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51.
An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles

New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. This is a fine, comprehensive biography of the elusive, legendary writer & composer Paul Bowles, who was sought out by & famously influenced William S. Burroughs, the other primary Beat writers and many others as an expatriate in Tangier, Morocco. Indeed, the title is reminiscent of the name given to WSB by Tangier locals when he lived there as... Item #1023

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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
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Conversations With Paul Bowles

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. Sealed in Shrinkwrap First trade edition, still shrinkwrapped, edited by Gena Dagel Caponi. This book offers deep insights, in his own words, into the mind of the aloof & enigmatic literary legend Paul Bowles, whose life & haunting writings greatly influenced the Beat Generation & many others. As New. Item #1024

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Conversations With Paul Bowles
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Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. An acclaimed biography of Paul Bowles, author, musician & composer. As New. Item #1025

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Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage
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The Time of Friendship

Zurich, Switzerland: Vittorio Santaro, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. With a preface by the author & photographs by Vittorio Santoro. First edition. One of 1500 copies issued. Issued without dust jacket. Fine. Item #1026

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The Time of Friendship
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The Pelcari Project

Tiburon, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1997. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Author and Translator. Rey Rosa's first full-length Novella - Translated from the Spanish & Afterword by Paul Bowles. Bilingual edition with Spanish on left pages & English translation on right pages. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Rey Rosa & Paul Bowles, this is #20/150. Red cloth. Dust jacket has crease on front flap. Near Mint. Item #1027

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The Pelcari Project
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The Pelcari Project (Carcel De Arboles)

Tiburon, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1997. First American Edition. Soft Cover. This is the first softcover edition of #1027, Translated by Paul Bowles. Near Mint. Item #1028

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The Pelcari Project (Carcel De Arboles)
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Looking For Minerals

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1975. First Edition. Stapled. A collection of poems published by Charles Plymell's Cherry Valley Editions. A seminal countercultural figure, Plymell is the pioneering underground publisher of the first Zap Comix featuring Robert Crumb, author of many important works & cohort of the Beats. He & his wife, Pamela Beach Plymell, created this imprint, of which this is an early publication. Very Fine. Item #1029

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Looking For Minerals
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For Love of Ray

London, England: London Magazine Editions, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. The true story of Bonnie Bremser's experience in Mexico during the imprisonment of her husband, the Beat poet Ray Bremser. Book in fine condition, slight wear to top edges of dj. Fine. Item #1030

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For Love of Ray
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The Village Scene

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First Edition. Hand-sewn Wrappers. Signed by Author An autobiographical prose piece by the wife of Beat poet Ray Bremser. Sex, Drugs, and the Beat Generation all converge in Greenwich Village in New York City, 1960. 8 pages, + foldout 4-page poem. Also includes an illustration of a vintage couple. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, Bonnie Frazer (aka Bonnie Bremser) (total... Item #1031

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The Village Scene
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Black is Black Blues

Buffalo, NY: Interpid Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Author One long jazz poem by the Beat poet Ray Bremser. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Ray Bremser (total run 1000 copies), this is copy #28/100. Very Fine. Item #1032

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Black is Black Blues
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Born Again

Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books, 1985. First edition. Stapled sheets. The first separate edition of one of Ray Bremser's most well-known poems, as recited at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO in 1982. Previously published among other contributions in the journal New Blood in 1983. One of 250 copies, no sequence #. A most rare Bremser item, in fine condition except for light creasing to upper & lower left... Item #1421

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Born Again
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The Conquerors

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1998. First Edition. H. Published just before Ray Bremser's death in 1998, this beautifully produced volume contains 3 jazz poems. The titular poem is the newest work, the other 2 were written years earlier. One of 100 editions signed by the poet, this is #58/100. As New. Item #1033

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The Conquerors
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The Dying of Children

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1999. First Edition. H. Signed by publisher & printer The Dying of Children was written by Beat Jazz poet, Ray Bremser, while behind bars at the Bordentown Reformatory for armed robbery. A long poem written when Bremser was only twenty-two years old, The Dying of Children was published only once previously in the prison print shop and all copies but one were destroyed by the... Item #1034

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The Dying of Children
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Hunger Magazine, Vol. 2, #2, Issue 5

Rosendale, NY: J. J. Blickstein, 1999. First edition. Stapled Periodical. This issue of the Hudson Valley, NY poetry journal features a 12-page Ray Bremser memorial section, "Ray Bremser 1934-1998" with contributions by Charles Plymell, Herschel Silverman, Janine Pommy Vega & others, including an excerpt from Bremser's "Blowing Mouth." As New. Item #1507

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Hunger Magazine, Vol. 2, #2, Issue 5
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Cat Digging Walls

