Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties.
Brighton: Unicorn Bookshop, 1972. Softbound. First edition. Fine (minute tear to corner of back cover). More
Beats
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
What is a Beatnik?
SF: KYA, 1958. Broadside poem. First edition. Signed by the author. A scathing anti-beatnik tract from O'Hara, a disc jockey at KYA the "Family Radio" station in San Francisco. In part: "A Beatnik is Grant Avenue with a beard on it's facade; / Beauty with a wart on its finger;..... 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
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
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
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
The Bohemians: La Vie de Boheme in Paris 1830-1914.
NY: A. S. Barnes, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Illustrated with photographs. Trivial soiling to boards, else near fine in very slightly rubbed, price-clipped very good plus dust jacket. More
How to Spot a Beatnik.
No place: Privately published, [ca. 1960]. Pamphlet. First edition. Each page features a cartoon drawing of a different type of person with a sarcastic text reproduced in holograph describing why the person is, or is not, a beatnik. Cover illustration of dejected beatniks lounging on a brick wall with guitars..... More
Beat Generation: Jazz Poetry, Folk Lyrics.
NY: Musitron, 1960. LP record. An album of Beat poetry, folk music, and satire recorded live at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village. Features John Brent reading "Bibleland," his scathing poem against modern culture and consumer society spoofing the opening of Disneyland. Brent, along with his friend, Del Close did..... 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
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
Associated Press wirephoto of a beatnik who barricaded himself inside a store window in protest being pulled out by police.
Milwaukee: Associated Press, 1960. A beatnik, Robert 'Bohemian Bob' Schweda, who barricaded himself inside a store window in protest, is seen being forcibly removed by the police who had to smash the window to remove him. Associated Press rubber stamp on the back, with the word "beatniks" written in ink..... 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 by Patti Smith and Herbert Huncke as part of the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival, 1995.
n.p.:n.p., [1995]. Features a photo of Patti and Herbert. Printed in black and red. Fine (20" x 16"). 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
Going Under.
n.p.: SOOJ, 2006. Large 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated by painter Path Soong. One of 110 copies signed by Patti Smith and Path Soong. Handsomely printed on Arches. As new. More