Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2006. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "This fascinating assemblage of documents, a scrapbook montage of personal anecdote, reflection, audio transcription and objectivist reportage, provides a useful historical period reconstruction of the socioliterary sub-terrain of London in the later 1960s. It is also the honest and often comical account of an earnest attempt to capture on film- and in words- the magnetic impact of..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2011. First Printing. Softcover. "'This was Allen Ginsberg,' Gordon Ball declared after recounting intimate moments with the cultural icon and beloved Beat Generation poet on East Hill Farm, outside Cherry Valley, New York. During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was "a haven for comrades..... More

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation- one distinctly not destroyed by madness- Allen Ginsberg's journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War...Ginberg writes of these experiences as only he could, summoning political and..... More

New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Louis Ginsberg, Father of Allen. “Living a generation with lyrics wrought by my father, some stanzas settle in memory as perfected. ‘In this mode perfection is basic,’ W.C. Williams wrote, excusing himself from rejecting my own idealized iambic rhymes sent him for inspection. The genre itself seems imperfect on the XX Century page: a heavy leather Webster’s..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Nothing More to Declare is an account of living and writing by one of the Beat Generation, a friend of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others less famous but no less interesting and significant- and it makes nonsense of the game of 'generationing' by speaking to everyone, anywhere." (from front flap) A memoir by John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), who met..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press Inc. / Evergreen Books Ltd., 1961. First Printing. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Here is the complete Kerouac text, with photos selected by Robert Frank from the film Pull My Daisy- a short cinematographic exhibition of "Beat" life in a Bowery "pad" on New York's Lower East Side, with spontaneous performances by poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, painter Larry Rivers, composer David Amram..... More

London, England: Atlantic Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Paris from 1957-1963 was a place of literary legend. From Ginsberg's writing of "Kaddish," Burroughs' experimentation with the cut-up technique and writing "Naked Lunch," to Corso's writing of "Happy Birthday Death" absolute monuments of literature were conceived of at this time in Paris and Barry Miles captures it all. The Beat Hotel is a work whose importance in the course of Beat..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1972. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features the poem "An Open Window on Chicago" by Beat Generation Founding Father Allen Ginsberg, dated January 8, 1967- near the apex of his Buddhist-hippie flower power phase. The next year, Ginsberg would famously be among those vainly attempting to keep the peace at the Democratic National Convention..... More

New Brunswick, NJ: Partisan Review, Inc., 1971. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the famous cutting edge-intellectual literary & cultural journal features an interview-conversation with Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, conducted by Alison Colbert. Ginsberg here provides deep insight into his life, work & influences during this key period in the immediate wake of the fertile, turbulent 1960s counterculture which he did so much to portend..... 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

Clarksville, TN: Austin Peay State University, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This number of the long-running literary journal published by the Center for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University, edited by Malcolm Glass & David Till, features the poem "Reading a Letter from My Mother" by Diane Wakoski, the acclaimed & prolific poet who has long resided in Michigan. Below the end of the poem..... More