London, England, UK: Writers' Forum, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Sheets in Stiff Wrappers. With apparent hand-corrections by Keith Musgrove &/or Jeff Nuttall. A very rare & riveting work by English anarchist & poet Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004), a key figure in the roiling counterculture of the UK during the 1960s, and the mysterious Keith Musgrove. Involved in many arts & endeavors, Nuttall is best-known to Beat Generation devotees for..... More

Brighton, England: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “bloodgaze / light through the skin of a thumbsmudge” begins this selection of of poetic journal excerpts from the great Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004), the poet, publisher & Jazz musician who was a legendarily larger-than-life figure in the British 1960s counterculture. For our Third Mind-Burroughsian purposes, Nuttall is most notable to us for his mid-1960s My Own Mag series which he edited..... More

Brighton, England UK: Unicorn Books, 1969. Limited First Edition. Sewn Sheets. Signed by Jeff Nuttall, & with hand-corrections presumably by him. "When it had all been told/ (Afternoon was a virgin/ Drunk and sleeping in the overloaded trees)// When the bitter core was bared/ (Distant road was a mumbling cordon of hornets winking their chrome)// When the long-dead dramas were interred,/ (Sky was empty as an Easter Tomb)// The still..... More

London, England, UK: Writers Forum, 1968. Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "MR WATKINS GOT DRUNK AND HAD TO/ BE CARRIED HOME..."/ a party piece: date 1st Feb. 1964./ SCISSORMAN: JEFF NUTTAL/ from an idea by WILLIAM BURROUGHS/ GUESTS as opposite wrote their own forecasts of/ what would happen PLUS accounts in advance from/ pupils of Ravenscroft School A TAPE RECORDER recorded or did not record the proceedings/ the creative CUTUPRY was..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. “At the back of the house (trodden-in plaster on hall lino 20s jazz-modern geometric pattern in browns) was the suds yard (soap slime on the grate grid) — decent brick and the flags and nurtured bunch-grass growing from grit all smelling bland and carbolic of soap, those king foetal slimes, smell of a fat mam’s hands — Pears Soap ovals of..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1970. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "I had a session with Mel Davies and his group in Mel's living room. I read my poems while Mel and the others played. They played continuously, enfuelling one another's ideas as they always do, and I had to read all my poems without break or obtrusive announcement. We taped the session and played it back and I saw that..... 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

Sunderland, England: Ceolfrith Press, 1974. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The fact that language doesn’t appear before us in properly ordered sentences in no way denies content or intent in his work. Cobbing is working in the language behind the language where there is an effective expression of what Eric Mottram calls ‘human sound emotions.’ Brion Gysin in the collection The Exterminator (1960) and Jean Dubuffet in some of his paintings..... More

Birmingham, England, UK: B.M.C. Press, 1969. First Printing. String-bound Single Sheets. This enormously intriguing small press assemblage, edited by Richard Miller and Alvin Stinton, features poetry, artworks, and incendiary prose by the great English King of the Mimeograph Revolution, Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004) & several others. While we don’t know all that much about this issue of Blackcountry Meat, we do know it is one of the rarest publications of the..... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This Spring 2018 number of the essential magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in San..... More

London, England: Love Books / Barry Miles, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Plymell. Long Hair Number 1 was published in 1965 by Love Books in London by Barry Miles, manager of the Indica Bookshop & Gallery in London & later bibliographer & biographer of William S. Burroughs. This quintessential counterculture publication contains contributions from a panoply of notable Beat & New York poets. As the title portends, "Long..... More

London, England: Aloes Books, 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is it Jackson that hates women? What was it causing him all his pain? And who is the murderer? And who are the victims?"(from back cover) One of a first edition of 1,000 softcover copies, a dizzying, disturbingly wacky story by Jeff Nuttall. Polymath, anarchist, literary agent provocateur, he is best known by Beat Generation aficionados for his self-published run of..... More