New York, NY: RCA, 1974. Special Promotion Edition. Vinyl LP Record in Sleeve. An enormously interesting LP by David Amram (b. 1930), the great American composer, author, arranger, songwriter, & conductor in which he discusses his wide-ranging artistic activities (up to that point) and features samples of his then-new music. Among the intriguing stories Amram tells is one in which Bob Dylan (b. 1941) is living down the road from..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beatitude Press, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (measuring 8.5 x 11') advertising a Beatitude Magazine benefit reading that took place on June 21st, 1976, and featured several Baby Beat luminaries in concert with a few Beat predecessors. Among the predecessors, we have David Meltzer, for example — whose inclusion in Don Allen’s legendary anthology of 1960, The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 firmly established him as..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Culture of Spontaneity is the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde. Daniel Belgrad beautifully integrates such diverse moments in American culture as abstract expressionism, bebop jazz, gestalt therapy, Black Mountain college, Jungian psychology, beat poetry, experimental dance, Zen Buddhism, Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology, and the anti-nuclear movement. Belgrad shows how a startling variety of artistic movements actually had..... More

New York, NY: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Ted Berrigan to the poet & noted mimeograph revolutionary, Lee Harwood. The debut volume of poetry by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the great American poet, publisher, and mimeograph revolutionary most closely affiliated with the “New York School” of poets. In 1978, while writing to Anne Waldman (b. 1945), Berrigan described the “technical achievement”..... More

London, England, UK: Klinker Zoundz/New River Music, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Aberration is a 1988 vinyl LP by Birdyak, the free-improvisation group built around British concrete, visual & sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) & British guitarist Hugh Metcalfe, released on Metcalfe's own Klinker Zoundz label, a "free jazz/poetry/performance art/etc club." It comprises twelve tracks compiled from live recordings made in 1986–87 at Apples & Snakes, Torriano Meeting House, the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Greenlight Press, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “Everyone likes to go over their own stories, echo-laden sanctuaries—you were here, here, here. Suffice it to say that I was the middle of three daughters to a small tobacco farmer in the extreme western edge of Kentucky, some fifteen miles before its key shape touches the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, where they juncture. Hill country. I...... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First Trade Edition. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he was aware of the..... More

New York, NY, USA: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature & date. "Noted historian of American letters, Van Wyck Brooks tells for the first time the story of American writers and artists who have lived and worked in Italy, and have seen in that classic land the earthly fulfillment of their "dream of Arcadia." Some of them..... More

London, England, UK: Industrial Records Ltd., 1981. First U.K. Edition. Vinyl LP Record in Sleeve. "About These Recordings: The recordings on this album have been selected from a large number of reel to reel and cassette tapes stored in the William S. Burroughs Communications Archive in Kansas. Most of the tapes were made on domestic recorders and on some there was large-scale physical deterioration. Hi-Fi quality was impossible and the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Full Court Press, 1982. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Written at a turning point in his life- when he was kicking drugs in Tangiers, writing Naked Lunch, and emerging from the literary underworld, these letters from (William S.) Burroughs to his young friend (Allen) Ginsberg are not only an intimate, diaristic account of who was doing what, with whom and when, but also a record, as..... More

London, England, UK: Paladin, 1992. First U.K. Softcover Edition Thus, Second Printing. “I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness… Most survivors do not remember the delirium in detail. I apparently took detailed notes on sickness and delirium. I have no precise..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1965. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "THE YAGE LETTERS: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, celebrated author of 'the Soft Machine' & 'The Ticket That Exploded'. Burroughs' 1951 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended 'Yage may be the final fix'. In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Portents (Ann and Samuel Charters) / Gotham Book Mart, 1970. Limited Trade Edition. With autograph postcard from Ann Charters to Albert Glover. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were known only..... More