Dunsyre, Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Linked Folded Sheets. Signed by Ian Hamilton Finlay. A volume of “poems” (sparse rhymes about boats and the sea) produced by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), a legendary poet who was born the Bahamas and is affiliated with Concrete Poetry & his pioneering literary magazine, Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. POTH was published by the Wild Hawthorne Press, which was founded & helmed..... More

Salt Lake City, UT, USA: n/p, 1969. First Edition. Single Sheet. American glass artist Marvin Lipofsky (1938-2016) was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, introducing it to California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. This poster for a 1969 exhibition of Lipofsky’s California Loop Series comes from the collection of Lipofsky himself, procured by us through an auction..... More

New Westminster, B.C., Canada: Douglas College, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. This early number of the academic literary-art-cultural journal published at Douglas College in British Columbia & then-edited by David Evanier (the now-noted American author & biographer) features the exemplary poem "Hot" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the great American cult favorite poet-denizen of the dive bar & racetrack, preceded by a contemporary portrait illustration of Bukowski by V. Dini Evanier, presumably..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2025. First Printing. Perfect Bound. This latest (as of this writing) number of the indispensable magazine-format literary journal dedicated to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features several important pieces on our Iconic-Favorite-Of-Them-All, William S. Burroughs: An insightful essay on WSB by Lem Coley that was originally published in 1977; & a 1978 interview conducted by..... More

New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. “[I]t is a relatively selective study, focusing on specific aspects of this extraordinary man’s life that reveal a Benjamin Franklin who is different in important ways from the Franklin of our inherited common understanding,” (preface). In the two-hundred-some years since Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790) died, he has been oversimplified in the minds of Americans, according to Gordon Wood (b. 1933). Many..... More

New York, NY: American Theatre for Poets, 1965. First Printing. Folded Single Sheets. During the course of our bibliographic research on this item, — and prior to arriving at the state of curatorial surety in which you, the interested party or prospective buyer find it in, one among those upturned rocks would yield a way to date it. Attached to this curation is a scanned photograph of a clipping from..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by author Gordon Ball. This is Number 13 in The Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK. The author, Gordon Ball, is a photographer & filmmaker who was a friend & associate of Allen Ginsberg & other Beat Generation literary lights (he was even portentously born in Paterson, NJ, also Ginsberg's..... More

London, England: Allen Lane/ Penguin Books Ltd, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "The personality and career of General (Charles) Gordon were extraordinary even among those of Victorian heroes of Empire. He went from Sebastopol and the Redan to action against Chinese rebels and East African slavers; from governorships and commands all over Africa to the Sudan and finally to that unnecessary death by the Nile...What drove him? Imperialism, religion, ambition, do-goodery..... More

London, England; New York, NY: The Transatlantic Review, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. A vintage double number of the acclaimed literary review, a joint production of the UK & USA chiefly edited by J.F. McCrindle. Featuring transcript of a tape-recorded conversation between Beat Generation Founding Father Jack Kerouac & his partner-muse in itinerant adventure Neal Cassady, conducted during 1952, typed by Kerouac & entitled "First Night of the Tapes". William S...... More