Beats
ALLMAN, Rick & PHILLIPS, Stevenson.
Greenwich Village's Cafe Bizarre Presents Assorted Madness: Beat Generation Poetry Beat Erotica by the Beat & the UnBeat.
n.p.: Musitron, 1959. LP record. Poetry, bongo playing, folk singing, and Beat sermonizing by "Rafio the Mad Monk," "Ringo Angel," "Seven Beat Sulks," "Ellie Girl," and others, recorded live at the Cafe Bizzare. The Cafe Bizarre, founded in 1957, was one of the most conspicuous and sensational clubs to capitalize... Item #SKB-12915
Price: $300.00
ALLMAN, Rick.
Menu from Cafe Bizarre in Greenwich Village.
NY: Cafe Bizarre, ca. 1959. Pamphlet. 8pp. Cover illustration of a demented person exemplifies the "bizarre" concept of this cafe, with a charming map of Greenwich Village bohemian hot spots on the back cover, and more illustrations inside. One of the most popular and sensational clubs to capitalize on the... Item #SKB-16454
Price: $35.00
ALLMEN, Rick.
Business card from Cafe Bizarre in Greenwich Village.
NY: Cafe Bizarre, ca. 1959. The card prints (in white against a black background) the word "Bizarre" in the same spooky stylized lettering used on all their promotional material. Also prints the phone numbers and name of Rick Allmen who started the club in 1957. The Cafe Bizarre was one... Item #SKB-15652
Price: $45.00
ALLMEN, Rick.
Original color photo (recent print) of the Cafe Bizarre in Greenwich Village, 1960's.
n.p.:n.p., [1967]. The photo shows the outside of the Cafe Bizarre at night with its "spooky" decorations around the door and the huge "Rick Allmen's Cafe Bizzare" banner hanging out front as people walk by on an evening in the Village. The Cafe Bizarre was one of the most conspicuous... Item #SKB-16302
Price: $50.00
ALLMEN, Rick.
Promotional Beatnik cigarette holder from Cafe Bizarre in Greenwich Village.
NY: Cafe Bizarre, ca. 1959. The cigarette holder prints the word "Bizarre" in the same spooky stylized lettering used on the cover of the LP that was recorded there, along with their catch phrase "Where the Beat Meet the Elite." The Cafe Bizarre, founded in 1957, was one of the... Item #SKB-15650
Price: $125.00
AMRAM, David & KEROUAC, Jack.
Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram.
NY: Macmillan, [1968]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Includes reminiscences about Kerouac (with whom he worked on Pull My Daisy) and many others. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #SKB-14278
Price: $15.00
ANDERSON, Chester & KAMSTRA, Jerry.
Forbidden Limericks.
n.p.: n.p., n.d. [ca. 1960]. Pamphlet. First edition. Introduction by Anderson on "pornography, humor, and the nature of censorship." Limericks by Anderson illustrated with drawing by Jerry Kamstra here appearing under the pseudonyms "Pablo Kamstra," and "Shem the Penman." Anderson went on to head the Communication Company in the Haight-Ashbury... Item #SKB-14660
Price: $15.00
BARAKA, Amiri.
Am / Trak.
NY: Phoenix Bookshop, 1979. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 126). Published as No. 20 in the Phoenix Bookshop Oblong Octavo Series. Fine. Item #SKB-2926
Price: $85.00
BARAKA, Amiri.
Bushwacked: A Counterfeit President for a Fake Democracy.
New Brunswick, NJ: Unity & Struggle Productions, 2001. Pamphlet. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine. Item #SKB-8686
Price: $25.00
BARAKA, Amiri.
Later Trane.
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2003. Pamphlet. First edition. Cover illustration of John Coltrane by the author. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Baraka. Published as No. 1 in the Razor Series. Very fine. Item #SKB-10715
Price: $45.00
BARRY, John.
Beat Girl.
England: Columbia Graphophone, 1960. LP record. The soundtrack for this exploitation film about the British youth rebellion of the '50s starring pop idol Adam Faith and Gillian Hills. The film was later released in America as "Wild for Kicks." This was John Barry's first soundtrack, and it was the first... Item #SKB-16441
Price: $90.00
BATHURST, Bill.
