London, UK: The Bournbrook Press, 2022. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. Signed by editor, artist & contributor Alexander Adams. "Through windows of cars and trains we spot the/ mayflower, barely know the bearer's name/ -a temperate and gentle guest who does not/ insist, needs no cultivation, growing wild/ and ingenious throughout our land, untended,/ unrefined, rain invigorated, burnished by sun." (Alexander Adams, "Mayflower Season," third stanza, pg. 13) An anthology..... More

Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1987. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Voices & Visions is the most ambitious television production ever attempted on American poetry, and the most comprehensive. In 13 hour-long programs, the series traces the course of the art during the last century and a quarter as it was shaped by some of our most important poets. Using vintage photographs and film footage, paintings, newsreels, original manuscripts and archival..... More

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

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

London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. "In the 1950s a new breed of writers gravitated towards Greenwich Village. They were young, radical, idealistic and 'hip,' and their work was shockingly iconoclastic. This was the start of the Beat movement. It has sometimes been dismissed as a minor cultural phenomenon characterized by a bohemian lifestyle and undisciplined expression in poetry, painting and jazz. Rejecting the values..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 1995. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "Over the past few years people have asked when are we going to reprint early issues of Beat Scene Magazine. The short answer is, we're not going to...But what we have done is collect some of the best material from those long gone issues in this slim volume here. Not all material was published in Beat Scene, some of..... 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

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978. First Edition. Glued Wrappers. A collection of poems by Ray Bremser (1934-1998), who truly lived a quintessentially Beat life & was a close associate of Allen Ginsberg & other primary founders of the Beat Generation-&- Beyond. The poems here are in unfiltered street vernacular & are highly influenced by the jagged beat of Jazz (which of course influenced the prose & poetry of..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead, 1996. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed & with hand-correction by editor Joe Napora. The fifth number of the literary journal founded, edited & with commentary by Joe Napora, 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 fourth of..... More

London, England: Aloes Books, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. "The white subway gathered silent speed as buildings and landscapes slid by- faster- faster- a blur of film flakes then pictures leaped into sharp focus- mist and frogs in 1920s roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos stretching back to his childhood- back- back- "STOP." " (from "Unfinished Cigarette," pg. 1)..... More

Paris, France: Bourgois/Seuil; Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1976; 1984. First French Edition; First French Edition Thus. Softcover. (1) [Shoaf, 26c. p. 39]. Edited and Translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pelieu (and soon after, published) in 1976, “White Subway” was initially published in London by our friend-&-colleague the great Jim Pennington (through his Aloes Books imprint) in 1973. It compiles sixteen short works of imagination by WSB from the late-fifties to..... More

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1986. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & Signed (twice) by Kathryn Stripling Byer to Thomas Rain Crowe. "My father made the birds fly overhead/ that afternoon in late fall when he lifted me/ above the weeds as tall as I was then/ into a wagon load of hay. There at the field's edge/ while he whistled, restless in the cold,/ I watched the shadows of..... More

Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. A celebrated collection of poems by Ciaran Carson (1948-2019), the acclaimed Northern Irish poet & novelist. Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize as noted on back cover, this is the first American trade-format softcover edition in sewn binding, published simultaneously with a hardcover edition & preceded..... More