Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2020. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "In early May 1993, I got a call from Michael Wenger at San Francisco Zen Center. He told me that Philip Whalen needed someone to help him perform daily tasks, answer mail, take him shopping, and so on. I had reservations because my life is in a state of upheaval...I went to visit Philip in his room at..... More
[Item #4191]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1991; 1994; 1995. Limited First Editions; First Edition. Single Sheets; Softcover. ISBN: 1-883197-04-X; 1-883197-06-6. "Against Information" broadside signed by John Lane. A collection of three collectors' items by John Lane, the noted & prolific South Carolinian poet, environmentalist & academician: (1) "The Body is Full of Lovers," a broadside (appx. 7&3/8" x 13&3/8") with the title poem below reproduction of an uncredited (but signed- by..... More
[Item #4190]
New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg- the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, (father) of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw..... More
[Item #4189]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This winter 2016 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK begins with Ring's intriguing article on little-known Beat poet Kirby Doyle. Although Doyle is lesser-known to the masses, such credible giants of American poetry as Diane di Prima & Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who just passed away as of this writing at age..... More
[Item #4188]
San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1976. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. “My first response to Neeli was that he was a lot like a young version of Allen Ginsberg. A kind of publicist and traffic cop for what was going on around him. This kind of energy and enthusiasm attracted all kinds of people, both younger and older than him. In this sense, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that..... More
[Item #4187]
New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the mid-1950s Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life..... More
[Item #4186]
Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "We talked as we walked/ away from the boaters/ who had circled around her/ not knowing/ that we had imitated/ the sacred glyph/ water, air, rock,/ and the living earth/ the circle within/ the circle without" ("Red Rock Art," first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, essayist, editor..... More
[Item #4185]
Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2013. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "In the spring of 1943, not long after his first tour as a Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother and described it as a novel about "man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the..... More
[Item #4184]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This late summer 2016 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK begins with an interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti conducted by Paul Iorio during 2000, when he was a youthful 81 years old (as we know, Ferlinghetti just recently as of this writing died at age 101). The subject of the interview..... More
[Item #4183]
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. Limited Lettered First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-8108-2621-6. This is the limited, lettered, signed edition of the City Lights Books bibliography compiled by Ralph Cook with introduction from the late literary lion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021). It contains the entire published output of City Lights Books from its inaugural publication—Ferlinghetti’s debut book, “Pictures of the Gone World,”—through 1990. Cook is a first-rate bibliographer and this work does..... More
[Item #4182]
Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "No spirit of community is found amongst men who only work/ in common without communion to impose on a world which/ refuses the changing of it which they desire." (first paragraph, inner front cover preamble) The fourth number in the fourth series of the legendary literary journal edited, published & with contribution by the great expatriate American poet & translator Cid..... More
[Item #4181]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. Signed by Brent Martin & publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "The crows of Snow Hill have returned this morning/ to slide their shiny bodies between heaven and earth/ through the portal of our worn pasture." ("Snow Hill Crows: for Don Russ," first three lines, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Brent Martin, an American conservationist & poet who..... More
[Item #4180]
Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. "It was 1950. Strikingly beautiful (nineteen)-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York City and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when Joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below- it was Jack Kerouac, needing the door unlocked so he could get to a...... More
[Item #4179]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by editor & contributor Thomas Rain Crowe. "Inside these pages there are one hundred years of unique American poets who are editors, publishers, activists, environmentalists, spiritual leaders, and humanitarians engaged in their communities in efforts not only to better themselves but to work hands-on for the betterment of humanity and the planet. Their bodies of work are evidence of these..... More
[Item #4178]
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jan Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac gave birth to a whole generation of young people, kids who left the safety of suburbia for the harder truths of the road. Thousands went searching, and the beatniks of the jazzy fifties gave way to the hippies of the psychedelic sixties, a generation lost on the American highway. But one person inherited Jack's..... More
[Item #4177]