Brittany, France: Centre Culturel Breton EGIN, 2008. First Printing (Contributor's Copy). Softcover. This number of the French literary & cultural journal features a special section entitled "Charles Plymell: ecrivain de la Beat Generation," dedicated to the great American poet, printer, publisher & Legendary Literary Outlaw. With brief biography, bibliography, interview conducted by Alain Jegou, several poems & an excerpt from his acclaimed novel-memoir The Last of the Mocassins. With a...... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions Et Al. 2011. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "I liked readin' writin' n' arithmetic, but I never liked school and its silly rules. I never wanted to be around shitty-assed, snot nosed, dirty finks and bullies all day. I was never a joiner or a team player. I was spared "kindergarten"- invented by some German guy to make teachers the gardeners of the state..... More

Grass Valley, CA: Dave Boles/ Cold River Press, 2011. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed twice by Charles Plymell. This number of the independent alternative literary & cultural journal edited by Shannon Handy features "The Benzedrine Highway Interview" of Charles Plymell conducted by Paul Hawkins. This lengthy, sweeping interview of the legendary poet, printer, publisher & Ultimate Literary Outlaw includes many vintage photographs & a collage depicting Plymell by himself &..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "On the Gowanus Expressway, just before the entrance to the Battery tunnel, there is a sign that says "Last Exit to Brooklyn." Leave the expressway at that exit and you find yourself in a jungle of waterfront docks, factory buildings, shabby bars, slum houses, and towering city apartment projects for the poor. Here live the people Hubert Selby (Jr.) writes..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1969. First Softcover Edition, Fifth Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Gary Snyder. "Both Pound and Williams have shown how a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meanings of "ecology") drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation." (from back cover) A now-classic collection of writings by Gary Snyder..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. "Allen and I came from the far ends of the nation. I was from the German and Scandinavian working farmer / logger / fisherman world of pre-WWII Puget Sound, Allen from the New York City Immigrant Left. We met in a backyard in Berkeley, and again in Kenneth Rexroth's wood-floored apartment in the foggy Avenues zone of San Francisco. The fall of..... 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