New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "DOCTOR SAX is a story of awakening youth in a grey, colorless New England mill town. It is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Mass. Above all, it is the story of the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence...Always lurking behind the..... More
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London, England; Amherst, MA: Villiers Publications Ltd.; Mulch Press, 1962; 1972. First Printing; Limited Edition. Softcover; Sewn Binding with Stapled Cover Sheets. Nomad journal signed by Diane Wakoski. A bundle of two inter-related rarities: (1) Nomad/New York Ten/Eleven, Autumn 1962. This double number of the literary journal edited by Donald Factor & Anthony Linick (with Anselm Hollo listed as "European Correspondent"), published in London, features mostly poetry & some prose..... More
[Item #3350]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "The Stiffest of the Corpse brings together the best of the radical journal of books and ideas that galvanized the tepid literary world of the 1980s. Talk, erudition and savagery join here for a truly international assault on mass hypnosis and image manipulation. This collection should further fuel the controversies that are the life blood of..... More
[Item #3349]
New York, NY: Three Rooms Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gerard Malanga to Charles Plymell. "Thomas Merton called Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo "the greatest universal poet since Dante." British poet, critic, and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, identified Vallejo as "...the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." And in the forceful, brilliant poetry of Vallejo, poet/photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit..... More
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New York, NY: The Hearst Corporation: Avon Books Division, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Once again Jack Kerouac's gift for mirroring the sense and essence of an era, for catching the breathing moments of life, his uncanny ear for truth- all is richly revealed in this unique and nostalgic novel of a boy's first experience in love...of his exhilarating and bewildered search for the unawakened man still hidden behind the trembling..... More
[Item #3347]
Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota Press, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed to James Perrizo by Clayton Eshleman. This number of the venerable literary journal, chiefly edited by Robert W. Lewis, is subtitled "Some Others: Contemporary American Poetry" & features the essay "Psyche's New Form: Eshleman's Myth of Transformation" by Paul Christensen. Clayton Eshleman is of course the acclaimed, award-winning poet, translator & scholar who has long..... More
[Item #3346]
Northampton, MA; New York, NY; North Salem, NY: Open Mouth; Kick Books Co.; Bottle of Smoke Press, 2013. Limited First Edition; Original Ephemera. LP Vinyl Record in Letterpress Sleeve; Postcards; Bottled Perfume in Box. LP sleeve signed by Charles Plymell & Bill Nace; postcard signed by Charles Plymell. A most wacky bundle of rarities from Charles Plymell, the Legendary Literary Outlaw & our good friend: (1) 12" vinyl record housed..... More
[Item #3345]
Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More
[Item #3344]
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Thomas Harris. "Will Graham has a fearful gift- a talent for the pursuit of human monsters. He has caught two mass murderers in his FBI career. Now he must hunt again. A ritual murderer has struck twice, killing entire families in two Southeastern cities. Graham must find him before the moon is full again or another family will..... More
[Item #3343]
London, England: Common Margins Ltd., (Copyrighted) 1988. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This number of the literary journal edited by Robin Magowan & Walter Perrie in Dunning, Scotland & published in London features two contributions by Clayton Eshleman. A renowned American poet, translator & scholar, Eshleman has long resided near us in Ypsilanti, Michigan, our friend & mentor. Eshleman's poem "During Bacon" is an intense contemplation of the..... More
[Item #3342]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This special issue of the indispensable Beat Scene magazine edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK is dedicated to Beat Generation Founding Father Jack Kerouac, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of his sad, early death on October 21, 1969. All of the articles relate to Kerouac's later years and are written by such luminaries as Jed Birmingham..... More
[Item #3341]
Paris, France: Shandar, 1971. First Pressing. LP Record in Sleeve. This enigmatic cult production contains one of the briefest & most obscure contributions by William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & way, way Beyond. Daniel Theron (1947-2013) is the lead vocalist & multi-instrumentalist on all the numbers, & headlines the production under the name of Dashiell Hedayat (an apparent tribute to Dashiell Hammett & Sadegh Hedayat). The..... More
[Item #3340]
New York, NY; Paris, France: Giorno Poetry Systems Institute, Inc.; John Giorno & Ugo Rondinone, 1993; 2000. First Printings. Fold-Out Catalogue; Folded Poster. Two very rare productions by John Giorno (1936-2019), who just passed away earlier during the month of this writing (October 11, 2019). Giorno was a legendarily innovative poet & performance artist. He was famously filmed asleep by Andy Warhol, founded & conducted the "Dial-A-Poem" project, & created..... More
[Item #3339]
Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More
[Item #3338]
San Francisco, CA; Hadley, MA: Charles Plymell; Glass Eyes Books/Ecstatic Peace Books, Circa 1964-1965; 2011. First Printing; Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Postcard. Vintage collage magazine & poetry postcard both signed by Charles Plymell. Two very rare collectibles by Charles Plymell, the legendary literary outlaw poet, printer & publisher: (1) An original "1963 Collage Mag" (as hand-written by Plymell on front cover). A relic of the early 1960s period when..... More
[Item #3336]
San Francisco, CA: GLB Publishers, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. "The discerning reader will soon be aware of connections between my killer and the notorious serial murderer, Randy Kraft, who is currently on Death Row, San Quentin, having been convicted of the sex murders of sixteen young men and suspected of killing more than sixty...the interior life, which is what I am about, is entirely my creation...John Keats called this penchant..... More
[Item #3335]
Santa Fe, NM: Tyuonyi/ Institute of American Indian Arts, 1986. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. " "TYUONYI" is a Keresan word meaning 'the meeting place,' and is the name of a major prehistoric ruin in northern New Mexico." (from copyright page) This second number of the literary journal edited by Philip Foss features two poems by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & scholar who shortly after..... More
[Item #3334]
Ann Arbor, MI; Flint, MI;: OtherWind Press; MMMR Publications; White Lotus Farms/ One Pause Poetry, 1988; 2011; 2013. First Printings. Two Postcards; One Magazine in Stapled Wrappers. A most delightful package of collectible ephemera: (1) A postcard-sized broadside with the short poem "eronel" by John Sinclair, the legendary poet-writer-activist-marijuana-martyr-turned-elder-statesman. The poem is dedicated to Ken Mikolowski, the venerable poet, printer & publisher who with his late wife Ann founded &..... More
[Item #3333]
San Francisco, CA: GLB Publishers, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. "Robert Peters has come a long way from his impoverished beginnings in rural Wisconsin. With a series of impressive academic degrees, he has taught in Universities from coast to coast, has published both scholarly and literary prize-winners, and has been the recipient of several major fellowships. He has also written and acted in numerous performance versions of some of his works..... More
[Item #3330]
London, England: Department of English, King's College, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. The second number of the British literary journal "...intended as a meeting place for writers from many countries..." (copyright page), edited by Hanne Bramness & Shamoon Zamir. Featuring the poem "Mistress Spirit" by Clayton Eshleman, the great American poet, translator & scholar who has long resided near us in Michigan..... More
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