New York, NY: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. The first thing one sees when opening the Fall 1970 issue of The Paris Review is a contemporary ad for the release of the now-legendary "Anthology of New York Poets" co-edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro. Turn a few pages further to our illustrious list of contributors and the surprise (and treat) waiting there quietly reveals itself: "The Basketball..... More
[Item #3783]
London, England: Paladin Grafton Books, 1986. First UK Edition. Softcover. The first British edition of the hallucinatory novel by Kathy Acker, the late William S. Burroughs-influenced experimental writer. A softcover original issued the same year (1986) & in similar trade format as the first Grove Press/Evergreen US edition. Both editions also have the same bold front cover illustration by Catherine Denvir. "If Miller and Burroughs didn't curl your hair, Acker's..... More
[Item #1635]
New York, NY: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. The first hardcover edition of a compilation of three novels by the late Kathy Acker, the provocative experimental author among whose influences was William S. Burroughs. Consisting of Kathy Goes to Haiti, originally published in 1978 in a limited small press edition; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, about the controversial, murdered Italian film director & first published..... More
[Item #1637]
Elmwood Park, IL: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1989. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1989 number of the venerable literary journal is partly dedicated to articles by & about Kathy Acker, the late experimental writer often cited as a literary post-punk progeny of William S. Burroughs among other influences. Includes the transcript of a conversation between Acker & Ellen G. Friedman, as well as articles by Acker herself, Naomi Jacobs, Robert..... More
[Item #1638]
Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More
[Item #3800]
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1982. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his contribution to James Perrizo. This is the first softcover edition of a compilation of fiction by Michigan writers, edited by James Tipton & Robert E. Wegner. Among the contributors is the noted writer George Baxter, then teaching at the University of Michigan. He has signed this copy at his contribution with citation: "For..... More
[Item #1947]
Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his preface to James Perrizo. An anthology of poetry & short fiction from the first decade of Passages North, the literary journal "...from the Great Lakes Region (that) has won a national audience and critical acclaim."(from back cover) Edited by Elinor Benedict & with a preface by Charles Baxter. Baxter has signed this copy at his preface..... More
[Item #1948]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. This volume consists of The Electric Banana by Mary Beach with an introduction by William S. Burroughs, first published separately in 1975; The Gothic Banana, a humorous piece in unique dialect-spelling; & No Eye No Cyclone. Beach (whose illustrious literary family included Sylvia Beach, proprietor of Shakespeare & Co. in Paris & the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses) &..... More
[Item #1951]
Kryss, Tom. Charlestown, OH: Black Rabbit Press, December 2008. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Small printed sheets bound into large card wrappers, containing 2 stories by John Bennett: The title story, & Yet Again. This item was sent out as a Christmas greeting by poet Tom Kryss to his friends. Artwork by Kryss printed on card stock & affixed to front cover. As New. More
[Item #1506]
New York, NY: Situations, 1998. First Separate Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The title work along with eleven other short prose-poem stories by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the great New York School poet's-poet & a canonical category onto himself. A note preceding this collection states that it first "...appeared in Angel Hair #4, Winter 1967/68, thanks to editors Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman, and has not been published since..." This first separate publication..... More
[Item #2709]
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author and translator Translated by Paul Bowles. One of 100 hardcover copies signed by both author Mohammed Mrabet & translator Paul Bowles. Issued without dust jacket., no sequence number. A very rare & collectible Paul Bowles item. Fine. More
[Item #1022]
Zurich, Switzerland: Vittorio Santaro, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. With a preface by the author & photographs by Vittorio Santoro. First edition. One of 1500 copies issued. Issued without dust jacket. Fine. More
[Item #1026]
Tiburon, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1997. First American Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author and Translator. Rey Rosa's first full-length Novella - Translated from the Spanish & Afterword by Paul Bowles. Bilingual edition with Spanish on left pages & English translation on right pages. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Rey Rosa & Paul Bowles, this is #20/150. Red cloth. Dust jacket has crease on front flap. Near Mint... More
