London, England, UK: Klinker Zoundz/New River Music, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Aberration is a 1988 vinyl LP by Birdyak, the free-improvisation group built around British concrete, visual & sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) & British guitarist Hugh Metcalfe, released on Metcalfe's own Klinker Zoundz label, a "free jazz/poetry/performance art/etc club." It comprises twelve tracks compiled from live recordings made in 1986–87 at Apples & Snakes, Torriano Meeting House, the..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard.” (Nchaioui Proverb; title page). A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard is a collection of short fiction by American expatriate and author Paul Bowles (1910-1999) published by Beat Generation acolyte Lawrence Ferlinghetti's (1919-2021) City Lights Books in 1962. The volume was..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, dated, placed & signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "The astonishing, unexpurgated, revelatory heart-talk between two of the Founding Fathers of Post-Modern American Literature. Absolutely the most intimate documentation of the histories of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others closely associated with the authors. Filled with original, unpublished poems, the range of Allen Ginsberg's correspondence is comparable..... More

Buffalo, NY: Audit/Poetry, 1968. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. From the library of Albert Glover, with his ownership signature, date & stamp. “I have a curious feeling about the material here collected. The interviews took place in a variety of circumstances. In some cases the interviewers were particular friends who had come to our house, making the whole occasion happily relaxed and informal...The talking I did at the Vancouver Poetry Conference..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, inscribed, placed & dated by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "This bibliography of the works of Allen Ginsberg up to July 1, 1967, including addenda up to 1969, is a comprehensive record of the publication of Ginsberg's writing throughout the world. Listing monographs, booklets, pamphlets, contributions to books, posters, anthologies and magazines, records and tapes, films, paintings, drawings, etc...... More

New York, NY, USA: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Karen Finley to Brian Jacobs, & with autograph "meditation" by Finley. "As soon as you told me it wasn't good for me - it tasted so much better" (unpaginated). Enough is Enough: Weekly Meditations for Living Dysfunctionally by American poet, musician & educator Karen Finley (b. 1956) is a humorous and satirical..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1969. First American Edition. Softcover. (Cook 74, pp. 80-81; Morgan A12, a3.1, p. 21). This is the first American edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg & described by him in a note preceding them as "...compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor not poems: journal notations..... More

n/p: n/p, 1970. First Edition. Single Sheet. Hand-placed, dated & signed by Allen Ginsberg. "Night meat lights/ hypnotizing hungry autos on iron bridges/ crossing down Main/ "Get a goddamned haircut!"[/ front window cry, whose face dark drunk/ or beautiful chiseled mouth kist by whiskey?" (first stanza) A broadside with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), a Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. Dated March 15, 1970 below facsimile signature..... More

Berkeley, CA: Workingmans Press, 1975. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Nothing lonelier/ than on a Greyhound/ crossing Donner Pass/ Superhighway 80/ thru Truckee to Reno/ age 20,/ rolling on concrete/ past pines icy/ Castle Peak." ("Green Notebook," pg. 3) A compilation of three separate collections/works by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond. Compiled together for the first time in a chapbook published by The Workingmans Press, co-edited by..... More

New York, NY, USA: Grove Press, 1978. First Evergreen Edition. Large-Format Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "As these journals begin, Ginsberg has established himself in a small furnished room on 15th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues opposite the Port Authority building..." (excerpt, Reader's Guide, pg. xv). Allen Ginsberg Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties (Morgan, a2.1, pg. 48) offers a profound insight into Beat Generation Founding Father..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1972. First Trade Softcover Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. Signed, placed & dated by Allen Ginsberg for Richard Cupidi. “Dear Doctor: in spite of the grey secrecy of time and my own self-shuttering doubts in these youthful rainy days, I would like to make my presence in Paterson known to you, and I hope you will welcome this from me, an unknown young poet, to you..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "Time comes spirit weakens and goes blank apartments | shuffled through and forgotten" (first stanza, "The Names," pg. 11). Poems All Over the Place: Mostly 'Seventies by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) is a collection of poems that reflect Ginsberg's evolution and the cultural shifts of the 1970s. The selection..... More

Hereford, England: Five Seasons Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Sewn Binding. With hand-written letter from publisher Glenn Storhaug to Richard Cupidi. “White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow | Trees moving in rivers of wind | The clouds arise | as on a wave, gigantic eddy lifting mist | above teeming ferns exquisitely swayed | along a green crag | glimpsed thru mullioned glass in valley raine.” (First stanza, Wales Visitation..... More