San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Magazine, 1975. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Counted first among the quite-nearly nonpareil rarities of the Second San Francisco Renaissance is this issue — No. 21 — of Beatitude Magazine, which was founded by Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) & John Kelly in 1959. Its founding, heavily influenced by Allen Ginsberg, was something of an annunciation for what it meant to be “Beat.” While Jack Kerouac and Herbert Huncke..... More

San Francisco, CA: Love Lights, 1975. First Printing. Folded Single Sheets. Offered here is Vol. 3, Issue 44 of David Moe’s Love Lights magazine, of which little is known. The late American post-Beat poet, Andy Clausen (1943-2024), however — who commiserated & toured beside the original giants of the Beat Generation, along with their related colleagues & progeny, since the late 1960s — wrote of Love Lights in his memoir..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2001. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2001 number of the indispensable Beat Generation-devoted magazine-format literary journal edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features tributes to the great primary Beat poet Gregory Corso, who passed away earlier that year, by Pauline Reeves, Vojo Sindolic & Michael Skau; along with several theretofore unpublished poems by Corso himself. Also in this..... More

Niigata, Japan: Blue Jacket Press, 1988. First Printing. Stringbound in Wraps. This issue of the rare Japanese Beat-devoted literary periodical "...featuring Beat and Post-Beat Independent and modern writings" edited by Yusuke Keida is partially a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, who had died on April 5 of the previous year. The magazine contains (among many other things) an excellent and intimately-revealing essay titled: "Naked Awareness" by Michael White, in which White..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage mid-1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features the transcript of a telephone interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ron Whitehead on June 19, 1996, slightly over a year before WSB's death. Also in this issue, an obituary of & the final interview with Jan Kerouac, Jack's..... More

Sanjo-Shi, Niigata: Japan: Blue Beat Jacket / Yusuke Keida, 2002. Limited First Printing. String-Bound. "This issue is Lawrence Ferlinghetti special from the Vojo Sindolic Beat Archive, Dubrovnik in R. Croatia. ... Ferlinghetti poems, his photos, drawings & the poet's 'statement for "BBJ" came from Vojo. But we found some of them unpublished so left them off. Last April (of 2001) Ferlinghetti sent us two broadsides with a card (pg. 2)..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Joshua Johnson, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "There are poets who like/ To dance with words/ But dancing for an audience/ Isn't like moving to the/ Music on your own/ Stirring the notes of the soul" (first stanza, "Dancing with Words" by A.D. Winans, pg. 40) This first number of the poetry journal edited & occasionally published by Joshua Johnson includes contributions by Dan Fante (friend..... More

Santa Monica, CA: Earth Books, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the literary journal published & edited by the late Santa Monica poet Steve Richmond (1941-2009) features three contributions by his famous associate, the Beat-&-Beyond Sui Generis Charles Bukowski, including the poem "like blasted apart by a bomb with the first breath" & the short story "about the destruction of a tail fin." Also contributions of poetry by fellow..... More

Leesburg, VA: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2002. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Whispers From Hell, a collection of poems by San Francisco legend A.D. Winans, is the first book from Bottle of Smoke Press. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Winans. This is copy #53/100. As New. More

Rockford, MI: Presa Press, 2005. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & Inscribed by A.D. Winans to Legendary Literary Outlaw, Charles Plymell. “Your Panama war poems resonate for me more powerfully and memorably than any war poems I have read, including WW1 poets like Rupert Brooks and Wilfred Owen,” wrote the legendary author of “Beat Hotel,” Harold Norse (1916-2009) to the legendary San Francisco poet, A.D. Winans (b. 1936). The publication..... More

North Salem, NY; San Francisco, CA: Bottle Of Smoke Press; Second Coming Press, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by A.D. Winans to Charles Plymell An exemplary poem by the great American Beat-&-Beyond poet, prose writer & publisher who is so associated with San Francisco & its literary Renaissance(s) that he can indeed proclaim he IS that city. As noted in colophon, this is one of only..... More