New York, NY: Bouwerie Editions, 1972. Limited First Printing. Staplebound in Folder. "These pages of Robert Creeley's Notebook, 6/7/70-6/19/70, are published here in a First Edition of 350 examples, of which 100 examples are reserved for the poet and publisher." Published in 1972 by one "Bouwerie Editions" (a fun phonetic spelling of "Bowery" a la The Bowery in NYC), this is a textbook (pun intended?) example of how absolutely respected..... More
[Item #4672]
New York, NY: DIA Art Foundation, 1987. Limited First Printing. Softcover. (1/500 Unnumbered Copies). Robert Creeley’s “Some Time: A Selection, 1945-1987” was “…published on the occasion of a reading of these poems by the poet, November 12, 1987, DIA Art Foundation, New York, New York. The reading and a moderated discussion with the poet following the reading were videotaped.” This slim selection of Creeley culls the some of the finest..... More
[Item #4217]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More
[Item #4212]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by editor & contributor Thomas Rain Crowe. "Inside these pages there are one hundred years of unique American poets who are editors, publishers, activists, environmentalists, spiritual leaders, and humanitarians engaged in their communities in efforts not only to better themselves but to work hands-on for the betterment of humanity and the planet. Their bodies of work are evidence of these..... More
[Item #4178]
Frankfurt, Germany: Zweitausendeins, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. One of the elusive "German Facsimile Sketchbooks" from the great, subversive Underground Comix genius R. Crumb--found here in virtually unread condition. Hardcover bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on spine with ribbon marker bound in. Complete with German translation Booklet, and housed in original cardboard slipcase with printed label affixed to the spine. From the outset this work proves itself..... More
[Item #4227]
Lowell, MA: Dharma Beat, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Thirty dollars. The figure stands out to me. That's how much money Jack Kerouac needed, to buy a Greyhound bus ticket from Orlando [Florida] to New York. It was summer of 1957. Though he'd already written more than a million words by his own count, Kerouac had very little fame to show for it, and practically no money. His girlfriend at..... More
[Item #4772]
Columbia, SC: Beatdom Books, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s, the authors of the Beat Generation helped introduce American readers to Eastern philosophies and, in particular, to Buddhism. Poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac are often credited with this phenomenon, while, as is so often the case, the women are sidelined. In this illuminating new study, Max Orsini examines the impact of two female poets, Diane..... More
[Item #4283]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. Second Enlarged Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. "TO BE FREE we've got to be free of/ any idea of freedom./ Today the State Dept lifted the ban on/ travel to China; and closed/ Merritt College." ("Revolutionary Letter #47," pg. 59) The canonical collection of poems by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. Published as No. 27 in..... More
[Item #4300]
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This monumental number of the literary journal edited by Allen De Loach combines itself with the equally legendary Floating Bear journal to form the very special "Intrepid-Bear Issue," co-edited & with contributions by Floating Bear founder Diane di Prima. This landmark cornucopia of an issue also features contributions of poetry & prose by Paul Blackburn, Ray Bremser, Anselm Hollo, Robert Kelly..... More
[Item #4792]
New York, NY; San Francisco, CA: The Penguin Group; City Lights Books, 1990; 1998. First Editions Thus; First Edition. Softcovers. A bundle of classic works by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), among the primary- & one of the few female- original poets of the Beat Generation & Beyond: (1) Memoirs of a Beatnik [ISBN 0-14-02-3539-6], trade-format softcover original, first edition thus (1998), second printing as indicated by number sequence on copyright..... More
[Item #4789]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. "Selected by the poet herself, this volume gathers together essential writing from (Diane di Prima's) various books as well as many new poems. Pieces of a Song adds up to more than the sum of its parts: it is a total melody of a woman's life lived in the articulation of her art." (from back cover) A comprehensive collection of..... More
[Item #4315]
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1993. First Printing. Single Sheet. "You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology/ a cosmogony/ laid out, before all eyes" (first stanza) A large broadside (appx. 24" x 34&7/8") with the title poem by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond, among the few females in that original group who very recently as of this writing..... More
[Item #3921]
New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group, 2001. First Hardcover Edition; First Softcover Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. "...Diane di Prima's evocative memoir, in which she explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life and how she came to define herself as a woman. She grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s in an Italian American family, and only by heroic effort was she able to break away and..... More
[Item #4755]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing..... More
[Item #4636]
Arlington, MA: Tough Poets Press, 2020. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The long-lost, one-&-only novel by Kirby Doyle (1932-2003), a Beat Generation-contemporary poet whose poems appeared along with works by Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Allen Ginsberg in the Spring 1958 issue of the Chicago Review; as well as Donald Allen's landmark collection New American Poetry 1945-1960. Originally published in 1968, this novel is said to have been written during 1959-1960..... More
[Item #4229]
New York, NY: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition, Third Impression. Softcover. An early collection of poems by Robert Duncan (1919-1988), a major figure in 20th century letters, associated with the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance (of which he was a Founding Father) & the Black Mountain School. The first poem, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow," is one of his most famous & "...provides a commentary..... More
[Item #3658]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1966. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "These are poems of an irregularity. From the beginning I had sought not the poem as a discipline or paradigm of my thought and feeling but as a source of feeling and thought, following the movement of an inner impulse and tension rising in the flow of returning vowel sounds and in measuring stresses that formed phrases of a music for..... More
[Item #3943]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Out of the sun and the dispersing stars/ go forth the elemental sparks,/ outpouring vitalities,/ stir in the salitter of the earth/ a living Spirit,/ and the stars, mothers of light, remain,/ having each/ its own "organic decorum, the complete/ loyalty of a work of art to a shaping/ principle/ within itself" " (("Passages 31: The Concert," first..... More
[Item #3996]
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Libraries, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The Genius mixd too strong a cup./ At noon the lethargy remains./ We cannot shake it off.// Sleep lingers all our lifetime in our eyes/ as night at midday hovers/ in the fir tree boughs./ The Genius brews his lethal cup./ All things swim and glitter." ("The Dreamers," first two stanzas, unpaginated) A collection of poems..... More
[Item #4687]
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
[Item #4317]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958. First Printing. Softcover. This classic early number of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press features avant-garde icon Antonin Artaud's essay "No More Masterpieces" translated into English by Caroline Richards; Roland Barthe's critical essay "Alain Robbe-Grillet" translated by Richard Howard; the canonical "Krapp's Last Tape" by the great playwright Samuel Beckett; Black Mountain-&-Beyond poet Robert Creeley's..... More
[Item #4085]
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
[Item #4252]
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. 13 (May - June 1960)- This issue, titled "What is 'Pataphysics?," is introduced in a "Superliminal Note" by Roger Shattuck, who states seven definitions-principals beginning with " 'Pataphysics is the science of..... More
[Item #4297]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this book I have attempted to delineate the Western archetype by examining one of its most salient features: the creative writer. Abstracting from his personal achievement I treat him as a distinct species, a phenomenon spanning several generations of Western experience, to arrive as a late but authentic symbol in the pantheon of American images we have developed over our two centuries..... More
[Item #3356]
San Francisco, CA: Vojo Skyline Press / Peter Lembcke Gallery, 1991. Limited Lettered 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..... More
[Item #4367]