New York, NY: Full Court Press, 1982. Numbered, Limited Second Edition Hardcover; First Trade Edition Softcover. Hardcover; Softcover. Signed by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. (Shoaf 43a. & 43b., pg. 46). "Written at a turning point in his life--when he was kicking drugs in Tangiers, writing "Naked Lunch," and emerging from the literary underworld, these letters from Burroughs to his young friend [Allen] Ginsberg are not only an intimate..... More

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Softcover. "The drive, the fury, the frankness they bring to their writing has made the Beat Generation the most hotly discussed literary movement of the century. Here is the Beat world, the world that has aroused the critics to shocked outrage and loud praise. Here is the jazz, the junk, the jargon- and, above all, the anger. Here is a ruthlessly honest..... More

n/p: Unknown, n/d (Circa 1985). Enlarged Photograph. Matted & Framed Sheet. A stunning group portrait, with (seated, front, left-to-right) William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, the Founding Fathers of the Beat Generation. Behind them (standing, left-to-right) are Black Mountain School primary poet Robert Creeley, Beat-New York School Goddess Anne Waldman, unknown, & Edie Kerouac-Parker, memoirist & Jack Kerouac's first wife. The image is an enlarged photograph (appx. 8&3/4" x 7&1/2")..... More

Louisville, KY: The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (appx. 11" x 34") announcing & promoting the title event, a "48 Hour Non-Stop/ Music & Poetry/ Insomniacathon" which took place at three venues of New York University's Washington Square Manhattan campus during May 16-18, 1994. The marathon event was a kickoff for the now-legendary NYU Conference celebrating the Beat Generation on its generally agreed-upon 50th anniversary (1944-1994)..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 1997 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy section of tributes to Allen Ginsberg, who died that year, by Jim Burns, Michael McClure, Ring, Ron Whitehead & others. Also an interview with photographer Larry Keenan conducted by Ring, illustrated with images of some of Keenan's classic..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2004. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage autumn 2004 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a most informative article on playwright Jack Gelbert's adventures with the Living Theatre, founded by Julian Beck & Judith Malina (who recently passed away), by Jay Jeffrey Jones. Also an interview conducted by Ring with Allen Hibbard on his..... More

Milan, Italy: Photology, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Galleria Photology in Milan, Italy in 2005. A beautiful production in large oblong format, with reproductions of many photos, both iconic & less well-known, by Allen Ginsberg, as well as of vintage covers, broadsides, posters, etc. Text, in English & Italian on opposite pages, is by Fernanda Pivano, an important Italian..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 54, Kyle Schlesinger kicks off the issue with a studious analysis of typography in the work of Robert Creeley. The essays span the sea-wide scope of Creeley's output in by way of thirteen pages that detail and illuminate the poet's product & process. Also featured are articles on poet Harold Norse, John Clellon Holmes, and Jack..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. A collection of interviews, transcripts of Naropa classes & symposiums with Beat writers at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Including William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Kerouac biographer Ann Charters, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & others. As new, a softcover original. As New. More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Autumn 2013. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Autumn 2013 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK, as always devoted cover-to-cover to the Beat Generation. This issue features a very special bonus: A DVD of a filmed interview with writer Iain Sinclair, author of the recently published American Smoke, where he recounts his travels in the..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK is a special issue devoted to the Beats in Britain. With great, rarely reproduced 1966 photographs of a dapper William S. Burroughs in London with his "brolly" (umbrella) including on front cover; articles by the late Ken Brooks about his meeting WSB at the legendary..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 79 springs out the gate with a truthful retelling of the events & circumstances surrounding the suppression of the Fall 1958 Chicago Review, and the subsequent editorial revolt that created the now-celebrated & canonized Big Table Magazine. Next we have poet Clark Coolidge on Jack Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight," and shortly after Kaye McDonough provides us with..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 77 begins with an excerpt from one of the newest posthumously assembled story collections from poetic giant Charles Bukowski, followed shortly thereafter by an interview with Philip Whalen biographer David Schneider. Also featured is an article on William S. Burroughs' time in London and another on the Hardiment Suitcase--a suitcase left behind by Burroughs and subsequently recovered..... More