Canton, NY: Saint Lawrence University, c. 1980s-1990s. Loose Sheets. A series of published and unpublished scholarly materials regarding Gary Snyder (b. 1930), the canonical Beat Generation/San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond American poet & environmentalist who is still with us & active as of this writing at age 95, & whose works have been enshrined in the Library of America series. This lot includes, among other things, an essay by one Theodosia H. Grayson..... More

London, England, UK: Fulcrum Press, 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. “America five hundred years ago was clouds of birds, miles of bison, endless forests and grass and clear water. Today it is the tired ground of the world’s’ dominant culture. Only Americans and a few western Europeans have lived with industry and the modern mass so long – the Africans and Chinese are fascinated children. There is not much wilderness..... More

Washington DC: counterpoint, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "This monumental collection gathers the essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations of one of the most influential voices of the twentieth century. Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades- prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, earth-householder, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat scene that first brought his work to the public ear..... More

London, England: Fulcrum Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. (McNeil, A13, pp. 24-28). Offered here is the first official “selected poems” by the great American poet, Gary Snyder (b. 1930), whose foundational contributions to the Beat literary project, as well as his ground-floor involvement in the San Francisco Renaissance, is well-documented. Gary has, and likely will always remain, the ‘safe’ Beat to like: his deep erudition, legacy of environmental foresight, and..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "I wanted a good place to settle:/ Cold Mountain would be safe./ Light wind in a hidden pine-/ Listen close-the sound gets better./ Under it a gray-haired man/ Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao./ For ten years I haven't gone back home/ I've even forgotten the way by which I came." (No. 5, "Twenty-Four Poems by..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations- harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred, and intimate in this world- move from the admission that Snyder's mother was a devout atheist to his..... More

Washington, DC: The National Observer, 1966. First Printing. Single Sheet. “The continuing development here of what its practitioners call “The New American Poetry” is surely one of the major untold stories of our time. That a movement so serious, so vital, and so accomplished should remain, years after its inception, largely unknown to most people and misunderstood by others is surprising. Comparable postwar developments in the arts—abstract expressionism, black humor..... More

San Francisco, CA: Planet Drum Foundation, 1979. First Edition. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage number (Volume 1, Number 1) of the newspaper-format cultural-environmental journal published by the Planet Drum Foundation features, among other things two extremely unique appearances by figures relating to the Beat Generation. The first is to be expected, in some sense: as it relates to everything that we as Beat scholars know about Gary Snyder (b. 1930)..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Planet Drum Foundation, 1983. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage number (Volume 8) of the newspaper-format cultural-environmental journal published by the Planet Drum Foundation features, among other contributions, a lengthy, important article from by Peter Berg (1934-2011) titled “More Than Just Saving What’s Left.” Berg, a major Bioregionalist was affiliated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Diggers in the mid-to-late 1960s. Bioregionalism, for..... More

Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1967. First Edition. "He was trusting and did not expect to be harmed. He believed in men and hoped in them. The light never went out in him, not even at the last moment, the light that, more than anything else, made him die tragically with his eyes open" (Meeting Miguel Hernandez, pg. 42). This vintage number of the literary journal edited & with contributions..... More

London, England, UK: Poets' and Painters' Press, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. “1. We go sailing on the black road toward death, | Slipping over the ice! | The dark days end, clumps of darkness | hanging in the trees, | And we notice nothing! 2. The hours after supper, precious hours, hours full of sweetness, | When our bones | Give off fragrance… | 3. Faces appear and vanish. |..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Sewn Binding. Signed by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution. "They didn't smoke much of the legal "Ganja" until Mr. Orlovsky & I introduced that western notion & brought to their attention their own indigenous subliterary Shaivite pot-smoking & hymn-singing in the burning grounds as a usable poetic tradition." (Allen Ginsberg, pgs. 117-118). The second number (Cook 49, pgs. 53-54)..... More