Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. First softcover edition. Softcover. "This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers Campbell's unique observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s."(from back cover) From the author of This is the Beat Generation & contributor to the Times Literary Supplement & the New York Times Book Review, a gathering of his pieces..... More

London, England: Faber and Faber Limited, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Hip is hard to nail. It no more responds to definition than it does to the common light of day, which is little. It can't be taught. Hip suspects words and manifestos, and has not developed a recruitment pitch since it doesn't recruit. The hipster always assumes that the membership is filled, even when- particularly when- he is the..... More

New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Carolyn Cassady. "Off the Road is Carolyn Cassady's story of her life at the center of the Beat Generation. In 1948, at the age of twenty-five, she married Neal Cassady, a man who, in her words, "dared to live like those in the books and movies." Less than ten years after their marriage, he had become..... More

London, England: The Black Spring Press Group, 2020. Second Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jami Cassady, Neal Cassady's daughter. "Jack Kerouac said he thought Neal Cassady belonged in the company of Tolstoy or Melville, after first reading this legendary piece of writing, The 'Joan Anderson Letter' often called the 'Holy Grail' of the Beats. Its life-energy and cascading spontaneity would not only profoundly inspire the style of On the Road but..... More

New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg- the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, (father) of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Ann Charters first met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1956 at the second of Ginsberg's legendary readings of his poem "Howl" in Berkeley. Charters, a photographer well known in the Sixties for her portraits of blues musicians, became fast friends with the group of writers and poets who would later be known as the Beat Generation. Especially close..... More

San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. This is the first full-length biography of Jack Kerouac, written by top Beat scholar Ann Charters & published only 4 years after Kerouac's death. In his introduction in its brief entirety, Allen Ginsberg writes that "Ann Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with/for him while alive, cherished his scripture and literary soul-might, researched with dignity the interior..... More

New York, NY: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1975. First Revised Updated Edition. Blue Cloth. Signed by Compiler This is the revised, updated edition of the first major bibliography of Jack Kerouac by top Beat scholar Ann Charters, first published in 1967 during Kerouac's lifetime. Beautifully published in gilt-stamped blue cloth by the late, great Phoenix Bookshop in NYC, part of its series of "The Phoenix Bibliographies." Signed by Ann Charters on..... More

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More

Bagnone, Italy: Magra Books, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Neeli Cherkovski to Thomas Rain Crowe. In 2018, Editor Paul Vangelisti (formerly of Los Angeles' famed "Open City" magazine) and his imprint Magra Books released this important late work from the great poet, biographer, memoirist, Beat protege and magnanimous man of letters Neeli Cherkovski. Vangelisti was a literary comrade-in-arms to the bohemian, "Beatitude Magazine"-affiliated poets down in..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Lapis Press, 1988. First Edition Softcover. Softcover. From the Library of Thomas Rain Crowe. Available here in its true first edition softcover format is the group of memoir-esque critical essays from Neeli Cherkovski, "Whitman's Wild Children," which focuses on ten major Beat or Beat-affiliated poets who exerted an indelible influence on Neeli and his generation of writers. Cherkovski, who features heavily as a subject in the..... More

Vashon, WA: Tom Christopher, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The second volume in Tom Christopher's fascinating assemblage of rare documents, family photographs, interviews & letters by or about Beat (& Beat-Hippie bridge) legend Neal Cassady, covering the wild & crazy formative years of 1941-1946 (age 15-16 through 19-20). With the reminiscences of William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Helen Hinkle, Herbert Huncke, Ed White & others. A rare & informative compilation..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1973. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is the 1973 catalogue Lawrence Ferlinghetti printed to give a wider scope of selections to choose from than people outside of San Francisco would have had access to. Included in this book are some classic, iconic photos of various authors that have seen widespread publication elsewhere, but also contained within the catalogue are rarer shots of Gregory..... More