Sunbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Lettered & Signed by (and with photograph of) Alan Ansen. "When Carl Solomon's Uncle, A.A. Wyn, the publisher of Ace Books, saw three chapters of THE VIGILANTES, he said, 'Ah, a study of the milieu.' The remark irritated me at the time (see the appended Statement); but I am now thirty-five years later inclined to see it as a fair comment..... More

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "Naked Lunch is a blueprint, a How-to Book...Black insect lusts open into vast, other planet landscapes...Abstract concepts, bare as algebra, narrow down to a black turd or a pair of aging cajones..." (pg. 215) Among the essential primary works associated with the Beat Generation along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the significance & far-reaching influence of William..... More

n/p (London, England & San Francisco, CA); New York, NY: William S. Burroughs; Malcolm McNeill; Abrams, 1973; 2011. Original Manuscript; Original Artwork; First Edition. Three Single Sheets in One Frame; Hardcover. Original text & artwork by William S. Burroughs & Malcolm McNeill. During the early 1970s, French-Canadian humorist & impresario Michel Choquette planned a compilation of comic strips that would all relate to the just-past decade of the 1960s. He..... More

Essex, England: Once Books, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. Inscribed & signed by Tom Clark. The first published work by Tom Clark (1941-2018), the esteemed poet & biographer of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson & Ed Dorn; the epitome of those in our "Prolific & Underappreciated" category whom it is our special mission to spotlight & resurrect. A poet-printer product of the mid-late stages of the mimeograph Revolution, this collection features..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Trade Softcover Edition / Review Copy / Association Copy. Softcover. Signed (Twice) & Inscribed by Kenward Elmslie to Ken Mikolowski, close friend of Elmslie's & founders of Detroit's "Alternative Press," publishers of many Beat/New York School/Black Mountain-related authors. (1/750 Unsigned, Unnumbered Copies). In this exceptional early apex in the multitalented Kenward Elmslie's prolific career, Elmslie bursts forth just a year after Ron..... More

n/p: Charlatan Press, 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. Among the rarest & most unusual collectors' items related to Allen Ginsberg, primary poet of the Beat Generation. Harley Flanagan, a nine-year-old boy living on the lower east side of NYC with his hippie mother known as "Rosebud," drew & described his impressions of their travels to Morocco in "The Shopkeeper and his Donkey," & an imaginative time-travel story in "The Sabre Tooth..... More

Pleasant Valley, New York: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited Edition. Broadside. 14” x 19” including frame. Broadside This is lettered copy “J,” either out of 100 copies total or 26 lettered copies in addition to 100 numbered copies. An illustrated broadside featuring a short poem by Allen Ginsberg, composed under the influences as indicated in the title, in June 1966. Ginsberg was in full hippie bloom a decade after his groundbreaking..... More

Cambridge, MA: Firefly Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. A slender volume of poetry in the form of earthy, uninhibited song lyrics by Allen Ginsberg, among the great original members of the Beat Generation. This is one of the scarcest rarities in all of the vast small-press Ginsberg oeuvre. One of only 50 numbered copies signed by the poet. This is copy #16/50. With photographs by Rosalie Post, including a tipped-in..... More

Bernhardt Fudyma Design Group. New York City, New York: Penguin Books, 1979. First Printing. Broadside. 16 ½” x 22”. Poster. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap. A large promotional poster announcing the publication of the first paperback edition of the acclaimed Jack’s Book: "An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac", by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee. With a bold, colorful illustration based on a much-reproduced photograph of Kerouac by Allen..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1957. First Printing. Hardcover. "After World War I a certain group of restless, searching Americans came to be called "The Lost Generation." This group found its truest voice in the writings of the young Hemingway. For a good many of the same reasons after World War II another group, roaming America in a wild, desperate search for identity and purpose, became known as "The..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here is the America of the late forties and early fifties that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently- the irrestible (sic) lure of the cross-country highways feverishly traveled by Jack Duluoz, the narrator of this book, and Cody Pomeray; the loneliness of diners and cafeterias and cheap hotels, of 42nd Street bars and cafeterias; the small towns passed..... More

(Designer) Elliot Hessayoi. Los Angeles, California: Company Theatre, 1973. First Printing. Broadside. 17 ½” x 28” Poster. Mounted on stiff board, in protective shrinkwrap. A large poster announcing the 1973 season of performances at the Company Theatre in Los Angeles, featuring “Michael McClure on Toast,” first among the headliners. A very colorful collage of bizarre, erotic & psychedelic images, op-art logo, etc. An exemplary over-the-top piece of sixties-hangover exuberance, with..... More