New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. With owner's signature & marginalia of Clayton Eshleman. "...Genet's second novel, having been written in La Sante and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers. Like that first work, Miracle of the Rose was written in the solitude of a prison cell, on the pieces of white paper the penal authorities furnish the convicts for..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. In the 1970s, Beat Scholarship was still in its infancy; a new generation of academics that had come up with The Beat Generation and were convinced of its existence and substance were cresting into maturity, and it was this period that saw the first flourish of major works of Beat Scholarship completed. One of these early triumphs came in the..... More

n/p: Allen Ginsberg, n/d. Autograph Letter Signed. Single Sheet. Hand-written & signed by Allen Ginsberg. "Dick= I think this would/ make a very great/ magazine cover- for/ you- Especially if you/ had a great and dead serious (underlined) / issue to go with it- perhaps/ Rosset's idea of The Fall/ of America(underlined) (dead hard)- I/ don't mean this as a joke-/ you'd really get sensational/ attention, once anybody noticed/ what..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1995. First Softcover Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. "Since this work is not done posthumously, I've had the liberty to annotate each verse regarding appropriate cultural references which few critics have examined...I've lived with and enjoyed Howl for three decades, it has become a social and poetical landmark, notorious at worst illuminative at best...It seems helpful in this fourth decade of the poem's use to clarify..... More

Paris, France: Seuil Tel Quel, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. A collection of interviews published in France in 1979. First edition. There is no American equivalent of this 1979 collection. Includes the French translations of the following Allen Ginsberg feature interviews: " A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg," "Chicago Trial Testimony," " Gay Sunshine Interview," "Paris Review Interview with Tom Clark." All text in French. Signature-bound softcover in mint condition but for..... More

(1) New York, NY; (2) Berkeley, CA: (1) Harper Collins; (2) Workingman's Press, 2001. (1) First Edition, Second Printing; (2) First Printing. (1) Hardcover; (2) Stapled Wrappers. Well, this collection certainly features heavy-hitters all-around—a book of Selected Interviews from Allen Ginsberg with Preface by legendary Czech poet-turned-dissident-turned-politician, Vaclav Havel (a legend in his time and the first democratically-elected president of his country). Added to this is the presence of a...... 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

Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, Inc., 1984. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Kwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz, called by his admirers the 'Tongue of the Unseen' and the 'interpreter of Secrets,' lived in Shiraz, in the province of Fars during the turbulent fourteenth century. Little is known of the details of his life though he received the patronage of a number of the many rulers who wielded power in Shiraz during his..... 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

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. "On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac met Joyce Glassman in January of 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old who earned her keep as a secretary but who already had a publisher interested in her first novel. Kerouac was..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road and became the definitive voice of Beat culture, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. In Atop an Underwood, editor Paul Marion has brought together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "When Viking published the first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters in 1995, it was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. The passionate early correspondence portended the uninhibited and spontaneous prose style that would later become his trademark. In the second and final volume of this life in letters, Ann Charters, renowned Kerouac biographer and editor of..... More

London, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 2000; 2008. First Softcover Editions Thus, Later Printings. Softcovers. Both volumes signed by Carolyn Cassady, one also inscribed & dated. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, ignited the Beat Generation into a popular phenomenon that in turn paved the way for the seismic literary & cultural upheavals which culminated during the 1960s. Famously written on..... More