New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature, date & inclusion in the volume. "In this first comprehensive biography of Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), Linda Hamalian reveals a fascinating, enigmatic man riven with contradictions. From a high school dropout, Rexroth transformed himself into a newspaper columnist, painter, dedicated activist, translator, and poet, writing with breathtaking precision on..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownerhsip initials & inclusion in the volume. "Honest- you are behavioristically indistinguishable from any of your harried classmates cher Harvard Club. Do you want to die an early death? And, furthermore, Mr. Laughlin, you are being sucked into the new and exceptionally High International Bohemia....There is nothing New Directions about..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition. “From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trilling to Time magazine–Allen Ginsberg’s work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, those responses–remarks, reviews, and essays–have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams’s early letters of support and ending with James Breslin’s biographical..... 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; 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: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "Kerouac and Friends is more than a collection of photos and articles from the 1950s; it's a loving memoir of the wonderful carefree days when I had nothing to do except go to poetry readings, the Artists' Club, the Living Theatre, and the Cedar Street Tavern...Kerouac and Friends is about the vintage years of the beat generation when..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. It contains all of the poet's long poems...Among the finest of Rexroth's shorter poems are the contemplative lyrics; it now becomes clear as we can read the long poems together and in sequence that he is a philosophical poet of consequence who..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More