New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "Wild Dreams of a New Beginning" combines two earlier collections of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's work, "Landscapes of Living and Dying" and "Who Are We Now?" These collections contained such notable masterworks as the "Populist Manifesto," "The Old Italians Dying," "A Nation of Sheep" and "An Elegy to Dispel Gloom" among many other commendable contributions. A very desirable Ferlinghetti compilation. Book and..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. The second issue of the eclectic anthology series published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. With contributions by Kathy Acker, Alexander Cockburn, Sue Coe, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Federico Garcia Lorca, Abbie Hoffman, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, Edmund White & many more. In as new condition. As New. More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. The first issue of the eclectic anthology series of poetry, fiction, commentary, art, etc. published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's legendary City Lights Books. As stated in the first page introduction, "Just as City Lights Bookstore is a literary meeting place, this Review aims to furnish a similar kind of locale in print, an "open space" for people who have a mind..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 47 in the Beat Scene Press series of chapbooks published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is a year-by-year timeline from 1950-1959 of Beat literary milestones in California, by broadcaster-poet-writer Jack Foley. This is a separate printing of what was originally part of a much larger two-volume work. All the figures & events of this key..... More

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

n/p: c. 1980s. First Printing. Single Sheet. A beautifully produced poster-print on high-quality thick paper stock, with an illustration of Jack Kerouac holding a cat (based we're sure on a well-known photograph that's been reproduced in several Kerouac biographies & related books) by Vassilios Giavis. With wide margins surrounding image of illustration & titles. From the collection of the late James Perrizo, Beat collector, scholar & one-time assistant to Edie..... More

Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX Books, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. "Robert Gibbons is one of the great secrets of contemporary US poetry. Gibbons says that "Animated Landscape" is the collection he was destined to write. One hopes too that it's the collection destined to reveal him to a wider circle of readers. It places him firmly in the tradition of modern US poetry, following Olson, Creeley, and the Objectivists..." (Ben Bollig, Professor..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Revised, Expanded Edition Thus. Softcover. "No matter where Jack went he always knew he'd return to Lowell, the town he hated and loved, that he felt secure in, the one place he could never really leave-" (from "Part Three: A Note on Kerouac's City," pg. 59) This is the chronicle by Barry Gifford of his visit to Lowell, Massachusetts, the birthplace &..... More

San Francisco, CA: House of Anansi/City Lights Books, 1969. First American Edition. Soft Cover. First published in Canada and exported to the USA where it was seized and destroyed by U.S. Customs, this is the first U.S. edition that escaped the clutches of the establishment. Contains journal excerpts by Allen Ginsberg written from 1948-1968. In near fine condition with only minor wear to covers & spine, small highlighter markings on..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company; Grove Press, Inc., 1974; 1977. First Editions. Journals Early Fifties- Early Sixties signed & dated by Allen Ginsberg. A bundled offer of two very important rarities (one of them particularly exceptional) by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & beyond: (1) Allen Ginsberg Journals Early Fifties- Early Sixties, edited by Gordon Ball. A now-classic, indispensable collection of Ginsberg's original journal entries of..... More

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

Lowell, MA: Corporation for the Celebration of Jack Kerouac in Lowell, 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large poster (16"x22") announcing an appearance by Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation, on March 17, 1986, at a venue in Lowell, Massachusetts. The event was part of a celebration of Jack Kerouac around the time of what would have been his sixty-fourth birthday (March 12) in his hometown. With reproduction..... More

New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This is a larger chapbook with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, produced for NYC's legendary, now-gone Gotham Book Mart by Profile Press in August 1972. First printing as stated. With beautiful black & white photographs by William webb; & a color reproduction of a painting of Bixby Canyon by Emil White, tipped-in to the front cover. The Canyon..... More