London, England: Tangerine Press, 2009. Limited Lettered First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Douglas Blazek. “You have the first DWANG in your hands. This should be a good thing. The intended definition of ‘dwang’ is a NZ/Scots word for a noggin in a stud wall. If you are holding an old man’s cock, then you are holding the wrong definition.” (from Afterword “What We Talk About When We Talk About DWANG”..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. "With eyes wet and huge the deer watched; the young man watched back. The youth was crouching over a spring as though talking to the ground, the water pluming up bright through his turquoise-ringed hand, then eddying back in the bottomless whorl it had sculptured neat and sharp in the orange rock. The rock retreated to a blue then again..... More

Binghamton, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This vintage number of the scholarly literary journal, specially dedicated to "The Oral Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry" & chiefly edited by Robert Kroetsch & William V. Spanos, features the essay "The Gull Wall" by Clayton Eshleman, an analysis of the work of Paul Blackburn, his late friend & fellow acclaimed American..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958; 1959. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 2 No. 6 (Autumn 1958)- this issue features contributions of poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder & other giants of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York & Black..... 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: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia Express; Episodes from Novia Express" by William S. Burroughs (pgs. 99-109). At this juncture, the first American edition of Naked lunch had not yet been published by Rosset's Grove Press, it would be later that year..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1967. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "Exterminator!" by William S. Burroughs, actually what would become the introductory chapter in the short novel-length work of the same name published six years later (pgs. 54-55). Maynard & Miles, C164, pg. 151; Shoaf, Section III, No. 100, pg. 134; Schottlaender, C155..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features "Johnny 23," a short story by William S. Burroughs exemplary of the tail-end of the great(est of them all in our estimation) writer's cut-up phase segueing into his later, (relatively) lucid style- & with WSB's favorite number of personal-mythological significance in its..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1969. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the poem "In San Francisco" by none other than our good friend, mentor & Ultimate Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell. Lavishly illustrated & with border-motifs by William Rowe, the poem describes Plymell's experiences with & impressions of Neal Cassady et al. during his..... More

Mansfield, PA: Mansfield State College, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This vintage fourth number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Joe David Bellamy & W.A. Blais features interviews with the acclaimed novelist John Barth conducted by Bellamy, & with noted Kansas poet Harley Elliot conducted by Blais. Also in this issue are contributions of prose fiction by Frederick Busch, Joyce Carol Oates & others; & poetry..... More

New York, NY: Signet Books/The New American Library, Inc., 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by William H. Gass. "...the story of a rural American town reeling under the impact of a confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of natural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with suppressed sex and violence."(from back cover) The first published novel by the venerable, award-winning American author William H. Gass. This..... More

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1975. Limited First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "Blue as color and state of mind, 'blue' as word, Blue as Platonic idea- these are the layers of blue that William Gass explores and ponders and celebrates in this brilliant book. Blue is a famously erotic hue, and Gass opens with an examination of the depiction of sex in literature. He argues that the failure of most writers..... More

Berkeley, CA: Cleis Press, 2004. First Printing. Softcover. “Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions. Most shocking of their unconventional attitudes was their embrace of same-sex eroticism. At a time when gay people were considered mentally ill or criminal, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom in thought..... More