New York, NY: Stroker Magazine, 1977. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Alexander Kohav & Irvin Stettner. "Alexandr [sic] Kohav was the discovery and the translation partner of Jack Hirschman. He showed up in San Francisco in 1975, I think. He and Jack began working on translations of various Russian Futurist poets, as well as translating Kohav's poems into English and some of Jack's poems into Russian. From the time..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. The brain-child of Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), one of the most important–and most original–poets of the twentieth century, Beatitude has been a staple of San Francisco poetry for decades–going so far as to transcend the Bay Area and have a not insignificant impact on the literary world writ large. A legion of poets have manned the helm since Bob initially conceived of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1981. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a "20 Page Henry Miller Section" (front cover, pgs. 20-39) with facsimile holograph letters from & to Miller (1891-1980, the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an influence & inspiration to the Beat Generation), facsimile typewritten Miller letters, an..... More

New York, NY: Stroker, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “I have not mentioned the real villain, the television set. This hypnotic form of idiocy really has the country by the balls. Our television, or the fare offered, is both the best and the worst. Anything for a buck, as the saying goes. And it is in front of these sets that our youth receives its real education. Over a hundred..... More

New York, NY, USA: Thomas Birchard & Irving Stettner, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features transcripts of two vintage-1979 letters to Stettner by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an influence & inspiration to the Beat Generation, with one of the letters also printed in autograph..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1993. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Indeed, life is a...... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker, 1995. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literay-cultural-art Journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a deep, variously insightful later discussion/interview with Paul Bowles (1910-1999), the Great American-expatriate Beat-&-Beyond author & composer, conducted by Charles Sheldon during June 15, 1993 at Bowles' home in Tangier, Morocco (pgs. 6-13). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry, prose & illustration..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker Magazine, 1987. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Presented here is issue 35 of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) featuring (as does almost every issue in this series) contributions by Henry Miller (1891-1980). Other contributions include “Prose, Poems and Ink drawings: selected from Stroker back issues, plus new work” from habitual contributor Tommy Trantino (b.1938); a letter from..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1979. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Shifreen & Jackson, C634-C638, p. 826). In the late 1970s, Henry Miller (1891-1980) wrote the following adulatory passage to Irving Stettner (1922-2004), the great Brooklyn, NY-born poet, publisher, and watercolorist: “It makes me feel good to know there is a comparatively unknown little magazine in the heart of Second Avenue (ghetto to the world) in which l am granted full..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1981. First Edition. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” Henry Miller. “Stroker” was a magazine of literature and arts that ran from 1974 to 1994. It was published from New York – and later from Nagano, Japan – by American artist and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004). Stettner, a friend of Henry Miller’s..... More

New York, NY: Stroker, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “Dear Irv — Got your lovely water color yesterday. […] Did I tell you my son quit work as my general manager and now has also refused to be an executor of my estate when I die? Gave me a little upset at first — but I made three jolly watercolors anyway. Your latest is a dance, une danse joyeuse, avec..... More

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1995. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Dear Irving Stettner: / Do you think there is a good reason, perhaps even a better on these days, for artists to flee to Europe in order to do what they feel they must? Why is it that North America seems more and more repressive upon the spirit, turning us into the equivalent of waste-packaging, to be either tossed by the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This "50th Anniversary Issue!" (front cover, first contents page) number of the literary-cultural-art journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features the poem "Where To Put It" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) the cult-favorite Patron Saint-poet of the dive bar & the racetrack (pgs. 3-4; Debritto, B1672, pg. 392). An exhiliratingly exemplary contrarian Jeremiad, each line..... More