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

California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This issue of the profound, pioneering anthology series edited by Arthur (1937-2012) & Kit Knight features prose, poems, letters & interviews by & about many of the key original founding figures of the Beat Generation: A letter written by William S. Burroughs dated December 4, 1957 to Jack Kerouac from Tangier; an essay by Carolyn Cassady on myth vs. reality..... More

London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s a new breed of writers gravitated towards Greenwich Village. They were young, radical, idealistic and 'hip,' and their work was shockingly iconoclastic. This was the start of the Beat movement. It has sometimes been dismissed as a minor cultural phenomenon characterized by a bohemian lifestyle and undisciplined expression in poetry, painting and jazz. Rejecting the values..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an insider's memoir of William S. Burroughs by Jim McCrary, a writer who was part of WSB's most intimate circle of friends during his last years in Lawrence, Kansas; an article by Colin Cooper on John Fante, a writer rediscovered..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2009. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This special issue of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK is devoted to Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & begins with a robust, rollicking prose letter from John Clellon Holmes to Kerouac written in 1958. This rare, often overlooked letter was remarkably not included in the Kerouac Selected Letters..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. "GO deals with a group of young people whose lives are frenetic and even violent. Because they want passionately to believe in something and cannot find it, they create strange illusions to live by, and they are driven by a craving for excess. Their long nights involve liquor and marijuana, with the beat of bebop in the background, and they..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Nothing More to Declare is an account of living and writing by one of the Beat Generation, a friend of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others less famous but no less interesting and significant- and it makes nonsense of the game of 'generationing' by speaking to everyone, anywhere." (from front flap) A memoir by John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), who met..... More

Pocatello, Idaho: The Limberlost Press, 1979. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Signed & lettered by John Clellon Holmes A selection of poetry comprising numbers 7 & 8 of the Limberlost Review, dedicated by John Clellon Holmes to Allen Ginsberg. One of 26 copies signed and lettered by the poet in January 1980 on publisher's label affixed to front endpaper. This is copy "E." One of the very rarest John Clellon Holmes..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited by David Moore, is entirely devoted to works concerning John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), one of Kerouac's closest friends & associates, depicted in On the Road (as "Tom Saybrook") & several other Kerouac classics. Holmes' novel GO (1952, see item No.s 3326, 3412) is..... More

Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. "First published in Poetry, Partisan Review, Harper's, Poetry Northwest, and other journals, the poems in this selection represent the evolution of Holmes' style, from his early journeyman efforts in traditional forms, through the development of his later voice in free verse. Like his essays and fiction, Holmes' poetry focuses on the individual's self-affirmations in the face of numbing institutions--state or..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "He was the greatest horn player of his generation. Edgar Pool was his name, but nobody called him that- not if they knew anything at all about jazz. No, he was simply, eloquently, "The Horn" to everybody who'd ever heard of him, or heard about him. And to the younger ones, musicians and disciples alike, he was almost a myth..." (from..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977; 1978; 1979. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Four vintage, contiguous numbers of the literary review journal subtitled "A Small Press Review Magazine" co-published & with contributions by Legendary Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell, & chiefly edited by his wife & co-publisher Pamela Beach Plymell, productions of their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 2 No. 8 & 9 (1977)- this issue features a lengthy..... More