NY: Grove Press, [1962]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition in later printing dust jacket (with roman numerals and zip code on back panel). Fine in about fine dust jacket with a touch of fading to spine. A nice bright copy. More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs, in a suit, is holding his umbrella, his hat is perched on a torso sculpture on the floor next to him. Taken by a friend of Burroughs using Burroughs' camera, ca. 1965. Never published. Fine (8" x 10"). More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing in suit and tie, holding his umbrella, looking sombre. There are 19th Century paintings on the walls around him. Taken by a friend of Burroughs using Burroughs' camera, ca. 1965. Never published. Fine (8" x 10"). More
n.p.:n.p., [1966]. Ian Sommerville is standing by the window holding a joint. Taken by a friend of Burroughs using Burroughs' camera, ca. 1965. Never published. Fine (8" x 10"). More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing in the hallway of a cavernous English mansion. He's standing in suit and tie, holding his umbrella, with his fedora clutched to his chest, looking at the camera with a sombre expression. Behind him there are two young men standing in front of a tapestry..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs, wearing a black turtleneck and Army jacket, is standing at the end of a cobblestone street in Paris in the mid-sixties. Burroughs is in the foreground looking directly at the camera, with the street stretching off behind him. Never published. Fine (8" x 10")... More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing next to a ladder in the hallway of a cavernous English mansion. He's wearing a suit and tie, holding his umbrella in one hand, and clutching his fedora to his chest with the other. He's looking at a painting that's out of the frame, creating..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing on a fire escape in NYC in the sixties. He's wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, and is holding a cigarette at waist level. He's looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, classic Burroughsian look. One of the best shots of Burroughs we've seen..... More
Atlanta: Coca-Cola Co., 1941. Softbound. First edition. The second of three books on flower arranging by William Burroughs' mother sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company! Illustrated with amazingly kitchy color photos of flower arrangements, some posed with bottles of Coke. Interesting item because her middle name "Lee" was the pseudonym Burroughs..... More
Providence, RI: Brown University, 2000. Softbound. First edition. Catalog for an exhibition of Burroughs material at the John Hay Library, Brown University. Illustrated throughout. Essays by Jennie Skerl, John Tytell, and Robert Jackson. Near fine. More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Hardbound in plain white dust jacket. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors. A collection of essays from various writers about their early literary influences. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Saroyan, Tennessee Willliams, Anais Nin, and Ralph Ellison are among the..... More
No place: Warner Brothers, ca. 1960. 45rpm record in picture sleeve with a photo of Edd "Kookie" Byrnes. Edd Brynes was the heartthrob hipster in the cast of the popular '60s TV show "77 Sunset Strip." Mint record in very good plus sleeve with some rubbing to one corner and..... More
No place: Cab Calloway, 1944. Small pamphlet (measuring 4.5" x 2.75"). The sixth, and final, and most definitive, edition of this title originally published in 1938. Issued as a promotional item for the movie Sensations of 1945, in which Cab and his band appeared (an ad for the film appears..... More
No place: Cab Calloway Inc., 1939. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.5" x 2.75"). First (and only) edition. Illustrated with charming small drawings. Calloway wrote this as a sequel to his classic "The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary" published to great acclaim a year earlier. The purpose of this..... More
NY: Phoenix Bookshop, 1967. Softbound. Revised (preferred) edition. Includes commentary by Kerouac. Fine. More
SF: Privately published, 1967. Poster for Conner's 1967 run for City Supervisor in San Francisco. According to Bruce's wife, Jean, Bruce did not take the campaign seriously, but rather looked at it as a chance for free publicity and an opportunity to give "conceptual" speeches during which he would recite..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. Later printing. Lively and well-researched overview of the Beat scene including much first-hand material from interviews with the Beats. Fine in dust jacket with the red spine lettering faded. More
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
Athens, Greece: Raymond Foye Books, 2019. 4to. Accordion-folded poetry broadside printed on both sides---one side in English the other in Greek. Features four previously unpublished poems from Corso's final manuscript "The Golden Dot" written while he was dying from cancer. Translated by Yannis Livadas. Cover photograph of Corso by Allen..... More
Woodstock, NY: Raymond Foye, 2002. Broadside poem. First edition. One of 300 copies printed on the occasion of the John Wieners Memorial Reading at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. Fine. More
LA: Paper Boat Press, 1989. Pamphlet. First edition. Signed by Crimmins on the title page and beneath his signature Allen Ginsberg has inscribed it "Best Wishes / Allen Ginsberg / 2/25/89 / McCabe's" (though Ginsberg has no connection to this book he met Crimmins in LA and signed this book)..... More
[San Francisco: Privately published by the author, 1967]. Square 8vo. Pamphlet. First edition. Nice photo-documentary of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene in its heyday and one of the scarcer books on the subject. Couple of small sepia spots to bottom edge of front cover that shows a bit of gentle rippling..... More
Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1984. Printed folded containg 12 postcards printing interesting and sometimes experimental photographic portraits of Burroughs, Creeley, di Prima, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Snyder, Ginsberg and Orlovsky, McClure, and others. Fine. More
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
