September Blackberries.
[NY]: New Directions, [1974]. Softbound. First edition. Inscribed by McClure: "For Frank Beacham. Michael." Touch of toning to white covers, else fine. More
Beats
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
The Yellow Unicorn.
n.p.: Imperial, [1960]. LP record. Imperial 9092. Beat poetry by McKuen, folk songs by Julie Meredith, and exotica by Tak Shindo. Features one of the most desirable Beat LP cover illustrations showing a pensive beatnik sitting at a coffee-house table in a dark room illuminated only by a candle in..... More
The ''Outsiders'' together with Outsiders Supplementary List One.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Roman Books, 1962. Pamphlets. First editions. Introduction by David Meltzer. Rare book catalogs from Roman Books offering "A Collection of First Editions by Avant-garde and 'Beat' Generation Authors..." Two of the earliest (if not the first) bookseller's catalogs to specialize in Beat and Avant-garde literature. Many rarities..... More
The Thirteenth Quarto.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, 1971. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Limited to 50 copies. This copy signed by Jack Shoemaker though not called for. Published on the occasion of the completion of the Maya Quarto series. Features poems and drawings by David Meltzer, Chuck Miller, Jack Shoemaker, Michael Myers, and Clifford Burke---a..... 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
Kanreki: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg.
NY: Lospecchio Press, 1986. Hardbound, issued without dust jacket. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Allen Ginsberg and Bill Morgan. A 60th birthday tribute to Ginsberg with 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. More
Weep Not My Children.
n.p.: n.p., n.d. [ca. 1959]. Pamphlet. First edition. Preface by Thomas Albright. Padriec's "answer to the 'Beat Generation'... a voice from the 'Beat Generation' telling the image makers that the 'Beat Generation' does not exist." Inscribed by the author on the inside of the front cover. Interesting Beat-era zeitgeist momento..... 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
The Detriot News Michigan, February 19, 1989.
n.p.:n.p., [1981]. Supplement to The Detroit News printing a photo-illustrated cover story about Kerouac's first wife. About fine. More
Handbill anouncing a poetry reading by Stuart Perkoff at 425 Ocean Front Walk in Venice.
Venice: Privately published, 1973. Perkoff was the preeminent poet and an influential presence during the Venice Beat scene from the '50s through 1974 when died at age 44. In Lawrence Lipton's 1959 book, The Holy Barbarians, a fictional depiction of the Venice Beat scene, Perkoff appears under his own name..... 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
Poetry Readings in the Cellar with the Cellar Jazz Quintet.
[SF]: Fantasy, [1957]. LP record. First printing, second issue (on lighter vs. dark red vinyl). Classic early Beat poetry readings accompanied by jazz. Fantasy promo sheet laid in. Very good plus. More
Handbill announcing two momentous events in the history of the Lower East Side counterculture of the '60s---the opening night party for Ed Sanders' legendary Peace Eye Bookstore and the world debut of The Fugs.
NY: Fuck You Press, 1965. 4to. "THE WORLD PREMIER OF THE FUGS! an unbelievable group of singers featuring Tuli Kupferberg on farto-phone, Brillo Box, finger symbols, & various percussion instruments; Ed Sanders on organ, sex-organ, & harmonica...dirty folk spews, rock & roll, poetry, Amphetamine operas and other freak beams..." The..... More
Mimeo handbill designed by Ed Sanders announcing an appearance by the Fugs at The Orb Theater in San Francisco, 1965.
SF: Privately published, 1965. 4to. "This weekend The Fugs! zany, satirical, beatnik, loud, rock 'n' roll group! on the West Coast only a month---see them now!" This was The Fugs first West Coast visit, the last stop on their "Fugs' Cross Country Vietnam Protest Caravan." In the Bay Area they..... More
Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts the Complete Run 1962-1965.
Phoenix, AZ: The Optics Press, 2018. Thick 4to. Hardbound in quarter, dark green Moroccan goat skin and gray cloth-covered boards. First edition. Limited to ONLY 10 numbered copies (the entire edition). A handsomely produced facsimile edition of the entire run of Ed Sander's notorious underground mimeo magazine from the '60s..... 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
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
Life Is a Lousy Drag.
SF: Unicorn, 1958. Pamphlet. First edition. Schock takes us on a cynical tour through the Beat haunts of '50s North Beach making snide observations about the habitues. Illustrated with accomplished, evocative and lovely illustrations of beatniks at poetry readings, jazz clubs, etc., by Trubee Campbell whose drawings are much more..... More