New York, NY, USA: The Saturday Evening Post Company, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early 1969 number of the venerable, quintessentially American "middlebrow" magazine then-chiefly edited by William A. Emerson Jr. (1923-2009) features a cover article by Martin Mayer (1928-2019), the once-popular & prolific non-fiction author. Entitled "How to Publish 'Dirty' Books for Fun and Profit," this is a profile of Barney Rosset (1922-2012), the Great American Publisher whose..... More

New York, NY, USA: Evergreen Review Inc., 1966. First Edition. Large-Format Softcover. "You are hard and proud, my friend, | Not soft and long like the tongue: | Together we have shared all kinds of bitterness and sweetness, | But now you must go west while I go east." ("Goodbye to a Tooth," Ho Chi Minh, pg. 45). This vintage earlier number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal..... More

New York, NY, USA: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Perfect Bound in Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the story "The Birth, Life and Death of an Underground Newspaper" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar & the racetrack, preceded with an evocative illustration by Peter Bramley (1945-2005), most-acclaimed for..... More

New York, NY, USA: Everrgreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage earlier number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an excerpt from The World of Sex (1940/1956), the critical work by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an inspiration & influence for the Beat Generation. Preceding the excerpt is a facsimile printed page..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958; 1959. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 2 No. 6 (Autumn 1958)- this issue features contributions of poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder & other giants of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York & Black..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 4 No. 13 (May - June 1960)- This issue, titled "What is 'Pataphysics?," is introduced in a "Superliminal Note" by Roger Shattuck, who states seven definitions-principals beginning with " 'Pataphysics is the science of..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an essay on nighttime Paris by one of its foremost authorities, the great proto-Beat mentor Henry Miller, interspersed with classic images of the nocturnal city by Brassai (Gyula Halasz), the acclaimed photographer. Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Beat poet-..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia Express; Episodes from Novia Express" by William S. Burroughs (pgs. 99-109). At this juncture, the first American edition of Naked lunch had not yet been published by Rosset's Grove Press, it would be later that year..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features two episodes from Nova Express by William S. Burroughs ("Gave Proof Through The Night" & "The Fish Poison Con," pgs. 109-116), the high cut-up novel which Rosset's Grove Press would be the first to publish in full the following year (1964). Maynard &..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an excerpt of four chapters from the then-work-in-progress Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, which would later be published in full during 1967 & become a cult classic. Also in this issue is the poem "The Lean Rats on the March" by Anselm Hollo; transcript..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset is distinguished with two very important contributions by William S. Burroughs, Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation & the Patron Saint (or Demon if you prefer) of our enterprise: The short story "My Mother and I Would Like to Know," a post-cut-up, (relatively)..... More