Paris, France: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. This is the first printing of the very first edition of Daniel Odier's interviews with William S. Burroughs, later published in many French & English-language editions more familiarly to WSB collectors as The Job. On the final, colophon page is a printing date of January 17, 1969, & a legal notice of the first trimester of that year. These are among..... More

New York, NY: Totem Press/Corinth Books, 1961. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Signed (very uniquely) by Allen Ginsberg. A first printing of Empty Mirror, a compilation of early poems by Allen Ginsberg published in 1961, with an introduction by William Carlos Williams. On the title page is a most bizarrely unique, collectible autograph with citation by the poet: At the upper right corner, in thick black marker, someone has written "To..... More

Portland, OR: Dick Bakken & Lee Altman, 1967. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This issue of the short-lived literary journal from the heyday of the 1960s independent-underground press features the poem "Stotras to Kali Destroyer of Illusions" by Allen Ginsberg, an inspired work composed in Bombay (now Mumbai), India during his famous sojourn there in 1962. Also a poem by Charles Bukowski, "Answer To a Note found In the Mailbox:"; four..... 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

New York, NY: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1981. First Printing. Softcover. This number of the proceedings of the prestigious Academy includes a commemorative tribute by Allen Ginsberg to Henry Miller, who had died the previous year: "He innovated in the courageous mode of spontaneous prose- prose which depends on the energy of the mind moving and the fearless recollection of that energy at time of composition."..... More

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. Charters, A19(a.), pg. 42. "...a novel unlike any other by Jack Kerouac. In it he recaptures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years... as they unfold in the short tragic-happy life of his brother Gerard."(front flap) The first printing (as stated) of the first edition of Jack Kerouac's elegiac, poignant memoir-fantasy of his early childhood..... More