Greystone Poems.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, 1970. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Title page illustration by Michael Myers. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 11 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Fine. Item #SKB-15903
Price: $75.00
BEILES, Sinclair.
Sacred Fix.
Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, [1975]. 4to. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Beiles, a heroin addict, was a key figure of the European Beat scene who along with Burroughs and Gysin is credited for developing the cut-up technique of composition. Features poems and plays in... Item #SKB-15984
Price: $150.00
BENVENISTE, Asa.
Count Three.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, 1969. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 2 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Touch of fading to spine, else fine. Item #SKB-15910
Price: $40.00
BERGE, Carol.
The Vancouver Report.
[NY: Fuck You Press, 1964]. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at the edge. First edition. The author's first book, a report from the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Seminar at the University of British Columbia where Ginsberg, Olson, Whalen, Duncan, and others were participants. Fine. Item #SKB-3641
Price: $250.00
BERMAN, Wallace & DYLAN, Bob.
Untitled offset poster featuring four variant images of a hand holding a transistor radio, 1965.
n.p.: Privately published, 1965. One of the images is of Bob Dylan. Nonsense text printed at the bottom. Printed in black on yellow stock. Support the Revolution, p. 172. Fine (21" x 17"). Item #SKB-12529
Price: $250.00
BERMAN, Wallace.
Untitled offset poster featuring four variant images of a hand holding a transistor radio, 1965.
n.p.: Privately published, 1965. Nonsense text printed at the bottom. Printed in black on yellow stock. Not in Support the Revolution. Fine (21" x 17"). Item #SKB-10767
Price: $250.00
BIALY, Harvey.
Susanna Martin.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, 1970. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 7 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Very near fine (hint of fading to edges). Item #SKB-15906
Price: $65.00
BRANDI, John.
Poem Afternoon in a Square in Guadalajara.
n.p.: Maya Quarto, [1970]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 6 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Fine. Item #SKB-15905
Price: $45.00
BRAUTIGAN, Richard, SNYDER, Gary; & ALLEN, Don.
San Francisco Arts Festival: A Poetry Folio 1964.
n.p.: Don Allen for the S. F. Arts Festival, 1964. Folio-sized folder containing 10 illustrated poetry broadsides created for the San Francisco Arts Festival. Limited to 300 copies signed by both poet and illustrator (except for David Meltzer who refused to sign his, and artist Phyllis Bailey). Includes the broadside... Item #SKB-16173
Price: $850.00
BRAUTIGAN, Richard, WELCH, Lew; & SNYDER, Gary.
Handbill announcing: ''San Francisco Poets Benefit for the Diggers.''
[SF]: Privately published, 1967. Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, Lenore Kandel, and Lew Welch are among those scheduled to read in San Francisco during the "Summer of Love" in support of the Diggers who were instrumental in feeding and informing the influx of hippies to the Haight-Ashbury. Text and design printed... Item #SKB-389
Price: $200.00
BREMSER, Ray.
Angel.
NY: Tompkins Square Press, [1967]. Hardbound in glassine dust jacket. First edition. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. One of 974 copies (of a total edition of 1000). A long, Beat jazz poem written during the course of one night in jail. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Item #SKB-5077
Price: $45.00
BREMSER, Ray.
Poems of Madness.
[n.p.: Paperbook Gallery, 1965]. Pamphlet. First edition of the author's first book. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Bremser was one of the original Beats, and one of the best of the jazz poets. Fine. Item #SKB-1459
Price: $45.00
BRUNDAGE, Slim.
Wire service photo of beatniks at the 1960 ''Beatnick Convention'' at the Greenwich Village coffee house, College of Complexes.
n.p.: Privately published, 1960. This event was the inspiration of Slim Brundage, hobo, Wobbly, writer, and proprietor of the Village coffee house College of Complexes where this convention took place to nominate a beat candidate for the 1960 election. Pictured here are "keynote speaker" Bill Smith, Gnomi Gross "Miss Beatnik... Item #SKB-16306
Price: $35.00
BUKOWSKI, Charles, NORSE, Harold; & LAMANTIA, Philip.
Charles Bukowski Philip Lamantia Harold Norse.
Middlesex: Penguin, 1969. First paperback edition. Published as Penguin Modern Poets 13. As new. Item #SKB-1904
Price: $45.00