Jefferston, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1983. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This first number of the prestigious scholarly journal, edited by Lee Bartlett & Peter White, features a "Forum" section of essays under the topic-heading of "Sexual Poetics: Notes on Genre and Gender in Poetry by Women," with contributions by four distinguished American female poets including Denise Levertov & Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific poet who..... More

Chicago, IL; New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Barry Silesky features two poems ("At Forest Lawn" & "The Oven of Apollo," the former a prose-poem) by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Also..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. First Edition, Review Copy. Hardcover. "When the beat writers emerged from San Francisco in 1956, they succeeded in touching off controversy and discussion throughout America which continue unabated today. Not only their writing,but their nonconformist way of life- with its special interest in jazz, Buddhism, drugs, and squalor- became a subject of general interest, discussed and hotly argued in a wide range..... More

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1986; 1990. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. One of two editions signed by editor-publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. An anthology of writings by & about greater-&-lesser known members of the Beat Generation & their contemporaries. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Jeffrey H. Weinberg, whose Water Row imprint & bookselling enterprise is among the first & greatest in our specialization. With a story by William..... More

West Chester, PA: West Chester University, 2000. First Printing. Softcover. The legendary number of the academic literary journal published by West Chester University, chiefly edited by Kostas Myrsiades. Subtitled "Teaching Beat Literature," this issue is entirely devoted to scholarly essays on the Beat Generation & its primary figures including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder & others. With contributors representing a whose-who of scholars who..... More

Warwickshire, England: Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early issue of Kevin Ring's exceptional Beat Scene Magazine from 1996 begins with an obituary for Herbert Huncke, titled "Huncke the Hipster;" it continues in a somewhat different format for those familiar with the later, or more recent issues of the celebrated Beat-&-Beyond quarterly. We have a "Beats and Co." compilation of recent publications and news related to Beat..... 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

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2013. Book. Stapled Wrappers. This Spring 2013 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a very important article by David Krajicek about Lucien Carr, a most key figure in the earliest, embryonic group that became the Beat Generation. Krajicek writes that with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & then-most recently Carr all having..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This winter/ early spring 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a series of lengthy, informative late interviews with the then-recently deceased Beat-related poet & novelist James Koller (1936-2014) conducted by Peter Garland during 2013-2014. Also a review by Laurence Ring of a contemporary exhibit of William S. Burroughs'..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of post-war and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of boldface names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write "of [Truman Capote's Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother's escort, I have..... More

Seattle, WA: Double Elephant Folio & Quarto Co., Inc., 1969. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A very large (appx. 11&1/3" x 13&2/3") folio with very high-quality facsimile reproductions of engraved illustrations by the iconic British artist, poet & printer William Blake. As explained in colophon, "This book has been printed by photo-offset lithography from the original edition of 1804. It is number three in the Double Elephant- San Vito Press series..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Dream at the End of the World...Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men- all were lured by a raffish city that promised a full range of unconventional pleasures. At the..... More

London, England: The Fiction Magazine Ltd., 1984. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the British literary magazine edited by Judy Cooke features "Scream When You Burn," a story by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the cult-favorite lowdown-&-dirty unfiltered American poet & prose writer (pgs. 7-10). This exemplary story features an illustration of a Bukowski-like figure with drink in hand looking out the window of his struggling writer's pad by Paul Cox..... More