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... More
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Small oblong wrappers. A fine copy in hand-sewn wrappers with delicate printed paper dustwrapper. Per the rear colophon, this was an offering for a peaceful summer from the author and the publisher and was given away. This copy has been SIGNED by..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound volume of poems by Ginsberg. This is the simultaneous first paperbound edition. 89 pp. A handsome very good copy. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Ginsberg to a friend and fellow poet Gerard Rizza. The inscription refers to..... More
San Francisco: Coyote Press, 1966. First U. S. Edition. Paperback. First US edition of this slender poetry pamphlet. 15 pp. An earlier British pamphlet precedes. A handsome very good plus copy. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 288 pp. Edited by Jason Shinder. Includes a limited-edition recording of Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl". A fine, as-new copy, still in original shrinkwrap. More
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
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. Stray handwriting on front cover. Toning to edges of covers. A good..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1956. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Small stiff wrappers. 44 pp. Pocket Poets Series Number Four. Ginsberg's classic first book of poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. This, a stated fourth printing (from the same year as the first). With a few small spots to the covers. A...... More
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
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
Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition stated of Gysin's first novel, an hallucinatory journey across the Sahara. 353 pp. A handsome very good copy in about very good price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has several small chips and creases at the edges of the wrapper. About typical for..... 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
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First printing stated of this novel featuring Jack Duluoz. 241 pp. One of the author's signature stream of conciousness novels and a classic of beat literature. Black cloth spine over patterned navy boards. A superb near fine copy with original..... 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
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Evergreen Original E-160 published at same time as the limited hardcover. Light spine roll, else a very good trade paperback with light sunning to spine, but basically unrubbed, and uncommon thus. Beat literature. 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
New York: Viking Press, 1960. Seventh Printing. Cloth. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 310 pp. Stated seventh printing of the Beat classic novel. Prior owner date on the front endpaper. Minor spotting to page edges. Otherwise, A handsome very good copy in gray cloth covers printed in black in about very..... More
New York: Totem Press, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Stiff illustrated stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Cover art by Jesse Sorrentino. This slender book consists of 66 numbered paragraphs. Some darkening to cover edge at spine else a very clean and handsome copy. First issue with white covers decorated in purple. 95 cent..... 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
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
New York: Evergreen Showcard, No Date (1967). First edition. Loose Sheets. Folded sheets. Two 12 x 9 1/4" tall sheets, folded to form a booklet. The theater program for Michael McClure's The Beard playing at The Evergreen Theater in NYC. Year not stated, but from 1967. Richard Bright as Billy..... More
