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

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1986; 1990. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcovers. One of two editions signed by editor-publisher Jeffrey Weinberg. An anthology of writings by & about greater-&-lesser known members of the Beat Generation & their contemporaries. Compiled, edited & with an introduction by Jeffrey H. Weinberg, whose Water Row imprint & bookselling enterprise is among the first & greatest in our specialization. With a story by William..... More

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1990. Second Edition, Tenth Printing. Softcover. "It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems to have more than most. From Jack Kerouac on working on the railroad...Jack London on the 1906 earthquake to Tom Wolfe on the acid tests of the 1960s, San Francisco Stories collects..... More

Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. poems & fiction from the beat generation. Writings by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder & many other first-tier Beats are collected in this fine compilation edited by Anne Waldman, poet & co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. Also includes short biographies, bibliography..... 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

London, England: Sick Fly Publications/ Tangerine Press, 2018. Limited First Edition Thus. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Jeanne Bernhardt. A collection of three short stories by Jeanne Bernhardt, a popular poet & writer from New Zealand with a most unfiltered Beat sensibility. The "Two More" stories after "Silver City" are "Hugh Beller" & "Coyotes." Chapbook in sewn binding, a high-quality & attractive production of Sick Fly Publications, a subsidiary imprint of..... 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

Columbus, OH: Buchenroth Publishing Company, 1998. First edition. Softcover. An Anthology. An anthology of poetry & prose by the writer who "...has intensely read and exhaustively researched American Literature effectively his entire life- most manifestly, American Beat era literature." (back cover) So intensely that he underwent "a transformational embodiment" & "coalesced into a participant." With an introduction by the great author & publisher Charles Plymell. A softcover original in very..... More

New York, NY: Ecco / Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to..... More