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
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
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
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
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
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 near fine copy with some wear to covers. Six pages, printed on rectos only..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1974. First edition. Paperback. First edition. Quarto. 176 pp of beat writings and photographs. Published as Volume 4 of the Unspeakable Visions of the Individual edited by Arthur Winfield and Glee Knight. Great photo of Jack Kerouac to front cover by Fred McDarrah..... More
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
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
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
No Place: Privately Printed, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very tall (13") paperbound volume. 70 pp. A play by the beat generation poet. Per the colophon, "Copyright 1965 by Michael McClure. This book is not for sale - for actors and friends of the author only." An especially clean, tightly bound..... More
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of only 25 hardbound copies of this early poetry collection. Printed on Alexandra Japan paper, handbound by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Printed letterpress by Dave Haselwood and Andrew Hoyem. SIGNED by McClure on the colophon page. A fine copy. Beautiful..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Small trade paperbound book. Cover photo by Wallace Berman. 106 pp. A handsome near fine copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. $1.50 printed rear cover price. SIGNED by McClure on the title page. Scarce to find this title signed and in such attractive..... More
New York: New Directions, 1976. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Introduction by John Lion. 79 pp play by the beat poet. Illustrated with photographs from the production. Pages a bit tanned with age. A very good copy in very good clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Small trade paperbound volume. 82 pp. A collection of essays by the beat poet. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A clean very good plus copy. From the library of poet Kenneth Irby who has signed his name to the title page and added..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Small trade paperbound volume. 82 pp. A collection of essays by the beat poet. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A lovely fine copy. Boldly SIGNED by McClure on the title page. More
New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Fine press poetry chapbook. Limited to 100 numbered and 26 lettered copies. All were supposed to be signed by McClure. This copy is unsigned and is hand-labeled "Out of Series" on the colophon page. Light wear to printed paper label on front..... More
New York: New Directions, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound edition. The simultaneous first paper edition of this collection of poems. 151 pp. A very good copy in bound wrappers. This copy simply INSCRIBED "For Allen - Michael". We believe this was inscribed to poetry editor Allen De Loach. Review..... More
