Revolutionary Letters
San Francisco: City Lights, 1971. Fourth edition. Paperback. Small pocket paperbound volume. 124 pp. Published as City Lights Pocket Poets Series: Number 27. A sharp, clean near fine copy in bound printed wrappers.
Beat Generation / Counterculture
Typed Signed Letter (T. L. S.)
Berkeley: Privately Printed, 1969. First edition. Loose Sheets. A folded illustrated card with a three paragraph typed letter, SIGNED by di Prima (as Diane di P) undated, but with envelope date stamped 14 September 1969. The letter was written to fellow poet Michael Perkins. Di Prima is responding to Perkins'...
Typed Signed Letter (T.L.S.)
San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1970. First edition. Loose Sheets. A folded illustrated card with a four paragraph typed letter, SIGNED by di Prima undated, but with envelope date stamped 20 August 1970. The letter was written to fellow poet Michael Perkins. Di Prima writes that she is " Back from...
Untitled Broadside Poem (I am no good at pleading...)
San Francisco: The Tenth Muse, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Single sheet illustrated broadside poem. Photograph by Betty Berenson. Measures 11 x 14". A near fine example of this uncommon publication. No limitation provided.
Beat
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this collection of photographs of beat artists and writers. A near fine clothbound copy with photo inset to front cover in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. Boards splayed open very slightly. Although not stated, this is one of only 40...
The Poet Exposed (Signed); Portraits by Christopher Felver
New York: Alfred Van Der Marck, 1986. First edition. Cloth. Fine first edition in fine dustwrapper. A collection of annotated black and white photographs of many key members of the beat scene. Prologue by Gary Snyder. Foreword by Robert Creeley. Afterword by William E. Parker. This copy SIGNED by the...
A Political Pamphlet
San Francisco: Anarchist Resistance Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Stapled wrappers. 12 unnumbered pages. Poems and letters from the San Francisco radical and beat poet. Some general light wear. A very good example.
Populist Manifesto (Inscribed Broadside)
Somerset: RiffRaff Poets, No Date (1975). First edition. Loose Sheets. Poetry postcard with a single poem by Ferlinghetti. In very good condition. Card measures 5.5 x 8 1/8" tall. Briefly INSCRIBED on the verso "for Adrienne - Lawrence Ferlinghetti" Not dated but from circa 1975. Published as RiffRaff Poets card no 75.
The Populist Manifestos plus an Interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 44 pp. A fine copy in bound printed wrappers. Poems and an interview between Ferlinghetti and Lebel. The same questions were posed by Lebel to Allen Ginsberg in an interview in la Monde.
Interim Pad #1
San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Presumed one shot beat poetry magazine edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Near Fine condition in tall thick side-stapled wrappers. Printed on rectos only. Terrific lineup of contributors includes Claude Pelieu, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Carl Solomon and others.
Jack Kerouac; Novelist of the Beat Generation
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 147 pp. Book length study of the life of the Beat legend discussing his literary career and taking some challenging stances of the status quo views of Kerouac's larger-than-life reputation. A fine clothbound copy in very good dustwrapper.
Contradictions (Inscribed); Jack Kerouac, Lowell, The River
Newburyport: Notan Press, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Oblong octavo. Attractive artist book made in tribute to the life and writings of Jack Kerouac. #95 of only 100 copies printed in string-tied thick wrappers. Near fine condition.
Jack's Book (Inscribed by Both Authors to Arthur & Kit Knight)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 339 pp. First edition, second state. A biography of sorts of Jack Kerouac with the voices of men and women who populate the Kerouac novels including William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes and others. A....
Kerouac's Town (Signed by Gifford and Inscribed by Marshall Clements)
Santa Barbara: Yes! Capra Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Small decorated hardbound book issued without dustwrapper. One of only 125 copies printed. SIGNED by Gifford and additionally INSCRIBED by Marshall Clements who provides the photographs. Published as Number Twelve - Yes! Capra Chapbook Series. Published on the second anniversary of...
Allen Ginsberg Reads His Poetry: Includes his best-known poem "Howl" with which the tape ends. Recorded October 25, 1956 (Reel-To-Reel Tape in Original Labeled Box)
Berkeley: Pacific Tape Library, 1956. First edition. Record LP. A rare reel-to-reel tape in original labeled box containing Ginsberg reading his poetry including his best known poem, HOWL. Per our research, the first historic reading of Howl took place at the historic 1955 reading at San Francisco's SIX GALLERY for...
First Blues; Rags, Ballads, & Harmonium Songs 1971 - 74 (Signed)
New York: Full Court Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 77 pp. A very good copy in bound wrappers. First trade paperbound edition.
Improvisation Und Poetik / Riverside Interview / Die Poesie Des Dharma; Uberlegungen zur Poesie 1 /2 / 3 (Three Volumes with Author Initials and Stamp)
Hannover: Apartment Edition, 1988. First German Edition. Paperback. 4to's. Three volume set of books. Text in German. Each volume hand-stamped by Ginsberg using different color stamps and with the author's initials. All three volumes in near fine condition in decorated thick stapled wrappers with narrow French flaps. First German editions...
Kaddish And Other Poems 1958 - 1960
San Francisco: City Lights, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Pocket paperbound book. Issued as The Pocket Poets Series Number Fourteen. Later issue of Ginsberg second book (seven lines of text on rear cover, perfectbound, $1.50 price). A handsome very good copy with light toning to cover edges. Except for Howl, perhaps...
Mind Breaths Poems 1972 - 1977
San Francisco: City Lights, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Pocket paperbound book. Issued as Pocket Poets Series Number Thirty Five. A very good copy in bound printed wrappers. 123 pp plus bibliographic info at rear of volume.
Original Signed Photograph - Judith Malina and Julien Beck
No Place: Privately Printed, 1984. First edition. Loose Sheets. Original annotated and signed photograph by Ginsberg. Photo in fine condition. Photo measures approx 9 3/4 x 7 3/4" The handwritten caption reads "Judith Malina, Julian Beck in cancer hospital bed, Harion (sp?) attending, I'm saying goodbye on way to China...
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems 1977 - 1980
San Francisco: City Lights, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Small, square pocket paperbound book. 111 pp. Stated first printing. A sharp, clean very good plus copy in bound wrappers.
Prose Contribution To Cuban Revolution
Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press / Guerrilla, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. First separate edition of this 14 pp essay by Ginsberg on the Cuban Revolution. Originally published in an issue of Pa'Lante magazine in 1961. A sharp, clean copy in stapled illustrated wrappers.
Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby (Broadside Poem)
Grindstone City: The Alternative Press, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single sheet broadside poem by Ginsberg. Written at Mabuhay Gardens in May 1977. Published here by The Alternative Press. A fine copy printed on lavender paper stock. Measures approx. 8 x 11" tall.
Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (Poetry Bookmark)
Grindstone City: The Alternative Press, 1983. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small single piece of tan paper in the shape of a bookmark. Measures 6 3/4" long x 1 3/4" tall. Contains a single short poem by Ginsberg and has a printed date of July 1983. Fine condition.
Empty Mirror
New York: Totem / Corinth, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Stapled wrappers with cover illustration by Gilbert Sorrentino. A volume of early poems by Ginsberg with an introduction by William Carlos Williams. 47 pp. Pages tanned with age. Toning to edges of covers. A good to very good example.