New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Well, this is certainly interesting--a biography of the great Hunter S. Thompson from the esteemed Elle Magazine writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll. You may, like your Devoted Assistant Curator & Resident Archivist, have first heard of E. Jean Carroll from her mid-January, 2020 allegation of rape against President Trump--an incident Carroll says happened in a Manhattan department store in the..... More

Ann Arbor: Third Mind Books, 2018. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. "Starting from San Francisco ' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970's who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their..... More

New York, NY: Paragon House, 1989. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Carl Solomon's brilliance as mass observer of cosmopolitan political movements and esthetic options is once again proved in this volume of sophisticated communiques from megalopolis, advice to the love-lorn, sane letters to crazy literateurs, home front manifestos, cold war burlesque, and mental vaudeville essays. Combining the old world humor of the Bronx and continental brevity of Parisian wit he..... More

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

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1985. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage fall 1985 number of the poetry journal features an essay on the prose poems of John Ashbery by S. H. Miller, & a comparative essay on poems by Robert Bly & James Wright by Victoria Frankel Harris. Also in this issue are reviews of critical works on James Merrill, William Carlos Williams & others; & more. Another important..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1986 number of the venerable academic journal features essays & articles on Beat-related poets Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexroth & William Carlos Williams, as well as Philip Levine, Ezra Pound & James Wright. With reviews of critical studies of the works of Emily Dickinson & Pound. Another important scholarly collectible in very fine condition, with only a few very..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1987 number of the respected literary journal features an article on Elizabeth Bishop by James E.B. Breslin, a review of a Leo Connellan work by Robert Peters, a conversation with poet-performer Armand Schwerner, & more. Another fine scholarly collectible in this series, in very fine condition with only mild browning & spotting to spine, browning only at very..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1987 number of the scholarly poetry journal is entirely dedicated to the controversial California poet & environmentalist Robinson Jeffers. Featuring an essay on Jeffers' poetry by Eva Hesse (apparently no relation to the famous artist), a forum on Jeffers including poet-critic Robert Peters among its participants, & much more. An essential collectible for the Jeffers aficionado, in very..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1988 number of the distinguished literary journal features a review of a volume of Robert Lowell's collected prose by J. Nelson Hathcock, several reviews of books by & about Kenneth Rexroth (a mentor & collaborator with the Beats), a forum on the poet Louis Zukofsky (co-founder of the objectivist school of poetry) by John Taggart, & more. Another..... More

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

New York, NY: Portents, 1969. First Printing. Single Sheet. Issued as Portents 13 by Ann Charters (author of the first major biography of Jack Kerouac), this 6"x15" broadside is a prospectus for a special Herman Melville-related box of which only 25 were produced. "This Melville box attempts to give a sense of Melville's presence in the Berkshires by offering a construct of objects, some contemporary to Melville, others from our..... More

New York, NY: The Ecco Press, 1989. First Printing. Softcover. This autumn 1989 number of the literary journal founded by Paul Bowles features contributions by two important Beat-related writers: "A Tangier Episode" by Harold Norse, with anecdotes relating to Bowles & his wife Jane, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams & others; & the meditative essay "On the Path and Off the Trail" by Gary Snyder. Also in this issue are..... More

Berkeley, CA: Provine Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. "It was, and is, important to me to demonstrate the right use of books, as Emerson called for, the nourishing value of a few crucial writers to the growth of an individual reader. For me, the work of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was the obvious choice...their books are as much a part of my way of perceiving and thinking about life as..... More