Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Maynard & Miles, B27(a), pg. 98. A compilation of writings issued only in the UK as a softcover original, edited by Donald Allen & Robert Creeley. Features an excerpt from The Naked Lunch (as it was originally titled) by William S. Burroughs, along with a short biographical note on WSB in an appendix. Also contributions by Richard Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Lawrence..... More
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London, England: Aloes Books, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. "The white subway gathered silent speed as buildings and landscapes slid by- faster- faster- a blur of film flakes then pictures leaped into sharp focus- mist and frogs in 1920s roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos stretching back to his childhood- back- back- "STOP." " (from "Unfinished Cigarette," pg. 1)..... More
[Item #3471]![A French-Language William S. Burroughs Bundle: Le Metro Blanc (White Subway), [1] with: Les...](/pictures/medium/4026.jpg?v=1608682630)
Paris, France: Bourgois/Seuil; Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1976; 1984. First French Edition; First French Edition Thus. Softcover. (1) [Shoaf, 26c. p. 39]. Edited and Translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pelieu (and soon after, published) in 1976, “White Subway” was initially released in London by our friend-&-colleague, the great Jim Pennington (through his Aloes Books imprint) in 1973. It compiles sixteen short works of imagination by WSB from the late-fifties to..... More
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New York, NY: Blast Books, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. [ISBN: 0-922233-05-5]. Edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise, “…The Drug User Documents: 1840-1860 includes essays on hashish use from a New York physician (1910) and a clergyman’s son (1857); accounts of opium extravagances by artists and journalists in the first decades of this century; reports on ritual peyote use by an ethnologist in 1896 and of mushrooms by a banker..... More
[Item #4092]
New York, NY: Grove Press, 1998; 2000. First Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. Including an Association Copy inscribed & signed by James Grauerholz to Jim McCrary. (Shoaf, Section I, No. 92, pg. 65; Schottlaender, A76 (A), pg. 22). The first comprehensive compilation of shorter works & excerpts from longer works which covers all of the phases of William S. Burroughs' over half-century of literary achievement. Initially published in 1998, the year after..... More
[Item #4127]
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed (twice) by Kathryn Stripling Byer to Thomas Rain Crowe. "My father made the birds fly overhead/ that afternoon in late fall when he lifted me/ above the weeds as tall as I was then/ into a wagon load of hay. There at the field's edge/ while he whistled, restless in the cold,/ I watched the shadows of..... More
[Item #3684]
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Irish for No represents (Ciaran) Carson's return to poetry after a decade's devotion to the making and maintenance of traditional music. In (Carson's first collection) The New Estate he writes of Belfast, "The city is a map of the city." In The Irish for No, Carson becomes the cartographer of..... More
[Item #3766]
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. A celebrated collection of poems by Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), the acclaimed Northern Irish poet & novelist. Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize as noted on back cover, this is the first American trade-format softcover edition in sewn binding, published simultaneously with a hardcover edition & preceded..... More
[Item #3555]
New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Charters. "Charters learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain." (Allen Ginsberg, from Back Cover). This exceptional collection, edited by one of the most pioneering and..... More
[Item #3811]
Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More
[Item #1155]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "...From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic, and not publishing (that pitfall of the little press) just 'our gang.' I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment. What has proved most fascinating are the continuing cross-currents and cross-fertilizations between poets widely separated by language or geography, from France..... More
[Item #2694]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. The second number of the landmark first series of the literary journal published by iconic Beat poet & publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights imprint. Featuring a critical essay on William S. Burroughs' three works following the first publication of Naked Lunch by Alan Ansen, WSB's good friend & collaborator; English translations of works by Dada-Surrealist French writers Guillaume Apollinaire &..... More
[Item #2108]
Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY: Goliard & Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each of the contributors to ALL STARS was asked to present a selection of some twenty pages of new work; the result is a kind of monster magazine which contains 13 previously unpublished pamphlets." (from dust jacket back cover) A monumental compendium of poems by the primary figures of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, Black..... More
