Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "James Agee achieved the fame he deserved only after his tragically early death- of a heart attack, in a New York taxi- at forty-five...This book contains James Agee's previously uncollected prose: pieces ranging from Harvard days to his last years. In addition to short stories, there are notes for motion pictures (a medium that held deep fascination for him), scenarios, and..... More

New York, NY: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2015. Second Edition. Hardcover. "A key under-recognized artist of his generation, Wallace Berman was an enigmatic, underground figure whose collages and assemblages articulate an important strand of dark spirituality in postwar American culture. Berman's hand-printed, personally distributed literary journal, Semina, stands as an iconic document of its time, presaging a variety of cultural and esthetic developments and..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1980 (1960). Second Edition. 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 billion years..... More

Cambridge, England: Henri Chopin/ Blackmoor Head Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. "I have frequently spoken of word and image as viruses or as acting as viruses, and this is not an allegorical comparison. It will be seen that the falsifications in syllabic Western languages are in point of fact the virus mechanism. If we can infer purpose from behaviour, then the purpose of a virus is TO SURVIVE..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. “All I can be is me–whoever that is.” —Bob Dylan. The most important American rock ‘n’ roller since Elvis Presely, Dylan is widely considered a visionary song writer, matchless poet, and the voice of his generation. With an oeuvre that spans not only a number of genres from bluegrass, to folk, to rock, but also is filled to the brim..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "A North American poet visits revolutionary Nicaragua (traditionally known as "the Land of the Poets") and reports on what he sees and hears and surmises. Considering himself "a tourist of revolution" (having traveled much in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Haiti, and Castro's Cuba) he approaches Nicaragua with the eye of a civil libertarian "with anarchist sympathies,"..... More

New York, NY: National Gallery of Art/ SCALO, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Robert Frank (b. 1924) is without question the most important photographer to emerge since World War II. In the early 1950s he pioneered an original and sophisticated way of looking at the world that has dominated the art of photography for many years. It was not simply the raw style of his work that made Frank so controversial..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. “In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem, ‘Howl’ and Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’ Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Throughout this course, which he taught first at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present a...... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "The appearance of this book has marked a new departure in publishing history. For the first time, a publisher and an author have collaborated to keep a book on current events as completely up-to-date as the events themselves. When Inside Europe first appeared, Edward VIII had just mounted the throne, the Spanish revolution was unheard of, the Front Populaire..... More

Germany: Moloko Print, 2022. First Edition. Softcover in Stiff Wrappers. “’Making Naked Lunch: Two Appetisers’ serves up rewritten versions of two illustrated talks originally given at Columbia University in New York and previously published by Reality Studio, a website that has championed the crossover between academic and popular engagement with Burroughs’ work. Each essay re-examines the standard reception of Burroughs’ writing from the 1950s, revealing the secret centres of truth..... More

n/p: Pacific Red Car, 1993. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "It's a Sunday afternoon in New England just three days before Christmas- Ma's making the roast in the kitchen range, also tapioca pudding so when sister Nin comes in from outdoors with the shovel she's been wielding in the blizzard there are cold waves of snowy air mixing with the heat steams of tapioca over the stove and in..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... More

London, England: The Folio Society, 2000; 2002 (2004). First Editions Thus, Fourth & Second Printings. Hardcovers. The two classic memoirs by Primo Levi (1919-1987), the Jewish-Italian chemist, writer & holocaust survivor. In If This is a Man, first published in Italy during 1947, Levi describes, simply & searingly, his experiences after his partisan activities & status as a Jew resulted in his being incarcerated at Auschwitz. In The Truce, first..... More