Sarasota. FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Diane Wakoski. This issue of the literary journal chiefly edited & with contribution by John Weber is an especially rich gathering of works by some of the most notable poets of different generations & schools: An early poem by Margaret Atwood ("Lying Here"), who would go on to write the prize-winning & explosively influential The Handmaid's Tale & its sequel;..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his preface to James Perrizo. An anthology of poetry & short fiction from the first decade of Passages North, the literary journal "...from the Great Lakes Region (that) has won a national audience and critical acclaim."(from back cover) Edited by Elinor Benedict & with a preface by Charles Baxter. Baxter has signed this copy at his preface..... More

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Softcover. "The drive, the fury, the frankness they bring to their writing has made the Beat Generation the most hotly discussed literary movement of the century. Here is the Beat world, the world that has aroused the critics to shocked outrage and loud praise. Here is the jazz, the junk, the jargon- and, above all, the anger. Here is a ruthlessly honest..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Portable Beat Reader" will be recognized as the definitive book on the subject, worthy of being a Viking portable." (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, back flap) "Charters' learned Beat volume is a handy compilation of historic poetic signposts and spiritual milestones for youths and scholars who've begun their studies of a progressive literary explosion that shook the walls of cities on both..... More

London, England: High Risk, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Edited by Richard Peabody. No hardcover issued. Contains 27 women writers of the Beat Generation including Carolyn Cassady, Jan Kerouac, Joan Haverty Kerouac, Bonnie Frazer aka Bonnie Bremser, Edie Kerouac Parker, & more. As New. More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. A collection of interviews, transcripts of Naropa classes & symposiums with Beat writers at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Including William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Kerouac biographer Ann Charters, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & others. As new, a softcover original. As New. More

Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed (twice) by John Lane to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On October 24, 2000, twelve students and three teachers from Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky set out into the Red River Gorge for a photography hike. We were led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive..... More

Boston, MA: The Seventies Press/ Beacon Press, 1977. First Softcover Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. Signed by Robert Bly; & with hand-illustration possibly also by him. "Few major achievements of world literature are as little known to Americans as the great ecstatic poetry of the Hindus and the Sufis, as exemplified by the work of the 15th-century master, Kabir. Irreverent while being intensely religious, Kabir seems incredibly playful in his taunting..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition, Second (?) Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "To Lord Richard Buckley, his most euphoric Lordship, greetings! What a treat to hear your new shatterbusting recording delivered like a true hipster with variations...It's all so very alive and jumpin' and in the pauses one can hear the atoms exploding out there in the Milky Way where the grass comes up every once in ten..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & with hand-correction by Editor & hand-correction by Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary journal founded & edited & with commentary by the impassioned & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. With the lengthy poem "Columba, the Dove" by the noted poet & professor Charles Cantalupo which, as he writes in a note following the poem, "...is the..... More

New York, NY: Berkeley Publishing Corporation, 1963. First Printing. Softcover. An early anthology of "the most controversial writing Today"(from front cover) edited by Terry Southern, Richard Seaver & Alexander Trocchi. Includes an essay on William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch by E. S. Seldon (originally published in a 1957 issue of Evergreen Review several years before its full publication), followed by a passage from WSB's breakthrough work. Also excerpts of works..... More

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Maynard & Miles, B27(a), pg. 98. A compilation of writings issued only in the UK as a softcover original, edited by Donald Allen & Robert Creeley. Features an excerpt from The Naked Lunch (as it was originally titled) by William S. Burroughs, along with a short biographical note on WSB in an appendix. Also contributions by Richard Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Lawrence..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. The first comprehensive compilation of shorter works & excerpts from longer works which covers all of the phases of William S. Burroughs' over half-century of literary achievement. First hardcover edition, first printing, published the year after WSB's death. Edited, with critical-biographical essays introducing each section & epilogue by James Grauerholz- companion, foremost authority & keeper of WSB's legacy. Co-edited..... More