San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1972. First UK Edition. Folded Sheets. “William Burroughs lives in a sparsely-furnished flat near Piccadilly, in London. The neighborhood is comfortable, but Burroughs works and lives with a minimum of encumbrances: typewriter, table, plain chairs, bed, books, a cassette machine. Brion Gysin, Burroughs’ friend and long-time collaborator, lives upstairs in surroundings that include Moroccan rugs, a few of Brion’s paintings of Marrakesh and the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features several articles relating to the life & work of Jack Kerouac, a Founding Father of the Beat Generation: "Jack Kerouac and the Dharma Bums" by the great pioneering Kerouac biographer Ann Charters; a short study of an..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited by James Morton, features a lengthy article by John Rupert which parses Kerouac's famous, not always well-understood "Spontaneous Prose" method, with many references, quotes & scholarly footnotes. Also in this issue are more densely informative articles including "W.H.O. On First?," about a mysterious..... More