New York, NY; London, England: Jack Tilton Gallery; October Gallery in Conjunction with the Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. This art-centric Burroughs-&-Beyond bundle features two art catalogs from the year 1988, a time when Burroughs was immersing himself in painting after the 1986 passing of his dear coconspirator, Brion Gysin. The "Literary Vision" exhibit, which took place at the Jack Tilton Gallery in November of 1988, included photographs..... More

London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018; 2020. Limited First Editions. Stapled Wrappers. Both volumes signed by Alexander Adams. "I have accepted the view that my verse benefits from illustration and that- as an artist- I am well placed to provide that. My verse has appeared in anthologies without illustration, so it seems that the verse is strong enough to function without images. I try to write verse as if..... More

Boston, MA: Rolly-Michaux Gallery, 1979. First Printing. Single Folded Sheet. A rare piece of ephemera relating to Karel Appel (1921-2006), the esteemed Dutch artist-sculptor-poet who was a founder of the avant-garde CoBrA (for Copenhagen, Brussels & Amsterdam) art movement during the late 1940s. This is an invitation to a "special preview exhibition" of Appel's sculpture & works on paper held on October 13, 1979 at the Rolly-Michaux gallery in Boston..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2011; 1999. First German Edition; Original Artwork. Softcover; Single Sheet. Including original collage artwork signed & dated by Mary Beach. A unique pairing of two collectibles by Mary Beach (1919-2006), who along with her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002) was at the Paris-based center of cutting-edge cut-up writing & collage art. She was also the mother of Pamela Beach Plymell & therefore the mother-in-law of Legendary..... More

New York, NY: Excelsior Press, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. A very interesting early compilation of Beat Generation & Beat-contemporary (mostly) poets, prose writers & artists, produced during the height of early media hysteria regarding what exactly the word "Beat" meant. "What is beat? Is there a final or definitive definiton?...So crazy-- one must dig this word somehow. I walked along the village limelight and asked an assortment of squalid squares..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Ann Charters first met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in 1956 at the second of Ginsberg's legendary readings of his poem "Howl" in Berkeley. Charters, a photographer well known in the Sixties for her portraits of blues musicians, became fast friends with the group of writers and poets who would later be known as the Beat Generation. Especially close..... More

Davis, CA: Natsoulas Gallery, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Talk about an essential and underappreciated work for the Beat-&-Beyond Scholar! John Natsoulas' 1996 work, "The Beat Generation Galleries and Beyond," is a deep dive into the Visual Art culture in California during the heyday of the First San Francisco Renaissance, of the artist-run galleries (including the famous Six Gallery known to all Beat Scholars and Enthusiasts) which existed as counterculture hubs..... More

Austin, TX: Cuneiform Press, 2009. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. A collaborative work by poet Bill Berkson (1939-2016) & artist George Schneeman (1934-2009) dedicated to their mutual friend & collaborator Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the giant of the New York School of poetry & a canonical category onto himself. As noted in colophon, this is one of an edition of 500 (un-numbered) copies published during autumn 2009, in the same dimensions..... More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... More

Zurich, Switzerland: Vittorio Santoro, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "A query often put to me by journalists unable to invent better questions is: which one of all my stories do I like best. A meaningless question. Still, I reply, always giving the same title: 'The Time of Friendship.' It has neither personalized malevolent thought nor any violent behavior. The violent action is supplied by the approaching war. One is aware of..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Siglio Press, 2008. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "Every page of this book will make you smile or laugh- not with recognition but with startled joy. Joe Brainard took an unchanging icon of the American norm and inserted her into countless fashionable or scandalous contexts, subtly metamorphosing something that seemed eternal into absurdly contemporary forms. He is as funny as only a philosopher can be."(Edmund White, quoted on..... More

Paris, France: Galerie K, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. A catalog for an exhibit of William S. Burroughs' artworks held at the Galerie K in Paris during March 23-April 21, 1990. Following the death of artist-author Brion Gysin in 1986, WSB engaged in the creation of artworks in earnest, as a parallel endeavor along with his iconic Beat-&-Beyond writings. He also wrote extensively about the ideas & methods behind his..... More

Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. William S. Burroughs Paintings 1987-1996. A catalog for an exhibition of William S. Burroughs' paintings presented jointly at Track 16 Gallery & Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA in 1996. A beautiful production with die-cut front cover, fine reproductions of WSB paintings, a wonderful photo of WSB with Timothy Leary, & more. In very fine condition with only very..... More