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: The Beat Scene Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Over the past few years people have asked when are we going to reprint early issues of Beat Scene Magazine. The short answer is, we're not going to...But what we have done is collect some of the best material from those long gone issues in this slim volume here. Not all material was published in Beat Scene, some of..... 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, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features an insider's memoir of William S. Burroughs by Jim McCrary, a writer who was part of WSB's most intimate circle of friends during his last years in Lawrence, Kansas; an article by Colin Cooper on John Fante, a writer rediscovered by..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2011. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This 2011 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK includes three wonderful features concerning William S. Burroughs: A profile of WSB by poet Bill Butler first published in London's Guardian newspaper issue of November 27, 1965; a very useful & concise timeline of his life & work mostly credited to the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2019. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This latest (as of this writing) issue of the essential Beat Generation-devoted literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK features a wonderful article by Jim Pennington, the man behind Aloes Books (of White Subway et al. fame) & our esteemed colleague at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu). Entitled "Journeys to JouJouka and Gysin," Pennington recalls his &..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The latest (as of this writing) number of the indispensable magazine devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK. Featuring three fascinating articles that shed new light on heretofore-obscure aspects & episodes in the life of Jack Kerouac, Founding Father of the Beat Generation, including "Kerouac in Provincetown: How History Could Have Been Different/ Kerouac's and..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2023. First Printing. Perfect Bound. This newest (as of this writing) number of the indispensable Beat Generation-dedicated magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features several important articles concerning William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beats-&-Beyond & our foremost Patron Saint-Demon, by Demi Raven, Dawn Swoop & New York School-&-Beyond icon Anne Waldman. Also in this issue are fascinating..... 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