n.p.: Romeo Records, 1957. 45rpm record in photo-illustrated sleeve showing Dean playing a conga drum. Home recording of James Dean in a late-night jam session with L.A. musician, Bob Romeo who plays flute. The actor can be heard talking and laughing with his friends in the background between songs. James..... 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
n.p.: Bedstand, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Kooks, Beatniks, and Babes Meet in an Orgy of Summer Lust." Fine. Only three copies on OCLC. 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 quarto sheet of thick pink stock folded twice. The cover features a place to put a stamp and mailing address so the cafe could mail this to potential customers or tourists could mail this to friends at home. The Gaslight Cafe was one..... 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/The Tin Angel, ca. 1965. The two night spots were doing some cross promotion---one side of the card is for The Bitter End and at the bottom it reads: "Before the show, enjoy dinner at (see other side)." The other side of the card is for The..... 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 Bitter End, ca. 1964. A single large quarto sheet folded to make four pages. The covers print a poem by Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret along with an illustration of a female cabaret performer. This is the scarcer version of the two Bitter End menus that we are..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1966]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. 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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, [1960]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. "A ridiculous novel about two beatnik girls in college." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a faint touch of soiling to back panel. 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
Denver: Band Box Records, no date [ca. 1960]. 45rpm record in picture sleeve. Absolutely terrific, ridiculous, and really well executed use of full-on beatnik lingo to tell a couple of humorous tall tales---over jazz background by the Saints. Probably the best beatnik lingo spiel ever recorded. Near mint record in..... 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
Chicago: Novel Books, [1960]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Cover illustration of a seductively-clad woman. "A gang of thrill mad beatniks on a shocking binge of murder, rape, and perversity." Tiny ink check mark to back cover, else very good. Scarce. OCLC turns up only two copies worldwide... More
Boston: Baker's Plays, [1961]. Pamphlet. First edition. A play with a sympathetic beatnik character. Very good. More
LA: Associated Press, 1959. The photo shows Nord, Lipton, Nord's lawyer, and guitar-strumming-singer Julie Meredith in an office with artworks strewn in front of them. The blurb at the bottom reads (in part): "Representatives of a beatnik hangout known as the Gas House in suburban Venice display some of their..... More
No place: no publisher, ca.1960. Nord was a noted Beat-era nightclub owner, poet, actor, and self-proclaimed "King of the Beatniks." He was owner of the Co-Existence Bagel Shop in North Beach and later co-founder of the Gas House in Venice, a popular beatnik hang-out that was used as the setting..... More
London: Pedigree Books, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Nice cover illustration of a bearded beatnik playing guitar for his girlfriend. Includes a substantive glossary for "bods from squaresville." Spine leans slightly, light corner crease to back cover, else very good or better. More
SF: KYA, 1958. Broadside poem. First edition. Signed by the author. A scathing anti-beatnik tract from O'Hara, a disc jockey at KYA the "Family Radio" station in San Francisco. In part: "A Beatnik is Grant Avenue with a beard on it's facade; / Beauty with a wart on its finger;..... More
No place: Tampa Records, no date [ca. 1950's]. LP record. Latin bongo music with a classic cover illustration featuring a seductive beatnik couple leaning against a lamp pole with the female beatnik scantily-clad and holding a long cigarette holder. Near mint record (one cosmetic scratch) in very good minus jacket..... More
NY: Dover, [1960]. Softbound. First edition thus, a revised and expanded version of this title originally published in 1933. Illustrated with photographs and graphics. Near fine. More
NY: Musitron, 1960. LP record. An album of Beat poetry, folk music, and satire recorded live at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village. Features John Brent reading "Bibleland," his scathing poem against modern culture and consumer society spoofing the opening of Disneyland. Brent, along with his friend, Del Close did..... More
