Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1970. Second Printing. Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 225 x 152 mm), [32] pages, in red wrappers, the top wrapper with deckle edges (soft cover). A collection of nine poems, including the title poem, Fire Station. This is a second printing... More
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 419, [1] pages, in ivory-colored cloth, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. An important Kerouac biography by the Beat Generation scholar Ann Charters, who knew Kerouac..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, No Publication Date Stated. Later printing. 16mo (4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm), 105 pages in pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page as "Ferlinghetti, editor." A collection of poems by Beat poet Gregory Corso..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo (7 x 7 3/4 inches/ 178 x 197 mm). Four etchings in four different colors plus a colophon leaf housed in a red cloth box stamped Ferlinghetti on the front. Red ribbon attached inside. Each etching..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm), [i-ii], 1-46 pages, in side-stapled orange wrappers (soft cover). A City Lights mimeo publication, evoking the Beat scene of San Francisco in 1967, beginning with the cover photo..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 241 x 185 mm), xxiii, 464,[6] pages in boards with a pictorial dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) on the title page. Fascinating travel stories drawn from..... More
Berkeley, California: Crosscut Saw Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 111, [1] pages, in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg, with his East 12th Street, New York, address and phone number on the verso of the front wrapper. At..... More
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San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Red cloth box (12 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 308 x 245 mm) containing [26] loose leaves. Black ribbon attached inside the box. SIGNED by Jack Hirschman on the title leaf. A limited edition of only 30 boxed..... More
San Diego: Avant Books, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 15/16 x 6 inches; 227 x 151 mm), vi, 66 pages, in perfect-bound illustrated wrappers (soft cover). INSCRIBED on the title page to Nathan May, the editor and publisher of Beatitude #32, the San Francisco magazine of..... More
Six poetry titles by Howard Hart (1927-2002), all inscribed to Nathan May, the editor and publisher of Beatitude #32, the San Francisco magazine of Beat poetry. Hart wrote poetry and plays and was an accomplished jazz pianist and drummer. In the late 1950s, Hart, Jack Kerouac, Philip..... More
New York: Totem Press, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 145 mm), 8 pages, in illustrated stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Michael McClure on the title page to book editor William Targ: "This copy for Bill Targ / and / all..... More
Three poetry chapbooks by John (Jack) Mueller (d. 2017), one of the founders of the Union of Street Poets in San Francisco. All three chapbooks are inscribed. --What Can I Say. Berkeley: Artaud's Elbow, 1981. Small Octavo, unpaginated, in stapled wrappers. Inscribed to Nathan May, the editor..... More
Brighton, England / Seattle: Unicorn Bookshop, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 207 x149 mm), 26 pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). An often critical view of Allen Ginsberg's poems by Eric Mottram (1924-1995), who was a British poet and professor at King's College..... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. First Edition. A comprehensive Whitney Museum catalogue of a traveling exhibition on the Beats. Large Octavo, 280 pages, soft cover. Near Fine, with slight edge wear. No dust jacket. More
Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 157 mm), 194, [4] pages, in illustrated boards, titles to upper board and to a label attached to spine, with the original acetate dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by..... More
San Francisco: Harwood Alley Monographs, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm), [20] pages, in illustrated stapled wrappers (soft cover). INSCRIBED on the title page to San Francisco poet Kirby Doyle (1932-2003). A chapbook containing 16 poems, mostly from 1983... More
Amsterdam: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 9 leaves plus cover sheet, printed rectos only, stapled twice along the left margin. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the last page, one of only 25 copies. Ferlinghetti describes this..... More
[San Francisco]: A Midnight Special Edition, 1986. Jack Micheline. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 220 mm), unpaginated, comb-bound in white plastic. SIGNED by Jack Micheline (1929-1998) on the cover, the title page and at other points in the book. A limited-edition handmade book..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 260 x 207 mm), 226 pages, in quarter-cloth and boards, titles in silver to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by both the author and photographer on..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968. First Edition. 16mo (6 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 162 x 122 mm), 26, [2] pages, in black and white wrappers (soft cover). "Panic Grass is the late 1967 section of my life, years in preparation. The poem began as a sermon..... More
Chicago: The Poetry Foundation, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (5 1/2 x 9 inches / 140 x 227 mm), [6],311-415,[13] pages in illustrated wrappers. Slight soiling to the white covers, corners bumped. A Very Good or better copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the beginning of a section featuring..... More
