New York, NY: Giorno Poetry Systems Institute Inc., 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. John Giorno, the venerable poet-artist-impresario associated with Andy Warhol & William S. Burroughs, presents this catalog from the high-water mark of his multi-media productions & activism. Featuring the first appearance of William S. Burroughs' short story, "Senor Kaposi," which begins on the front cover & is probably WSB's most profound creative response to the AIDS crisis at... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Third Mind Books, 20185. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, Lettered, Limited (1/26) "The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. 'Starting from San Francisco' measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. First Printing. Softcover. "...I suggest that Burroughs seeks to reconcile humanity and the natural world more widely in his texts. This manifests in both his narrative practices and the thematic content of his texts, which reveal a lifelong engagement with ecological issues. Thus the essential question of this book is, to what extent can Burroughs' texts be evaluated in an ecocritical framework. Although... More

London, England: John Calder (1) / re: PRODUKTION (2), 1986. (1) Trade Softcover Edition Thus / (2) First Printing. (1) Softcover / (2) Stapled Wrappers. "'Dutch' Schultz, who was gunned down by rivals in New York in 1935, is part of the mythology of the American gangster era that reached its peak during prohibition--a mythology that now rivals that of the old west. It has always fascinated William Burroughs, who... More

London, England: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Softcover. "Plymell's place in the Beat Movement is secure. His first prose book, hailed as a minor classic and given a cult status, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who wrote of his 'Neon Poems' that Plymell continues that early Beat vision fashioned and rendered blazingly visible by Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Whalen, McClure, Burroughs, and Ferlinghetti himself: "...his vision of the apocalypse... More

Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 1990. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Born in New York City in 1936, Margaret Randall left the United States in 1961 and lived in several Latin American countries for the next 23 years. While in Mexico in the late sixties, she acquired Mexican citizenship in an effort to help support her family. When she returned to the United States in 1984, she applied for U.S.... More

New York, NY: Paperback Library, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. "In 1962 seventy-five student leaders were invited by the Student League for Industrial Democracy to form the first national convention of a new student organization: Students For a Democratic Society (SDS). The delegates met for a week at a labor-owned camp in Port Huron, Michigan, and produced a statement whose first and final drafts were written by a former University of... More

New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. "The book follows the odyssey of a young American, a stranger in his own land, who breaks the bonds of middle America in search of self, soul, and country. It depicts with all the sordid savagery of total honesty the depraved sexuality and senseless racism that permeate this country's new underground: the drugs, junkies, street gangs, black ghettos, homosexuals... More

London, England: Tangerine Press, 2016. First Edition / Limited Edition Hardcover. Hardcover / Softcover. 1/26 Lettered Hardcovers Signed by Iain Sinclair and Illustrator Dave McKean. "Kerouac's abortive European tour, that spring [1957], proved to be his last season as a writer who existed inside the protective and self-affirming nest of unpublished fiction: before the devastating flash-exposure of fame. With that much-delayed arrival of 'On the Road,' here was success, hungry... More

New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1968. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Kenneth Rexroth, sometimes referred to as the "father" of the San Francisco Renaissance, has never been one to hold his tongue. "The brief, radiant essays of 'Classics Revisited' discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." (Back Cover). Rexroth bounces from "The Epic of Gilgamesh" to "Huckleberry Finn," from Stendhal... 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