Iron Horse
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973. First Canadian Edition. Paperback. Oblong bound illustrated wrappers. 52 pp. First Canadian edition. One of 1,000 copies. A handsome very good plus copy. More
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973. First Canadian Edition. Paperback. Oblong bound illustrated wrappers. 52 pp. First Canadian edition. One of 1,000 copies. A handsome very good plus copy. More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1974. First edition thus. Paperback. Oblong bound illustrated wrappers. 52 pp. Stated First City Lights Edition (previously published two years earlier). A clean very good copy. This copy is a PRESENTATION COPY TO FELLOW POET GERARD RIZZA and is dated in 1990 on Staten Island. Rizza..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Pocket paperbound book. 100 pp. First printing, second issue of this poetry collection highlighted by the inclusion of Kaddish. One of Ginsberg's best known poems. In very good condition. This copy has been SIGNED by Ginsberg, dated 1964 and he has added..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Pocket paperbound book. Issued as Pocket Poets Series Number Thirty Five. A very good copy in bound printed wrappers. 123 pp plus bibliographic info at rear of volume. More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Wide pocket paperbound volume. 144 pp. Stated First American Edition. Published as Number Twenty Three in the Pocket Poets Series of books published by Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Light soiling and wear. About very good condition... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Simultaneous first trade paperbound edition. 111 pp. Stated first printing. A volume of poems published as Number Forty in the City Lights Pocket Poet Series of books. A handsome very good plus copy. More
Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press / Guerrilla, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. First separate edition of this 14 pp essay by Ginsberg on the Cuban Revolution. Originally published in an issue of Pa'Lante magazine in 1961. A sharp, clean copy in stapled illustrated wrappers. More
Grindstone City: The Alternative Press, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single sheet broadside poem by Ginsberg. Written at Mabuhay Gardens in May 1977. Published here by The Alternative Press. A fine copy printed on lavender paper stock. Measures approx. 8 x 11" tall. This copy is "mock" signed by..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Pocket paperbound book. 98 pp. First printing. Published as The Pocket Poets Series Number Eighteen. A clean very good example. This copy has been SIGNED by Ginsberg, dated 1964 and he has added an original ink drawing on the title page... More
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: 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: 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
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound format. 111 pp. An anthology of beat writings from the pages of Beatitude Magazine. Originally conceived publication by Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman and John Kelly. Most of the original issues of that magazine have become extraordinarily scarce. This copy of..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 262 pp. First edition, first printing of this memoir of Johnson and her experiences with Kerouac and others from the Beat Era. Gorgeous fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. 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 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