New York, NY: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1960 (1965). First Edition, Third Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. First released in 1960, Gary Snyder's "Myths & Texts" was the followup to his celebrated "Riprap," first published by Cid Corman's Origin Press in Japan in 1959. Ted Wilentz, owner of the famed 8th Street Bookshop in New... More
[Item #2976]
New York, NY: New Directions, 1967. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. "'Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human afffairs'--the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, 'Regarding Wave,' reflects 'a half-buried series of word origins dating back through the Indo-European... More
[Item #2973]
New York, NY: New Directions, 1969. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. Subtitled as "Technical Notes & Queries / To Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries," "Earth House Hold" is a collection of prose jottings and poetic-philosophical musings on a vast array of subject matter, ranging from the literary to the cultural, the anthropological to the ecological. Snyder... More
[Item #2972]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1977. First Printing. Softcover. "The wisdom and skill of those who studied the universe first hand, by direct knowledge and experience, for millennia, both inside and outside themselves, is what we might call the Old Ways. Those who envision a possible future planet on which we continue that study, and where we live by the Green and the Sun, have no choice but to... More
[Item #2971]
New York, NY: New Directions, 1974. Fifth Printing. Softcover. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "Turtle Island," next to his early book "Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems," is arguably Snyder's most-read book. It has stayed in print continuously since its publication, and Snyder and his Beat contemporaries were reaching new maturity in their practice during the... More
[Item #2970]
Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Gary Snyder to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. Gary Snyder's "Danger on Peaks" was published by Jack Shoemaker's Shoemaker & Hoard publishing company in 2004. Inside the book we found a postcard-flyer for a reading-celebration of Karl Pohrt; legendary Ann Arborite, University of Michigan adjunct professor, and onetime proprietor of Ann Arbor's storied Shaman Drum Bookshop... More
[Item #2968]
Washington DC: Counterpoint Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Gary Snyder to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. "The Gary Snyder Reader" represents 40 years of Snyder's work as a poet, in prose, and as a translator. "In addition to being a generous sampling from published books, this Reader also draws on fugitive and unpublished material. I have made a strong case in recent years for people... More
[Item #2967]
London, England: Fulcrum Press, 1966 (1967). First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover in Sewn Binding. Signed by Gary Snyder to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. "A Range of Poems" is comprised of the Snyder collections "Riprap," "Cold Mountain," "Myths & Texts," the rare "Miyazawa Kenji," (translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji, greatly admired by Snyder and others) and "The Back Country." This publication marked the first appearance... More
[Item #2966]
Madley, England: Five Seasons Press, 1984. First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Gary Snyder to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary "Alternative Press." "Gold Wild Sacred" is an essay by Gary Snyder that first appeared--albeit in a shorter and less-polished form--in the Autumn 1983 edition of the CoEvolution Quarterly. It is a quintessential Snyder publication in that it covers in its subject matter Snyder's "ethnopoetic," ecologically-conscious worldview and his activist... More
[Item #2965]
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition, First State. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. This publication marks the first collected appearance of poems from Snyder's masterwork, "Mountains and Rivers Without End," a series of poems that would take Snyder 40+ years to complete. Esteemed as his ultimate achievement, this publication is essential reading for collectors... More
[Item #2964]
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Gary Snyder. From the Collection of Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. Released as "Writing 7" by legendary editor Don Allen's Four Seasons Foundation, this publication marks the very first combined release of the Snyder titles "Riprap" and "Cold Mountain Poems," both of which initially were released in separate publications. Snyder's work gained... More
[Item #2963]
Santa Fe, NM: Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A catalog for a solo exhibition of artworks by William S. Burroughs, held at the Gallery Casa Sin Nombre in Santa Fe, New Mexico during 1988. WSB, the foremost Beat-&-Beyond literary figure, began creating art in earnest after the death of artist-writer Brion Gysin, his friend & collaborator, in 1986. This catalog features "On Burroughs' Art," the lengthy... More
[Item #2962]
