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

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

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from... More

California, PA: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1977. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Signed by John Clellon Holmes. A limited first edition of poems by John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac's good friend who wrote "Go", which some consider to have been the first published Beat novel. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the poet, this is copy #134/250. Volume 7 of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual series produced... More

Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. A volume of fascinating biographical essays by the great Beat figure John Clellon Holmes, with subjects including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Nelson Algren & W.C. Fields. Photo by Ann Charters on back cover. As New. More

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. First softcover edition of a compilation of John Clellon Holmes' poetry, spanning his career from the 1940s through the 1980s, published the year after his death. In very fine condition with only slight chipping to spine & front cover edges. Very Fine. More

London, England: Jay Landesman Ltd., 1981. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Little magazines come and go- most of them are soon forgotten. There are the exceptional few that maintain a presence, long after their own death, in the intellectual life of succeeding generations. NEUROTICA is one such magazine. The nine issues published between 1948-51 brought together some of the best and most original minds of the time- the minds that historians... More