Carbondale and Edwardsville: DSouthern Illinois University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 216 pp. Essays on the writings of Ginsberg, Kerouac et al. Boards lightly tapped in a couple of places else a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sudbury: Water Row Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. Quarto. First edition stated. A humorous book of drawings by Talbot. This is one of 100 copies (out of 500 total) that have a SIGNED bookplate afixed to the inside front pastedown. Lightly dust soiled else fine in decorated black cloth binding..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1960. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 252 pp novel. The Scottish author's first novel, a tale of drug addiction. This is the quite uncommon clothbound edition in dustwrapper. Small prior ownership name. A few ink marks and underlinings to text. Spine lettering somewhat dulled, else a very..... More
Sudbury: Water Row Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine press book published in a slender edition of only 50 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. A SIGNED tipped in photograph of Kerouac by George Poirier is present at rear of book as called for. A fine copy in boards, issued without..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Small trade paperbound book. 68 pp. Includes "In Search of Yage (1953)", Seven Years Later (1960)" and Epilogue (1963)". This copy has some unfortunate dampstaining to the edges of the pages and particularly to the rear endpaper. Only a fair to good..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 247 pp. A lesser known "beat" novel. A good copy in good price-intact dustwrapper. More
Niigata, Japan: Blue Jacket Press, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Sold here together are six early issues of Blue Beat Jacket, a Japan-based magazine devoted to poetry and the beat generation. Edited by Yusuke Keida. Text in both English and Japanese. All issues in illustrated stapled wrappers and are all in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of Duberman's biographical dram of the life of Jack Kerouac. A superb copy in dustwrapper. More
Rockville Center: Dutch East India Trading, 1990. First edition. Record LP. 45 rpm spoken word record containing Millions of Images on the "A" Side and The Hipster Be-Bop Junkie on the "B" side. Words by Burroughs and Van Sant with guitar accompaniment. Produced by Tim Kerr. We have not played..... More
New York: A New/Kinda Theatre Company, No date. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Edited by Jerry Benjamin. Scarce first issue (and only?) of this mimeographed magazine devoted to avant garde theatre. N.D. but circa 1964. Features "On The Everyday Theatre" by Brecht, "Liner Notes From Howl and Other Poems" by Ginsberg..... More
Bolinas: Cuneiform Press, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. Limited edition reprint of Berkson's 1971 pamphlet self-published in opposition to a fence in Bolinas, CA. This edition, from 2012, was printed in an edition of only 100 copies by Kyle Sclesinger and Henry Steinberg printed letterpress with photographs reprodcued from the original paste..... More
Berkeley: Gingko Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A fine copy in flexible photo-illustrated boards. Issued without dustwrapper. 202 pp. With photographs by Billy Name, Roberta Bayley, Gerard Malanga and others. With text and photos that tell the story of the New York Underground of the 60's - 80's. This..... More
British Columbia: Northern Comfort Communications, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. A fine copy in dustwrapper. The scarce hardbound edition of this collection of alternative underground cartoons featuring Bode's Cheech Wizard. More
British Columbia: Northern Comfort Communications, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Fine copy in dustwrapper of the rare SIGNED limited edition of Bode's book of cartoons of Cheech Wizard, The Cartoon Messiah. #214 of only 250 copies. Bode died tragically young and did not sign many books. More
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. First combined edition of these three classic early books by Brautigan. Stated first printing. A handsome near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards in a very good example of the dustwrapper. Wrapper has a chip at the upper front..... More
New York: Tompkins Square Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Small decorated hardbound book. Lacking the unprinted paper wrapper. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Photograph by Bob Ellison. Written while Bremser was in New Jersey State prison. Some "bluing" to the last few pages of the book. This copy SIGNED by Bremser..... More
Buffalo: Intrepid Press, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Slender book of beat poetry by Bremser. Published by Allen De Loach. A clean very good copy in printed stapled wrappers. More
Sudbury: Water Row Books, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. Illustrated by Elias Roustom. One of 200 copies SIGNED by the editor and artist. Includes a photograph of Ray by Betsy R. Kirschbaum. Book contains a single long poem by the beat maestro. Near fine condition... More
New York: Paperback Gallery, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this early Beat poet's first book. Near fine in stapled decorated wrappers. This copy inscribed. Signed by Author. More
New York: Paperback Gallery, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this early Beat poet's first book. Near fine in stapled decorated wrappers. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 31 pp. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this very early "Beat Generation " novel. A near fine copy with light wear to spine ends in very good unclipped dustwrapper, slightly faded at spine. Uniquely, this copy is signed by the author and quite scarce as..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, as-new first edition of this memoir by the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney. 244 pp. Rear cover blurbs by Kim Gordon and Miranda July. SIGNED by Brownstein on a special bound in sheet. More
New York: Raw Books and Graphics / Penguin, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. 202 pp. A clean very good or better copy in illustrated bound wrappers. Includes a new chapter in the Maus saga by Spiegelman plus Justin Green, Joost Swarte and others. Underground comix magazine... More
