Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cold Turkey Press, 1973. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A magazine-format compilation featuring translations from English into Dutch by Gerard Belart of three poems by Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation. The three poems originally appeared in English in the City Lights Books Pocket Poets Series volume, Planet News (1968), titled "Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber"; "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express" & "Wales Visitation." With..... More

Paris, France: Christian Bourgois, 1980. First French Softcover Edition Thus, First (?) Printing. Softcover. Two of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems, Howl & Kaddish, in one bilingual edition published in France. With English text on left pages & French translation on right pages. English text corrected by Ginsberg in 1976 for this edition; translations into French by Robert Cordier & Jean-Jaques Lebel, with the collaboration of Christine Tysh. There is..... More

Paris, France: Le Livre A Venir & Solin, 1985. First French Edition. Softcover, signature-bound. This is the first French edition of the major Allen Ginsberg poem first published in 1966, with the first City Lights Books edition published in 1974. Text is in English on left pages with French translation by Catherine Bailly on right pages. Includes an added essay, "Happy Birthday, Allen Ginsberg" by Claude Pelieu, in French only..... More

Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved Publishers Ltd., 2000. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. A rare Hebrew-language edition of Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation masterpiece alongside Howl. With the iconic title poem, & then a selection of poems through 1984, none of which appear to include those originally included along with Kaddish in the original City Lights Pocket Poets Series edition first published in 1961. With English & Hebrew texts..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Medien Streu c/o Verlag Peter Engstler, 2005, 2008, 2009. First Editions. All three volumes inscribed & signed by Egon Gunther to Charles Plymell. A catalog of artworks & two volumes of poetry by Egon Gunther, a German artist & writer born in 1953, therefore not the acclaimed filmmaker of the same name (1927-2017) although they may be related: (1) Bienenstock (beehive), catalog of artworks all entitled Bienenstock 1-29..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2011. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. An Interview (by) Steven D. Edington. This is a fascinating interview with Al Hinkle, immortalized as "Ed Dunkle" in On the Road by Jack Kerouac. He participated in some of the adventures that were the basis of OTR, & now many decades later reminisces about Kerouac, William S. & Joan Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg et.al. One of an..... More

Brittany, France: L'Autre Rive, 2007. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed (in French) & signed by Alain Jegou to Charles Plymell & Pamela Beach Plymell. A bilingual collection of poems by Alain Jegou (1948-2013), the acclaimed French poet described here as "...a fisherman-poet with a Rabelaisian style, deeply attached to Brittany, North American Indians, the Beat Generation and physical action in general. (pg. 62) As noted on the same page, "Cash"..... More

Newtown, Powys, Wales: Gwag Gregynog CYF, 1988. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by all five members of publisher's staff. A poem from 1956 by Robert Maynard (Bobi) Jones (1929-2017), an academician & among the most acclaimed & prolific writers in the original Welsh language. All text in Welsh. With a beautiful, familial woodcut illustration by Hilary Paynter. Chapbook in sewn wrappers with enveloping over-wrap, an exquisitely hand-crafted letterpress production..... More

Llandysul, Wales: Dewi Stephen Jones, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed at great length & signed by Dewi Stephen Jones to Thomas Rain Crowe; & with Jones' handwritten English translation of a poem. A collection of poems by Dewi Stephen Jones, the noted Welsh poet. All text in the Welsh language. Trade-format softcover original, first edition. Beginning on shorter title page, continuing on next blank & title pages, Jones has hand-written..... More

Paris, France: L'Herne, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. An early French-language study of the life & work of Jack Kerouac by Victor-Levy Beaulieu, the Quebecois novelist, playwright & biographer. A first printing (dated October 26, 1973 on colophon page) of a softcover original in sewn binding, part of the publisher's Les Livres Noirs series. Text in French. A collectible Kerouac rarity with the perspective of an author who shared his subject's..... More

Quebec, Canada: Le Secretariat Permanent des Peuples Francophones, 1987. First Printing. Magazine Format. French & English texts of a transcript of a rare Kerouac radio interview conducted by Fernand Seguin on March 7, 1967. Published in September 1987 for the Kerouac conference held in Quebec in October of that year. Also includes other articles in French or English texts. From the collection of the late James Perrizo, Beat collector, scholar..... More

Quebec, Canada: Le Secretariat Permanent des Peuples Francophones, 1987. First Printing. Magazine Format. First (probably only) magazine-format printing from February 1987 of a Kerouac study, with text in French & quotes from Kerouac texts in English. From the collection of the late James Perrizo, Beat scholar, collector & one-time assistant to Edie Kerouac Parker, Jack's former wife. This is among a cache of items which he probably obtained at a...... More

Quebec, Canada: Secretariat Permanent des Peuples Francophones, n/d (c. 1987). First Printing. Single Sheet. A large (17" x 22") poster issued by the organization that sponsored the Jack Kerouac Conference held in Quebec during October 1-4, 1987. Presumably from at/near the time of that event. Featuring a large photo-image of Kerouac with pop-artesque dot emphasis. A wonderful Kerouac poster from the collection of the late James Perrizo, Beat scholar, collector..... More