Beat It, Beatnik: A Comedy in One Act.
Boston: Baker's Plays, [1961]. Pamphlet. First edition. A play with a sympathetic beatnik character. Very good. More
Beats
Venice West: The Beat Generation in Southern California.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, [1991]. Ownership signature, else fine in dust jacket with some slight fading to spine and edge of front panel. More
The Cherub.
LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 4to. Hardbound in paper-covered boards and cloth spine, issued in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Couple of minute specks to cover, else fine in acetate dust jacket with a 1-inch tear. More
Scratching the Beat Surface.
SF: North Point, 1982. Softbound. Uncorrected proof. Minor sunning to spine, else fine. More
Signed contract for McClure's participation in The New American Poetry anthology.
n.p.:n.p., [1960]. A seminal collection edited by Don Allen and published by Grove Press in 1960 that was responsible for introducing Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain poets to a wider audience. 2 quarto pages stapled at the corner. Signed by McClure and Don Allen and dated 1958. Near..... More
Beatsville.
Hollywood: HiFi Records, 1959. LP record. McKuen reads beat poetry with titles such as "Co Existence Bagel Shop Blues," "Haiku Poems," "What is a Fabian," and "Like," to jazz accompaniment. Terrific cover photograph of McKuen sitting pensively at a table in a Beat coffee house with a wine bottle and..... More
From Eden Book.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, [1969]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 4 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Fine. More
Kerouac West Coast: A Bohemian Pilot.
Palo Alto: Fels & Firn Press, 1976. Pamphlet. First edition. Montgomery, a character in The Dharma Bums, reflects on time spent with Kerouac. Minuscule corner crease to back cover, else fine. More
Kanreki: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg.
NY: Lospecchio Press, 1986. Hardbound, issued without a dust jacket. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Bill Morgan. Contributions by Ram Dass, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Thon Gunn, Paul Bowles, and many, many others. Fine. More
Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties.
Brighton: Unicorn Bookshop, 1972. Softbound. First edition. Fine (minute tear to corner of back cover). More
Associated Press wirephoto of Eric Nord and author Lawrence Lipton and others.
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
Original photograph of Eric Nord playing bongos while a beatnik woman in black tights and bra dances next to him with abstract paintings on the wall, ca. 1960.
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
Through Beatnik Eyeballs.
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
The Poet's Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books.
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1997. Small 4to. Softbound. First edition. Contributions by Hoyem, Micheline, Kyger, McClure, Brautigan, et al. Issued as number 43 in a series of keepsakes for friends of the Bancroft Library. Illustrated with photographs. Fine. More
Bongo Date.
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
Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America.
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
How it Is, Doing What I Do.
[Denver]: Black Ace, [1976]. Softbound. First edition. Illustrations by Perkoff, one of the original Beat poets in Venice during the fifties. Limited to 500 copies. Published as Bowery 21. Few tiny spots to cover, top edge foxed, else fine. More
Visions for the Tribe.
[Denver]: Black Ace, [1976]. Softbound. First edition. Perkoff was one of the original Beat poets in Venice during the fifties. Limited to 350 copies. Published as Bowery 25. Foxing to top edge, else near fine. More
Peace Eye.
Buffalo: Frontier Press, 1965. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Prefatory poem by Charles Olson. Presentation copy inscribed by Sanders with a small drawing of a penis to poet, Will Inman dated the year of publication. White covers slightly toned, touch soiled, else near fine. More
The Poem Beginning.
n.p.: Bookslinger, 1983. Broadside poem. First edition. One of 90 numbered copies signed by Sanders. Published on the occasion of a reading by the author at the Walker Art Center. Fine. More
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero.
[Chicago]: Chicago Review Press, [2006]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Very fine. More
Jack Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography.
[Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1999]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by Carolyn Cassady. Lots of rare photos not seen elsewhere. Fine. More
Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary.
Derby, CT: T.W.O. Charles Co., 1945. Pamphlet. First edition. Illustrated with photos of swing musicians. Nice cover illustration of a couple joyously dancing to swing music. Contains over 1500 words and phrases, with a test on the inside back cover asking questions such as: "Would you like to be described..... More
Sick, March 1962.
[NY: Headline Publications, 1962]. A satirical cartoon mag styled after Mad magazine. The Beatnik issue, with a cover illustration spoofing beatniks and an "8 page special BEATNIK pull-out-section." The beatnik section is a newspaper titled "Daily Beatnik" in which all the ads for popular products of the day are rewritten..... More
Poster announcing a performance of poetry and music by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye in Central Park, 1995.
n.p.:n.p., [1995]. Features a photo of Patti and a quote from "Paths that Cross." Printed in purple and green. Fine (22" x 14"). More