Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage early 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features excerpts from an interview with & a short memoir of Charles Bukowski by Italian journalists who made pilgrimages to the USA to meet with him, an article by Aaron Krumhansl on his bibliography of Bukowski, & more on the..... More
[Item #2144]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This newest (as of this writing) number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features "A Century of Lawrence Ferlinghetti," a wonderful tribute essay to the iconic poet, publisher & bookseller who remains among the foremost Founding Fathers of the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance & beyond at 100 years old!..... More
[Item #3315]
Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. There is a reason why the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965 lives on, spoken of in hushed tones and sunned by the rays of legend. Some events require the passage of time to apprehend their magnitude. Not so with the Berkeley Poetry Conference, where all who attended—lecturers and attendees alike—were quick to speak of it, write of it..... More
[Item #4579]
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal is subtitled "The Music Issue," & features many scholarly, critical essays & memoirs relating to this subject by noted writers: An essay, "Memphis to Memphis," on that city's rich musical history by Albert Goldman, biographer of Lenny Bruce & (controversially) Elvis Presley; the memoir "Up Close and Personal: Miles Davis and Me" by Quincy..... More
[Item #2499]
New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This eclectic vintage number of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features a theretofore-unpublished text fragment, "The Sources of the Loir at Illiers," by the great French author Marcel Proust, translated by Rosset's distinguished colleague (& an associate editor of ER) Richard Seaver. As stated in a footnote, this is "An interesting fragment in itself, it is..... More
[Item #4342]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 4 No. 11 (January-February 1960)- this issue features William S. Burroughs' "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness," the classic essay that went on to serve as a fore- or afterword to most editions of WSB's..... More
[Item #4286]
New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1963. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features two episodes from Nova Express by William S. Burroughs ("Gave Proof Through The Night" & "The Fish Poison Con," pgs. 109-116), the high cut-up novel which Rosset's Grove Press would be the first to publish in full the following year (1964). Maynard &..... More
[Item #4460]
New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1967. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural and arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features the poem "Men's Crapper" by Beat-&-Beyond cult favorite Charles Bukowski (pg. 75). Also in this issue published during the height of the 1960s counterculture are an opinion piece by the great journalist Nat Hentoff; three poems by LeRoi Jones (pre-Amiri Baraka), an..... More
[Item #4506]
Basil King. New York City, New York: Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1961. Seventh Printing (1978). Stapled Wrappers. Signed by the poet to James Perrizo. The first publication by LeRoi Jones, originally issued in 1961 and dedicated to his then-wife, the noted memoirist Hettie Jones (nee Cohen). Totem Press was founded by the poet, & also published works by Ginsberg, Kerouac & others of the Beat Generation. Jones, later known as Amiri..... More
[Item #1641]
New York, NY: Freundlich Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Amiri Baraka to James Perrizo. This is the first hardcover edition of the autobiography of LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, among the earliest African-American writers & publishers of the Beat Generation, who died in 2014. This copy is signed not long after publication by the author on the title page to the late James Perrizo..... More
[Item #1944]
New York, NY(?): Fall 1999. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. A literary journal with poetry & photos. Features "The Prince of Tides - a timely fable" by Charles Plymell, poetry by Amiri Baraka, others. This copy is signed by Charles Plymell on inside front cover. As New. More
[Item #1317]
Philadelphia, PA (1) / New York, NY (2): Running Press (1) / Anchor Books (2), 2007 (1) / (2) 1965. First Printing. Hardcover (1) / Softcover (2). (1) If the descriptor "a great coffee table book" did not mean a book whose entire existence consists of rarely being looked at, needlessly occupying table space and hopefully dodging spills and stains from them--and if it meant a book which can be..... More
[Item #3867]