Los Angeles, CA: Aaron Blake Publishers, 1987. First Edition. Single Sheet. "Chronicling the Beat scene from its beginnings at Columbia University in 1945, THE BEAT GENERATION MAP OF AMERICA lists the personalities, books, seminal events and locales defining the era, which peaked in San Francisco during the late 50's." (from introduction) A large, wide poster (20" x 27") with Stan Grant's depictions of the primary literary & musical members &..... More

New York, NY: Angel Hair Books, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Hello. May I be alive in your dream of unconsciousness?" (first sentence/ entire first page) An early work by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the brilliant & prolific poet, editor & biographer associated with but distinct from many Beat-&-Beyond writers & schools; in collaboration with his contemporary Ron Padgett, the New York School master poet who is still with us..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the indispensable magazine devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring three fascinating articles that shed new light on heretofore-obscure aspects & episodes in the life of Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, including "Kerouac in Provincetown: How History Could Have Been Different/ Kerouac's and..... More

Binghamton, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This vintage number of the scholarly literary journal, specially dedicated to "The Oral Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry" & chiefly edited by Robert Kroetsch & William V. Spanos, features the essay "The Gull Wall" by Clayton Eshleman, an analysis of the work of Paul Blackburn, his late friend & fellow acclaimed American..... More

Long Island, NY: Myshkin Press, 2008; 2012. First Editions. Stapled Wrappers; Sewn Wrappers. First chapbook inscribed & signed by Lynne Savitt to Charles & Pamela Plymell; second chapbook inscribed & signed to Charles Plymell. Two chapbooks of poetry by Lynne Savitt, the lascivious, exuberant, ultimately sweet & sentimental poet who in her earlier life was a student & protege of Diane Wakoski. Savitt's poems have been published in the New..... More

Lawrence, KS: Hog Oil Press, 2000. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed by Jim McCrary to Charles & Pamela Plymell. A collection of poems by Jim McCrary, the noted poet & educator who was a friend of William S. Burroughs; a member of WSB's family of researchers, editors & assistants at Burroughs Communications led by James Grauerholz in Lawrence, Kansas. Somewhat eccentrically divided into two sections, the first with eight poems;..... More

Portland, ME: The Cafe Review, Inc., 2011. First Printing; Original Hand-Made Card. Softcover; Single Folded Sheet. Original hand-made Christmas greeting card inscribed & signed by Robert & Michele Branaman to Charles & Pamela Plymell. This number of the literary & art journal founded & chiefly edited by Steve Luttrell features front cover & interior reproductions of artworks by Robert Branaman, the acclaimed 1960s counterculture-&-beyond artist & poet who is a...... More

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1972. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Thomas Rain Crowe. "You talk to me of freedom? Empty question/ under umbrellas of bombs in the sky/ It's a disgrace to be free of your own age/ A hundred times more shameful than to be its slave." ("On the Question of Freedom, fourth stanza, translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with Anthony Kahn) A...... More