Carbondale, IL / Santa Barbara, CA: Southern Illinois University Press / Table Talk Press, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Single Sheets / Broadside / Postcards. 10 Signed Items from noted San Francisco Renaissance poet & Essayist Michael McClure. This supreme package of McClure-iana contains what is quite possibly one of the most impressive and alluring assemblages of items by and relating to Michael McClure ever brought to market. This... More

Los Angeles, CA: Zero Press, 1980. First Printing. Softcover. This issue of "Zero" magazine, subtitled "Contemporary Buddhist Life and Thought," features an astonishing contributor list including John Ashbery, John Cage, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg and Joni Mitchell among others. Of particular interest to this writer was the illuminating Joni Mitchell interview, in which she candidly--and at considerable length--discusses what it was like to work with Charles Mingus on the "Mingus"... More

London, England: Sixpack / Pierre Joris, 1974. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by decorated Essayist, Educator, Poet and Translator Clayton Eshleman. Offered here are two contiguous issues of Pierre Joris' "Sixpack" magazine of London, England, featuring work from a host of familiar names known to many readers of mid-century American literature. Issue six contains contributions from Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Jackson Mac Low, Eric... More

San Francisco, CA: Bastard Angel / Harold Norse, 1972. First Printing. Single Sheet. At the end of 1971, Harold Norse moved permanently to San Francisco, repatriating himself in an effort to live amongst a group of poets once again. By this time, Norse had become accustomed to expatriate sojourns in exotic locales, often surrounding himself with one, two or three highly notable others. Despite this, Harold desired a community of... More

Berkeley, CA: Synapse Magazine / D.R. Hazelton, 1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The little-known Synapse magazine ran for four issues, starting in 1964 and ending near the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965. Founding Editor Dave Hazelton met Doug Palmer and Jim Thurber at a "Modern Poetry" class at San Francisco State University, where they were not allowed to discuss the Beat poets in class. In protest... More

New York, NY: Beach Books,Texts & Documents, Inc. 1969. Second American Edition (First Edition Thus). Softcover. Norman Rubington (1921-1991) was an acclaimed painter, illustrator & filmmaker who first published this work with Maurice Girodias' fabled Olympia Press in 1960. The first American edition was issued the next year by The Citadel Press. This is the Second American Edition, first printing (though not stated) of 1969, published by Beach Books, Texts... More

New York, NY: Avon Books, 1959 (1958). Second Edition. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac, apostle and jazz poet of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1922. Kerouac, who likes to spend his time "in skid row or jazz joints or with personal poet madmen" says that he went "on the road" for six years, hopping freights, hitchhiking, working on railroads, merchant ships and writing whatever came into his head."... More

New York, NY: Paragon House, 1989. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Carl Solomon's brilliance as mass observer of cosmopolitan political movements and esthetic options is once again proved in this volume of sophisticated communiques from megalopolis, advice to the love-lorn, sane letters to crazy literateurs, home front manifestos, cold war burlesque, and mental vaudeville essays. Combining the old world humor of the Bronx and continental brevity of Parisian wit he... More

New York, NY: Corinth Books, 1960 (1968). Fifth Printing. Softcover. An iconic book charting what it then--in 1960--referred to as "The Beat Scene," this landmark publication is as impressive for the list of contributors it contains as for what is actually in it. While the actual work contained within the book is of obvious interest and quality, perhaps most remarkable are the Fred McDarrah photographs. For example, there is an... More

Portland, OR: Tim Kerr Records, 1992. Limited First Edition. 10" LP in Jacket. The only finished collaboration between William S. Burroughs, the foremost figure of the Beat Generation & beyond; & Kurt Cobain, the acclaimed, doomed Nirvana front man & pioneering grunge musician. WSB reads the title short work, originally published in Exterminator! (1973), with Cobain's dissonant guitar accompaniment. As noted in Schottlaender, this is a "10" one-sided EP picture... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, March 2017. Limited Edition (#38/125). Stapled Wrappers. Jed Birmingham, perhaps best known for his exceptional site on all things William S. Burroughs, the Mimeograph Revolution and beyond, here has composed a brilliant essay on Charles Olson, the Black Mountain-affiliated mid-century poetic giant (literally and figuratively) and details his trip to the Ralph Maud/Charles Olson Library and his experience at the Charles Olson Memorial Lecture. The... More

New York, NY: Excelsior Press, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat Coast East: An Anthology of Rebellion" is an interesting early compilation of "Beat" writers at the height of early media hysteria regarding what exactly the word "Beat" meant. "What is beat? Is there a final or definitive definition?...So crazy--one must dig this word somehow. I walked along the village limelight and asked an assortment of squalid squares and plastered saints... More

New York, NY: Hanuman Books, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "About two months later we ran into some people who knew how to smoke, and Jesus, the first time I turned on, I couldn't stop laughing...Like somebody had pasted a smile on my face and I couldn't take it off. Everything I looked at seemed hilarious. I really enjoyed it. But my real interest was beginning to develop in H, in... More