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

New York, NY; Hollywood, CA: Marcel Rodd Co., Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. "Christopher Isherwood's translation of this heretofore unavailable classic of autobiography has the same sharply incisive qualities as the great poet's original words, thoughts, and bitterly unhappy feelings...W.H. Auden, his long time friend and collaborator, and equally distinguished, has contributed an important interpretative introduction." (from front flap) The intimate diaristic musings of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), the iconic French..... 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

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco Group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat is an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond...First-hand accounts from East Coast to West Coast, Prague to Kathmandu, Andy Clausen was there. Clausen's eyewitness memoirs stories anecdotes revelations of the generation that changed poetry music literature & ushered in the psychedelic era is infused with the underlying premise..... 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: 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

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. First Printing. Wrappers. This latest (as of this writing) & most historic ONE HUNDREDTH issue of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an essay about & mid-1990s interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, written & conducted by Kurt Hemmer, our good friend & esteemed colleague at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), illustrated with photographs. There is..... 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

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

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by editor Millicent Dillon. "How I wish that I were with you now. I saw Bill [William Burroughs] for a few minutes, he called by to see me or I told Bryan [Brion Gysin] to let him in- rather send him in. I don't quite remember." (from letter of September 28, 1966 to Paul Bowles, pg. 290). A...... More