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

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark, & signed ephemera. 'Nothing inside/ a space/ the surface of which/ is filled/ with tiny messages" ("TV," pg. 15) A collection with the title poem & many other short works along with the final, longer "A Sailor's Life," by Tom Clark (1941-2018). Clark, the prodigious & prolific poet, editor & biographer, has left us a...... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "At twenty-seven, Tom Clark has been Poetry Editor of the Paris Review for five years, has received two Hopwood awards, and one of Poetry's annual awards. His readings draw huge, enthusiastic audiences that would be the envy of many an Establishment poet twice his age. The reasons for such attention are clearly in evidence in Stones, the first collection of..... 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

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, was a Renaissance statue come to life with the body of an adolescent god mailed in leather. He embodied the hallucinated, under-the-volcano neon black vision of L.A. like no one else. Like a prophet from the wilderness made king, he was ultimately trapped and never made it back from the other side." (back cover)..... More

New York, NY: Equinox Books/ Avon Books; Ace Books, 1975 (1964); 1965; 1977. First Edition Thus; First Editions. Softcovers. Three classic works of science fiction by Philip Jose Farmer (1918-2009), the pioneering, prolific & highly influential American author: (1) Inside Outside, originally published in 1964, reissued in this first edition thus by Avon books' Equinox imprint as No. 7 of its "SF Rediscovery Series, dedicated to making important and influential..... 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

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