Arlington, MA: Tough Poets Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. "In The Whole Shot, Rick Schober has assembled a fascinating collection of interviews with Gregory Corso, gathered from far-flung sources and dating from the mid 1950s to the mid 1980s. These are supplemented with a number of informative notes furnished by the editor, and the collection is further enriched with a foreword by Dick Brukenfeld who was an early friend and..... More

Long Island City, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens- and enemies- of the vast Roman Empire two thousand years ago. This book goes beyond the stereotypes found in popular culture to examine the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to..... More

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1982. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by Charles Baxter at his contribution to James Perrizo. This is the first softcover edition of a compilation of fiction by Michigan writers, edited by James Tipton & Robert E. Wegner. Among the contributors is the noted writer George Baxter, then teaching at the University of Michigan. He has signed this copy at his contribution with citation: "For..... More

New York, NY: The Citadel Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the United States of America, those "new barbarians" who have chosen the present as the compass of their lives are the Beat Generation. In England, they are the Angry Young Men. Both the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men are social phenomena which have found increasing literary expression. Because both represent a significant adaptation to life in mid-twentieth..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. First Edition, Review Copy. Hardcover. "When the beat writers emerged from San Francisco in 1956, they succeeded in touching off controversy and discussion throughout America which continue unabated today. Not only their writing,but their nonconformist way of life- with its special interest in jazz, Buddhism, drugs, and squalor- became a subject of general interest, discussed and hotly argued in a wide range..... 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: Virgin Books Ltd., 2005. First edition. Hardcover. "Barry Miles, friend and biographer of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there, part of the Beat vibe. Here he gathers together some of the most influential as well as the most overlooked writers of the era." (front flap) A fine British compilation of Beat writings by the acclaimed biographer & bibliographer of William S. Burroughs. With introduction &..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1991. First Edition, Contributor's Copy. Hardcover. A compilation of writings by & in homage to Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), towering poet of the New York School & a veritable category onto himself. Edited & with contributions by Anne Waldman, another icon of the New York School-&-Beyond. Also with contributions of poetry, interviews, letters, Journal entries, reproductions of artworks, etc. by Berrigan himself; Ron Padgett; Robert Duncan;..... More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Unlike many regional anthologies, Bluestones and Salt Hay is not merely a gathering of writers linked by geographic proximity, but rather an anthology of place and how the poet's vision reflects local history, geography, and culture. Special care was made in the selection of the poetry so that New Jersey is a recurring theme throughout the volume. The Pine..... More

Paris, France: Henri Screpel, 1977. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For this is indeed Bruegel's message to our time; above the wailing of death wandering in our lives there may prevail, if only we can discover them, the secret harmonies that encompass life's road...The journey is long, but the mountain tells us- with Bruegel- that he will point us the way to the land of genuine magic." (from "Introduction to Bruegel"..... 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