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

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

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

San Francisco, CA: Glide Memorial Church, Circa 1967. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (14"x20") announcing a "Poetry Fiesta" with "music and Dancers," featuring readings by poets Lenore Kandel, Margaret Randall, Marcus Ulewicz & Lew Welch, held at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on December 16, (circa) 1967. Welch (1926-1971?), among the primary poets of the Beat Generation & the San Francisco Renaissance, famously disappeared in 1971, a...... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1990. First Printing. Hard Cover. The Further Inquiry is Ken Kesey's reexamination of the 1964 Merry Prankster voyage aboard the "Further" psychedelic bus, from the perspective of a quarter-century later. The text takes the form of a transcript- that of a "trial" of Neal Cassady's spirit. Loaded with photographs that take a close look at Cassady, thefastestmanalive who drove the bus & with Kesey &..... More

Eugene, OR: Northwest Review Books, 1977. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. A scholarly compilation of archival writings & facsimile manuscript pages by Ken Kesey, the legendary novelist whose Merry Prankster exploits on the "Further" bus with Neal Cassady & co. passed the torch from the Beats to the Hippies. Originally published in two issues of the Northwest Review, this is the first one-volume softcover edition. Edited by Michael Strelow &..... More

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Public Library, 2001. First Printing. Single Sheet. Signed by Gerald Nicosia. On December 5, 2001, a memorial event for Ken Kesey, who had died on November 10, was held at the San Francisco Public Library's Koret Auditorium, hosted by Gerald Nicosia, the acclaimed critical biographer of Jack Kerouac; & Neeli Cherkovski, among the key figures of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance. The..... 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

Cooperstown, NY: Gerard Malanga, 2010. First Printing. Single Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Gerard Malanga, & with his copyright stamp. A bold, beautiful portrait (total 8" x 10") of Charles Plymell, the great American poet, printer, publisher & Legendary Literary Outlaw, alongside his dear wife & publishing-editing partner Pamela Beach Plymell. On verso is this inscription & signature hand-cursive-written in pencil: "Charley & Pam after lunch/ in Cooperstown/ Lake Orsego..... More