[Item #3740]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "Sky above California apartment building/ Sky above Damascus' whitest mosque/ Sky above Franz Schubert composing a nostalgic measure/ Sky above Vida Blue throwing smoke/ In all of you one common ingredient: Blue/ Blue is not white/ Death is white/ Blue is cool/ Blue is all right" ("Blue," pg. 11) A collection with the title poem..... More
[Item #3639]
Berkeley, CA: e Typographeo Poltroniano (Poltroon), 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "It is as if, as toward the silent tomb we go,/ We feel that we are greater than we know we know" ("Thoughts in Repression," William Wordsworth) A chapbook of poem-lyrics by canonical British poets from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, arranged & selected by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prolific..... More
[Item #3690]
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1987. Limited First Edition. Softcover. One of only four copies numbered & signed by Tom Clark, also with signed autograph poem & hand-initialed artwork reproduction. "Easter Sunday joins recent poems by Tom Clark with rediscovered and revised earlier poems to form a book that expresses the abiding spirit of this poet's entire work. "One comes more and more to think of a poet as somebody..... More
[Item #3900]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Tom Clark & with an original drawing. "While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ it is like a good/ kind of tiredness in/ the moment before sleep/ by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will..... More
[Item #3851]
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: L'oie de Cravan, 2011. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Byron Coley to Charles Plymell. A bi-lingual compilation of early letters & musical review writings by Byron Coley, the pioneering American critic featured in Forced Exposure, New York Rocker & other independent magazines that chronicled cutting-edge rock in its heyday. The letters are to his friend Angela Jaeger, & are like diary entries of his..... More
[Item #3497]
New York, NY: Conjunctions, 1981. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This historic, very first number of the prestigious literary journal chiefly edited by Bradford Morrow is subtitled "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions" & features many essays, odes & tributes to the legendary litterateur by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Hall, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure (who passed away recently as of this..... More
[Item #3552]
New York, NY & Cleveland, OH: The New American Library, Inc./ The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. "The Contemporary American Poets is a collection of representative work by the best poets writing in the U.S.A. It stays clear of bias, favoring no one group of poets over any other, reflecting, instead, the rich variety that characterizes contemporary American poetry...(providing) the reader with the clearest and most comprehensive view..... More
[Item #3237]
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by poet Charles Baxter; signed by poet Diane Wakoski; signed by photographer Robert Turney. "...in choosing poems for this collection, we did not primarily intend to document Michigan life. We set out, instead, to find the most accomplished poets in the state and to present some of the best recent work by those people, whatever..... More
[Item #3430]
New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Gregory Corso. "(Gregory) Corso's poetry is an affront to all that limits, restrains or frightens. "Death I unsalute you," he declares. His work exhibits a seemingly omniscient command of the encyclopedic details of the sad, noble tragedy of human civilization- invoking the stone tools of Neanderthal Man, the shoe-buckles, the kites and keys of Ben Franklin..... More
[Item #4049]
New York, NY: DIA Art Foundation, 1987. Limited First Printing. Softcover. (1/500 Unnumbered Copies). Robert Creeley’s “Some Time: A Selection, 1945-1987” was “…published on the occasion of a reading of these poems by the poet, November 12, 1987, DIA Art Foundation, New York, New York. The reading and a moderated discussion with the poet following the reading were videotaped.” This slim selection of Creeley culls the some of the finest..... More
[Item #4217]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Editor Thomas Rain Crowe. "In this long overdue collection of contemporary Celtic language poets, A Celtic Resurgence offers a first comprehensive look in English at poets from Wales, Brittany, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall and Isle of Man writing in Welsh, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish and Manx. Along with poets who are legendary and household names in their native countries...are more..... More
[Item #4014]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "From the early 1970s through the early 1980s, for about a decade, San Francisco was often compared to Paris and the urban centers in Russia in the early years of the twentieth century. Centered around City Lights Bookstore in North Beach, a fleur-de-lis had sprouted and bloomed, whose petals would eventually spread into the ethnic neighborhoods..... More
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