Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 1991. First Edition. Flexi-Disc Record in Paper Sleeve. An old-time "Flexi-Disc" type floppy 7" record with readings of two of his poems by the late, legendary Beat-&-Beyond cult writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). The first work, "Love & Fame & Death," was published in Bukowski's 1974 collection, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973; the second reading may be extemporaneous or unpublished. Originally, this..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 25 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is an essay on the earlier literary life of the iconoclastic cult author Charles Bukowski, written by Abel Debritto based on his research for a Ph.D. dissertation. A scholarly & informative short work that sheds light on a mostly undocumented..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 24 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is the transcript of a fragment from a taped conversation between Italian-American writer John Fante & Ben Pleasants, a poet who championed the writings of Fante & another Los Angeles colleague, Charles Bukowski. One of a limited edition of 125..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2009. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Jack Hirschman. Signed Limited Edition. #22 in Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series is "The Game & Other Poems" from celebrated poet & political radical Jack Hirschman. Hirschman, long-based in San Francisco, has dedicated his entire life to poetry & social concerns; ranging from his extensive assistance to the overwhelming population of San Francisco's homeless..... 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

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, March 2017. Limited Edition (#38/125). Stapled Wrappers. Jed Birmingham, perhaps best known for his exceptional site on all things William S. Burroughs, the Mimeograph Revolution and beyond, here has composed a brilliant essay on Charles Olson, the Black Mountain-affiliated mid-century poetic giant (literally and figuratively) and details his trip to the Ralph Maud/Charles Olson Library and his experience at the Charles Olson Memorial Lecture. The..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This recent number of the very significant Beat periodical published in the UK by Kevin Ring features an interview with William Hjortsberg, author of Jubilee Hitchhiker, the massive new biography of Richard Brautigan, along with a cover portrait of Brautigan also featured on the biography dust jacket. Also, an interview with Gordon Ball about his experiences on Allen Ginsberg's..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2012. First Printing. Staplebound. This is the twenty-fifth issue of Transit, "A little magazine of the Beat Generation" published in the UK by Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press, "...a companion to my much bigger Beat Scene magazine." This issue includes a significant scholarly article on William S. Burroughs, Burroughs' Library: An Exercise in Biographical Minutiae by Tom Robinson. Also writings by/about Diane di Prima..... More

Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, Summer 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2014 issue of the large magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK, devoted as always to the Beat Generation. This number features fascinating, informative articles about John Wieners & other Boston poets; Robert Duncan & his associates; an account of William S. Burroughs' 1978 reading appearance in Amsterdam by fellow reader Eddie Woods;..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 80 begins with a remembrance by Susan Kay Anderson, former student of Ed Dorn, renowned and respected poet often associated with the Black Mountain school, about the time spent and lessons learned with this courageous, irreverent icon of alternative American Letters. Following this is a similar elegiac remembrance of John Wieners by Raymond Foye, depicting Wieners and..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 86 is another expectably outstanding issue in the celebrated & long-running series from Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press. The issue begins with an interview of Roy Pennington, brother of Jim Pennington of Aloe's Books (publisher of the William S. Burroughs classic "White Subway" and more), that discusses Roy's publication of "Mayfair Academy Series More or Less,"..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 84 begins with an incredibly scholastic article from Jaap Vanderbent that focuses on John Clellon Holmes' relationship with "the classics," but chronicles and comments on many other figures of Beat pedigree (Ed Sanders, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & others) and their work's relation to classical mythology. Following that is an excellent article from..... More

Warwickshire, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This vintage early 2000 number of the magazine-format literary journal edited & published by Kevin Ring in the UK features excerpts from an interview with & a short memoir of Charles Bukowski by Italian journalists who made pilgrimages to the USA to meet with him, an article by Aaron Krumhansl on his bibliography of Bukowski, & more on the..... More