[Item #1027]
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "All day the café was full of men in djellebas and turbans. They even filled the tables on the pavement outside, and Abdeslamran without stopping between the fire and the tables, carrying tea and coffee and Coca-Cola. Most of the customers smoked kif, and many of them tried to sell it to him. He never bought any, because when he refused..... More
[Item #3886]
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet. (1/100 Unnumbered Limited First Edition Hardcover Copies) "...he was beginning to tape a new novel for translation, this one by another young Moroccan, Mohammed Mrabet. Mrabet had actually met Bowles and Jane [Bowles] several years earlier while working as a cook and a bartender for an American who had a house on the Old..... More
[Item #3903]
New York, NY: Targ Editions, 1979. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies signed by Richard Brautigan. A late work by counterculture-cult author Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), direct successor/progeny of the Beat Generation & subject of an extensive recent biography by William Hjortsberg. As stated by the author, "this small collection of short stories was written in Tokyo and Montana between 1977 and 1978. The stories are positioned so as..... More
[Item #1806]
New York, NY: Herodias, Inc., 2000. First edition thus. Softcover. First published in 1952 in an expurgated edition, this is the first Herodias Classics Edition, with the "unrepentant, unexpurgated" text of later printings of this underground novel, which "brought a French existentialist sensibility to (the) American malaise" as described by Steven Moore in his forward to this edition. Roughly concurrent with the Beat & other writings that took the lid..... More
[Item #1572]
Northville, MI: Sun Dog Press, 2005. First edition. Softcover. "Though best known as the author of two of the earliest Beat novels (Who Walk in Darkness and The Bold Saboteurs), Chandler Brossard (1922-93) displayed his exuberant imagination best in the shorter works he wrote during the second half of his life, all of which are collected here."(back cover) This volume is edited & with an introduction by Steven Moore, who..... More
[Item #1573]
London, England: Sphere Books Limited, 1971. First British Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his paranoid needle-brother Chad through the dangerous city streets. Totally stripped of remorse..... More
[Item #3390]
New York: Olympia Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. A look at the "methedrine universe" of William S. Burroughs Jr., the ill-fated son of William S. Burroughs. A chronicle of the author's experiences, impressions & struggles with the drug which his mother was severely addicted to and passed onto him at birth. A classic work and a cornerstone in any Neo-Beat collection. The true first edition, published by the U.S. branch..... More
[Item #1084]
William S. Burroughs, 2003. Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2003. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. This Italian translation of The Soft Machine is the first edition issued by this publisher, & is therefore a first edition thus. First published by Olympia Press in Paris in 1961, TSM is another high cut-up production in the wake of Naked Lunch, influenced by Brion Gysin's observation that "writing is fifty years behind painting" in..... More
[Item #1611]
Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Naked Lunch is a blueprint, a How-to Book...Black insect lusts open into vast, other planet landscapes...Abstract concepts, bare as algebra, narrow down to a black turd or a pair of aging cajones..." (pg. 215) Among the essential primary works associated with the Beat Generation along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the significance & far-reaching influence of William..... More
[Item #3487]
Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., Spring 1959. First Printing. Softcover. A famous & essential collector's item, this is "the complete contents of the suppressed winter 1959 Chicago Review" as noted on the front cover. As editor Irving Rosenthal explains in his introductory editorial, the authorities of University of Chicago Press would not allow contributions by William S. Burroughs or Jack Kerouac in the Chicago Review, due to their then-very controversial..... More
[Item #1803]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. First Printing; Fifth Printing. Hardcovers. Book "And only after the first shock does one realize that what Burroughs is writing about is not only the destruction of depraved men by their drug lust, but the destruction of all men by their consuming addictions...Burroughs is not only serious in his intent, but he is a writer of great power and artistic integrity engaged in..... More
[Item #3472]
London, England: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Published only in the UK, this work combines texts from the Olympia Press editions of Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine & The Ticket That Exploded, along with new additional material, cut-up & folded-in to form a new work. A very rare William S. Burroughs collectible item, in exceptionally great condition with the book mint except for slight..... More
[Item #1511]