New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this novel, Hubert Selby (Jr.)'s first full-length work since the justly renowned Last Exit to Brooklyn, the reader will find himself once again entering that particular hell it is the author's task to investigate. While his first novel allowed itself a wider range of territory in which to discover those aspects of the lovelessness with which our society is..... More

Berkeley: Shaman Drum, 1973. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “The Fudo Trilogy” brings together three of Snyder’s best late 60s-early 1970s works, all of which remain popular among Snyder aficionados and collectors. It begins with “Spel Against Demons,” a powerful sociopolitical critique buttressed by (poetic) admonitions. Snyder writes, “The release of Demonic Energies in the name of / the People / must cease / Messing with blood sacrifice in the name..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Carl Solomon. "Monsieur Solomon continues his epochal battle of wits, all satanic forces of pure reason arrayed against satanic legions of tiny thoughts emerging from his civilized unconscious A.D. Post-Marxists mid-sixties eternal banalities of wisdom language confront XX Century banalities of domesticated and foreign policy. Is it humor? Is it serious? It's a substance interesting as Bronx, a...... More

Heidelberg, Germany: Ober-Limbo Verlag, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "Travels in a holy holy land, sojourns in a skid row hotel, larceny & poetic license, a secret Victorian stoner, raptures of an impoverished consumptive young poet, the strange resurrection of old engravings, a gathering of far-flung fragments, moving a ton of weed. Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Akbar del Piombo, Samuel Greenberg, Jerry Kamstra and someone else." (back cover) A collection of..... More

Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology, 1983. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. A vintage early number of the highly acclaimed "Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art," chiefly edited & with contributions by Clayton Eshleman, the esteemed & prolific poet, translator & scholar who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. With four poems from Eshleman's collection entitled Fracture, which was published during the same..... More

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

San Antonio, TX: Broken Weather Press, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. A short, concise biography of Mack Thomas (1928-2016), an important Beat Generation literary figure & associate of William S. Burroughs whose life & legacy are rescued from obscurity by author Jim Welton. In his review of this volume in a recent issue of the indispensable Beat Scene magazine (No. 99, Winter 2020, item No. 4123), Gregory Stephenson writes: "This slender..... More

n/p: Beatdom Books, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. "Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca. In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting- via letters from that period to his wife..... 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

Mexico City, Mexico: El Corno Emplumado, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. The eleventh number of "A Magazine from Mexico City" (copyright page), a bilingual literary journal co-edited by the venerable Mexican writer Sergio Mondragon & the controversial expatriate writer-activist Margaret Randall, both still with us as of this writing. With a dazzling array of poems, prose & letters by mid-20th century writers from the USA & South..... More

New York, NY: Corinth Books, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Offered here is yet another exemplary production from the literary nebula scholars and critics have long referred to as the "New York School" of painters and poets, "Dreaming As One" by poet-publisher Lewis Warsh. Warsh, these scholars contend, was a "principal member of the second generation of the New York School poets." For his part, Warsh--like so many others..... More

Berkeley, CA: Sand Dollar, 1970. Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Centuries and hordes of us / from every quarter of the Earth / now piling up / and each wave going back to get some more” (excerpted from title poem, pg. 1). Originally published in 1969, this is the Second Edition of ‘The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings,’ printed in Berkeley, CA by Jack Shoemaker in a limited run of 1,000 copies..... More