New York, NY: Ace Books, 1973. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Spanning the years between the dime novels of the 19th century and today's paperbacks, pulp magazines provided millions with their first and only taste of "literature." The noble, resourceful heroes of those gripping tales of fiction, along with their monstrous, evil antagonists, were depicted on cheap paper, and housed in lurid covers that shocked all but the near-blind. There was..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. Numbered Limited Edition (#53/100). Stapled Wrappers. In 2001, Kevin Ring interviewed a then 70-year old Dave Haselwood on his beginnings as a publisher and his perspective and observations of the "incipient" Beat scene of the early 1950s. Haselwood is noted as a member of the Kansas natives that included Michael McClure, Bruce Conner & Charles Plymell--all of whom eventually ended up in San Francisco..... More

Fresno, CA: The Giligia Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by David Kherdian. "San Francisco has excited and angered more people with its poetry than any other city in any other time in our country's history. Since 1953 nearly every major poet in the United States has visited or lived here. During this period one of the most interesting of all the movements in American literature began. Now..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by James P. Lenfestey. "In the fall of 2006 I traveled to Japan and China seeking the cave of Han-shan, Cold Mountain, a recluse whose poems I have loved for more than thirty years, who took his final name from the place where he lived. I returned with notebooks filled with impressions and poems. Simple enough, I thought, to add back..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed By Michael McClure. Signed, numbered, Limited Edition (#92/150). In this 2005 interview, Michigan State University professor, poet, & critical essayist Rod Phillips interviews poet Michael McClure, whose radically presented visionary poems echo the social & environmental concerns so masterfully charted in his work & the work of his internationally celebrated friends Gary Snyder & Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The interview..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2012. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Numbered Limited Edition (#46/125). In this candid, historical interview with Philip Whalen, poet David Meltzer catches a still-sharp yet physically-deteriorating Philip Whalen at a crucial point--not long before he became too sick to mine his memory any longer for firsthand biographical glimpses of America's literary past. Whalen recounts his early years with Snyder & Kerouac in San Francisco, and..... More

New York, NY: Hyperion Books, 1992. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. El Hombre Invisible. "Miles traces threads of Burroughs' images from childhood to tough elder genius, isolating sensitive themes, following recurrences & evolution of routines clarifying Burroughs' comic pathetic heroic philosophies & insights into a coherent whole. Miles familiarizes even close readers with a fine map of Burroughs' mind." (Allen Ginsberg, back cover) Book in very fine condition with only minute..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. "City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara" must be regarded as an absolutely seminal resource to all those interested in O'Hara and his inimitable contribution to American poetry. As this tome recounts, O'Hara was at the forefront of the now-canonized New York art & poetry scene of the 1950s & 60s. He was a vibrant, daily presence whose..... More

Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Frank O'Hara in others--that is what this book is about. As editors, we have collected the messages, long and short, from many of the people who knew Frank or who otherwise feel some close connection with him through either hearsay or his work or both, and whom we approached, asking them to contribute in the forms of their choice: "How..... More

New York, NY; London, England; Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: Jargon/ Corinth Books; Cape Goliard Press; Grossman Publishers/ The Viking Press; University of California Press, 1960-1980. Second Printings; First Softcover Editions. Four Softcovers; One Hardcover. The Maximus Poems are the Magnum Opus of Charles Olson (1910-1970), the great Black Mountain-&-Beyond poet who was, literally & in literature, a towering figure. His deep, wide-sweeping poems, & ideas about poetry, continue to..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Iain Sinclair. Numbered Limited Edition (#44/125). In this special, signed limited edition chapbook from Kevin Ring's The Beat Scene Press, poet, essayist & critic Iain Sinclair delivers a sharp & scholastic piece on Charles Olson. Olson is the foremost influential giant of the Black Mountain School, whose larger-than-life character & catalog continue to be mined as an..... More

New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "From Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1960, American Bohemianism has had a long, colorful, and usually somewhat fantastic history. This is the only complete record of that story- with hoboes, cranks and starving poets as its heroes; suffragettes and artists' models as its heroines; and banquets, suicides, and ferocious literary rivalries..... More

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1965. First Edition. Inscribed & signed by Robert Peters to James Perrizo. "This study is an attempt to rescue from near oblivion Algernon Charles Swinburne's contributions to the aesthetics of his time and to provide a more detailed arrangement and evaluation of his principles of literature and art than have yet appeared. His reputation as a poet has tended to overshadow his abilities as..... More