Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK is a special issue devoted to the Beats in Britain. With great, rarely reproduced 1966 photographs of a dapper William S. Burroughs in London with his "brolly" (umbrella) including on front cover; articles by the late Ken Brooks about his meeting WSB at the legendary..... More
[Item #1933]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage millennial number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy, fascinating conversation/ interview with Neal Cassady's son John, conducted by Steve Edington during 2000. Also interviews with Jason Eisenberg about the influential proto-Beat comedian known as Lord Buckley conducted by Ring circa 2000; with Allen Ginsberg conducted by..... More
[Item #4078]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This winter 2017 number of the venerable literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features educator-author Anthony Linick's essay on the survey he sent to some of the greatest voices in mid-century American literature- including Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac- during 1963, followed by facsimiles of their hand- or typewritten responses..... More
[Item #4198]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This fascinating assemblage of documents, a scrapbook montage of personal anecdote, reflection, audio transcription and objectivist reportage, provides a useful historical period reconstruction of the socioliterary sub-terrain of London in the later 1960s. It is also the honest and often comical account of an earnest attempt to capture on film- and in words- the magnetic impact of..... More
[Item #3265]
New York, NY: The Montemora Foundation, Inc., 1977. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This very early number of the literary journal "devoted to international poetry," edited & with contributions by Eliot Weinberger, features three poems by Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, translator & scholar who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Opposite the first poem ("36..... More
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Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Iain Sinclair. Numbered Limited Edition (#44/125). In this special, signed limited edition chapbook from Kevin Ring's The Beat Scene Press, poet, essayist & critic Iain Sinclair delivers a sharp & scholastic piece on Charles Olson. Olson is the foremost influential giant of the Black Mountain School, whose larger-than-life character & catalog continue to be mined as an..... More
[Item #2650]
London, England: Tangerine Press, 2016. First Edition / Limited Edition Hardcover. Hardcover / Softcover. 1/26 Lettered Hardcovers Signed by Iain Sinclair and Illustrator Dave McKean. "Kerouac's abortive European tour, that spring [1957], proved to be his last season as a writer who existed inside the protective and self-affirming nest of unpublished fiction: before the devastating flash-exposure of fame. With that much-delayed arrival of 'On the Road,' here was success, hungry..... More
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