New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More

New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator Everett Henry. The great Gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) first published in 1818. Considered in critical hindsight as one of the earliest works of science fiction, Shelley's masterpiece is also a keen allegorical study of human nature & hubris. Offered here is the Limited Editions Club first edition thus published in 1934..... More

Durham, NC: Mineshaft in Conjunction with Grass Roots Press, 2005. Limited First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Here we have Mineshaft No. 16--another great issue of Everett Rand’s cult favorite Mineshaft magazine, known for its eclectic mix of prolific-&-underappreciated literary contributors and a robust aesthetic/editorial focus on Underground Comix. Beat-&-Deep Image poet Herschel Silverman appears with the poem “Fret Not Foggy”; next to Silverman’s poem are some black-&-white A.D. Winans photographs of..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Transcript of remarks delivered by the great Beat- Black Mountain School poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005), as a participant in the major conference that was held in Boulder, Colorado at the Naropa Institute during 1982 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of On the Road, the breakthrough novel by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat..... More

London, England: Picador/ Pan Books Ltd., 1989. First UK Edition. Hardcover. " "Interzone" was the working title for the novel William S. Burroughs composed from roughly 1953 through 1958- the work that, when finally published under the title Naked Lunch, revolutionized the modern novel to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other work in this century. Burroughs' readers will recognize "Interzone" as the dreamlike locus of so much of his..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971; 1981. First Edition, Fourth Printing; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. "For a time I held a unique position. Among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver, there was not one so young as myself. Amid these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards..... More

Liverpool, PA; n/p: Bob Sprowls; Becky Thatcher Book Shop, 1985; n/d. Limited First Edition; First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Two rare booklets concerning Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the great American humorist & author: (1) Mark Twain in Williamsport, booklet in stapled wrappers, 1985 first edition, No. 725 of 1000 copies, all as stated on title page. With a series of articles by Twain scholar & educator T.R. McIntosh..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. It contains all of the poet's long poems...Among the finest of Rexroth's shorter poems are the contemplative lyrics; it now becomes clear as we can read the long poems together and in sequence that he is a philosophical poet of consequence who..... More