Dover, DE: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2010. Limited First Edition / Association Copy. Softcover in Stiff Wraps. This alluring production from Delaware's respected Bottle of Smoke Press is A.D. Winans' "Drowning Like Li Po in a River of Red Wine," a compilation of selected poems spanning the 40 years between 1970-2010. Of this limited first edition there were 100 unnumbered copies in stiff letterpress wraps, of which this is one... More
[Item #3048]
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
[Item #3047]
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1987. First Edition / Association Copy. Signed (Twice) by Kenward Elmslie. From the Collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, founders of Detroit's Visionary "Alternative Press," Publishers & Friends of Many Beat/"New York School"/"Black Mountain"-affiliated Authors. "26 Bars is an alphabet work of drinking establishments situated in a fantasy USA. The collaboration between Donna Dennis (artist) and Kenward Elmslie (poet) breaks down the barrier between image and... More
[Item #3046]
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
[Item #3045]
New York, NY: Granary Books, 2000. First Trade Softcover Edition / Association Copy. Softcover in Stiff Wraps. Signed (Twice) by Kenward Elmslie. From the Collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, founders of Detroit's Visionary "Alternative Press," Publishers & Friends of Many Beat/"New York School"/"Black Mountain"-affiliated Authors. "'Cyberspace' was created in a millennial visionary frenzy by two confirmed Luddites on the cusp of Y2K. Time keeps the world from happening at... More
[Item #3044]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. Limited First Edition (#34/125). Stapled Wrappers. This recent chapbook from Kevin Ring's esteemed Beat Scene Press covers the time William S. Burroughs spent in South Texas where he attempted "...to cultivate marijuana and live the life of a secluded Texas farmer." Specifically, this is the transcript of a conversation between Rob Johnson, professor at the University of Texas Pan-American, and Juan Ochoa, a graduate... More
[Item #3042]
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
[Item #3041]
New York, NY: Sotheby's, 1999. First Printing. Softcover. This is the official catalog for a legendary auction that took place only several years after the deaths of Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs, the founding Beat Generation icons, & included property from their estates as well as that of Jack Kerouac. With an informative introduction by the acclaimed Ginsberg archivist-biographer Bill Morgan, who writes: "And so friends left gifts for... More
[Item #3040]
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
[Item #3039]
New York, NY: New Directions, 1961. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Rexroth sees the entire spectrum of world culture as being within the range--of understanding and enjoyment--of the average intelligent reader if only the critic will write, not down to him, but with the reader's legitimate everyday-life interests in mind: information, human values and moral issues. These 'Assays' range from an explanation of Kabbalism...notes on ancient Chinese science...American Indian Songs... More
[Item #3037]
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
[Item #3036]
New York, NY: Avon, 1959 (1968). Third Printing. Softcover. From the collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, founders of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press, publishers and friends of many Beat, "New York School," and Black Mountain-affiliated authors. "And that Saturday night when I met her at the Rex, as our usual arrangement, they were playing 'The Masquerade is Over' when she came in with Bessy from the cold--ineffably beautiful as never... More
[Item #3035]
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
[Item #3034]
New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In 1959 he showed up for a much-touted Harvard appearance of Beat bards Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky. The occasion left him ambivalent over whether the author of HOWL was a real poet or merely a crowd-pleasing publicity hound and "Rowser." In his estimate of Corso he was less uncertain, disdaining the neo-romantic ex-con's verse and falling into a protracted... More
[Item #3033]
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
[Item #3032]
London, England: Aloes Books, 2017. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "David Wojnarowicz wrote down these monologues during the late 1970s. This is their first printing outside of his own, 1978, private-circulation copy-shop edition. DW, Renaissance Queer, and AIDS Agitator, died in 1992." (from index/colophon page). A rare posthumous production by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), the polymathic provocateur who epitomized the NYC cult underground, with a true Beat-&-Beyond sensibility. A compilation... More
[Item #3031]
California, PA: Arthur & Glee (Kit) Knight, 1973. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage issue of the pioneering Beat scholarly journal edited & published by the venerable husband-&-wife team of Arthur & Kit (then referred to as "Glee") Knight "...is dedicated to Herbert Huncke, a legend in his own time." (from contents page) The articles devoted to Huncke, the legendary, seminal founder- street mentor of the Beat Generation, include: An... More
[Item #3030]
New York, NY: Arnold Gingrich, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the venerable men's magazine famously includes a compilation of articles under the title "Chicago: The Year of Our Lord, 1968," with contributions (in order) by Terry Southern ("Grooving in Chi"); Jean Genet ("The Members of the Assembly"); William S. Burroughs ("The Coming of the Purple Better One") & John Sack ("In a Pig's eye"). The 1968 Democratic National... More
[Item #3029]
London, England: Aloes Books, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Alexander Adams. A brief, haunting memoir by Alexander Adams, an award-winning artist, poet & writer, concerning his activities, experiences & impressions of Berlin, where he resided during 2007-2014. The narrator "A." is presumed to be the author. One of a limited edition of 75, this is copy No. 43/75 as hand-noted in pencil on the title page. Also... More
[Item #3028]
San Francisco, CA: Lapis Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Here in its true first edition is the group of memoir-esque critical essays from Neeli Cherkovski, "Whitman's Wild Children," which focuses on ten major Beat-related poets. Cherkovski, who featured heavily as a subject in the Third Mind Books 2017 European Beat Studies Network Presentation on the Second San Francisco Renaissance, was a firsthand apprentice to some of the greatest of the... More
[Item #3026]
New York, NY: Telegraph Books, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. "I enjoyed the time recollected in these pages by Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, and Ron Padgett, all of whom are fine people as well as fine writers. Ted Berrigan is a man who reads while listening to the radio--and he talks simultaneously, usually commenting on the song and the book. Tom Clark is very smart in an unusual way, I think... More
[Item #3025]
Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1961-1964. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. 9 of 14 Issues Signed and/or with Marginalia by Noted Poet, Translator, Essayist & Origin Contributor, Clayton Eshleman. "Cid Corman was preparing to edit the Second Series of ORIGIN magazine when I knocked on his boardinghouse door in San Francisco, 1960. We had already exchanged a few letters, and one, Corman's response to a group of student poems I had submitted... More
[Item #3024]
New York, NY: Viking Press, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. These are the "Advance Uncorrected Proofs" preceding the first publication of William S. Burroughs' classic late work. WSB had a life-long fondness for & deep interest in cats. This writer recalls his furry friends joining me on the couch as I sat opposite the then-living Beat-&-Beyond legend at his home; & we stood at the grave of Ruski, his late favorite... More
[Item #3023]
London, England: Aloes Books, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed twice by author; inscribed & signed by publisher. An evocative piece of epistolary literature by Alexander Adams, a poet, writer & award-winning artist. Adams is a member of the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), where he has delivered outstanding presentations at its annual conferences. This writer has had the pleasure & privilege of being a friend &... More
[Item #3022]
Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved Publishers Ltd. 2000. First Edition Thus, Second Printing. Softcover. A rare Hebrew-language edition of Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation masterpiece alongside Howl. With the iconic title poem, & then a selection of poems through 1984, none of which appear to include those originally included along with Kaddish in the original City Lights Pocket Poets Series edition first published in 1961. With English & Hebrew texts... More
[Item #3021]