Madras: Hanuman Books, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Miniature paperbound book2 3/4" wide x 4" tall. 43 pp. With illustrations. A worn, but still sound copy of this uncommon Ginsberg book. Good in good photo-illustrated paper wrapper. 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. Toning to edges of covers. A good to very good example... 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
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
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. Easily near fine. Square and tight and unmarked. 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: 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, 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
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
