New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. "What happens when a young history professor and a philosopher-trucker with a custom-fitted "majic bus" take seventeen undergraduates across America in a learning-adventure-on-wheels?"(front flap) This early work by Douglas Brinkley, who has gone on to become a premier Beat & American cultural historical writer, chronicles this adventure undertaken in the spirit of an On-the-Roadesque cross-continental quest. Among those visited..... More

Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1974. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. An early, short biography of the iconic writer Ken Kesey, a key bridging figure from the Beat Generation to the 1960s counterculture & beyond. Written by Bruce Carnes, a professor at Madison College in Wisconsin. With a selected bibliography appendix. Front cover illustration of Kesey & characters from his works by Arny Skov. The twelfth number of a series published..... More

London, England: Big Venus, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Clayton Eshleman. "It is the record of the first two-thirds of an LSD experience with (the poet's wife) Caryl. More narrative than I usually write, but that was my concern in this piece; to get the experience on record."(excerpt from quoted portion of a letter dated July 26, 1969) Thus does Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed & prolific poet, describe..... More

San Francisco, CA: The San Francisco Oracle, Circa 1967. First Printing (presumed). Single Sheet. A print (approx. 11&1/2"x14&1/2") with illustration by the legendary artist Rick Griffin (1944-1991), creator of iconic poster, album & underground comix artworks. The image depicted is entitled "The Oracle" & appears to be a variation of Griffin's front cover artwork for the sixth issue of The San Francisco Oracle, published in 1967. The Oracle was a...... More

New York, NY: Random House/Vintage Books, 1969. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. "Abbie Hoffman, Yippie non-leader, notorious dope addict and up-and-coming rock group (the WHAT), is currently on trial with seven others for conspiracy to incite riot during the Democratic Convention. When he returned from the Woodstock Festival he had five days before leaving for Chicago to prepare for the trial. WOODSTOCK NATION, which the author wrote in longhand while lying..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Ken Kesey is a legend- the bold, brilliant novelist whose two novels are among the most widely read of contemporary fictions, and the Merry Prankster whose acid test and antic quests captured- and perhaps helped provoke- the Zeitgeist of the 1960s."(from front flap) A compendium of essays by the legendary Ken Kesey (1935-2001), some of which had previously appeared separately..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. This 1998 Interview with author Ken Kesey, whose world-renown masterworks "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" & "Sometimes a Great Notion" are internationally celebrated, reveals an elderly Kesey; a man of morals & a man of character, whose sage reflections on his life & work characteristically uphold the vision he stands for. In very fine condition with only slight rubbing to..... More

n/p: Unknown, 1986. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large poster (15"x24") announcing a (presumed) touring event entitled "Still Kesey!" featuring Ken Kesey, the great American author & an essential link between the Beat Generation & the 1960s counterculture. Featuring Kesey's "Ranting/Reciting/Rock 'n' Rolling/&/Reading/from his new book/Demon Box" along with the Thunder Machine band. The novel Demon Box was first published in 1986, thus we date this poster to that year..... More

Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Softcover. "...From his conception at West Point, "the night after alcohol became an illegal drug," through his own year as a cadet, from his life as an award-winning psychologist, to his ten-year jail sentence for possession of half an ounce of marijuana; from his dramatic prison escape and life as an international fugitive, through his present life as a lecturer..... More

Paris, France: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. An early compendium all about the legendary Living theatre, the avant-garde artistic, cultural & political phenomenon during the 1960s led by Julian Beck & his wife, Judith Malina. Over half the text consists of a lengthy, deep interview with Beck & Malina conducted by Jean-Jacques Lebel, the French poet-publisher-activist-scholar-translator who was & remains an important figure in the Beat-&-Beyond scene. Also..... More

New York, NY: Lancer Books, 1970. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Moving Through Here achieves that most difficult of feats- it captures the texture and reality of the near past. It is the story of the sixties- how they felt, why they happened, what they meant, and what went wrong- by a young writer who was more than a reporter. Don McNeill was a participant."(from back cover) The single compilation of..... More

San Francisco, CA; Hadley, MA: Charles Plymell; Glass Eyes Books/Ecstatic Peace Books, Circa 1964-1965; 2011. First Printing; Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Postcard. Vintage collage magazine & poetry postcard both signed by Charles Plymell. Two very rare collectibles by Charles Plymell, the legendary literary outlaw poet, printer & publisher: (1) An original "1963 Collage Mag" (as hand-written by Plymell on front cover). A relic of the early 1960s period when..... More

New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. "The book follows the odyssey of a young American, a stranger in his own land, who breaks the bonds of middle America in search of self, soul, and country. It depicts with all the sordid savagery of total honesty the depraved sexuality and senseless racism that permeate this country's new underground: the drugs, junkies, street gangs, black ghettos, homosexuals..... More