New York, NY: Portents / Sam Charters, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Published as "Portents 17" by Blues historian Sam Charters, this work is a 4-page stapled pamphlet containing a transcript of Allen Ginsberg’s notes from a March 12, 1952 visit with William Carlos Williams. Williams, a towering poet in American Letters and a primary influence on the development of Ginsberg, was a key figure to endorse and embrace the..... More

Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “David Ignatow is “the one.” “The many,” of which the one is a part, are the others who shaped and inspired—or sometimes impeded—his life as a writer. This book is a memoir of an artist-in-process. It is, first, a work of memory of his early life in Brooklyn, the struggle to find the freedom to write, his life as reluctant son..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language- but in the soviet union of the 1960s, such a passion..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Not intended for publication, the journal of Graham Greene's trip to the Belgian Congo in 1959 was the raw material for the novel that became A Burnt-Out Case. A shorter journal, of a wartime convoy to West Africa in 1941, was a prelude to the writing of The Heart of the Matter. Together with the author's introduction and plentiful..... More

Monee, IL: Get Things Done Publishing, 2017. Third Edition. Softcover. "(Brian Hassett) knows how to get backstage, into the presence of the main characters, the musicians, writers, actors & directors. He gets there by knowledge, intuition, a feel for a situation, and a very big smile. He's written a few books centered around the Beats; he's always in the middle of things and his passion gets him into situations that..... More

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "When 'Least Heat Moon' (the translation of the tribal name in his mixed blood) lost his job in a college in Missouri, he got a half-ton Ford van, packed a few necessaries including Leaves of Grass and Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, and set out to follow the track of various ancestors and write a book about..... More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Printing. Hardcover. "GO deals with a group of young people whose lives are frenetic and even violent. Because they want passionately to believe in something and cannot find it, they create strange illusions to live by, and they are driven by a craving for excess. Their long nights involve liquor and marijuana, with the beat of bebop in the background, and they..... 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

Petrolia, CA: Counterpunch Books, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. “The Sixties remade Western culture. The Beats, rock ‘n’ roll, and the bebop subcultures of the 1950s exploded into the psychedelic mishmash of politics, youth, sound, art, and movement that became known as the counterculture….Then things fell apart. Nixon. Cambodia, Kent State and Jackson State. Between the actions of government and the cooptation of the culture, the counterculture stumbled, then fell. The..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Joyce Johnson. "Joyce Glassman was twenty-one years old when she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in Greenwich Village arranged by the poet Allen Ginsberg. It was January 1957- nine months before the publication of On the Road would make Beat a permanent part of the American vocabulary. It was a time when most young women did not..... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, Inc., 1963. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "A NIGHTMARE SUMMER/ Duluoz- The King of the Beatniks- tortured, broken idol of a whole generation; great, modern sex god who just wanted to be alone with his cat; all-time boozer of the century who was slowly drinking himself out of his mind./ BILLIE- his fashion-model mistress who knew every dirty trick in the book. Duluoz was her man..... More

London, England: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1966. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "All of the leading figures of the Beat Generation appear in this novel, and what the reader witnesses is the way in which these people, obsessed by art, self-investigation and ideas, became aware of themselves and their own attitudes, and crystallized into a group expressing many of their contemporaries' feelings which had hitherto been hushed up or considered improper for..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "DOCTOR SAX is a story of awakening youth in a grey, colorless New England mill town. It is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Mass. Above all, it is the story of the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence...Always lurking behind the..... More