London, England: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1973. First Trade Edition. Softcover. The first trade softcover edition of a collection of short tributes to the British poet George Barker (1913-1991) on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1973. Among twenty of his colleagues, friends & admirers who contribute to this homage is Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg's hand-written tribute, dated June 7, 1971 & including a drawing & bold signature, is reproduced..... 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

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Portable Beat Reader" will be recognized as the definitive book on the subject, worthy of being a Viking portable." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, back flap) "Charters' learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both..... More

New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated during year of publication by Fred W. McDarrah & Gloria S. McDarrah. "From fashion and food to literature and music, the Beats heralded a new way of living, and a new mode of recording their lives. There is hardly a part of American culture today that is untouched by their work. Fred and Gloria McDarrah lived and worked..... 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. 78 enters with an interview of Albert Saijo, friend of Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, & Jack Kerouac. The issue continues with a valuable interview of Beat poet and social pioneer Ed Sanders, and a speculative take on Kerouac as "Father of the American Haiku." Also jarred within the issue is a...... More