New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2007. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. 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 a single roll of paper in a nonstop benzedrine-fueled binge of only several weeks during..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the mid-1950s Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated wiht Buddhism, an interest that had a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and later found expression in such books as Mexico City Blues and The Dharma Bums. Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life..... More

London, England: Alan Ross, 1969. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "I write this in London, where I have found an English publisher willing to give me the equivalent of your airwaves for my American voice. This voice, this book in your hands, first made their appearance via a tiny Greenwich Village press in New York in 1961. The press is long dead; the voice is still swinging, although the tune she..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "The letters gathered here have been selected from the surviving correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, a collection of approximately 350 letters written between 1937 and Rexroth's death in 1982...While many of the letters are reproduced entire, many others are not; in the main, the attempt has been to give as accurate a reflection as possible of the..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, Hsieh Ling-yun (385-433 C.E.) initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across millennia in China and beyond, a tradition that represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history. Hsieh's work, all but unknown in the..... More

Columbia, SC: Paul Maher Jr., 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "A Vast Glowing Empty Page: The Life and Writings of Jack Kerouac takes the reader from Jack Kerouac's early years in Lowell, Massachusetts through his last years in St. Petersburg, Florida. Read of the hapless young man searching for his voice as a writer as he struggles through the pitfalls of school, family conflicts, poverty, World War II, fame and the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I came to Bukowski after taking a detour from Hemingway, my first love. It led me down a cracked path to a muddy backwater reeking of dirt and grime. And yet I felt in strangely familiar territory. Though Bukowski usually mentioned Hemingway among a list of a number of authors who influenced him, he was probably the biggest one..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. "In this powerful collection of new poems, Michael McClure gives us a rare view into his thoughts about mortality, particularly in the moving sequence "Death Poems." Mule Kick Blues takes its title from a series of homages to blues musicians, and features shout-outs to lifelong friends, a long poem "Fragments of Narcissus," and the ecological and zen-infused themes for which..... More

Liverpool, PA; n/p: Bob Sprowls; Becky Thatcher Book Shop, 1985; n/d. Limited First Edition; First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Two rare booklets concerning Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the great American humorist & author: (1) Mark Twain in Williamsport, booklet in stapled wrappers, 1985 first edition, No. 725 of 1000 copies, all as stated on title page. With a series of articles by Twain scholar & educator T.R. McIntosh..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "...a long-awaited publishing event- the definitive biography of one of this century's most flamboyant and influential literary renegades. Drawing upon Allen Ginsberg's extensive journals and correspondence, as well as scores of interviews with friends, associates, and with Ginsberg himself, Barry Miles has painted an intimate and richly detailed portrait of the man whose poetry shocked the literary establishment, and whose..... More

Fresno, CA: The Giligia Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "John Montgomery came from the same origins as (Richard) Brautigan, was weaned by (Kenneth) Rexroth, and on the third day rose from among the blackberry tangle of Allen Ginsberg's Berkeley cottage plot from whence along parallel tensors of the San Francisco scene he intersected Kerouac novels, delivered a telephone book to Union Square's buried phone box, spent fourteen years..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Initialed by Joe Napora. "The One. The One and the Many. What connects? What divides? Once we knew. Before the internet, smart phones, E-mail, before telephones, before writing, before information, we knew. There is an Iroquois tale called "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" describing the creation of the universe and the beginning of the human race...This story connects us..... More

Norman, OK: Texture Press, 1997. First Edition. Book. Inscribed & signed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. A chapbook of miscellaneous "fictionselections" by Joe Napora, the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & contrarian activist. Sort of hybrids between short essays & prose-poems concerning many topics, in various fonts & formats. On blank front endpaper, Napora has hand-inscribed & signed: "Thomas-/ (drawing of compass-points or star)/ No shortcuts..... More