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

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Coach House Press, 1971. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "In a strange game I saw myself/ as you knew me" (from "Neil Young," pg. 6) A volume with the title & four other groups of poems by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the prodigious poet, editor & biographer who first burned brightly, struggled with obscurity while maintaining his output, & epitomizes our category of "The Prolific & Underappreciated." Among..... More

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First Trade Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. "This fast-paced cinematic novel depicts a hip young American professor/poet's brief but deeply disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic 60s, the novel opens on the London literary scene where Bob and Sylvia become entangled. The action shifts to the art world and backwaters of the jet-set scene on the French..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Putting Peter Coyote's life into a few words would be impossible. He is an actor and writer. You may know his distinctive voice from so many documentaries and movies. He was a Digger and remembers those turbulent times well." (front flap) An essay by Peter Coyote, the acclaimed actor, screenwriter, director & author, about his experiences as a founding..... More

Madison, WI: RPM Print Shop, 1972. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "...many a truth comes out over the collating table, said Hamlet sucking a beer. said levy: "When I'm dead, you ought to give more attention to live poets." levy started poetry in Cleveland, helped a lot of poets, wrote "ukanhavyrfuckincitibak," edited The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle...was invited in 1968 by Quixote to spend some time in Madison. He came..... 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

n/p: Deodand Press, 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Laurence Goldstein to James Perrizo. An early pamphlet of poems by Laurence Goldstein, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan here in our hometown of Ann Arbor; long-time emeritus editor of the respected UM journal, The Michigan Quarterly; & an esteemed author & poet. The mysterious publisher (the poet himself?) notes on copyright page that Goldstein "...published another..... More

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "The amazing, sometimes shocking story of the country's erotic, pace-setting area: New York's East Village. The uncensored center of/ HAPPENINGS/ UNDERGROUND MOVIES/ COFFEEHOUSE THEATRE/ DRUGS/ FUGS/ AVANT-GARDE SEX!" (from front cover) A now-classic, thoughtful (albeit sensationally promoted as shown by the above quote) overview of the East Village NYC scene circa 1966, right when the Bohemianism of the Beat..... 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

New York, NY: The Dial Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. "....Shake It for the World, Smartass is the record of his life on the front lines. Here are his comments on Norman Mailer, James Jones, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Eldridge Cleaver, Nat Hentoff, Abbie Hoffman, New York publishing, and writing."(from front & back flaps) A collection of essays spanning the 1960s, from the legendary editor of the 1960 anthology, The..... More