Cope, Creswick, Horsley, Redgrave, & Tayler. London, England: White and Allen, 1889. Limited Edition. Hardcover. “Logicians have but ill defin’d / As rational, the human mind / Reason, they say, belongs to man-- / But let them prove it if they can.” (“The Logicians Refuted,” page 79). Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist, and poet Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was one of the founding members of “The Club” in London in 1764 with..... More

Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1987. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Voices & Visions is the most ambitious television production ever attempted on American poetry, and the most comprehensive. In 13 hour-long programs, the series traces the course of the art during the last century and a quarter as it was shaped by some of our most important poets. Using vintage photographs and film footage, paintings, newsreels, original manuscripts and archival..... More

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "(John) Barth's first work of nonfiction, The Friday Book is what he calls "an arrangement of essays and occasional lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over thirty years or so of writing, teaching, and teaching writing." With the full measure of playfulness and erudition that he brings to his novels, Barth glances into..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. A volume of essays & interviews by Ekbert Faas, the distinguished & prolific German-born academic, critical biographer & historical novelist. Faas chose six of the most innovative, influential American poets of the later 20th century for this study: Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson & Gary Snyder. Among the foremost inventor-practitioners of the Beat Generation..... More

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

Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. "Beat is an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond...First-hand accounts from East Coast to West Coast, Prague to Kathmandu, Andy Clausen was there. Clausen's eyewitness memoirs stories anecdotes revelations of the generation that changed poetry music literature & ushered in the psychedelic era is infused with the underlying premise..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2003. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Any day in which our establishment receives a copy of the illustrious “Beat Scene” is a phenomenal day as far as we are concerned, and today's volume is as fine a volume as you can get! This vintage early spring 2003 issue of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by esteemed owner operator, Beat scholar extraordinaire, and our dear..... 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, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal devoted to the Beat Generation, published by Kevin Ring in the UK, begins with a remembrance by Susan K. Anderson, former student of Edward ("Ed") Dorn (1929-1999), the renowned & respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain School, about her time spent & lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. There is a reason why the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965 lives on, spoken of in hushed tones and sunned by the rays of legend. Some events require the passage of time to apprehend their magnitude. Not so with the Berkeley Poetry Conference, where all who attended—lecturers and attendees alike—were quick to speak of it, write of it..... More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Megan Marshall. "Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall..... More

New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Dream at the End of the World...Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men- all were lured by a raffish city that promised a full range of unconventional pleasures. At the..... More

Boise, ID: Boise State University Printing, 1987. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “At the age of forty-nine, Richard Brautigan committed suicide in a house he owned in Bolinas, California, a small coastal town some twenty miles north of San Francisco. Files from the Marin County Coroner’s office and the office of the Sheriff of Marin County suggest that he stood at the foot of his bed looking out a window and..... More