San Francisco, CA: The Beckett Players, 1977. Folded Single Sheets. Offered here are two pamphlets/programs given to attendees of stagings of works by Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), with one dedicated entirely to Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Initially composed in French, first published in September of 1952, & first performed the following month (on October 17th, to be specific), “the reviewers were kind, contrary to later legend” as one commentator put it..... More

Berkeley, CA, USA: Oyez Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed, dated, and signed by Samuel Charters to William “Bill” Everson. “As I stand, look out / this window, this place / I feel, this moment, the sense / of being / in this place, / that it is as I stand here / that I become defined / become real…” (lines 1-8) Samuel Charters (1929-2015) was a legendary..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by Samuel Charters to William Everson a/k/a Brother Antoninus "Of those who died/ I knew so little./ They had been only voices,/ voices in a conversation,/ only faces that I looked up into/ as the men sat thin and sunburned/ in the stuffy rooms/ talking to someone else." (first lines, Part I, pg. 1) A five-part poem by Samuel..... More

N/P: N/P, N/D. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Samuel Frude(?). A print of a detailed black and white drawing that splits a person's (actress Paige Turco?) face into two halves, with the top half appearing as a reflection in rippling water, creating a surrealistic, dream-like effect, by "Samuel Th. Frude" (to the best of our interpretation), though whomever he was he was presumably a friend of Albert Glover’s, or..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Bear Claw Press, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. “What happens in the world? The world’s not made up of things, and names aren’t things either, and the mystery is, how do events and names cross paths and marry? Howard Norman’s naming poems step out of the dreamtime, the time of creation, when everything spoke to each other. They are each a glimpse into the teachings of the old..... More

Wilson, NC: Loblolly Press, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the North Carolina literary journal chiefly edited by Tom Braswell features an essay, "Back Country Poet," by Gary Snyder (b. 1930), the Great Beat Generation- San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond poet-environmentalist who is still with us at age 94 as of this writing, & has taken his place in the canon of the Library of America. As noted preceding this most-enlightening..... More

New York, NY, USA: Two Worlds Publishing, 1926. Limited First Edition. We are excited to offer the March, 1926 issue of Two Worlds Vol. 1 No. 3. The incredibly rare, short lived literary journal was "a literary quarterly devoted to the increase of the gaiety of nations", published in the 1920s. First published in 1925, Two Worlds only ran until 1927, publishing 8 issues in all in two volumes. A...... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2001. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2001 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an extensive special section about City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic San Francisco bookstore & publisher, with a main article by Ring(?) & memoirs by David Amram, Ianthe Brautigan (Richard's daughter), Ann & Samuel Charters, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure..... More

New York, NY: Portents, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. A very early volume of poetry by Sam Charters, blues & jazz historian, musician, poet & husband of Ann Charters, the Beat Generation authority & pioneering biographer of Jack Kerouac. Each poem is named after an actual historic prize fighter &/or fight ("Sonny Liston, against Cassius Clay," etc.) With reproductions of old boxing illustrations & engravings, including on front cover. An attractively..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1969. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. A volume of untitled poems by Samuel Charters, noted blues-jazz historian, musician & poet who is married to Ann Charters, Beat Generation authority & pioneering biographer of Jack Kerouac. With photograph of the poet gazing out a window reproduced on front (detail) & back (in full) covers taken by Ann Charters; & dedication to the late Peter Howard, founder & proprietor of..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Printing. Softcover. An early vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint. With Embers (A Play for Radio) by the canonical existentialist playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), & "Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl" by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Black-Mountain-&-Beyond..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. 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. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "Samuel Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable- and largely overlooked- influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on..... More