New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Thus. Cloth. Quarto. 194 pp. First edition thus of Howl, the original draft facsimile, transcript and variant versions, fully annotated by the author with correspondence, account of first reading, legal skirmishes etc. Edited by Barry Miles. What more can be said about the... More about Howl
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. More about Empty Mirror
San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Sewn wrappers. 6 pp. Printed on Bergstrom papers with the text set on Centaur & Cloister types. Rare anonymous collaboration between Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Subtitled "Being the Assignment of Same to the Honorable Senators, Lawmakers of the United... More about The Totem Protectorates
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 227 pp. Foreword by Carolyn Cassady. Edited with an introduction by Barry Gifford and with an afterqord by Allen Ginsberg. Green cloth covers stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges. A sound very good or better copy. Lacking the uncommon... More about As EverThe Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Special limited edition with unique binding from the trade edition. Letter V of twenty six lettered copies SIGNED BY GINSBERG AND ORLOVSKY. 239 pp. Edited by Winston Leyland. A fine example presumably lacking the clear acetate wrappers. More about Straight Hearts' Delight (Signed Lettered Edition); Love Poems and Selected Letters 1947 - 1980
Berkeley: Inkblot Publications, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Tall side-stapled wrappers. 27 pp printed on rectos only. Reproduced sheets of text stapled into photo-illustrated covers. One of 300 trade copies. More about Beat Museum - Bardo Hotel Chapter 2
California, PA: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Oblong stapled 8vo. Unpaginated. Chapbook published as Volume 11 of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual by Arthur and Kit Knight. Publised in an edition of 750 numbered and SIGNED copies. Very good condition in printed stapled wrappers... More about Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook (Signed
New York: Cherry Valley Books, 1980. Second edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dustwrapper. 224 pp. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Stated second edition. Photo-illustrated dustwrapper of the author. A collection of short autobiographical riffs. Quite rare in this hardbound format. More about The Evening Sun Turned Crimson
Santa Cruz: Peeramid Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Folio sized magazine edited by Jerry Kamstra. Thick unpaginated magazine printed on inexpensive paper which has lightly toned with age. Filled with original and reprinted articles, poems and drawings from a large host of beat and countercultural figures including Kathy Acker, Charles... More about The Holy Earth Megascene
San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Wide stapled illustrated wrappers. Scarce first edition of Kandel's controversial volume of sexually explicit poems that was banned and seized by the police when first published. A very good copy with some wear to covers. Six pages, printed on rectos only. More about The Love Book
San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small 8vo. Single sheet, folded several times to form an elongated booklet when opened. A close to fine copy in printed wrappers. Early City Lights beat publication which has become quite dear, especially in condition. The author's first publication. More about Abomunist Manifesto
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1973. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo. Early reprint edition (7th). Cover photograph by Robert Frank. $2.50 printed price on rear cover. White printing on black background. A clean very good copy in bound wrappers. More about Book of Dreams
Gottingen: edition Saxifraga / altoQuito, 1996. First edition thus. Paperback. Small paperbound 4to. First German edition reprinting the classic interview between Ted Berrigan, Aram Saroyan and Jack Kerouac which was originally published in The Paris Review #43 in 1968. This, a fine copy, is number 198 of 270 examples. Text... More about Jack Kerouac Der Marktplatz Der Worte; Ein Interview
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. Trade paperback book. 67 pp. A posthumous publication by the Grey Fox Press. First thus with prefaces by Ann Charters & Michael McClure. Fine condition in bound pictorial wrappers. Review Copy with Publisher Review Slip laid in. More about Old Angel Midnight
New York: Grove Press, 1958. First Edition. Paperback. First paper edition, Evergreen E-99. A good copy in bound wrappers. Tape remains on the front endpaper. Second state with "By" in blue. 111 pp beat novel by the author of On The Road. More about The Subterraneans
New York: Grove Press / Evergreen Books, 1958. First edition. Paperback. First paperbound printing, simultaneously published with a limited hardbound edition. 111 pp. The beat author's third novel. This is the so-called first state of the book with lettering in white. Mild rubbing to covers, tiny wear at spine ends... More about The Subterraneans
New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 280 pp. The author's last book to be published in his lifetime. An autobiographical novel. Very good condition in patterned boards and cloth spine. Spine lettering has been oxidized away as often seen. Price-intact dustwrapper is also in clean very good condition... More about Vanity of Duluoz; An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 398 pp. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. A novel written in the early 1950's by Kerouac and published here for the first time after his death. Just short of fine in price-intact dustwrapper. From the library of poet Kenneth Irby. He has signed... More about Visions Of Cody
No Place: Portents, 1969. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single sheet broadside poem. Illustrated by Robert LaVigne. According to the colophon "This was to have been published as Portents 12, but it was sadly delayed, and these copies have been printed, as an expression of our love, for his friends". Broadside... More about A Last Haiku (Broadside Poem
Roma: minimum fax, 1998. First edition thus. Paperback. 16mo. 111 pp. Reprint in Italian of the 1976 interview that took place between Ted Berrigan and Jack Kerouac that was originally published by the Paris Review. A fine copy. More about intervista con Jack Kerouac
New York: Grove Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. A novel co-written by Burroughs and Kerouac from early in their writing careers that was not published until 2008. Based on events that occurred with their friend Kucien Carr and the murder of David Kammerer in the 1940's. Afterword by James... More about And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks (Inscribed by James Grauerholz
California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1984. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 176 pp. Illustrated with photographs. A collection of beat writings, photos, letters and interviews by the whole cast of expected characters including Ginsberg, Kerouac, Robert LaVigne, Paul Krassner and more. A clean very good example in bound wrappers... More about The Beat Road; Volume 14 of the Unspeakable Visions of the Individual
California, PA: Unspeakable Visions, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. First edition. A trade paperback original book published as the Unspeakable Visions of the Individual Volume 8. Very good condition with some soiling to pages. Letters, poems, photographs, interviews by and about the beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory... More about The Beat Journey
Los Angeles and New York: Semiotext(e), 2001. First edition. Paperback. Thick trade paperbound volume. 847 pp. A gorgeous fine copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Looks unread. A quite heavy book. More about Burroughs Live 1960 - 1997; The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs
New York: Corinth, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound book of poems. 76 pp. A very good copy in bound decorated wrappers. Review Copy with publisher's Review Slip laid in. This copy with a half-page INSCRIPTION by the author and dated in year of publication. More about Symptoms & Madness (Inscribed Review Copy
