Ann Arbor, MI: Self-Published by the Poet, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by John Allen to James Perrizo. "Putting together a first book of poems is a very strange experience. A most private part of one's life suddenly threatens to become public, at least in a minor sort of way. The temptation to offer up a host of disclaimers and qualifications is strong...The basic reason for this particular..... 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

London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s a new breed of writers gravitated towards Greenwich Village. They were young, radical, idealistic and 'hip,' and their work was shockingly iconoclastic. This was the start of the Beat movement. It has sometimes been dismissed as a minor cultural phenomenon characterized by a bohemian lifestyle and undisciplined expression in poetry, painting and jazz. Rejecting the values..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This late 2005 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features two articles in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's legendary first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in San Francisco by Jonah Raskin & Jack Foley; another on Gregory Corso's life in London by Pamela Hardyment; several..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 85 begins with an incredibly fascinating article from the one and only Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs and John Wieners "Measure" magazine, of which Burroughs nearly was a part of under his cardinal pseudonym "William Lee." An unsuspecting Wieners had not read Burroughs first work, "Junkie," published under William Lee, so turned down the inclusion of..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. First Printing. Wrappers. This latest (as of this writing) & most historic ONE HUNDREDTH issue of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an essay about & mid-1990s interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, written & conducted by Kurt Hemmer, our good friend & esteemed colleague at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), illustrated with photographs. There is..... More

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More

Madison, MN: The Seventies Press, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Robert Bly. The first issue of the literary journal edited & with contributions by Robert Bly, the canonical American poet. A legendary landmark compilation with prose essays & commentaries by Bly & poetry by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg, Spanish Master & Martyr Federico Garcia Lorca (translated into English by Bly), Beat-Surrealist Philip Lamantia, revered Austrian modernist Rainer..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Jack Tilton Gallery; October Gallery in Conjunction with the Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. This art-centric Burroughs-&-Beyond bundle features two art catalogs from the year 1988, a time when Burroughs was immersing himself in painting after the 1986 passing of his dear coconspirator, Brion Gysin. The "Literary Vision" exhibit, which took place at the Jack Tilton Gallery in November of 1988, included photographs..... More

New York, NY: That New Magazine, Inc., 1988. First Printing. Staplebound. This number of the pioneering LGBT magazine is the "Tenth Anniversary Issue" (somewhat confusing as it had been published for more than a decade up to this point). Featuring a portfolio of literary icons by Robert Giard ("Portraits of Gay Writers") including Allen Ginsberg holding up his own portrait of William S. Burroughs, Quentin Crisp, James Purdy, Edmund White..... More

Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This monumental number of the literary journal edited by Allen De Loach combines itself with the equally legendary Floating Bear journal to form the very special "Intrepid-Bear Issue," co-edited & with contributions by Floating Bear founder Diane di Prima. This landmark cornucopia of an issue also features contributions of poetry & prose by Paul Blackburn, Ray Bremser, Anselm Hollo, Robert Kelly..... More

New York, NY: Mulch Press, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. Tom Clark's copy with his ownership signature & marginalia. This vintage number of the venerable literary-critical journal features the first appearance of "The Visions of the Great Rememberer" by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. A memoir of Jack Kerouac & Neal Cassady that takes off from the text of Kerouac's then-recently posthumously published Visions of Cody, this is..... More