London, England: Love Books, 1965. First Edition. Soft Cover. Long Hair Number 1 was published in 1965 by Love Books in London by Barry Miles, manager of the Indica Bookshop & Gallery in London & later bibliographer & biographer of William S. Burroughs. Featuring contributions from notable Beat, New York School poets and others, Long Hair was one of the first mimeo literary magazines to help pave the way from..... More

Isshiki, Japan: Autumn Press, 1974. First Edition Softcover Original. Softcover. In 1976, during the height of the Second San Francisco Renaissance, mentor-participant Jack Hirschman alerted the group of friends & protégés he called “the Beatitude cadre” to a viscerally-relevant anticensorship human rights concern which struck at the heart of Beat literary ethics. This was the story of South Korean poet Kim Chi Ha, who was on trial for (yes, you..... More

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of miscellaneous poems, letters & short biographical writings by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Donald Allen (1912-2004), the great editor & publisher well-known for his groundbreaking anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960, which includes contributions by Kerouac. As Allen states in his Editor's Note, "This book belatedly collects..... More

Los Angeles, CA; Berkeley, CA: Arif Press; Black Sparrow Press, 1970; 1971. Limited First Editions. Softcover; Sewn Wrappers. "Desecheo/ off West Coast Puerto Rico/ 1 1/2 miles long/ 1 mile wide/ the end point of/ an upheaval that happened/ in the Caribbean" (from back cover, Desecheo Notebook) two vintage volumes of poetry by Joanne Kyger (1934-2017), the prolific poet associated with the Beat Generation (especially during her marriage to Gary..... More

St. Paul, MN: Fish in the Sky, 1979. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. Signed by Michael McClure. A broadside (8&1/2" x 14") with the title poem by Michael McClure (1932-2020), the primary poet & playwright of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation & Beyond who recently passed away. As noted in colophon, this is one of 100 copies, hand-numbered & signed by McClure below his printed name at bottom..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In this powerful collection of new poems, Michael McClure gives us a rare view into his thoughts about mortality, particularly in the moving sequence "Death Poems." Mule Kick Blues takes its title from a series of homages to blues musicians, and features shout-outs to lifelong friends, a long poem "Fragments of Narcissus," and the ecological and zen-infused themes for which..... More

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1986. Limited First Trade Edition Thus. Softcover. "Reprinted here in its entirety, including an introduction by Jack Kerouac, River of Red Wine is sensitive and musical. First published in 1958, Micheline's collection of poems is required reading for anyone who wants to hear a major, if not understood, voice of the Beat Generation." (back cover) A reissue of the now-classic poetry collection by Jack Micheline..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth which was published in 1967. It contains all of the poet's long poems...Among the finest of Rexroth's shorter poems are the contemplative lyrics; it now becomes clear as we can read the long poems together and in sequence that he is a philosophical poet of consequence who..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press/ Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "In 1962, after studying Buddhism in Japan, Gary Snyder and poet Joanne Kyger joined Allen Ginsberg and his companion Peter Orlovsky for a long trip to India "to see the hearth-land of the Buddha's teachings." As always, Snyder kept extensive journals of his travels and, in this particular case, also wrote the whole account in one long..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. "This is a selection of poems, mostly new, recited by the Russian poet at Project Artaud, San Francisco, on October 22, 1971, in an event sponsored by City Lights Books. Numerous dogs in his audiences, both here and previously in Canada, led him to call his reading "a dog apocalypse"- with himself "a stray mutt" barking his love to brother..... 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