Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2022. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "In the very middle of his novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac recounts a visit with William S. Burroughs. While perhaps somewhat inconsequential to the casual Kerouac reader, this episode is significant because it provides vital insight into the derivation of Burroughs' particular style and substance as will unfold in future works. It is a quintessential example of the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "A work which would free much of the encumbrance upon man as himself a universe- not microorganisms, microcosm- would start with Hesiod, taking him as a base-line and saying anything after him as 'lost' something and that all which he does show and include is a beginning of dimension of man's place in the cosmos as it had been..... More

Columbia, SC: Beatdom Books, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s, the authors of the Beat Generation helped introduce American readers to Eastern philosophies and, in particular, to Buddhism. Poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Jack Kerouac are often credited with this phenomenon, while, as is so often the case, the women are sidelined. In this illuminating new study, Max Orsini examines the impact of two female poets, Diane..... More

Lowell, MA: The Lowell Corporation For The Humanities, Inc., 1989. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "Jack Kerouac's books represent an intense inner exploration that he felt compelled to express, and the powerful energy of those works continues to affect people throughout the world. In shying away from craft and revision in writing, he was digging away at the very core of himself, as if that were where he would find..... More

Detroit, MI; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; n/p: Wayne State University Press; University of Utah Press; University of Washington Press; n/p, 1957-1969. Reprints; First Printings. Stapled Sheets; Folded Broadside. Four articles & broadside signed by Robert Peters. A miscellaneous bundle of early articles, reviews & a broadside by Robert Peters (1924-2014), the acclaimed & prolific American poet, playwright, performer, critic, scholar & educator: (1) Reprint from Modern Language Quarterly..... More

Garden City, NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This book is about the sociology of deviance. The differences among the chapters are in basic approach to the subject as well as in substantive content: One chapter reports on field research that relied heavily on participant observation, and another reports on field research that did not; a third chapter is a study in historical..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. An essay which originally appeared & can still be found on the indispensable website that serves as "A WIlliam S. Burroughs Community": Reality Studio (realitystudio.org). The author of this essay, archived under "Editor" on the RS site, is not named. Most probably it is Jed Birmingham, the venerable super-scholar & collector of WSB who is the chief mastermind..... More

Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than five decades after the publication of his first bestselling book, Hunter S. Thompson remains a cultural icon. A steady stream of publications and films have told his remarkable story, several in detail. Most of these accounts- which feature his drug and alcohol consumption, gun fetish, and "fortified compound"- are centered in Woody Creek, Colorado, where Thompson lived from..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "Mark Twain: The Bachelor Years is an unprecedented look at the formative years of America's best-known and best-loved writer and humorist, a thorough and thoroughly delightful examination of the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from birth to marriage at age thirty-four- the years of wildly varied experience that helped form the bases of his great classics: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Tom..... More

New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. "Bowles wrote his parents about the beatnik invasion: 'Every day one sees more beards and filthy blue jeans, and the girls look like escapees from lunatic asylums, with white lipstick and black smeared around their eyes, and matted hair hanging around their shoulders. The leaders of the 'movement' have moved their headquarters here and direct their activities from here. Allen..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Patti Smith. “In this stirring book, one of our culture’s most inspiring artists offers an intimate account of her own creative process….Illumination comes as Smith journeys to the south of France to Camus’s house, tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in an Ashford cemetery on the outskirts of London, and haunts the winding nameless streets of Paris. Whether writing..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2012. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I got a chance to speak to (William S. Burroughs) in person...I asked him about Magic, and whether he would care to recommend any books on the subject? Without hesitation he mentioned Dion Fortune's 'Psychic Self-defense', even though he qualified it as "a bit old-fashioned." Then, without much prompting at all on my part he began to talk..... More

Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed to Allen Tobias by translator Richard J. Fein. "Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010) was described by the New York Times as "the greatest poet of the Holocaust." Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddish culture, was..... More