New York, NY: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. The first hardcover edition of a compilation of three novels by the late Kathy Acker, the provocative experimental author among whose influences was William S. Burroughs. Consisting of Kathy Goes to Haiti, originally published in 1978 in a limited small press edition; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, about the controversial, murdered Italian film director & first published..... More

Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2011. First Printing. Softcover. "'This was Allen Ginsberg,' Gordon Ball declared after recounting intimate moments with the cultural icon and beloved Beat Generation poet on East Hill Farm, outside Cherry Valley, New York. During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was "a haven for comrades..... More

New York, NY: Beatitude Press, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Ah, Beatitude Press…that cherished, (Beat-) credentialed institution whose mythic origins trace back to the heady emergence of the “San Francisco Renaissance” and its peripatetic, sui generis founder, Bob Kaufman (1925-1986). An interesting, if little known fact about Beatitude Press is that—for a brief moment in the early 1960s—editorial control of the press was informally passed back and forth like some..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2022. First Edition. Softcover. “’Get the Money!’ was Ted Berrigan’s mantra for the paid writing gigs he took on in support of his career as a poet. This long-awaited collection of his essential prose draws upon the many essays, reviews, introductions, and other texts he produced for hire, as well as material from his journals, travelogues, and assorted, unclassifiable creative texts. Documenting his innovative..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Bowles. "He arrived in Tangier at noon and went straight to the house. In the rain the outer courtyard was uninviting. Several dead banana plants had fallen over and been left to rot on the tile floor. Even as old Amina, seeing him from the kitchen doorway, waddled out into the rain to greet him, he..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Richard Brautigan. As the work’s front flap copy unceremoniously announces, “A strand of Japanese hair, an ice-cold sombrero, and a small-town librarian with no ears—Richard Brautigan has written another novel.” Further described as “the story of a man who has lost his Japanese lover…it is also the story of a small town that loses its sense of proportion..... More

London, England: London Magazine Editions, 1971. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Even the most ardent supporters of The Beat Generation, those who so rightfully exalt the expansive and inclusionary spirit behind the concept of "beatitude," its essentially-Transcendentalist imploration to self-cultivate with reckless abandon--to embrace the "mad flowers" of one's individuation with pride--will never be able to speak for one troubling aspect (among others) of Our Holy Dead: the problem of relationships..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books, 1985. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. "in a past life/ i was a field of wheat/ which was mowed & ground/ into a bag of grain/ which a cow ate,/ who, which later, i ate." (first stanza) A long, inspired, exemplary poem by Ray Bremser (1934-1998), the legendary Literary (& literal) Outlaw-Poet of the Beat Generation & Beyond. Among his most well-known works, this..... More

Ostheim/ Rhon, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2005. First German Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Charles Plymell. German-language translation of "The Conquerors," the final volume of poetry by Ray Bremser (1934-1998), the legendary & notorious Beat-Generation-&-Beyond poet. Originally published in English by Jeffrey Weinberg's Water Row Press shortly before Bremser died during 1998. With an introduction unique to this edition by Charles Plymell, Bremser's friend & kindred Literary Outlaw whose own..... More

Columbus, OH: Buchenroth Publishing Company, 1998. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Written on the occasion of the Ray Bremser Memorial held in Cherry Valley, NY at Allen Ginsberg's farm in 1998, poet-publisher (and Beat student/devotee) Michael Buchenroth brings us the elegiac and powerful "Four Beats Diverged in Ginsberg's Woods." Buchenroth writes: "Indeed, ole Al convinced us / to turn left there just past / where that ole yellow car sat /..... More

Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. [ISBN: 9781578061839]. "The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works...Not surprisingly, the topics Burroughs touches upon are wide-ranging: his relationships to the Beats, legends surrounding his personal life, drugs, gay liberation, collaboration, the..... More

New York, NY: Ace Books, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Softcover. "I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonizing deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in..... More