San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1958. First Edition. Folded Sheet. "Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb// Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched-sky I cannot hate you// Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass// The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe// Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone// Ah and the sad desperate gun of..... More

New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1981. First Edition Thus. Softcover. “Gregory Corso is still kicking “the ivory appcart of tyrannical values,” heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso electrified the literary establishment with what he describes as “spontaneous subterranean poesy of the streets,” he has fathered “three fleshed angels,” traveled through Europe and Egypt, seen the demise..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution. The third number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic Beat imprint, City Lights Books. Featuring an article by Richard Shattuck about the great French Surrealist poet & playwright Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918, "Apollinaire's Great Whitman Happening") with a photograph of Apollinaire; Mary Beach's translation from French into..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Signed, placed, dated & inscribed by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution to Richard Cupidi. "We hope we have here an open place where normally apolitical men may speak uncensored upon any subject they feel most hotly & cooly about in a world which politics has made. We are not interested in protecting beings from themselves, we cannot help the deaths..... More

New York, NY, USA: Contact II Publications, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “baby baby what I’m talking about is getting over | you’re no good to me | but in terms of what’s real | I’m talking about grip/touch – put it on the table | and eat it” (First stanza, “Blue Period,” Wanda Coleman, p. 58” Contact/II was an American literary magazine from New York. Established in 1976, the periodical..... More

Potrero, CA: Gorilla Press, 1988. First Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. "The poets in this collection have been called mavericks not to turn them into members of some new school but rather to emphasize that they share a common resistance to the pervasive style of late 20th century verse, with its debilitating preference for the tepid, mannered and opaque. But if the term also implies that the poets gathered here are..... More

San Francisco, CA: Magpie Literary Press, 2008. Limited Second Edition. “Come, my friends,/ ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world./Push off, and sitting well in order smite/The sounding furrows, for my purpose holds/To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths/of all the western stars, until I die./It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;/It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,/And see the great Achilles..... 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

Paris, France: The British Institute, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature, date, ephemera & contribution. "My mind is racing | in the middle of the night | My mind races | through the darkness | of the world | Toward a tunnel of light..." ("Rivers of Light" excerpt, pg. 21) This vintage eleventh number of the venerable turn-of-the-century poetry journal edited..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. First Edition, Review Copy. Hardcover. "When the beat writers emerged from San Francisco in 1956, they succeeded in touching off controversy and discussion throughout America which continue unabated today. Not only their writing,but their nonconformist way of life- with its special interest in jazz, Buddhism, drugs, and squalor- became a subject of general interest, discussed and hotly argued in a wide range..... More

California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This issue of the profound, pioneering anthology series edited by Arthur (1937-2012) & Kit Knight features prose, poems, letters & interviews by & about many of the key original founding figures of the Beat Generation: A letter written by William S. Burroughs dated December 4, 1957 to Jack Kerouac from Tangier; an essay by Carolyn Cassady on myth vs. reality..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968. First American Edition. Softcover. "Solemn Accountants are jumping ship, sir...All of them,/ sir... In the last skimpy surplus, sir... 'Room for one more/ outside, sir' they said and plunged Seventh Teen Age Future/ Molotov Cocktails...Last seen 'swimming desperately in/ sewage..." (William S. Burroughs, "From San Diego Up to Maine," first paragraph, pg. 21) The very first published presentation of cut-up writings..... More

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. “Ah, if I were a dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!”--Gregory Corso, “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters”. Beat poet extraordinaire, Gregory Corso (1930–2001) is a writer who is woefully underrated, and often overshadowed by his contemporaries (Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac). Known primarily for his poetry as poems that are controlled by an authentic, distinctive, and enormously effective voice that can range from..... More