New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Love & Napalm: Export U.S.A. is an apocalyptic novel about the irrational violence of the modern world. The central character is a doctor who is suffering from a nervous breakdown. His dreams are haunted by the figures of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and auto-disaster victims..."(from front flap) Originally published in 1969 in the UK with..... More
[Item #1938]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The Electric Banana by Mary Beach is a unique auditory experience approaching the actual found sounds of language as it mutters half a street sign repetitive argument overheard conversations bits of pop songs in millions of minds like some gigantic octopus with myriad tentacles..." (from Introduction by William S. Burroughs) The avant-garde stream-of-consciousness cult classic by Mary..... More
[Item #3331]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. This volume consists of The Electric Banana by Mary Beach with an introduction by William S. Burroughs, first published separately in 1975; The Gothic Banana, a humorous piece in unique dialect-spelling; & No Eye No Cyclone. Beach (whose illustrious literary family included Sylvia Beach, proprietor of Shakespeare & Co. in Paris & the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses) &..... More
[Item #1951]
California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1978. First Printing. Softcover. A treasure trove of interviews, letters, poems, prose & images by & about the primary figures of the Beat Generation in their prime: A 1955 letter from William S. Burroughs in Tangier to Jack Kerouac followed by some exemplary Burroughsian prose; a memoir by Carolyn Cassady, the long-suffering wife of the notorious-inspiring Neal; a poem by Gregory Corso; an interview..... More
[Item #3297]
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
[Item #2676]
Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage early 1996 number of the magazine-format literary journal published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy interview of Ann Charters, pioneering biographer & editor of the works of Jack Kerouac; a long, comprehensive article by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia on Jan Kerouac's disputes with her father's estate as controlled by his in-laws; a...... More
[Item #2075]
Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 1998 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an excerpt from Keith Abbott's memoir of Richard Brautigan, Downstream from Trout Fishing in America, along with an article about the circumstances of Brautigan's suicide in 1984 by Ring. Also, a very lengthy & informative article by Jay Jones on..... More
[Item #2089]
Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1998. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a lengthy article-tribute to the great Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher & proprietor of the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco by Jim Burns; memorial tributes to Kathy Acker & Jack Micheline, both of whom died shortly before the publication of..... More
[Item #2088]
Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage early 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features excerpts from an interview with & a short memoir of Charles Bukowski by Italian journalists who made pilgrimages to the USA to meet with him, an article by Aaron Krumhansl on his bibliography of Bukowski, & more on the..... More
[Item #2144]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 56 features an inside look at "the Latin American notebook of William S. Burroughs, "an item that surfaced in October of 1999 as part of Sotheby's "Allen Ginsberg & Friends" auction in New York City. Also included are features on recovered William S. Burroughs footage that has been subsequently made into a documentary, a look at artist..... More
[Item #2564]
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
[Item #1417]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2010. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Magazine No. 61 opens with an extensive, well-researched article on the time William S. Burroughs spent in Denmark in 1957 when visiting his close friend Kells Elvins, a fellow intellectual he had known since childhood. The time Burroughs spent in Denmark had a marked and notable influence on many of the passages Burroughs would soon unveil in his..... More
[Item #2567]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Winter 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This number of Kevin Ring's journal is refulgent with fascinating & significant essays, interviews, memoirs & reviews centering on the core figures of the Beat Generation: An insightful essay on Allen Ginsberg & his creative ancestor/inspiration Walt Whitman by Ann Charters; an interview by publisher Kevin Ring concerning the real person behind Jack Kerouac's "The Mexican Girl" episode of..... More
[Item #1708]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This is the twenty-fifth issue of Transit, "A little magazine of the Beat Generation" published in the UK by Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press, "...a companion to my much bigger Beat Scene magazine." This issue includes a significant scholarly article on William S. Burroughs, Burroughs' Library: An Exercise in Biographical Minutiae by Tom Robinson. Also writings by/about Diane di Prima..... More
[Item #1697]
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
[Item #1836]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2014 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK, devoted as always to the Beat Generation. This number features fascinating, informative articles about John Wieners & other Boston poets; Robert Duncan & his associates; an account of William S. Burroughs' 1978 reading appearance in Amsterdam by fellow reader Eddie Woods;..... More
[Item #1872]
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
[Item #1933]
Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published & edited by Kevin Ring in the UK features an article on the greatest bombshell of recent Beat history, the uncovering of Neal Cassady's legendary "Joan Anderson letter" to Jack Kerouac, by Jerry Cimino, the director of the Beat Museum in San Francisco. Also a lengthy memoir by the recently deceased..... More
[Item #2010]
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
[Item #2571]
Lexington, KY: Beatdom Books, 2015. First Printing. Softcover. The Money Issue. This issue of David S. Willis' commendable independent scholarship compendium "Beatdom" features articles on the fabled Burroughs millions, Herbert Huncke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. As with all editions of Beatdom Magazine, this issue contains fresh, intriguing contributions ranging from essays, memoir excerpts, and biographical sketches on many familiar faces in the Beat canon. As New. More
[Item #2551]
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
[Item #2569]
Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Book This winter/early spring 2015 number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK (the most current as of this writing in April 2015) features a series of lengthy, informative late interviews with the recently deceased Beat-related poet & novelist James Koller (1936-2014) conducted by Peter Garland during 2013-2014. Also a review by Laurence Ring..... More
[Item #2153]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2016 issue of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a short article on the activities and influence of Joanna McClure, poet & former wife of Michael McClure. Also an interview of Gary Snyder, a biographical anecdote of William S. Burroughs by Jim White, where he relates a visit to Burroughs' famous bunker on 222 Bowery Street in New York..... More
[Item #2574]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. In Beat Scene No. 53 editor Kevin Ring rolls us another collectible issue of his respected quarterly chock-full of the esteemed articles the publication is known for. Contributions by Ann Charters on the release of the original scroll of Kerouac's immortal "On the Road" and an feature on the integral, authoritative importance of author Joyce Johnson as biographer-friend to the..... More
[Item #2561]
New York, NY: Thor Publications, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Monarch Notes and Study Guides. "What is really meant by being beat? Does it simply mean lounging around marijuana-smoke-filled "pads" dressed in blue jeans, listening to progressive jazz records, deliberately breaking the legal code, and occasionally heightening the monotony of all this by indulging in an occasional sex orgy? Despite these popular images, being beat has a more significant..... More
[Item #3252]