New York, NY: The Citadel Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the United States of America, those "new barbarians" who have chosen the present as the compass of their lives are the Beat Generation. In England, they are the Angry Young Men. Both the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men are social phenomena which have found increasing literary expression. Because both represent a significant adaptation to life in mid-twentieth..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1994. First Printing. Softcover. The sixth number of the literary & cultural-political journal edited & with contributions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), published by his iconic City Lights Books imprint. For our purposes, this issue is most distinguished by a transcript of William S. Burroughs' speaker-amplified telephone call to an audience at the Beat Generation Conference held at New York University during May 1994 (pgs..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Carl Solomon. "Monsieur Solomon continues his epochal battle of wits, all satanic forces of pure reason arrayed against satanic legions of tiny thoughts emerging from his civilized unconscious A.D. Post-Marxists mid-sixties eternal banalities of wisdom language confront XX Century banalities of domesticated and foreign policy. Is it humor? Is it serious? It's a substance interesting as Bronx, a...... More