Ventura, CA: X-Ray Book Co, 2005. Limited First Edition. Broadside. CAT DIGGING WALLS by legendary Beat Jazz poet, RAY BREMSER - A limited edition poetry broadside measuring 5" x 7" and printed letterpress on card stock by Master Printer Johnny Brewton at the X-Ray Book Company. Issued in April 2005 as a selection in the Broadside of the Month series from X-Ray Book Company in an edition of 100 copies... Item #1035

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Cat Digging Walls
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Die Eroberer

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2005. First German Edition. Stapled Wrappers. German translation of Ray Bremser's final volume of poetry, The Conquerors. With an introduction by Charles Plymell, & an afterword by Mikhail Horowitz (an essay in tribute to Bremser written just after his death in 1998). All texts in German. As New. Item #1508

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Die Eroberer
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Gedichte vom Wahnsinn & Angel

Ostheim/Rohn, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2009. First German Edition. Softcover. German translation of Ray Bremser's "Poems of Madness & Angel." With an afterword by Charles Plymell, "Bremser's Back Beat." All texts in German. This copy includes a handwritten card from the publisher, Peter Engstler, to Water Row Press publisher Jeffrey Weinberg, about the book. A great Bremser rarity with significant provenance. As New. Item #1509

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Gedichte vom Wahnsinn & Angel
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The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. "What happens when a young history professor and a philosopher-trucker with a custom-fitted "majic bus" take seventeen undergraduates across America in a learning-adventure-on-wheels?"(front flap) This early work by Douglas Brinkley, who has gone on to become a premier Beat & American cultural historical writer, chronicles this adventure undertaken in the spirit of an On-the-Roadesque cross-continental quest. Among those visited... Item #1571

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The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
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Who Walk in Darkness

New York, NY: Herodias, Inc. 2000. First edition thus. Softcover. First published in 1952 in an expurgated edition, this is the first Herodias Classics Edition, with the "unrepentant, unexpurgated" text of later printings of this underground novel, which "brought a French existentialist sensibility to (the) American malaise" as described by Steven Moore in his forward to this edition. Roughly concurrent with the Beat & other writings that took the lid... Item #1572

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Who Walk in Darkness
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Over the Rainbow? Hardly: Collected Short Seizures

Northville, MI: Sun Dog Press, 2005. First edition. Softcover. "Though best known as the author of two of the earliest Beat novels (Who Walk in Darkness and The Bold Saboteurs), Chandler Brossard (1922-93) displayed his exuberant imagination best in the shorter works he wrote during the second half of his life, all of which are collected here."(back cover) This volume is edited & with an introduction by Steven Moore, who... Item #1573

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Over the Rainbow? Hardly: Collected Short Seizures
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Insanity

Columbus, OH: Buchenroth Publishing Company, 1998. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. An anthology of poetry & prose by the writer who "...has intensely read and exhaustively researched American Literature effectively his entire life- most manifestly, American Beat era literature." (back cover) So intensely that he underwent "a transformational embodiment" & "coalesced into a participant." With an introduction by the great author & publisher Charles Plymell. A softcover original in very... Item #1422

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Insanity
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Four Beats Diverged in Ginsberg's Woods

Columbus, OH: Buchenroth Publishing Company, 1998. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. 4 page pamphlet with poem about a trip in Cherry Valley, NY, Ray Bremser's Memorial, Allen Ginsberg's farm, and a bunch of old Beats. (B-222). Near Mint. Item #1036

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Four Beats Diverged in Ginsberg's Woods
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Pixie Meat

Charles Burns and Gary Panter. Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1990. First Edition. I. Signed by Author and Illustrator, in a unique Folio cover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pixie Meat is a stunning book to behold- with captivating artwork by two of the comic art world's best artists and help with the text from novelist Tom Dehaven. Limited to 226 copies total, 200 numbered copies originally for... Item #1037

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Pixie Meat
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Speed

New York: Olympia Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. A look at the "methedrine universe" of William Burroughs Jr., the ill-fated son of William S. Burroughs. A chronicle of the author's experiences, impressions & struggles with the drug which his mother was severely addicted to and passed onto him at birth. A classic work and a cornerstone in any Neo-Beat collection. The true first edition, published by the U.S. branch of... Item #1084

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Speed
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La macchina morbida

William S. Burroughs, 2003. Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2003. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. This Italian translation of The Soft Machine is the first edition issued by this publisher, & is therefore a first edition thus. First published by Olympia Press in Paris in 1961, TSM is another high cut-up production in the wake of Naked Lunch, influenced by Brion Gysin's observation that "writing is fifty years behind painting" in... Item #1611

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La macchina morbida

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