New York, NY: Pequod Press, 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. (Morgan A46, pg. 58). “Neal Cassady was my animal: he brought me to my knees / and taught me the love of his cock and the secrets of his mind / And we met and conversed, went walking in the evening by the park / up to Harlem, recollecting Denver, and Dan Budd, a hero / And we made shift..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "James Agee achieved the fame he deserved only after his tragically early death- of a heart attack, in a New York taxi- at forty-five...This book contains James Agee's previously uncollected prose: pieces ranging from Harvard days to his last years. In addition to short stories, there are notes for motion pictures (a medium that held deep fascination for him), scenarios, and..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK, begins with a remembrance by Susan K. Anderson, former student of Edward ("Ed") Dorn (1929-1999), the renowned & respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain School, about her time spent & lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative..... More

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... More

London, England: London Magazine Editions, 1971. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Even the most ardent supporters of The Beat Generation, those who so rightfully exalt the expansive and inclusionary spirit behind the concept of "beatitude," its essentially-Transcendentalist imploration to self-cultivate with reckless abandon--to embrace the "mad flowers" of one's individuation with pride--will never be able to speak for one troubling aspect (among others) of Our Holy Dead: the problem of relationships..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "Twenty two years ago writer Jean Francois Duval put together a book he titled Buk et les Beats- it was published in a French language edition by publishers Michalon in Paris. The book tackled the thorny question that has vexed Beat onlookers for decades- was Charles Bukowski a Beat? The answer- after reading the collection must have been..... More

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Naked Lunch is a blueprint, a How-to Book...Black insect lusts open into vast, other planet landscapes...Abstract concepts, bare as algebra, narrow down to a black turd or a pair of aging cajones..." (pg. 215) Among the essential primary works associated with the Beat Generation along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the significance & far-reaching influence of William..... More

New York, NY: Full Court Press, 1982. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Written at a turning point in his life- when he was kicking drugs in Tangiers, writing Naked Lunch, and emerging from the literary underworld, these letters from (William S.) Burroughs to his young friend (Allen) Ginsberg are not only an intimate, diaristic account of who was doing what, with whom and when, but also a record, as Burroughs..... More

Lytham St. Annes, England: Screen Edge / Klaus Maeck, 1991. First DVD Edition. (Schottlaender F25 B, pg. 128). “Commissioner of Sewers” is a film on the great William S. Burroughs by German filmmaker Klaus Maeck, here appearing in the First DVD Edition, preceded only by a VHS edition of 1989. The film includes footage of WSB’s public readings of “The Western Lands” (New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1987) & other..... More

New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1996. First Edition Thus. Softcover. (Shoaf 80b., pg. 76; Schottlaender H6c. pg. 143). Offered here is Victor Bockris' (b. 1949) classic work of Beat biography, "With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker." Here are just a few examples of Bockris' memoir-reportage. First, WSB in conversation with Tennessee Williams, New York, 1976. Burroughs asks Williams if he has ever written any film scripts, to which..... More

Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. [ISBN: 9781578061839]. "The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works...Not surprisingly, the topics Burroughs touches upon are wide-ranging: his relationships to the Beats, legends surrounding his personal life, drugs, gay liberation, collaboration, the..... More

Encinitas, CA: Gary L. Aposhian & FreeThought Publications, 2000. Limited First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets; Folded Sheet in envelope. Jim McCrary's limited edition copy with limited flyer signed by poet Bradley Mason Hamlin & artist Christine Fullwood. This number of the independent literary journal chiefly edited & published by Gary Aposhian (1962-2007) is mostly dedicated to William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & among the most influential..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2012. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I got a chance to speak to (William S. Burroughs) in person...I asked him about Magic, and whether he would care to recommend any books on the subject? Without hesitation he mentioned Dion Fortune's 'Psychic Self-defense', even though he qualified it as "a bit old-fashioned." Then, without much prompting at all on my part he began to talk..... More