London, England, UK: Fuck Books Unlimited, 1967. First English Printing. "He put down his glass and stretched his bare arms along | The back of my sofa. The afternoon sumlight struck | The blond hairs on his wrist near my head. his chin was strong, | his mouth sucky. I could hardly believe my luck." (First stanza, The Gobble Poem, pg. 1). W.H. Auden (aka Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907-1973) was..... 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: The Wooden Shoe, 1967. Limited First Edition. Chapbook in Stiff Wrappers. Signed and numbered by Anna Blume. A beautifully-crafted, hand-printed art book by Anna Blume, an anarchist involved with the short-lived but influential Wooden Shoe bookshop and press in London. The store was only open about a year and was affiliated with Albert Meltzer, a contributor to anarchist paper Freedom and co-founder of the newspaper Black Flag who..... More

London, England: John Lehmann, 1952. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The third published work & second novel of Paul Bowles (1910-1999), the canonical American-expatriate author, composer & true Figure of Legend. Bowles, with his equally if differently legendary wife Jane, lived & worked in Tangier for most of his life, beginning when it was a notorious "International Zone" (the very title of the first chapter here), a cauldron of..... More

New York, NY: Jargon/Corinth, 1959. First Edition Thus. Softcover. “One-hundred-fifty copies of the first and only edition of 1450-1950 came forth from the Black Sun Press, Paris, in August of 1929, when the present editor was five months old. That it should take him thirty years to locate a copy of Bob Brown’s [1886-1959] utterly charming and singular book is a measure of the almost cultish regard 1450-1950 has commanded..... More

Brighton, England, UK: Unicorn Books, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover; LP Record in Sleeve. Hand-numbered & signed by William S. Burroughs. Here it is, Devoted Third Mind Burroughsians- The very rarest collectible in the entire published oeuvre of William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, among the foremost literary & cultural figures of all time, the very Icon-Patron of our enterprise: The very first, limited & legendary edition..... 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

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

Brighton, England, UK: Urgency Press Rip Off Press, 1972. Limited Pirated Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by (pirate) publisher Roy Pennington. In 1965, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who is the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise, published TIME, his cut-up parody of the "American Century" 's flagship publication (along with LIFE & FORTUNE), a key work in WSB's life-long effort to subvert the powers-that-be establishment's control..... More

London, England: Turret Books, 1972. First Limited Edition. Sewn Binding. “wolves / coyotes / all the wild / animals crept up to feed / and Crow / […] / flew over / […] hopped by / […] / got away just once / they killed him then / strung him over the fire” (abridged qtn. from A Cheyenne Legend). A volume of poetry by Bill Butler (1934-1977), the famed American-expatriate..... More

Brighton, England: Unicorn Press, 1969. Limited First Trade Edition. "Enough quiet | space | off inside my one-leaf | head | arranging the stones | poems far shadows | clouds | or hawks floating silent | wind | echoing the sun" ("1," My One Leaf Head, dated "19 VI 69"). My One Leaf Head is a book of poetry from author, poet, publisher, & expatriate Bill Butler (1934-1977), the proprietor..... More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, dated, placed & signed by Allen Ginsberg to Richard Cupidi. "The astonishing, unexpurgated, revelatory heart-talk between two of the Founding Fathers of Post-Modern American Literature. Absolutely the most intimate documentation of the histories of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others closely associated with the authors. Filled with original, unpublished poems, the range of Allen Ginsberg's correspondence is comparable..... More

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "This fast-paced cinematic novel depicts a hip young American professor/poet's brief but deeply disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic 60s, the novel opens on the London literary scene where Bob and Sylvia become entangled. The action shifts to the art world and backwaters of the jet-set scene on the French Riviera..... More