Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2013. Limited First Edition Thus. Signed by Iain Sinclair. "Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m.. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing, his right hand on the dog's collar. Two minutes later, you feel, and he'd be gone. But this is..... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. “In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. In his introduction, Stephenson provides a brief history of this literary and cultural phenomenon and establishes the basis..... More

Wallkill, NY: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. A memoir of life in the apartment at 1403 Gough Street in San Francisco that was the premier "beathive" (as Charles Plymell coins in his afterword) during the early 1960s by Glenn Todd, a respected printer, editor & writer. The residents, visitors & goings-on at Gough Street were on the verge of & a seed-bridge to the countercultural hippie Haight-Ashbury..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. “How they are provided for upon the earth (appearing at intervals) / How dear and dreadful they are to the earth / How they inure themselves as much as to any— / what a paradox, appears their age / How people respond to them, yet know them not / How there is something relentless in their fate all times / How..... More

San Francisco, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. “Having returned at last and being carefully seated / On the floor – somebody else’s floor, as usual / Far away across that ocean which looked / Through Newport windows years ago – somebody else’s / livingroom – Another messed-up weedy garden…” (from the opening stanza, pg. 1). Thus begins Philip Whalen’s (1923-2002) Scenes of Life at the..... More

Somerville, MA: Zephyr Press, 1985. First Limited Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "The minds, the glittering personalities and eccentrics of Berkeley and San Francisco society come to life in these two novels by Beat poet Philip Whalen. Set in the late fifties and early sixties, You Didn't Even Try and Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head provide a remarkable window on the nascence of what would later be called the counterculture..... More

Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. “Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. Erudite, shy, and profoundly spiritual, Whalen not only moved his immediate circle of Beat friends and artists, but his powerful, startling, and innovative work continues to have an impact on American poetry to..... More

N/P: Judith Walker Posters, N/D. First Printing. Single Sheet Framed. "What is Boston to me/ In comparison with eternity/ oh short space of history" (first stanza) A broadside-poster (appx. 13&1/4" x 18&1/2" incl. frame) with the title poem by John Wieners (1934-2002), the Boston-native primary poet of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who was mentored by Charles Olson & Robert Duncan at the Black Mountain School & was also a key participant..... More

Marlborough, MA: Water Row Books, 2021. Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Charles Plymell. “William Burroughs said it best, of course, “A sure sign that an artist has mastered the craft is when you immediately recognize the work from a single glance or the reading of one sentence,” writes Charles Plymell (b. 1935) in his introduction to “Dear Charlie,” an instant classic-in-correspondence by two Great Americans: legendary literary outlaw, Charles Plymell..... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Hand-lettered & signed by A.D. Winans. "Here, in a clear language that "hangs tough" while tipping toward the lyrical, A.D. Winans delivers another surprise. In his life as a poet he has given us the working class blues, poems of protest, the world of jazz, and surrendered to the elegiac, honoring those creative artists, who, like himself, cared little for..... More

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