Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited by David Moore, is entirely devoted to works concerning John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), one of Kerouac's closest friends & associates, depicted in On the Road (as "Tom Saybrook") & several other Kerouac classics. Holmes' novel GO (1952, see item No.s 3326, 3412) is..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1989. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac, edited & with contributions by David Moore, begins with "Frankie & Johnnie: A New York Memoir," about Kerouac & his first wife Edie (referring to their mutual affectionate nicknames) by none other than James Perrizo (1944-2006), the devoted Beat scholar & collector who was..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1991. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Offered here is Issue No. 22 of “The Kerouac Connection,” — the Slim Gaillard tribute issue. Gaillard, of course was the smooth-talking, multi-instrumentalist hepcat famously favored by the likes of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, among numerous other bona-fide Beats. What’s unknown about Gaillard (and the Beats’ association with him, generally) is the 'intellectual kinship' aspect of things. Gaillard was..... More

Glasgow, Scotland: The Kerouac Connection, 1993. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the UK literary journal of the Beat Generation & especially Jack Kerouac features a tribute-obituary essay on Carl Solomon (1928-1993), the dedicatee of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" & a key-yet-obscure original Beat figure, by Jim Burns. Also in this issue are Kerouac- & Beat-related scholarly articles & fictional prose by Dan Barth ("Saint Jack," in which he..... More

Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than five decades after the publication of his first bestselling book, Hunter S. Thompson remains a cultural icon. A steady stream of publications and films have told his remarkable story, several in detail. Most of these accounts- which feature his drug and alcohol consumption, gun fetish, and "fortified compound"- are centered in Woody Creek, Colorado, where Thompson lived from..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this definitive biography, the many facets of Thoreau are captured with grace and scholarly rigor...To reveal the author of Walden as one coherent person is Walls' mission, which she fully achieves; as a result of her vigilant focus Thoreau holds the center--no mean achievement in a work through whose pages move the great figures and cataclysmic events of the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2009. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A blast from the Beat-historical, Small Press scholarly past is Issue 21 of "Transit Magazine," -- a onetime offshoot of the Kevin Ring's flagship "Beat Scene Magazine" founded, initially, to provide more publishing space for poetry and fiction submissions (as opposed to the casual masterworks of Beat Scholarship that together comprise the "meat & potatoes" of Beat Scene Magazine, if..... More

n/p; Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: Belford & Co.; The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1880; 1979; 1996. Early Pirated Edition; First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Three related rarities by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author: (1) Sketches by Mark Twain, Belford & Co., 1880, "Now Published in Complete Form" as noted on title page. This is..... More

Syracuse, NY; New York, NY: American Publishing Company; Oxford University Press, 1893; 1996. Early Edition; First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Two collectible versions of an early-mid career classic collection of stories by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & writer: (1) Sketches New and Old, American Publishing Company's 1893 printing of the collection it first published in 1875. Hardcover in brown cloth with ornately illustrated front..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled "From My Autobiography," this is a very late, short nonfictional work in the oeuvre of Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain, the canonical American humorist & author. In this volume, Twain weighs in on the controversy as to the authorship of the immortal dramatic works attributed to William Shakespeare. Twain concludes that it was Shakespeare's contemporary Francis Bacon who..... More

Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: 1967. Hardcover. "Bizarre plot elements enlivened with irony and satire characterize these later fictional pieces by Mark Twain, published here in full for the first time. In theme and style they are closely related to The Mysterious Stranger, which is generally considered the most important work of his later years. Known to scholars as the "Great Dark" manuscripts, this group of unfinished narratives offers substantial..... More

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library/ University of California, 1972. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Three versions of a classic early tale by Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910), the canonical American humorist & author. As explained in the Introductory Note by editors Frederick Anderson & Edgar M. Branch, this story first appeared as a column-article in the San Francisco Morning (or Daily) Call newspaper on August 30..... More

Berkeley, CA; New York, NY: The Iowa Center for Textual Studies/ University of California Press; Oxford University Press, 1980. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. The three classic novels by Mark Twain (1835-1910) featuring his immortal character Tom Sawyer in one volume, along with another edition of one of the three works: (1) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective, published for the Iowa Center for Textual..... More