco Renaissance  poets who laid the groundwork for Beat poetry in San Francisco. He also wrote novels.