New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "All that hitchhikin/ All that railroadin/ All that comin back/ to America/ Via Mexican & Canadian borders... The author is Jack Kerouac, whose On the Road, Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans and Dr. Sax made him one of the most widely praised and widely criticized writers of our times. His books have been immediate bestsellers in every country where they..... More
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Ann Arbor, MI: Caliban, 1986. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "Caliban is calling the tribes together. Those who consider themselves avant-garde or progressive (and even those who don't, but who are serious) need to come together to help pull the culture out of the sink it's slipped into...Caliban wants to liberate all islands everywhere from the rational Prosperos, those fraudulent magicians, who think they own and understand art..... More
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Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1976. First Trade Edition. Softcover. "An intimate portrait of life off the road with Jack Kerouac & Neal Cassady. What times were really like for the heroes of the Beat Generation in early fifties San Francisco, including letters from Kerouac, Cassady and Allen Ginsberg." (front cover) the short memoir by Carolyn Cassady (1923-2013), wife of Neal & intimate member-enabler of the founding Beat Generation..... More
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New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Listen to my last words anywhere. Listen to my last words any world. Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory to take what is not yours. To sell the ground from unborn feet forever-" (first chapter "Last Words," first paragraph) The third & final volume in..... More
[Item #3373]
Dover, DE; Bloomington, IN: Bottle of Smoke Press; Archway Publishing, 2012; 2013; 2016. Limited Third Printing; Limited First Printing; First Edition. Sewn Wrappers; Sheet of Perforated Stamps; Softcover. Tent Shaker Vortex Voice signed by Charles Plymell; Tumbleweed of Contradictions inscribed & signed by Roxie Powell to Charles & Pamela Beach Plymell. A uniquely rare & collectible bundle of works by Charles Plymell, the legendary poet, printer, publisher & Literary Outlaw;..... More
[Item #3372]
Chicago, IL; New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Barry Silesky features two poems ("At Forest Lawn" & "The Oven of Apollo," the former a prose-poem) by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Also..... More
[Item #3371]
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "Kerouac and Friends is more than a collection of photos and articles from the 1950s; it's a loving memoir of the wonderful carefree days when I had nothing to do except go to poetry readings, the Artists' Club, the Living Theatre, and the Cedar Street Tavern...Kerouac and Friends is about the vintage years of the beat generation when..... More
[Item #3370]
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More
[Item #3369]
Berkeley & Oakland, CA: The House of "K" 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This second-to-last number of the short-lived but significant mimeo-zine literary journal edited & with contributions by Benjamin Friedlander & Andrew Schelling features a lengthy, erudite essay by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided in Michigan near us, our friend & mentor. The subject is Paul Blackburn..... More
[Item #3368]![NYC Transit[s] with: Wichita Jazz and Vice Between the World Wars. Robert Dumont, Joshua L....](/pictures/medium/3367.jpg?v=1576005624)
Thorofare, NJ; Wichita, KS: Xlibris; Rowfant Press, 2002; 2010. First Softcover Edition, Later Printing; First Edition. Softcovers. NYC Transit[s] inscribed & signed by Robert Dumont to Charles Plymell; Wichita Jazz and Vice with handwritten annotations by Charles Plymell. A fascinating & collectible bundle of two books, both of literary merit in themselves & also linked with that Legendary Literary Outlaw, poet-printer-publisher Charles Plymell: (1) NYC Transit[s], a volume of short..... More
[Item #3367]
New York, NY: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. First Edition; Third Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was/ anything other than a conception in my mind/ I wouldn't have said "Sky"- That is why I am the/ golden eternity. There are not two of us here,/ reader and writer, but one, one golden eternity,/ One-Which-It-Is, That-Which-Everything-Is." (first chapter-stanza) The famous distillation..... More
[Item #3366]
London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1960. First British Edition, First Printing in Second Issue Dust Jacket. Hardcover. "The author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums usually chooses to cover a large canvas, to give a great panorama of the Subterranean (or Beatnik) way of life. In this novel he does something different. He focuses sharply on one incident: the love of Leo and Mardou. It is a fierce, sweet..... More
[Item #3365]
n/p (Storrs, CT?): Wormwood Review Press, 1965. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Diane Wakoski at her contribution. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal edited by Marvin Malone features Allen De Loach as Guest Editor, who gathered poets active at the Cafe Le Metro on the lower east side of NYC, a center of creative ferment during this mid-1960s period in which the Beat Generation was in its..... More
[Item #3362]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1970. Third Printing (First Hardcover Edition Thus). Hardcover. "Doctor Sax is a story of awakening youth in a grey, colorless New England mill town. It is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Mass. Above all, it is the story of the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence...Always..... More
[Item #3360]
New York, NY; Salem, NY: Kicks Books Co.; Bottle of Smoke Press, 2013. Deluxe First Edition; First Edition, Ephemera. Softcovers; Postcards; Bottles; Boxes. Deluxe edition & two cards all signed by Charles Plymell. "Charles Plymell roared out of Kansas with tires blazing while the Beat scene was still in training wheels. Weaned on jump blues, true grit and Dr. Gimmy Gommy's Goodies, Plymell redefined the fast track with blunt force..... More
[Item #3359]
Burlingame, CA: The Chrysalis West Foundation, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski at her contribution. This second number of the literary journal edited by Gordon Lish (who would later become famous, & controversial, as Raymond Carver's editor) features a section of poems by Denise Levertov, Diane Wakoski & other acclaimed poets. At her contribution ("Incommunicado"), Wakoski has hand-written her signature with characteristic series of vertical doodles just below..... More
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Cherry Valley, NY; Ostheim/Rohn, Germany: Cherry Valley Editions; Verlag Peter Engstler, 2015, 2016. Limited Edition Second Printing; First German Edition. Sewn Wrappers; Stapled Wrappers. Book. Both editions signed by Charles Plymell. "Cat Man Do is about as near perfect as writing could ever dream to be. In one short poem, Charley has capsulized (sic) the whole of our present circumstances here on this planet...to have somebody put it all in..... More
[Item #3355]
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by Diane Wakoski at her contribution. This sixth vintage number of the quintessential Beat-&-Beyond Mimeo Revolution-era literary journal, edited by Allen De Loach & published by his Intrepid Press, features the classic partly cut-up short story-routine by William S. Burroughs, "Salt Chunk Mary." Also contributions of poetry & prose by Charles Bukowski, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg (an excerpt from..... More
[Item #3354]
North Salem, NY; San Francisco, CA: Bottle Of Smoke Press; Second Coming Press, 2016. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by A.D. Winans to Charles Plymell An exemplary poem by the great American Beat-&-Beyond poet, prose writer & publisher who is so associated with San Francisco & its literary Renaissance(s) that he can indeed proclaim he IS that city. As noted in colophon, this is one of only..... More
[Item #3353]
New York, NY: The New American Library/ Signet Books, 1958. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Wild drives across America...buying cars, wrecking cars, stealing cars, dumping cars, picking up girls, making love, all-night drinking bouts, jazz joints, wild parties, hot spots...This is the odyssey of the Beat Generation, the frenetic young men and their women restlessly racing from New York to San Francisco, from Mexico to New Orleans in a frantic search-..... More
[Item #3352]