New York, NY: Bard Press, 1987. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “They back up on you after a while / and then very slowly evaporate inside you / till what’s left is a few tiny crystals. / And these crystals gradually coalesce / and what you have finally is a stone. / So you’re walking around with this stone inside you / So you’re walking around with this stone inside you..... More

Cambridge, MA: Press of the Black Flag Raised, c. 1969-1970. Presumed First Printing. Single Sheet. "I don't give / a pound of / mule mucous / for any fucking / "Transformation Symbolism / in the Eucharist" / if you can't dance to it / or if it isn't dope / or possessed of a dick-sized / aperture / then shit on it" writes Ed Sanders (b.1939) in the confrontational, untitled..... More

New York, NY: Kulchur Press, 1970. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "It all began one day when a car containing three people converged/ on a road containing one-one, and a dog. All concerned spoke ex-/ citedly. The man in the road didn't move, though. He seemed really/ unconcerned. I think the little dog was trying to tell him he'd better/ move." (first text, unpaginated) The collaborative production between the revered American..... More

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated at time of publication by Larry Rivers. "If modern art is the twentieth century's biography, then this autobiography of one of its most pivotal figures is a unique record our times. Larry Rivers' dazzlingly intelligent testimony takes us through the more than four decades of New York's postwar cultural explosion, telling what it was like for the..... More

New York, NY: Croton Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. “Time is ironic (at Black Mountain there was no time); point of view from the outside world I was there for four years and four and a half summers in a row….When you went between the low white paint-chipped and tilting fences, with the chipped black and white calmly bewitched little sign, that in one of the biggest understatements of my..... More

New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM: Spuyten Duyvil/ AWAREing Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. "Vivid personal stories of the poets and writers who leaped out of the literary traditions of the 1950s, blending with other artists to create the excitement of a new art mix called multimedia. Light Years tells the story of a unique group of poets, novelists, playwrights and book people who associated with visual and performing artists..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A transcript of remarks delivered by Clark Coolidge (b. 1939), the acclaimed & prolific New York School-&-Beyond American poet & musician, as a participant in the major conference that was held in Boulder, Colorado at the Naropa Institute during 1982 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of On the Road, the breakthrough novel by Jack Kerouac..... More

New York, NY: Sadruddin Aha Khan, 1968. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Ted Berrigan at his interview with Jack Kerouac. This vintage number of the legendary literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton with, among others, American poetry giant Donald Hall & (as "Poetry Editor") the Beat-&-Beyond prolific poet & biographer Tom Clark, features an interview with Beat Generation Founding Father Jack Kerouac, conducted by the great New York School..... 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

New York, NY: Birth, 1959. First Printing. Folded Single Sheets. Offered here is not one but two incredibly rare prospectuses advertising "Selected Fruits and Nuts" & "Writings by Children," two then-forthcoming publications from the legendary Tuli Kupferberg’s (1923-2010) sui generis contribution to the Mimeograph Revolution (or one of them, anyway), “Birth” Magazine & Press. As many Beat Skullers know, Birth is not the only mimeo rag Kupferberg helmed or is..... More

Milwaukee, WI: Light and Dust Books, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "I learned...from 30 years of observing Allen Ginsberg to try and bring that spontaneity and creativity and pizzazz and élan into your activism, into the social concerns you have, to give them a patina of joy and happiness. Because we cannot be dour, stodgy, robotic claw-mouths out there chewing away on issues. We have to bring our vision of..... More

New York, NY: Love Love Magazine, 2022. Softcover. “Ann, in a shadow big as Africa, / rolling a black tobacco joint, / she flips her wedding ring into the bin, / drumrolls the chopping board, grates spring onion / into wild boar, porcini dowsed / with garlic and coriander. / He drinks only gin smash, vituperative / on rocky beer, leaves her in a corner / working out her anger..... More

London, England: Ferry Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Lewis Warsh (1944-2020) was a renowned poet, prose writer, visual artist, and professor, and ‘Long Distance’ is one of his most lauded works. This collection of poetry is as thought provoking as it is experimental, daring the reader to parse its structure and meanings. One of three-hundred copies, this rare work is a gift for any lover of poetry or Beat Generation..... More