Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 77 begins with an excerpt from one of the newest posthumously assembled story collections from poetic giant Charles Bukowski, followed shortly thereafter by an interview with Philip Whalen biographer David Schneider. Also featured is an article on William S. Burroughs' time in London and another on the Hardiment Suitcase--a suitcase left behind by Burroughs and subsequently recovered..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Book This winter/early spring 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK (the most current as of this writing in April 2015) features a series of lengthy, informative late interviews with the recently deceased Beat-related poet & novelist James Koller (1936-2014) conducted by Peter Garland during 2013-2014. Also a review by Laurence Ring..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2016 issue of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a short article on the activities and influence of Joanna McClure, poet & former wife of Michael McClure. Also an interview of Gary Snyder, a biographical anecdote of William S. Burroughs by Jim White, where he relates a visit to Burroughs' famous bunker on 222 Bowery Street in New York..... More

New York, NY: Thor Publications, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Monarch Notes and Study Guides. "What is really meant by being beat? Does it simply mean lounging around marijuana-smoke-filled "pads" dressed in blue jeans, listening to progressive jazz records, deliberately breaking the legal code, and occasionally heightening the monotony of all this by indulging in an occasional sex orgy? Despite these popular images, being beat has a more significant..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 83 of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a great essay with a then-81 year old Lawrence Ferlinghetti about the infamous HOWL trial and the original San Francisco scene surrounding the publication of Ginsberg's most widely-known work. Ferlinghetti, as ever, is quick to dispel rumors and misconceptions about the event and that time, fly-swatting the mythology away from the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an intensive article by Ring about Allen Ginsberg's residency at a cottage in Berkeley during a crucial period that led to the first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in 1955, exemplary of this journal's focusing on a little-known..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential Beat Scene magazine published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features several articles relating to the life & work of Jack Kerouac, a Founding Father of the Beat Generation: "Jack Kerouac and the Dharma Bums" by the great pioneering Kerouac biographer Ann Charters; a short study of an..... More

Boulder, CO: Bombay Gin Editions, 1980. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This number of the first series of the literary journal published at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at The Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) begins with a poem co-written in 1958 by Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg entitled "Nixon," with very wacky Beat riffs on the then-U.S. Vice President. Below is a hilarious 1979 explanatory note..... More

New York, NY: Paper Book Gallery, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The rare first edition of one of the earliest collections of poems by Ray Bremser (1934-1998), the hard-living Beat author who was a close colleague of Allen Ginsberg & other primary figures of the Beat Generation. With an introduction by Ginsberg. Among the most scarce & important Bremser collectibles, in very fine condition with only minor sunning & browning..... More

London, England: Sphere Books Limited, 1971. First British Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his paranoid needle-brother Chad through the dangerous city streets. Totally stripped of remorse..... More

New York, NY: New American Library, 1968. First Softcover Edition Thus; Fifth Printing. Softcover. "One thing is certain about marihuana: there are stringent laws against it. But is it really harmful? Or innocuous? Or even beneficial? What is its relationship to sex? To violence? To addiction? In this book, comprehensive, objective evidence is presented- from doctors, scientists, historians, and writers. Some base their testimony on observation. Others on personal experience..... More

Francis Bacon. Milan, Italy: Sugar Edizioni, 1977. First Italian translation. Softcover. This is the first Italian translation of the second City Lights edition, with additional material. Text in Italian. With a front cover reproduction of a Francis Bacon painting, "3 Studies from the Human Body." A most rare version of a WSB/AG classic, in very fine condition with only minor rubbing to glossy black covers, spotting near lower right edge..... More

New York, NY: Jack Tilton Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Catalogue. The catalogue for the Literary Vision exhibit at the Jack Tilton Gallery in November 1988. Photographs and artwork by writers including William S. Burroughs, John Ashbery, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen and others. 8-1/2" x 11" Illustrated. A rare & important compilation of the visual works of these great writers, in near..... More