Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1979. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. A short critical biography of Beat poet Gary Snyder, issued as #37 in the Western Writers Series published by Boise State University. A rare resource for the Snyder scholar & collector. Very Fine. More
[Item #1347]
Mad River Press, 1990. First Edition. Broadside. Signed by Author and Numbered. Sealed in Shrinkwrap. With woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Gary Snyder and Michael McCurdy. This is copy #49/200. A beautiful poetry broadside of a poem written by Snyder in October 1988. Printed letterpress by Barry Sternlieb at his press in Western Massachusetts. Measures approx 9"x14" Near Mint... More
[Item #1349]
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "This monumental collection gathers the essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations of one of the most influential voices of the twentieth century." (from front flap) A definitive compendium of twentieth-century productions by Beat-&-Beyond Giant Gary Snyder, with generous excerpts from all his epic cycles including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Turtle Island" (1975). Foreword by poet & Snyder acolyte Jim Dodge; Author's Note; Chronology..... More
[Item #3122]
Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2000. First Edition. Soft Cover. An excellent introduction for readers coming to Gary Snyder for the first time and an overview of the work for the many readers already familiar with his writings. A comprehensive guide. Unread condition. As New. More
[Item #1351]
Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Gary Snyder to Ken Mikolowski, Co-Founder of Detroit's Visionary Alternative Press. Gary Snyder's "Danger on Peaks" was published by Jack Shoemaker's Shoemaker & Hoard publishing company in 2004. Inside the book we found a postcard-flyer for a reading-celebration of Karl Pohrt; legendary Ann Arborite, University of Michigan adjunct professor, and onetime proprietor of Ann Arbor's storied Shaman Drum Bookshop..... More
[Item #2968]
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
[Item #3579]
New York, NY: Samuel Charters, Undated (1960s). Limited Edition. 8 1/4" x 18" Broadside. One of 100 copies (no numbering). Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap. A broadside featuring a poem by Jack Spicer, a leading figure of the San Francisco Renaissance & the west coast Beat movement. With vivid imagery & vague menace, it is 16th in the Portents series issued by Ann & Samuel Charters. With a...... More
[Item #1681]
Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1968, 1969. First Printings. Softcovers. The very first two numbers of the venerable poetry journal, edited & with contributions by renowned Michigan writers Dan Gerber & the late, legendary Jim Harrison; also co-edited by "East Coast Editor" James Randall. Other contributors to the first volume include late luminaries Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov & Robert Duncan; the second volume features contributions by the late esteemed poet..... More
[Item #3125]
Boston, MA (1) / Fresno, CA (2) / New York, NY (3) / No Place (4) / Ann Arbor, MI: Twayne [1]; The Giligia Press [2]; New Directions [3]; [4] Anonymous; [5] Third Mind Books, 1961; 1969; 1991; 2018. First Printings. Hardcover; Softcover in Stiff Wraps; Single Sheet; Softcover. Here we feast our eyes upon the Supreme Scholarly "First and Second San Francisco Renaissance Bundle," an it's-all-here package featuring five..... More
[Item #3815]
Tokyo, Japan: Fusosha Publishing Co, Summer 1995. First Edition. Soft Cover. A beautifully produced exemplar of Japan's fascination with the Beats. Featuring many full-color photographs, many Beat authors. This third "San Francisco Bohemian New Dreams Issue" features Japanese journalists going to San Francisco in search of Beat history, Jan Kerouac & Gerald Nicosia with photos from Kerouac Legacy fundraiser for Jan Kerouac, City Lights Bookstore, Oracle newspaper history & more..... More
[Item #1359]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1993. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early number of Transit from The Beat Scene Press features two wonderful poems from Charles Bukowski, a play-like prose sketch of Jack Kerouac & Neal Cassady by Richard Deakin, & poetry by Anne Waldman, Jack Kerouac, Jack Micheline, and noted poet/publisher Charles Plymell. Also featured is an informative short essay by sister of noted Beat poet Gary Snyder..... More
[Item #2701]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2005. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. As poetry-centered counterpart to Beat Scene Magazine, Kevin Ring's "Transit" always delivers delectable poetic delights often overlooked or underappreciated. In Issue No. 15, David Meltzer begins the issue with two stellar poems, followed by poetry from Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Charles Plymell, Robert Creeley & others. Biographer/Poet Neeli Cherkovski contributes an exceptionally beautiful elegy to his mentor, the..... More
