London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s a new breed of writers gravitated towards Greenwich Village. They were young, radical, idealistic and 'hip,' and their work was shockingly iconoclastic. This was the start of the Beat movement. It has sometimes been dismissed as a minor cultural phenomenon characterized by a bohemian lifestyle and undisciplined expression in poetry, painting and jazz. Rejecting the values..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the Beat Generation magazine published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a special central section in tribute to William S. Burroughs upon his death on August 2, 1997. This stirring & deeply reflective section in honor of the Greatest figure of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond (& the presiding Icon of our very enterprise) consists of memorial..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage mid-1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features the transcript of a telephone interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ron Whitehead on June 19, 1996, slightly over a year before WSB's death. Also in this issue, an obituary of & the final interview with Jan Kerouac, Jack's..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2003. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2003 number of the magazine-format Beat Generation journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy anecdotal memoir on cult favorite Richard Brautigan by his close friend Greg Keeler, & two very interesting articles on the legendary Charles Bukowski by Jean Francois Duval & Adrian Manning. Also in this issue is an essay on the fiftieth..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This winter 2016 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK begins with Ring's intriguing article on little-known Beat poet Kirby Doyle. Although Doyle is lesser-known to the masses, such credible giants of American poetry as Diane di Prima & Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who just passed away as of this writing at age..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the essential magazine devoted to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring several tributes to Michael McClure (1932-2020), Giant of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance & beyond who passed away during May of 2020 at age 87. With firsthand reminiscences of McClure by..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2022. First Printing. Perfect Bound. This latest (as of this writing) number of the indispensable Beat Generation-dedicated magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's birth on March 12, 1922. With a cornucopia of articles on many aspects of Kerouac's life, work & legacy by Jim Burns, Ann Charters (the Supreme Scholar who was Kerouac's first..... More

New York, NY; London, England; New York, NY: Olympia Press; Sphere Books Limited; Coronet Communications, 1970; 1971. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his..... 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

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Naked Lunch is a blueprint, a How-to Book...Black insect lusts open into vast, other planet landscapes...Abstract concepts, bare as algebra, narrow down to a black turd or a pair of aging cajones..." (pg. 215) Among the essential primary works associated with the Beat Generation along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the significance & far-reaching influence of William..... More

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. (Maynard & Miles C54, p. 122). “With bitter hilarity William Burroughs blasts our mismanaged and deranged planet. The section printed here is a continuous excerpt from his latest novel, ‘The Ticket That Exploded.’ Readers unfamiliar with Burroughs’ fold-in technique of writing may appreciate the author’s explanation of what he’s about: ‘My writing methods are similar to those of photographic montage. I want..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Listen to my last words anywhere. Listen to my last words any world. Listen all you boards syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory to take what is not yours. To sell the ground from unborn feet forever-" (first chapter "Last Words," first paragraph) The third & final volume in..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, c. 1966. First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Subtitled "A Report on the Synthesis of the Apomorphine Formula," this is the second edition (first edition thus) of this very rare item by William S. Burroughs, preceded only by the virtually unobtainable first edition by Ed Sanders' Fuck You Press, which was rejected by WSB & of which only a few copies are known..... More