Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Another very eclectic number of the scholarly journal, with a wide variety of subjects: Essays on John Ashbery's work by Margueritte S. Murphy, Elizabeth Bishop's by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Robert Bly's by Victoria Frenkel Harris & William Carlos Williams' by William Doreski; notes on Bob Dylan's poetry-lyrics by James W. Earl; reviews of works on Beat-related poets Robert Creeley &..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage mid-1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features the transcript of a telephone interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ron Whitehead on June 19, 1996, slightly over a year before WSB's death. Also in this issue, an obituary of & the final interview with Jan Kerouac, Jack's..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Printing. Book. This 2006 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a special section of articles & especially interviews by Ring & others which spotlights the tightly-knit aggregate of poets that resided in Bolinas, California, a small coastal community an hour or so away from San Francisco. The subject Beat-&-Beyond poets include Don..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces..... More

Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More

London, England: Michael Horovitz, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This double-double number of the UK literary journal edited & published by Michael Horovitz brims with mostly original contributions by a wide mixture of the most well- & unknown cutting-edge literary figures (& some artists & musicians for good measure) from the time of (or recently deceased at) its publication during 1975 to now & beyond, compiled over many years since the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More

New York, NY: Conjunctions, 1981. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This historic, very first number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow is subtitled "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions" & features many essays, odes & tributes to the legendary litterateur by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure (who passed away recently as of this..... More

New York, NY: Bard College/David R. Godine Publishers, Inc., 1985. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This eighth number of the prestigious literary journal features a tribute to British poet Basil Bunting, who had died earlier during the year of publication (1985) with contributions by Russell Banks, Robert Creeley, Eric Mottram & many others, & with a portfolio of photographs of Bunting throughout his life including some by Jonathan Williams, who also..... More

New York, NY: Bard College/David R. Godine Publishers, Inc., 1988. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This eleventh number of the prestigious literary journal features two poems by the great Beat & Black Mountain School-associated poet Robert Creeley, "The Seasons" & "Nationalgalerie Berlin." Also "The Rube Goldberg Suite" by Robert Kelly, with poetry, prose, footnotes & interspersed with original Goldberg illustrations; "Pieces o' Six-XXVII," a prose work concerning Nazi war criminals by..... More

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1993. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal features the lengthy poem "And the Stars Were Shining" by the canonical American poet John Ashbery, the title poem of a collection first published the next year (1994). Also in this issue, subtitled "the credos issue," is a special section entitled "Credos" with short essays on beliefs & methods by noted authors including Kathy..... More

New York, NY: Scribners, 1963. First Trade Edition & Association Copy. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press"; with Laid-In Handwritten Notation including Additional Signature, Phone Number, & Directions. In the introductory note to "The Island," Creeley states the book's essential allegorical properties & on the page beside it dedicates the work to the poet Charles Olson, the influential giant..... More

New York, NY: Scribners, 1965. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Signed & Inscribed by Robert Creeley to Ken & Ann Mikolowski, Founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press." Hugh Kenner once said that Robert Creeley was "the Samuel Taylor Coleridge of his generation." "Had I lived some years ago," writes Creeley in the introduction, "I think I would have been a moralist, i.e., one who lays down, so to speak, rules of behavior..... More