Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. “There was a newsstand at Sixty-sixth street and Broadway right at the entrance to the subway…According to Viking, there was going to be a review. ‘Maybe it’ll be terrific. Who knows?’ I said. Jack said he was doubtful. Still, we could stop at Donnelly’s on the way back and have a beer. We saw the papers come off the truck. The old..... More

Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1987. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Voices & Visions is the most ambitious television production ever attempted on American poetry, and the most comprehensive. In 13 hour-long programs, the series traces the course of the art during the last century and a quarter as it was shaped by some of our most important poets. Using vintage photographs and film footage, paintings, newsreels, original manuscripts and archival..... More

Schonebeck, Germany; Marlborough, MA: Moloko Print/ Water Row Books, 2022. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Oliver Harris. "When William Burroughs mailed Alan Ansen a copy of Naked Lunch on its publication in 1959, he dedicated it to "one of the few who understood Naked Lunch before I did," testifying to the unique role ansen played from the start of Burroughs' career as collaborator, promoter, critic, friend and author of..... 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, 2002. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2002 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an extensive article on pioneering artist & Beat publisher Wallace Berman by Ring, including photographs of Berman & his works (some in color), along with an interview of Berman's son Tosh conducted by Ring circa 2001. Also an excerpt from..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2011. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This 2011 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK includes three wonderful features concerning William S. Burroughs: A profile of WSB by poet Bill Butler first published in London's Guardian newspaper issue of November 27, 1965; a very useful & concise timeline of his life & work mostly credited to the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK, begins with a remembrance by Susan K. Anderson, former student of Edward ("Ed") Dorn (1929-1999), the renowned & respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain School, about her time spent & lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative..... More

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

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Megan Marshall. "Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this, his critical summa, Harold Bloom returns to the issue of influence, his signature theme. Ever since his classic work The Anxiety of Influence appeared almost forty years ago, Bloom has been the world's most eloquent authority on literary relationships. With erudition and panache, The Anxiety of Influence overturned generations of conventional wisdom by showing that great works of..... More