New York, NY, USA: Brian Jacobs, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Inscribed, signed & dated by Amiri Baraka to Brian Jacobs. “Revolutionary poetry is poetry expressing 1st as content and then most effectively as form, the ideology, stance & practice of revolution. Direct & complete social (and as political and economic and cultural change. That is to change society by changing human relations within the society and by so doing..... More

La Jolla, CA: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. First Edition. Single Sheet. “The Floating Bear is one of the most important and also one of the most elusive of all the hundreds of “little magazines” of the sixties. Edited by Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones for free distribution by mailing list, it published many of the best American writers during nearly the entire decade. A list of only the most frequent..... More

London, England, UK: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., 1966. First British Edition. Hardcover. "You've done everything you said you wdn't. Everything you said you despise. A fat mind, lying to itself. Unmoving like some lump in front of a window. Wife, child, house, city, clawing at your gentlest parts. Romance become just sad tinny lies. And your head full of them......" (front flap). The System of Dante's Hell is a short..... More

San Francisco, CA: Diane di Prima, 1969. First Printing. Staplebound. "O RIGHTFULL FATHER OF OURS | FOREVER FOREVER LUCIFER | OF THE HIGHEST OF POWER IN MIND | WE SHALL WORK AS IF IT WERE PLAY | FOR HERE WE ARE FOUR REAL | "HELLS ANGELS" | TORMENTING THE LOST AND WORTHLESS | SOULS OF THE FRIGHTENED PEOPLE | "GIVE US YOUR SPIRIT, OUR SOULS DELIGHT" | "FOREVER" "FOREVER" |..... More

New York, NY: Floating Bear, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage later number of the legendary literary journal then-published & edited by Diane di Prima (1934-2020, the most primary figure among the sparse female members of the original Beat Generation) features poems by Philip Lamantia (1927-2005); the Gay Black American poet, Stephen Jonas (1921-1970); the Black Mountain College-affiliated poet, Michael Rumaker (1932-2019); and several notable others. A classic issue..... More

New York, NY, USA: Floating Bear, 1962. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "Who am I to love | so deeply? As against | a heavy darkness, pressed | against my eyes. Wetting | my face, a constant trembling | rain." (first stanza, LeRoi JonesFootnote to a Pretentious Book, unpaginated). The Floating Bear, founded and edited by Diane di Prima (1934-2020) and LeRoi Jones (1934-2014, a/k/a Amiri Baraka), started in February 1961..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale Literary Society, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. “Now there is a Love of which Dante does not speak unkindly / Tho it grieves his heart to think upon men / who lust after men and run / –his beloved Master, Brunetto Latini, among them– / Where the roaring waters of hell’s rivers / Come, heard as if muted in the distance, / like the hum of bees..... More

New York, NY: Yugen, 1960. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Amiri Baraka, Michael McClure, Hubert Selby Jr., and Kenneth Koch. (McNeil C75-C78, p.124 in “Gary Snyder: A Bibliography”; Charters C78, p. 60 in “A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac”). “‘Merde!’ screams Rimbaud / at Verlaine salons --- / Gossip in Paris---Verlaine Wife / is jealous of a boy / with no seats to his trousers / ---Love sends..... More

New York, NY, USA: Evergreen Review Inc., 1966. First Edition. Large-Format Softcover. "You are hard and proud, my friend, | Not soft and long like the tongue: | Together we have shared all kinds of bitterness and sweetness, | But now you must go west while I go east." ("Goodbye to a Tooth," Ho Chi Minh, pg. 45). This vintage earlier number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal..... More

New York, NY: The Floating Bear, 1965. First Printing. Diane di Prima (1934-2020) founded the semi-monthly journal "The Floating Bear," with LeRoi Jones (1934-2014), in 1961 in New York, publishing 16 issues in its first year and leading to the arrest of Jones for distributing obscene materials through the mail. Jones' play "The System of Dante's Hell" and William S. Burroughs' "The Routine" in issue No. 9 were the subject..... More

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal is subtitled "The Music Issue," & features many scholarly, critical essays & memoirs relating to this subject by noted writers: An essay, "Memphis to Memphis," on that city's rich musical history by Albert Goldman, biographer of Lenny Bruce & (controversially) Elvis Presley; the memoir "Up Close and Personal: Miles Davis and Me" by Quincy..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 4 No. 11 (January-February 1960)- this issue features William S. Burroughs' "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness," the classic essay that went on to serve as a fore- or afterword to most editions of WSB's..... More

London, England, UK: Villiers Publications Ltd., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. "The editors of NOMAD are pleased to present materials from the poets of the New York avant-garde. The erosion of history is everywhere evident yet New York continues to maintain the richest of literary environments: it is our hope that the poets of the present issue will illustrate this conclusion." (from introductory statement by co-editor Anthony Linick, pg. 4) This..... More