NY: Off Broadway, 1961. Pamphlet. First edition. The "Special Coffee House Edition" of this guide to NYC nightlife. Lists all the hip coffee houses and clubs in Greenwich Village, with some pages devoted to Off Broadway theater. Illustrated with photographs including one of the Cafe Wha? and another that shows..... More

No place: no publisher, 1965. Beatnik TV character Maynard G. Krebs on the show "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" was easily the most conspicuous appropriation and parody of beatniks ever devised by mainstream culture. Here Maynard is shown in goatee and torn sweatshirt playing the bongos. Several rubber-stamped dates..... More

[Dallas: Documentary Arts, 1989]. Pamphlet. Second edition of this title originally published in 1953. A collection of "Jive Talk" terms including how they can be utilized in sentences. Durst was one of the first Black DJ's in Texas and he hosted a popular program on KVET specializing in blues, jazz..... More

NY: Gaslight Cafe, ca. 1960. A single wide quarto sheet folded accordion-style. Prints a long text about the history of Greenwich Village bohemianism and the role that the Gaslight played stating that: "Poetry readings in New York originated at the Gaslight. Jack Kerouac, Alan [sic] Ginsberg...found our cellar the ideal..... More

NY: The Bitter End, ca. 1964. A single quarto sheet folded to make four pages. The covers print a poem by Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret. The Bitter End was one of the primary music clubs and entertainment venues in Greenwich Village during the '60s. During it's heyday it featured..... More

NY: The Village Voice, 1961. Tabloid. After kicking around the Village for a few months after he arrived in NYC in 1960, Dylan finally landed a paying gig doing a two-week stint (that began on April 11th) as the opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City, the..... More

SF: City Lights, 1956. 18mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Number 4 in the Pocket Poets Series. One of the most important books of modern poetry, and the first major work to define the Beat ethos. Some sunning to spine that overlaps a bit onto the edge..... More

[London]: SAF Publishing, [2002]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of the more interesting '60s counterculture memoirs. Illustrated with photographs. Guthrie recounts his international adventures and drug-taking escapades in the hip scenes of LA, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Tangier, and elsewhere. Along the way he encountered Allen Ginsberg, Richie..... More

Hollywood: Nordyke Publishing, 1959. 4to. Single sheet folded to make four pages. Sheet music and lyrics for this beatnik-related song. Cover illustration of a bearded beatnik and a man strumming a guitar. Front cover has an "X" to the corner in magic marker and a tiny price sticker, else about..... More

NY: Grove, [1961]. First edition of this trade Paperback Original. Kerouac's "ad-libbed" text for Robert Frank's beat film Pull My Daisy. Illustrated with stills from the movie. Bright, near fine copy with a touch of barely perceptible fading to the colored spine lettering. More

[NY: Beelzebub Books, 1959]. Second printing of this softcore men's magazine flagrantly exploiting the then current beatnik phenomena. Published as Beelzebub Books No. 1. "An uncensored, unexpurgated expose of the 'BEAT GENERATION'." Sensational articles on the Beat phenomenon such as "Shook-up Shebas and Be-Bop Babes" and "Beat Broads Curiously Cavort."..... More

[NY]: Beacon, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Cover illustration of a naked woman with a sheet seductively draped around her while her beatnik lover stands in the background. "An uncensored novel of love among the beats, where every man does as he pleases---and every chick aims to please"..... More

Boston: Baker's Plays, [1961]. Pamphlet. First edition. A play with a sympathetic beatnik character. Very good. More