London, England: The Ferry Press, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “It is here in the South End that the Poet lives, where the outcasts of old times swing. No longer Billie Holiday at the Savoy, but Jan Balas still stumbles through the streets at dawn. No longer Malcom X at Mass Avenue on the Roseland Ballroom (that’s gone too). No longer Tremont and Boylston, they’ve moved out to Roxbury;..... More

Buffalo, NY: Duncan McNaughton, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A literary magazine edited by the poet, editor & Mimeograph Revolutionary Duncan McNaughton (b. 1942) featuring works by John Wieners (1934-2002) and several other students, appreciators, & friends of Charles Olson (1910-1970), including Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007) and the Gay Black American poet, Stephen Jonas (1921-1970). In addition to these Olsonians, we have an apportionment of authors affiliated with the New York..... More

Buffalo, NY: Magazine of Further Studies, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The Jafferson Aweplane / I want to be successful in other terms than lives. / Loveliness among these people is no occurence [sic] to me. / to be huddled up / in a ball in the corner of / your room. / In the Pasture / Beauty such as never was mine / Existed here for a day with..... More

San Francisco, CA: Diane di Prima/LeRoi Jones, 1967. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. "night rides | through forest & jungle | where to go | doesn't really matter" (opening stanza, "The A Train," Allen De Loach). Offered today is The Floating Bear: A Newsletter No. 33, published & edited by Diane di Prima (1934-2020, the most primary figure among the sparse female members of the original Beat Generation) with guest editor..... More

Buffalo & Canton, NY: Albert Glover, 1968-2002. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. “Sometime after Charles Olson’s [1910-1970] death in January 1970, I told Jack Clarke I wanted to publish some kind of tribute to Olson. He responded by sending me a copy of “A Plan for a Curriculum of the Soul” which Olson had sent to us for publication in The Magazine of Further Studies No. 5. On the copy Jack had..... More

New York, NY, USA: Brownstone Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. “All the while the lamps were glaring / Poor and bloodied fauntleroy / Whose puny bowel lay drying in his brain / But tell him you are coming in / Already you have slammed / The skull and hobbled / To his room his brutish room / – Your finger in my god-greased ear / Has rooted I must claim..... More

Buffalo, NY: SUM / Fred Wah, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "One does surely belong to Art. There does lie within us / frontiers of Art, assuming shape. Form does belong to some content. There is madness on my mind, assuming shape" (from "The Magic of This Summer / Saturday, June 23, 1963" by the great John Wieners [1934-2002]). Fred Wah’s “SUM” was published in Buffalo, NY just before that..... More

New York, NY, USA: James F. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Since winter froze your flowing summer sound,/ And dried your copper ducts of spring and fall,/ You sheltered four have waited, wrapped and bound/ In ice, for March to loose your muffling shawl./ Though workmen came to clean your eyes and arms/ And brush your sculptured garments smooth of leaves,/ You were not satisfied..... More

San Francisco, CA: Dave Haselwood, 1965. Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “I sit in Lees. At 11:40 PM with / Jimmy the pusher. He teaches me / Ju Ju. Hot on the table before us / shrimp foo yong, rice and mushroom / chow yuke. Up the street under the wheels / of a strange car is his stash — The ritual” (from “A poem for vipers” [sic]). The landmark, debut..... More

Canton, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “As a young prince of the United Kingdom, and as a president in the United States, my prior thought was to consider the general editorship of Vogue magazine in mind to addition my revered, though backward impression of woman, and especial women, who have pleased me, in public and, or in private. First came to my memory Melissa Hayden..... 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

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Bob McNeely; Random House, Inc., 1969; 1972. Original Photograph; First Edition. Photograph over Mount; Hardcover. With description in Allen Ginsberg's hand on verso of photograph. A one-of-a-kind bundle of rarities relating to Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) an original photograph (appx. 9&7/8" x 7&3/4") depicting Ginsberg (1926-1997) in the company of John Wieners (1934-2002) at the Republican National Convention in..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a lengthy, deeply insightful interview with the great Beat Generation- Black Mountain School-associated poet Robert Creeley conducted by Lewis MacAdams Jr. & Linda Wagner, preceded by a facsimile manuscript page of his poem "The Finger" & followed by the complete poem. Also in this issue are contributions..... More