Lawrence, KS; London, England: William S. Burroughs; Picador, 1995; 1996. Manuscript Facsimile; First UK Softcover Edition. A uniquely significant Burroughsian Bundle: Jim McCrary, a poet & educator, resides in Lawrence, Kansas, where he was a friend & associate of William S. Burroughs during the Beat-&-Beyond master's later years; a member of Burroughs Communications led by James Grauerholz. McCrary had a particularly deep role in WSB's late work, My Education: A.... More
[Item #2961]
Bonn, Germany: Pociao's Books, 1991. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the German journal is subtitled as a "William S. Burroughs Special" & is entirely devoted to the supremely innovative Beat-&-Beyond literary legend. With translated writings by WSB including "M.O.B."; interviews & articles conducted & written by well-regarded WSB collaborators including Jurgen Ploog & Udo Breger. This issue was co-edited by Carl Weissner, another respected Burroughsian. With vintage images... More
[Item #2960]
Caen, France: Cahiers de Nuit, 1994. First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. A small chapbook with a short work by William S. Burroughs. Translated from English into French by Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu, the late Parisian husband-wife team in art & writing who knew & collaborated with WSB along with many others. An exquisite production with illustrated dust wrapper (dw) over blank stapled wrappers (sw). Reproductions of details from Pop... More
[Item #2959]
Paris, France: Christian Bourgios Editeur, 1991. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A small chapbook with an excerpt from the French-language edition of William S. Burroughs' The Ticket that Exploded. Translated and adopted by Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu, the late Parisian husband-wife team of artist-writers who collaborated with WSB & many others. Published on the occasion of an exhibition regarding Brion Gysin's famous "Dream Machine," an illustration of which is reproduced... More
[Item #2924]
New York, NY: Anne Waldman, 1982. First Edition. 45 RPM "Picture Sleeve" Single. Signed by Anne Waldman to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. In the late 1970s Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg & others formed a coalition called the Rocky Flats Truth Force, a grassroots, nonviolent antinuclear group which protested the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant near the city of Golden, Colorado. Iconic photographs of the event were... More
[Item #2958]
Berkeley, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. "Shortly after we moved into Hyphen-House we heard that Jack was coming to San Francisco from Hollywood where he had appeared on the Steve Allen Show. Then he was there, in the kitchen, seated at the table, with red plaid hunting cap set back on his head, and red check flannel shirt worn with tails out, and dress slacks with creases... More
[Item #2957]
New York, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. "Two philosophies are now struggling in this world: the philosophy of disbelief, of pessimism, and the philosophy of belief in an enlightened future for humanity. I have seen the living incarnation of this belief in many wonderful people whom I met at Bratsk. In the new Siberia... More
[Item #2956]
Ann Arbor, MI: Rainbow People's Party, 1971. First Printing. Single Sheet. Offered here is an original postcard petitioning for the release of John Sinclair, the seminal countercultural activist whose "Total Assault on the Culture!" began with his founding of the Artists' Workshop in Detroit, Michigan. Sinclair was immortalized by John Lennon in his song, "John Sinclair" which chronicled Sinclair's unfair, deceitful arrest and imprisonment. The efforts of Lennon, the Ann... More
[Item #2955]
Ann Arbor, MI: Rainbow People's Party, 1971. First Printing. Newspaper / Single Sheet. Perhaps the rarest of our Sinclair offerings to-date and one of the most interesting items we've yet obtained from the Mikolowski collection is this original program from the John Sinclair Freedom Rally that took place on December 10, 1971 at the Crisler Arena. John Sinclair and his Artists' Workshop played an invaluable and integral role in the... More
[Item #2954]
New York, NY: Poet's Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. This classic collection of stories from Beat Generation legend Herbert Huncke was published by Diane di Prima's "Poet's Press" in New York City in 1965. Di Prima was among the first to see the immense naturalistic talent of a writer like Huncke; his raw, gritty, unrelenting tales are replicated with an honesty that could be analogized to James Joyce's... More
[Item #2953]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 83 of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a great essay with a then-81 year old Lawrence Ferlinghetti about the infamous HOWL trial and the original San Francisco scene surrounding the publication of Ginsberg's most widely-known work. Ferlinghetti, as ever, is quick to dispel rumors and misconceptions about the event and that time, fly-swatting the mythology away from the... More
[Item #2952]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from... More
[Item #2951]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 85 begins with an incredibly fascinating article from the one and only Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs and John Wieners "Measure" magazine, of which Burroughs nearly was a part of under his cardinal pseudonym "William Lee." An unsuspecting Wieners had not read Burroughs first work, "Junkie," published under William Lee, so turned down the inclusion of... More
[Item #2950]