Germany: Moloko Print, 2022. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. “’Making Naked Lunch: Two Appetisers’ serves up rewritten versions of two illustrated talks originally given at Columbia University in New York and previously published by Reality Studio, a website that has championed the crossover between academic and popular engagement with Burroughs’ work. Each essay re-examines the standard reception of Burroughs’ writing from the 1950s, revealing the secret centres of truth..... More

Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 1992. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the literary-arts journal published by Arizona State University & chiefly edited by Salima Keegan features reproductions of two hand-captioned photographs by Allen Ginsberg, with images of LSD Guru Timothy Leary in the company of Beat Generation Muse Neal Cassady on the legendary "Further" bus (1964); & of Gregory Corso addressing a statue of Christ on the Cross (1986..... More

San Francisco, CA: manic d press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. "A hammersickle/ tattoo on his inside lip/ the ex-con pulled out." ("Folsom Prison Haiku," unpaginated) A collection of poems by Jack Hirschman, the legendary & prolific former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, firebrand radical & acclaimed translator. Chapbook-format softcover original, first edition, with no colophon, limitation or reference to any subsequent printings. A starkly attractive production with front & back..... More

New York, NY: Ace Books, Circa 1952. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Against a backdrop of fast-drinking, wild jazz, and all-night parties, the young men and women of today who make up what they call the "Beat Generation" carry on their desperate search for a meaning to their lives." (from front endpaper) The novel that is considered among the very first published works about what would thereafter become known as the..... More

Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. “This book—volume two of a proposed three volume edition of nonfiction—deals with people…These pieces all reflect a belief that the passionate response of representative individuals to their era, the response of character to the waywardness of time, will reflect as well the generative ideas and experiences (what might be called the inner life) of a given period—in this case..... More

Berkeley & Oakland, CA: The House of "K" 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. This second-to-last number of the short-lived but significant mimeo-zine literary journal edited & with contributions by Benjamin Friedlander & Andrew Schelling features a lengthy, erudite essay by Clayton Eshleman, the venerable American poet, translator & educator who has long resided in Michigan near us, our friend & mentor. The subject is Paul blackburn..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed to Robin Eichele by John Sinclair. "...MY POETRY is whatever I think I am. (Can I be light & weightless as a sail?? Heavy & clunking like 8 black boots.) I CAN BE ANYTHING I CAN. I make a poetry with what I feel is useful & can be saved out of all the garbage of our..... More

San Francisco, CA: Eileen Kaufman, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers / Folded Single Sheet. “In the beginning, in the wet / Warm dark place, / straining to break out, clawing at strange cables / Hearing her screams, laughing / ‘Later we forgot ourselves, we didn’t know.’ / Some secret jazz / Shouted, wait, don’t go. / Impatient, we came running, innocent / Laughing blobs of blood and faith, To this..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, newly edited by James Morton (after being rescued from termination by its devoted followers, see item No. 4425 & below), features a fragment from "The Little Sutra" by Kerouac himself, circa 1955, followed by a fascinating article on Kerouac's love of animals in his..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac features several contributions by the supreme Kerouac authority & critical biographer Gerald Nicosia (our good friend & colleague at the European Beat Studies Network, ebsn.eu): The first of three memorial tributes to the writer John Montgomery, Kerouac's friend & a character in his works..... More

New York, NY; Boston, MA: Ballantine Books, Inc. in association with Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This vintage 1956 edition of the annual anthology of American short fiction first published in 1915 features "The Mexican Girl" by Jack Kerouac, which had appeared the previous year in The Paris Review & would be a chapter of On the Road, the breakthrough book by the Founding Father of the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Paperback Editions Limited, 1957. First Printing. Softcover. "This exciting second issue of NEW EDITIONS features....A romantic rhapsody of boyhood by Jack Kerouac, author of a novel soon to be published by Viking...." (from back cover) An otherwise mostly obscure anthology with a most notable contribution- by Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, published earlier during the same year that his "novel soon to be published by..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "DOCTOR SAX is a story of awakening youth in a grey, colorless New England mill town. It is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Mass. Above all, it is the story of the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence...Always lurking behind the..... More