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
Beats
A Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg October, 1943 to July 1, 1967.
[SF]: City Lights Books, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Fine in slightly used dust jacket with a couple of small creased tears and a minute chip. More
The Jives of Dr. Hepcat.
[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
Menu from the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village.
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
Menu from The Bitter End in Greenwich Village.
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
Menu from The Bitter End in Greenwich Village.
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
The Last Crusade.
Berkeley: Oyez, [1969]. Folio. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards with faux vellum spine. First edition. One of 165 numbered copies signed by Everson (of a total edition of 180). Some brown spots to top edge of boards and text block, else fine and bright. More
Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day.
SF & NY: City Lights & Harper & Row, [1980]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Thin blemish to cover, tiny remainder stamp to bottom edge, 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
Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow.
SF: Beach Books, 1967. Large single sheet folded to pamphlet size, but unfolds to 17.5" x 22.5" broadside. 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
Fantasic Stories of the Imagination, January 1962.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1962. A sci-fi mag with a terrific, humorous cover illustration based on Randall Garrett's featured story "The Hepcats of Venus." It shows two shade-wearing, cigarette-smoking beatniks at a table in Venus Club watching two aliens exuberantly play strange instruments that are parts of their bodies. Also includes a...... More
Like Crazy, Man.
[Chicago]: Newstand Library, [1960]. First edition of this Paperback Original. One of the all-time classic beatnik exploitation novels, with a terrific Robert Bonfils cover illustration featuring a sexy beatnik temptress playing bongos in the foreground as Ted Joans reads poetry in the beatnik coffee house they're in. The inspiration for..... More
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac.
NY: St. Martin's Press, [1978]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. More
Wynn Chamberlain.
NY: Fischbach Gallery, 1965. Exhibition flyer for a 1965 showing of Chamberlain's paintings at the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. Single sheet folded twice, printing "Chamberlain's Nakeds" by Allen Ginsberg and reproducing a painting of Chamberlain's. Tender at the folds, couple of splits to one fold (as usual), else..... More
University & College Magazine, No 7, October 1965.
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Prints an interview with Ginsberg, and a conversation between Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Very good. More
Poster Dress.
London: Poster Dress, ca. 1968. A paper (actually rayon and nylon) "poster dress" featuring a b&w photo of a hand in a meditative position and printing Ginsberg's poem "Uptown N.Y." Created by British designer Harry Gordon, the dress is enclosed in a plastic bag with cardboard header and a photo-illustrated..... More
Damascus Road, No. 1, 1961.
n.p.:n.p., [1961]. Premier issue of this short-lived poetry mag from Allentown, Pennsylvania edited by Charles Hanna. Prints Ginsberg's "Laughing Gas Fragments" and "Real Distinguished Thing" (also about Laughing Gas). Includes Lamantia, Patchen, Neruda, et al. About fine. More
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions.
Edited by Barry Miles. NY: Harper & Row, [1986]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Superb presentation copy inscribed by Ginsberg with a drawing to his old friend, Ed White: "Allen Ginsberg for Ed White in Janne's presence 7/15/95 Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado." Opposite the inscription Ginsberg has done..... More
The Three Angels.
n.p.: Privately published, 2001. 2 LP records in fold-out jacket. In 1990 Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso were invited by friend and artist/sound producer, Jeff Gordon to do a reading in downtown Manhattan. This recording of that event was issued in a pressing limited to 1000 numbered copies that were over-subscribed..... More
Variegation: A Free Verse Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 43, Summer 1956.
n.p.:n.p., [1956]. A literary mag from San Francisco. Prints Ginsberg's "Two Trees in Paterson---1952," an early appearance preceding the publication of Howl. Also features two poems by Philip Whalen, an early appearance for him as well. Owner's name, some sunning to edges, smudge to back cover, very good... More
Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals.
Toronto: Anansi, 1968. Hardbound in dust jacket. The correct first edition. Errata slip laid in. Fine in slightly used dust jacket with a 1-inch closed tear to front panel, and a small chip to top of back panel. More
Columbia Review, May 1947.
n.p.:n.p., [1947]. Edited by John Hollander with Allen Ginsberg listed as "assistant editor." Prints "A Lover's Garden" and "The Proposal" by Ginsberg. A very early appearance by Ginsberg in the Columbia University literary magazine---this precedes his first book by almost a decade. Modest ring stain to front cover, else very..... More