The Vestal Lady On Brattle and Other Poems.
SF: City Lights, 1969. Softbound. First edition thus. A facsimile reprint of the author's first book. Signed by Corso. About fine. More
Beats
The Vestal Lady On Brattle and Other Poems.
SF: City Lights, 1969. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition thus. A facsimile reprint of the author's first book. Inscribed by the publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti on behalf of Corso: "To Ted / for Gregory / Lawrence Ferlinghetti / January 1969." Trivial sunning to spine, else fine... More
For John Wieners.
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
Blind Corners.
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
Hippy Hi.
[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. Tiny sepia stain to bottom edge that shows some slight rippling from moisture, else very good or better..... More
Literary Assays: Portraits of Writers.
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
Jungle Rhythm / Dean's Lament: James Dean on Conga Drums in an Ad-Lib Jam Session.
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
Dinners and Nightmares.
NY: Corinth Books, 1961. Softbound. First edition. Signed by the author in the year of publication. The author's first collection of stories. Couple of small soiled spots and some toning to front cover, else near fine. Scarce with a contemporary signature. More
Handbill announcing di Prima's performance of "Monuments" at the Cafe Cino.
NY: Cafe Cino, 1968. 4to. "Monuments" consisted of 8 monologues by di Prima directed by James Waring. It was the last performance at the legendary Cafe Cino, a Greenwich Village venue that was the first Off-Off Broadway theater. The Cino staged one-act plays by established authors, eventually presenting only new..... More
Loba As Eve.
NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. Oblong 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 18 in the Phoenix Oblong Octavo series. Fine. More
Image, Spring 1968.
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. A slick-format counterculture magazine from London edited by Ian Duncan. Prints excerpts from the 1967 Dialectics Conference, "Fisheye Nudes" photographs, drawings, psychedelia, articles on exorcism, mandalas, and more. Couple of minuscule chips to fore-edge of cover and first couple of pages, else fine. More
Poetic Disturbances.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, [1970]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 8 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Touch of fading to spine, else fine. More
Views 1-7.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, [1970]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 9 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Fine. More
A Pitchblende.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, [1969]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 3 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Fine. More
Beats.
SF: Last Gasp, 2007. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of 40 numbered copies signed by Felver with an original signed and numbered print of the cover photograph of William Burroughs. Nice collection of Felver's photographs of the Beats and counterculture heroes from the sixties. As new... More
Adieu a Charlot: Second Populist Manifesto.
SF: White Wail, 1978. Folding broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated. Briefly inscribed by Ferlinghetti. Creased where originally folded, mounted on a piece of backing board, else fine. More
Ascending Over Ohio.
Warren, OH: Fantome Press, [1989]. Pamphlet. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Ferlinghetti. Fine in the publisher's printed envelope. More
Director of Alienation.
SF: City Lights, n.d. Folding broadside poem. First edition. Slightly sunned around the edges, else fine. More
Love in the Days of Rage.
NY: E. P. Dutton, [1988]. Softbound. Second printing. Signed by Ferlinghetti. Very fine. More
Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow.
SF: Beach Books, 1967. Folding broadside poem. Second printing. Inscribed by Ferlinghetti: "To Dan in San Francisco Dec. 77 Lawrence Ferlinghetti." Toned around the edges, price sticker shadow to front cover, very good. More
Northwest Ecolog.
[SF]: City Lights Books, [1978]. 16mo. Softbound. First edition. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his close friends Janet & Charles Richards. Janet wrote Common Soldiers, a book about the fifties literary scene, and she and Charles were good friends with Rexroth and Ferlinghetti. Couple of..... More
A Political Pamphlet.
[SF: Anarchist Resistance Press, 1976]. Pamphlet. First edition. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his close friends Janet & Charles Richards. Janet wrote Common Soldiers, a book about the fifties literary scene, and she and Charles were good friends with Rexroth and Ferlinghetti. Fine... More
The Sea & Ourselves at Cape Ann.
Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1979. Pamphlet. First edition. Illustrations by Janet Morgan. Limited to 200 copies signed by Ferlinghetti (this copy signed twice). Nicely printed by hand. Fine. More
Starting From San Francisco.
[Norfolk, CT]: New Directions, [1967]. Softbound. Reprint, a later printing of the "enlarged edition." Signed by Ferlinghetti. Very near fine. More