Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... 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

Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1979. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A short volume with four sections of experimental prose by Carol Berge (1928-2006), a significant figure in the literary ferment of Lower East Side NYC from the 1960s onward. Berge was a contemporary & associate of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso & others. A softcover original, one of 700 hand sewn-bound copies. A collectible Berge rarity, in very fine condition with only..... 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: Cadmus Editions, 1979. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. (Miller A34a). “Choukri’s book describes a close encounter of the third kind. Hearing that Tennessee Williams had been sighted in Tangier in the summer of 1973, he immediately decided to investigate this famous visitor from the large and remote planet America. (A few years previously, when Jean Genet landed in Tangier, Choukri spotted and interviewed him, but the..... 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

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1984. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (Schoaf Section 1, No. 61a, pg. 53; Schottlaender A54, pg. 28). “Trenchant writings by that sardonic ‘hombre invisible,’ William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scattershot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens..... More

Surrey, UK: Calder Publications / Alma Books, 2020. First Edition Thus. Softcover. “First published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’ literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, ‘a prophetic work of haunting power,’ a unique experiment in writing that has for too long been overlooked. Combining new material with rearranged selections from Naked Lunch and his cut-up novels The Soft Machine..... More