New York, NY: Excelsior Press, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. A very interesting early compilation of Beat Generation & Beat-contemporary (mostly) poets, prose writers & artists, produced during the height of early media hysteria regarding what exactly the word "Beat" meant. "What is beat? Is there a final or definitive definiton?...So crazy-- one must dig this word somehow. I walked along the village limelight and asked an assortment of squalid squares..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage mid-1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features the transcript of a telephone interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ron Whitehead on June 19, 1996, slightly over a year before WSB's death. Also in this issue, an obituary of & the final interview with Jan Kerouac, Jack's..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Jack Tilton Gallery; October Gallery in Conjunction with the Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. This art-centric Burroughs-&-Beyond bundle features two art catalogs from the year 1988, a time when Burroughs was immersing himself in painting after the 1986 passing of his dear coconspirator, Brion Gysin. The "Literary Vision" exhibit, which took place at the Jack Tilton Gallery in November of 1988, included photographs..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2020. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A chapbook with the title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Subtitled "Will Never Land on the Hand Rail Again/ [a translation]," this recent production of Napora's own BullHead imprint is rather enigmatic, with no information, including the identity of the 19th-century gentleman whose image is repeated on covers (perhaps an ancestor of..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1957. First Printing. Softcover. This very early (second ever) & famous "San Francisco Scene" number of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press features "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg, among the handful of primary, founding texts of the Beat Generation. Only a year after it was first published by the iconic City Lights Pocket Poets Series in "Howl..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Press, 2001. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers in Over-Wraps. "He lives next door, if there were a door,/ to houseboat row, a floating trailer court,/ some two-story and double-wide with siding/ and spacious porches, tomatoes and roses,/ others just shacks on rafts, plywood boxes/ with planks connecting them to the island,/ Key West." ("Paradise: for LP & CJ," first stanza, unpaginated) A collection of poems by Deno..... More

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Bob McNeely; Random House, Inc., 1969; 1972. Original Photograph; First Edition. Photograph over Mount; Hardcover. With description in Allen Ginsberg's hand on verso of photograph. A one-of-a-kind bundle of rarities relating to Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation: (1) an original photograph (appx. 9&7/8" x 7&3/4") depicting Ginsberg (1926-1997) in the company of John Wieners (1934-2002) at the Republican National Convention in..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First British Hardcover Edition (Publisher's File Copy). Hardcover. "Maggie Cassidy is a haunting and tender recreation of (Jack) Kerouac's first love. Jack Duluoz is sixteen, at once gauche, passionate and football-crazy, and Maggie Cassidy is a sexually precocious high-school girl a year older than he...and although Jack is only too conscious of the problems caused by his extreme youth and inexperience, and her wayward sexuality..... More