Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. An essay which originally appeared & can still be found on the indispensable website that serves as "A William S. Burroughs Community": Reality Studio (realitystudio.org). The author of this essay, archived under "Editor" on the RS site, is not named. Most probably it is Jed Birmingham, the venerable super-scholar & collector of WSB who is the chief..... More

New York, NY; San Francisco, CA: The Penguin Group; City Lights Books, 1990; 1998. First Editions Thus; First Edition. Softcovers. A bundle of classic works by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), among the primary- & one of the few female- original poets of the Beat Generation & Beyond: (1) Memoirs of a Beatnik [ISBN 0-14-02-3539-6], trade-format softcover original, first edition thus (1998), second printing as indicated by number sequence on copyright..... More

Clarence Center, NY: Moody Street Irregulars, 1984-85. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is yet another essential bundle of the Kerouac-themed publication helmed by the late Joy Walsh, "Moody Street Irregulars." We begin with Issue No. 14--the special "On the Road Conference" Issue, which opens with a piece by Susan Edwards titled "Dialogue with Someone Great: Jack Kerouac"; next, we have a contribution from our esteemed friend-&-colleague at the European..... More

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "The visionary, sardonic, often outrageous poems in this bilingual edition represent the first presentation in English of the Work of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907-1943). With Rene Daumal [and Roger Vailland] he was founder of the literary movement and magazine 'Le Grand Jeu' (1928-32), the essence of which he defined as "the impersonal instant of eternity in emptiness," a phrase of such..... More

San Francisco, CA: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is the highly sought-after 1959 work of the Beat Generation's 'Chairman of Surrealism,' Philip Lamantia (1927-2005): the fiery-&-notorious underground classic, "Narcotica." The objectively confrontational avant-garde bona-fides of "Narcotica" announce themselves before one even reaches the text; this, of course, comes in the form of cover art & design by the eternally fascinating (and hauntingly fabled) underground artist-&-publisher, Wallace..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1967 (1969). Second Printing. Softcover. "Philip Lamantia was born October 23, 1927 in San Francisco. Discovered & published at fifteen by VIEW, he was acclaimed & welcomed by Andre Breton into the Surrealist movement. Then followed a long, transitional period of mystical orientations & silences. With his latest poems, since 1963, he says: 'I'm returning to my initial sources -- like an act of..... More

Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A portfolio of photographs by Gerard Malanga, the Beat-progeny countercultural poet & photographer who was a key associate of Andy Warhol during the 1960s "factory" era. The volume begins with stills from Malanga's screen tests of celebrities & Warhol's "Superstars" including Nico, Salvador Dali et al.; followed by a section of portraits depicting everyone from William S. Burroughs to Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. "John wrote very quickly. Words flowed from his pen like sparkling water; he never had to stop to think. / ... / John wrote 'Skywriting' at a time when the world was wondering whatever had happened to him. Why wasn't he writing songs anymore? Well, this was what he was busy doing. He would write one page and ask me..... More