[Item #2699]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A simply invaluable issue of Transit magazine from Kevin Ring's The Beat Scene Press, issue No. 21 kicks off with a beautiful elegiac ode addressed to Jack Kerouac by poet & countercultural icon Ed Sanders. This is followed by an absolutely outstanding erudite essay from Editor Kevin Ring. Ring chooses Yugen Magazine as his subject and draws a cohesive..... More
[Item #2698]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In the Summer 2008 issue of "Transit" magazine from The Beat Scene Press, David Meltzer & Diane di Prima kick off the issue with valuable poems; Meltzer's a long, wailing blues epic & di Prima's two short little lightning-bolt poems are intriguing, fragmentary crumbs. Jack Foley delivers an excellent short essay on Charles Olson & "Projective Verse," Olson's immortal..... More
[Item #2697]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of "A little magazine of the Beat Generation," edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK, features a lengthy article by Ring about a fabled interview with Jack Kerouac by poets Ted Berrigan, Duncan McNaughton & Aram Saroyan which took place in 1967 for publication in The Paris Review. Also poems by Barry Gifford & Michael..... More
[Item #2136]
New York, NY: Unmuzzled Ox, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary, art & culture journal edited by the longtime poet-activist Michael Andre, & designed by his former wife Erika Rothenberg, features a wealth of Beat-&-Beyond contributions: A poem by Daniel Berrigan; two by Gregory Corso including a group of five short poems augmented with his drawings of birds & cats, & a photo of Corso..... More
[Item #3135]
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
[Item #3858]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1965. First Edition. Stapled in wrappers. Printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 500 copies, On Out is the poet's fifth publication. In near fine condition with the covers worn around the edges since they overextend the pages as designed by the printer, & staples beginning to rust. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Near Fine. More
[Item #1366]
San Francisco, CA: Glide Memorial Church, Circa 1967. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (14"x20") announcing a "Poetry Fiesta" with "music and Dancers," featuring readings by poets Lenore Kandel, Margaret Randall, Marcus Ulewicz & Lew Welch, held at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on December 16, (circa) 1967. Welch (1926-1971?), among the primary poets of the Beat Generation & the San Francisco Renaissance, famously disappeared in 1971, a...... More
[Item #2497]
San Francisco, CA: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Sheet. Signed by Author This "Poetry Card" is one sheet printed letterpress by Nicholas Muska. 450 copies were published on the occasion of Lew Welch's poetry reading on April 22, 1967 at the Unicorn Book Shop. This copy is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Welch. This is Copy "F". Although all copies were supposed to be issued folded to make..... More
[Item #1368]
Albany, California: Sand Dollar, 1976. First Edition. Broadside. Published as a greeting by the Sand Dollar press, this poem by Lew Welch begins "First you must love your body." This is one sheet folded to make a small broadside. The poem was written in 1960 and discovered within the body of a letter Welch wrote to Joanne Kyger. Printed by Wesley Tanner and James Monday at the Arif Press. Very..... More
[Item #1369]
Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1980. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Lew Welch narrates the story of his life in these letters written to his mother and his friends and mentors, from his Reed College days, through the years of exile in New York and Chicago, to his return to his native California in 1957 and his active participation thereafter in the San Francisco scene " - from the back cover..... More
[Item #1371]
Robert LaVigne. San Francisco, CA: The Auerhahn Press. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of many shorter poems & prose-poems, among the earliest publications by Philip Whalen. A giant of 20th-century American poetry closely associated with the Beat Generation, especially Gary Snyder & Lew Welch, he was a participant in the legendary Sixth Gallery reading in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Produced by Dave Haselwood's Auerhahn Press, publisher..... More
[Item #1720]
San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. "A pair of strange new birds in the maple tree/ Peer through the windows,/ Mother and father visiting me:/ "You are unmarried,/ No child begot/ Now we are birds, now you've/ forgotten us/ although in dreams we visit you/ in human shape" " ("Never Apologize; Never Explain," first stanza, pg. 1) A collection of poems by Philip Whalen (1923-2002), the..... More
[Item #4027]
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
[Item #3888]