Illustrated by Bob Giorgio. North San Juan Ridge, CA: Bob Giorgio, 1979. Limited Edition. 19 1/2" x 20 1/4" Broadside. This is #24/50. Signed by poet Gary Snyder & illustrator/publisher Bob Giorgio. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap. A large, beautiful broadside with a poem by Gary Snyder, living legend of the Beats & beyond, & an illustration of the title creature by Bob Giorgio, who also published this... Item #1677

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. An overview of Gary Snyder's poetry & prose, as well as "the three factors crucial to his works: Buddhism, ecology, and "field-composition" poetics of contemporary free verse. Previous critics have not fully recognized the extent to which these interpenetrate."(back cover). In as new condition, this is an important book-length critical study by a scholar who was a professor at... Item #1552

"Jess" Stinson Beach, CA: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959. Limited First Edition. Staplebound. Jack Spicer (1925-1965) was a leading figure of the San Francisco Renaissance & the west coast Beat movement, increasingly recognized as an influential literary genius almost a half-century after his tragic, early death. This stapled booklet is a very rare item among those produced in his lifetime. Consisting of the title poem, the subject of much speculative study &... Item #1718

Pleasant Valley, NY: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited Edition. 11" x 16" Broadside. This is #98/100. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap. A scarce limited broadside printed by the Kriya Press of Sri Ram Ashrama, featuring the title poem by Jack Spicer (1925-1965), a giant of the San Francisco Renaissance & co-founder of the Six Gallery in that city, where Allen Ginsberg famously read Howl, a big-bang sparking of the... Item #1680

Steadman, Ralph. New York, NY: Summit Books, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. "I, Leonardo is a joy to behold and to read- a contemporary masterpiece. Ralph Steadman- inspired illustrator of the visions of Hunter Thompson and creator of the wonderfully inventive Sigmund Freud- has an obsession called Leonardo Da Vinci. Steadman traveled to Italy to stand in places where Leonardo stood, trying to imagine what it was like to occupy... Item #1499

Talbot, Asheligh (aka Triangle/Slash). Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1996. First Edition. H. Still sealed in shrinkwrap Ashleigh Talbot's work first appeared in privately printed limited editions and some comics. Her drawings of finger-snapping beatniks, jazz musicians and Smoking Beat chicks are amusing and inspirational. Beat Speak is a glossary of Beatnik terms used during the 50s and each defined word like "dig" , "pad", "cop out" and a hundred... Item #1354

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. The Editor of MarioPuzo's The Godfather and hundreds of other famous books, William Targ was a legend of New York book publishing. In this memoir, he gives portraits and insights into the famous authors he has worked with including Allen Ginsberg, Samual Beckett, Saul Bellow, Mario Puzo, W.H. Auden, and many others. Over 400 pages of brutal and honest confessional. Inscribed by... Item #1356

Tokyo, Japan: Fusosha Publishing Co, Spring 1995. First Edition. Soft Cover. A beautifully produced exemplar in magazine format of Japan's fascination with the Beats. Featuring many full-color photographs, many Beat authors. In this second "Visions of Kerouac" issue, Japanese journalists take a trip to Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts (lots of great photos), Michael McClure, David Amram, Japanese Beat-titude music group (mini CD not included) & more . Text in... Item #1358

New York, NY: The Modern Library, 1996. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. "First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the... Item #1360

Marion, OH: Village Voice, 1980 - 1982. First edition. We offer thirty-one original, complete issues of The Village Voice, considered by many the first "underground" newspaper, & still published since the mid-1950s in NYC. A bastion of alternative, countercultural, muckraking journalism with intense concentration on NYC & broader national topics & issues. Always astute on contemporary art, music, literature, film, theatre & all arts & culture phenomenons, each issue is... Item #1602

Boston, MA: E. C. Schirmer Music Company, n/d (circa 2008). First Edition. Spiral Bound. opera in two acts. This is a most unique item, an original libretto for an opera based on the book "Famous for Fifteen Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol" by his "superstar" Ultra Violet, as yet unproduced. It is a copy of the libretto by John Stirling Walker, without musical notations by composer David Conte. Twenty-three... Item #1620

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. William Wantling (1933-1974), ex-Marine, ex-convict & Outlaw Poet, was a writer whose work reflected a Beat sensibility. Only In The Sun is one of 26 lettered copies. Red cloth stamped in black ink, handbound by Michael Curran. One of 8 lettered copies in handbound red cloth slipcase. This is Copy "N". All lettered copies spelling out the poet's surname were... Item #1363