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: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 253 pp. Stated first edition of the beat novelist's third book. Very handsome copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. This copy INSCRIBED by the author to Burt Britton and dated in May 1976. A book... More
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
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 very good 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, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Small square paperbound book. 81 pp. Published as The Pocket Poets Series Number Twenty One. Light spotting to top edge else a clean very good example. Uncommon book in the series. Beat poetry at its best. 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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Frank Hallman, 1975. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single Sheet, folded twice to form a small booklet containing a single poem by McClure. One of 150 copies printed for the author & publisher. Fine condition. printed on quality rag paper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the publisher to... More
No Place: Privately Printed, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fifteen numbered and typed sheets, printed on rectos only. Typescript for what would become the book of the same name published in 1978 by Jordan Davies. First page has a hand-illustration by McClure and he has INSCRIBED it at the... 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
No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single sheet of paper measuring 28 x 22 cm featuring a single poem by McClure. No publication info provided. The single copy found in WorldCat at SUNY Buffalo estimates that this was published circa 1977. Two horizontal soft folds. Small... 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 Albuquerque 1964. More
