New York, NY: Grove Press, 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. The first thing one notices about the indefatigable Gerry Nicosia’s biographical masterwork, “Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac” is the wreath of endorsements found on the back cover. These blurb-endorsements achieve what biographers so often find to be evasive or outright impossible—the book has actually won the people who personally knew the subject over; it has accurately portrayed events..... More

Chicago, IL; New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Clayton Eshleman to James Perrizo. This number of the literary journal chiefly edited by Barry Silesky features two poems ("At Forest Lawn" & "The Oven of Apollo," the former a prose-poem) by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided near us in Michigan, our friend & mentor. Also..... More

New York, NY; Hollywood, CA: Marcel Rodd Co., Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. "Christopher Isherwood's translation of this heretofore unavailable classic of autobiography has the same sharply incisive qualities as the great poet's original words, thoughts, and bitterly unhappy feelings...W.H. Auden, his long time friend and collaborator, and equally distinguished, has contributed an important interpretative introduction." (from front flap) The intimate diaristic musings of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), the iconic French..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. First Edition, Review Copy. Hardcover. "When the beat writers emerged from San Francisco in 1956, they succeeded in touching off controversy and discussion throughout America which continue unabated today. Not only their writing,but their nonconformist way of life- with its special interest in jazz, Buddhism, drugs, and squalor- became a subject of general interest, discussed and hotly argued in a wide range..... More

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1986; 1990. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. One of two editions signed by editor-publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. An anthology of writings by & about greater-&-lesser known members of the Beat Generation & their contemporaries. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Jeffrey H. Weinberg, whose Water Row imprint & bookselling enterprise is among the first & greatest in our specialization. With a story by William..... More

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "Concisely told and full of fascinating detail, The Birth of the Beat Generation chronicles the life and times of the maverick poets and novelists William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, as well as the San Francisco Group, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder. It also evokes the figures surrounding them, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, and Peter..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat is an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond...First-hand accounts from East Coast to West Coast, Prague to Kathmandu, Andy Clausen was there. Clausen's eyewitness memoirs stories anecdotes revelations of the generation that changed poetry music literature & ushered in the psychedelic era is infused with the underlying premise..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2002. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2002 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an extensive article on pioneering artist & Beat publisher Wallace Berman by Ring, including photographs of Berman & his works (some in color), along with an interview of Berman's son Tosh conducted by Ring circa 2001. Also an excerpt from..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2011. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This 2011 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK includes three wonderful features concerning William S. Burroughs: A profile of WSB by poet Bill Butler first published in London's Guardian newspaper issue of November 27, 1965; a very useful & concise timeline of his life & work mostly credited to the..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This winter/ early spring 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a series of lengthy, informative late interviews with the then-recently deceased Beat-related poet & novelist James Koller (1936-2014) conducted by Peter Garland during 2013-2014. Also a review by Laurence Ring of a contemporary exhibit of William S. Burroughs'..... More

New York, NY: Dashwood Books, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lois Sorrells Beckwith. "I commend the attention of serious students of contemporary American poetry to these collected poems of Lois Sorrells, 26, whose maiden name was Milemore. Her poems are usually very short, little things passing by that you do a doubletake looking back at." So begins the hand-typed Introduction by Jack Kerouac dated May 7, 1963 to this..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of post-war and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of boldface names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write "of [Truman Capote's Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother's escort, I have..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this, his critical summa, Harold Bloom returns to the issue of influence, his signature theme. Ever since his classic work The Anxiety of Influence appeared almost forty years ago, Bloom has been the world's most eloquent authority on literary relationships. With erudition and panache, The Anxiety of Influence overturned generations of conventional wisdom by showing that great works of..... More