San Francisco, CA: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet. "The paintings can't be explained. The best of them have a certain mystery about them that can't be explained... It is a mysterious process, painting. The figures, the creatures, the face appear 'out of nowhere,' so to speak, messengers or harbingers from some other place or time... I only know they exist in their..... More

Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful book in oblong format, with photographs of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometimes in the company of Beat luminaries including William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, interspersed with his poetry. In very fine condition with only very slight rubbing to dust jacket covers & slight scraping of top & bottom board edges at spine. Very Fine. More

New York, NY: New Directions, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit” (pg. 4). “I am signaling you through the flames,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) writes in the opening line of “Poetry as Insurgent Art,” an..... More

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. “I see this book as in the tradition of D.H. Lawrence’s travels in Italy or Goethe’s Italian journeys….It is as if much of my life were a continuation of my youthful wanderjahr, my walkabout in the world,” writes Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) in “Writing Across the Landscape 1960-2015,” selections from his travel journals. Your Devoted Managing Curator cannot help but reflect..... More

San Francisco, CA: Intersection Coffee Gallery/Amaranth Press, 1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (20"x13") announcing the exhibit "Poems on Paper: An Exhibit of Bay Area Broadsides 1955-1977" which was held at the Intersection Coffee Gallery in San Francisco during March 22-May 5, 1977. Among the poets whose broadsides were exhibited were Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen..... More

Amherst, MA: The Massachusetts Review, Inc., 1998. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the venerable academic-literary journal chiefly edited by Ellen Dore Watson is sub-titled "A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and American Poetry." Published the year following Ginsberg's death, this very special issue features many contributions by & about the Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, including an article on Ginsberg's famous "King of May" episode in Prague during 1965..... More

London, England: Faber and Faber Limited, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. "Chris Challis's interest in the Beat Generation, their literature and their lifestyle, began, like that of many of his contemporaries, as a youthful enthusiasm. That interest developed into a thesis and many critical articles, and led to personal contact or correspondence with many of the Beats themselves. In due course he made the physical and spiritual journey across the United..... 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, 1957. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is there a "literary underground" in America- a group of undiscovered talents in revolt against mass culture, who are already shaping the literature of the future? This new anthology in the well-known series attempts to answer this question with stories, poems, plays and essays, many of them by new writers." (from back cover) A particularly rare & important number..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. "For forty years, the successive volumes of 'New Directions in Prose and Poetry' served as vehicles for the presentation of variant trends in world literature. The latest number in the series is dedicated to the late John Crowe Ransom, a man whose critical perceptions were instrumental in developing the interpretative tools appropriate to modernism" (from Back Cover). Offered here is a...... More

Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Heyday books, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. "What catches Ira Nowinski's eye and what he captures with his lens are people- the beat poets of North Beach, opera divas radiating passion and delighting in adulation, cigar-smoking old Italians, tenant organizers, and an alert shirtless old man in a boxer's stance. These are photographs from three decades that speak eloquently and powerfully about..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1974. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This third number of the literary anthology published by Charles & Pamela Beach Plymell's Cherry Valley Editions features a capsule biographical impression of Charles Plymell by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the great primary poet & publisher of the Beat Generation who has outlived almost all his peers, still active at almost age 97 as of this writing (last entry, untitled..... More

San Francisco, CA: R.H. Miller, 1959. First Printing. Softcover. Here we have a delectable collectible of the first order: approachable, alluring, and containing no less than five bona-fide champions of the San Francisco Renaissance. Volume 1, No. 2 of the San Francisco Review may have flown under the radar, but it comes “ready to play,” to put it mildly. Perhaps the most unique aspect of this issue of the San..... More