Brooklyn, NY: UpSet Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. "The war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it." (Diana di Prima, pg. 221). Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, A Little History explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm for American Studies. With a preface by editor, publisher..... 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

New York, NY, USA: MGM Records, 1970. First Edition. LP Record in Gatefold Sleeve. Inscribed, signed, dated & placed by Allen Ginsberg to Albert Glover. "To Young Old Listeners: The songs were first composed on tape recorder, improvised on pump organ in farmhouse upstate N.Y. in two nights after returning from Democratic Convention 1968 Tear Gas Chicago. These are half the Songs of Innocence & Experience now finished to music;..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. “A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard.” (Nchaioui Proverb; title page). A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard is a collection of short fiction by American expatriate and author Paul Bowles (1910-1999) published by Beat Generation acolyte Lawrence Ferlinghetti's (1919-2021) City Lights Books in 1962. The volume was..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Bromige, Robert Kelly, & Diane Wakoski. Established in 1966, the Black Sparrow Press was founded by John Martin (b. 1930) and since carved out a legacy for itself that most literary presses could only dream of. Initially Martin founded the press explicitly to publish the works of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) of whom Martin had immense respect..... More

Tempe, AZ: Synaesthesia Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "With the exception of (Lawrence Ferlinghetti's) Poet as Fisherman, all the work here has never been published, to my knowledge. I wanted to do it in part for Steve (Fisher), in part as a tribute to (Charles) Bukowski, and because I think it is all quality work. As far as legalities, I don't know...I do know that money is not..... More

London, England, UK: Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd., 1970. First UK Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "No author in recent years has caused the same stormy controversy as William Burroughs, the Beat writer and former drug-addict who crashed into literary prominence some years ago when his "definitive hip book..." The Naked Lunch was first published. Is he, as Norman Mailer asserts, "the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed..... More

New York, NY, USA: Penguin, 1977. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "Here is the first complete and unexpurgated edition of one of the most powerful books ever written about drug addiction. Following its hero from his Midwestern birthplace to New York, New Orleans, And Mexico City, Junky depicts the addict's life—his hallucinations, his ghostly nocturnal wanderings, his strange sexuality, his hunger for the needle. Above all, these searing pages present a...... 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