New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "Allen Ginsberg, one of America's most distinguished living poets, turned 70 this year. Selected Poems 1947-1995 commemorates his brilliant career and honors a landmark birthday. Ginsberg personally chose the selections for this handy volume and has written a retrospective Apologia that places the poems from each decade in their historical and literary context. Here are well-known masterpieces such as the lyric..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "I would like to believe/ that we call Autumn Fall/ because here it is in middle/ September and the slight breeze/ provokes the high and low leaves/ the ash, maple, and the beech/ and that young sycamore leaves/ which are dry as they are clunk/ to the ground and the tulip poplar/ turns green to brown the..... More

New York, NY; London, England; New York, NY: Olympia Press; Sphere Books Limited; Coronet Communications, 1970; 1971. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his..... More

Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, 1978. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "I did not/ choose to be/ born and I// do not choose/ to die. I-/ as you are-// am one of/ many who/ have arrived." (Cid Corman ("CC"), "The Elite," pg. 64). The third number in the fourth series of the legendary literary journal edited, published & with contribution by the great expatriate American poet & translator Cid Corman (1924-2004). Subtitled..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a talk-based essay by Peter Anastas describing a visit to the great "Maximus" poet Charles Olson by none other than the Founding Father of the Beat Generation himself, Jack Kerouac, during October of 1968, the twilight of both literary giants' lives..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. "In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. With owner's signature & marginalia of Clayton Eshleman. "...Genet's second novel, having been written in La Sante and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers. Like that first work, Miracle of the Rose was written in the solitude of a prison cell, on the pieces of white paper the penal authorities furnish the convicts for..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2007. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. ISBN: 978-0-670-06355-0; 978-0-670-06326-0. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, ignited the Beat Generation into a popular phenomenon that in turn paved the way for the seismic literary & cultural upheavals which culminated during the 1960s. Famously written on a single roll of paper in a nonstop benzedrine-fueled binge of only..... More