New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg- the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, (father) of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. Ginsberg's poetry, influenced by the writings of Walt Whitman and the spontaneous prose of his friend Jack Kerouac, is open, forthright, didactic, and written fast without revision. Much of his writing has a raw..... More

Durham, NC: The Invisible Bear/ Duke University, 2015. First Printing. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Editor Jessica Q. Stark to Thomas Rain Crowe. "To me, a desire to connect- to each other, to space, to memory and archive- seductively dwells in the corners of our selections for this volume. To love, to die, to live as human...What I see emerge from the pages of this issue reflects as well as..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press Inc. / Evergreen Books Ltd., 1961. First Printing. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Here is the complete Kerouac text, with photos selected by Robert Frank from the film Pull My Daisy- a short cinematographic exhibition of "Beat" life in a Bowery "pad" on New York's Lower East Side, with spontaneous performances by poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, painter Larry Rivers, composer David Amram..... More

New York, NY: The Little Review, 1921. First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. This vintage number of the iconic & prescient avant-garde literary & art journal, the "...ONLY American periodical that ever gives the reader something he hasn't learned to like somewhere else," (pg. 2) chiefly edited by Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), features three portfolios of images of sculptural artworks by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the great Romanian-French artist whose immortal works are the..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered (Twice) by Gerard Malanga. "Eight of the ten poems were selected from my most recent work-in-progress, 'The Notebooks.' Through numerous revisions I have given the individual poems by this time a perfection of which I was obviously incapable earlier. For through the process of revision I have learned to differentiate what's false to my poetry from..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1963. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "This is a limited edition of Miserable Miracle by the great French poet & painter, Henri Michaux. Very beautifully translated by Louise Varese, this book records in words and drawings the poet's profound experience with mescaline, the hallucinogen which Michaux has described as a drug that "de-mystifies," unmasking the mind and its secrets and the secrets of consciousness itself."..... More

London, England, UK: Dennis Dobson Limited, 1947. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "Each of these modern stories has its unique and irresistible charm. The range of locale and fancy is from deepest Chicago to an impossible but fascinating Africa, from a dream vision of Mobile, Alabama to the psychic life of a buzzard." (from front flap) An amazing compilation of stories & illustrations edited by Charles Henri Ford (1908-2002), the Mississippi-born..... More

New York, NY: George Wittenborn Inc., 1962. Third Edition; Second American Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Hilaire Hiler on front cover. "I promised to say something about painting. Here it is- Saw Hilaire Hiler last night for my first lesson, after weeks of pour-parlers. If it were not that I like him so much I would sit down immediately and do a pen portrait of him. But here is a...... 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

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. An intense, explosive (so to speak) collection of poems by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific poet, publisher, editor & activist. With reproductions of artworks & treated photographs; dizzying & darkly hilarious wordplay-mashups including the very title; first letters of some poems specially colored & forming vertical phrases of satirical menace; & other kaleidoscopic aspects that form..... More

San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "CARNIVOROUS SAINT, a pioneer work spanning 4 decades of erotic gay poems, is the first book of its kind by a major American poet. Norse has developed his own style and vision, "an anguished Whitman reversed, sharing something of Whitman's sense of an encompassing vision. His energies are both Boschian and calming, wild and controlled...a first-rate talent," writes Robert..... More

Flushing, NY: Deborah S. Pease, 1991. First Printing. Softcover. This later-vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features in-depth interviews with canonical American poet Donald Hall (1928-2018), conducted by Peter Stitt & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page of his poem "Baseball"; & with Wright Morris (1910-1998), the great novelist & photographer, conducted by Olga Carlisle & Jodie Ireland, preceded by a facsimile manuscript page..... More

Salt Lake City, UT: Litmus Inc., 1976. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A collaborative volume with short prose works by Charles Potts (b. 1943), the prolific & award-winning poet, novelist, editor & publisher who is associated with his Black Mountain-&-Beyond mentor Edward Dorn; with illustrations by "Rbt" (Robert) McNealy (b. 1942), the acclaimed & also very prolific American-Canadian artist. Potts' humorous & surreal prose partakes less of the abbreviated, pun-filled style..... More