San Francisco, CA: manic d press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. "A hammersickle/ tattoo on his inside lip/ the ex-con pulled out." ("Folsom Prison Haiku," unpaginated) A collection of poems by Jack Hirschman, the legendary & prolific former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, firebrand radical & acclaimed translator. Chapbook-format softcover original, first edition, with no colophon, limitation or reference to any subsequent printings. A starkly attractive production with front & back..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. "GO deals with a group of young people whose lives are frenetic and even violent. Because they want passionately to believe in something and cannot find it, they create strange illusions to live by, and they are driven by a craving for excess. Their long nights involve liquor and marijuana, with the beat of bebop in the background, and they..... More

Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. "First published in Poetry, Partisan Review, Harper's, Poetry Northwest, and other journals, the poems in this selection represent the evolution of Holmes' style, from his early journeyman efforts in traditional forms, through the development of his later voice in free verse. Like his essays and fiction, Holmes' poetry focuses on the individual's self-affirmations in the face of numbing institutions--state or..... More

Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. “This book—volume two of a proposed three volume edition of nonfiction—deals with people…These pieces all reflect a belief that the passionate response of representative individuals to their era, the response of character to the waywardness of time, will reflect as well the generative ideas and experiences (what might be called the inner life) of a given period—in this case..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Joyce Johnson. "Joyce Glassman was twenty-one years old when she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in Greenwich Village arranged by the poet Allen Ginsberg. It was January 1957- nine months before the publication of On the Road would make Beat a permanent part of the American vocabulary. It was a time when most young women did not..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. This special chapbook production from Kevin Ring's esteemed Beat Scene Press covers the time William S. Burroughs spent in South Texas where he attempted "...to cultivate marijuana and live the life of a secluded Texas farmer." (first page, unpaginated) Specifically, this is the transcript of a conversation between Rob Johnson, professor at the University of Texas Pan-American, &..... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, Inc., 1963. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "A NIGHTMARE SUMMER/ Duluoz- The King of the Beatniks- tortured, broken idol of a whole generation; great, modern sex god who just wanted to be alone with his cat; all-time boozer of the century who was slowly drinking himself out of his mind./ BILLIE- his fashion-model mistress who knew every dirty trick in the book. Duluoz was her man..... More

Portland, OR: The Yes! Press, 1971. Limited First Edition Thus. Single Sheet. "...So whatever plan you have for me/ Splitter of majesty/ Make it short/ brief/ Make it snappy/ bring me home to the eternal mother/ today/..." A beautiful broadside (9" x 11") featuring the title poem by Jack Kerouac, founding father of the Beat Generation. The sadly prophetic poem was originally published during 1959, again anonymously the day after..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books/ Sal Paradise Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal that..... More

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1973. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "Describing the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence, Doctor Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Massachusetts. Always lurking in the back of Jack's mind is the shadow of Doctor Sax, cape flowing, slouch hat half concealing a malevolent leer..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated at time of publication by Ann Charters. "Written between 1940, when (Jack) Kerouac was a college freshman, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. Dispatches to the real-life models for his fictional pantheon-..... More

New York City, New York: Portents (Ann & Samuel Charters), 1969. First Edition. Framed Broadside. A poetry broadside (12" x 14") featuring a haiku by Jack Kerouac (which later appeared in the posthumous Scattered Poems) and a 1956 line drawing of Kerouac by Robert LaVigne. Published “As a memoriam - J.K., March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969” by Ann and Samuel Charters. At the bottom is printed “This was..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "All that hitchhikin/ All that railroadin/ All that comin back/ to America/ Via Mexican & Canadian borders... The author is Jack Kerouac, whose On the Road, Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans and Dr. Sax made him one of the most widely praised and widely criticized writers of our times. His books have been immediate best-sellers in every country where they..... More