New York, NY: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1981. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the proceedings of the prestigious Academy includes a commemorative tribute by Allen Ginsberg to Henry Miller, who had died the previous year: "He innovated in the courageous mode of spontaneous prose- prose which depends on the energy of the mind moving and the fearless recollection of that energy at time of composition."..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2011. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 30 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is an essay-memoir describing highlights of an interview with Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation, conducted by Jim Burns in London on June 13, 1990. With many Ginsberg quotes in italics. Originally published in a very early number..... More

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Alpha Beat Press, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. An essay on Allen Ginsberg, the primary poet of the Beat Generation, "...in the form of a review of White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985" by Kaviraj George Dowden, a major Ginsberg scholar who compiled the first major bibliography of the poet in 1971. Issued as "An Alpha Beat Soup #7 Supplement" free to subscribers of the ABS literary journal. A...... More

Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1996, 2006. First (Only) Printings. Folded card, developed photographs. A most wonderful package of artifacts with several very important Beat & literary associations: Consisting of an envelope postmarked October 19, 2006 mailed by Indra Tamang, photographer & long-time associate of Charles Henri Ford, to Charles Plymell & his wife Pamela Beach Plymell, friends of CHF & publishers of one of his works, Om Krishna..... More

Toronto, Canada: House of Anansi Press, 1968. First Softcover Edition. Signed by Allen Ginsberg. This is the first & notorious (see below) Canadian edition of a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, & described by him in a note preceding them as "...compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company; Grove Press, Inc., 1974; 1977. First Editions. Journals Early Fifties- Early Sixties signed & dated by Allen Ginsberg. A bundled offer of two very important rarities (one of them particularly exceptional) by Allen Ginsberg, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & beyond: (1) Allen Ginsberg Journals Early Fifties- Early Sixties, edited by Gordon Ball. A now-classic, indispensable collection of Ginsberg's original journal entries of..... More

Munich, Germany: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1980. First German Edition. Softcover. This is the first German-language edition of Allen Ginsberg: Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties, edited by Gordon Ball & first published in the USA by Grove Press in 1977. Issued in 1980 as a softcover original. For the German-fluent/completist Ginsberg scholar & collector. In very fine condition with only very light creasing esp. at lower right corner of front cover;..... More

New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This is a larger chapbook with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, produced for NYC's legendary, now-gone Gotham Book Mart by Profile Press in August 1972. First printing as stated. With beautiful black & white photographs by William Webb; & a color reproduction of a painting of Bixby Canyon by Emil White, tipped-in to the front cover. The Canyon..... More

Pleasant Valley, New York: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited Edition. Broadside. 14” x 19” including frame. Broadside This is lettered copy “J,” either out of 100 copies total or 26 lettered copies in addition to 100 numbered copies. An illustrated broadside featuring a short poem by Allen Ginsberg, composed under the influences as indicated in the title, in June 1966. Ginsberg was in full hippie bloom a decade after his groundbreaking..... More

Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cold Turkey Press, 1973. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A magazine-format compilation featuring translations from English into Dutch by Gerard Belart of three poems by Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation. The three poems originally appeared in English in the City Lights Books Pocket Poets Series volume, Planet News (1968), titled "Television was a Baby Crawling Toward that Deathchamber"; "The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express" & "Wales Visitation." With..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. “What a wonderful book is ‘Deliberate Prose,’ the selected essays of Allen Ginsberg! It is the work of a great poet, a great American, and a great friend of literature who more than any bard in history helped shape social thought and political change in his era. Brilliance suffuses the collection, beginning with the opening essay, his prophetic ‘Independence Day Manifesto’..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Jewel Heart; Agenda Publications, 1991; 1997; 1998. First Printings. Folded Newspaper; Single Sheets. Three scarce & significant pieces of Allen Ginsberg Ephemera: (1) Flyer announcing a live appearance/reading by Ginsberg at University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium in Ann Arbor on Friday, March 8, 1991, presented by Jewel Heart, the local Buddhist organization which he supported & visited. With photo of Ginsberg, vertical list of his major works..... More

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation- one distinctly not destroyed by madness- Allen Ginsberg's journals are more tour de force than simple diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War...Ginberg writes of these experiences as only he could, summoning political and..... More