New York: Penguin Books, 1987. First Edition Thus. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 196 x 128 mm), 210 pages, in stiff pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by Jim Carroll on the title page. Carroll's classic account of growing up in New York in the early 1960s, full of..... More
North Beach [San Francisco]: Greenlight Press, 1980. 12mo 7 3/8 x 6 inches; 187 x 150 mm), (52] pages, string-stitched, in illustrated wrappers (softcover). SIGNED on the colophon pages by the author, Neeli Cherkovski, and the publisher of Greenlight Press, Kaye McDonough. One of 26 copies lettered A...... More
A collection of nearly 60 flyers and handbills for tributes and readings by poets associated with the San Francisco Beat scene. Most are from 2007-2017, and many of the events took place at San Francisco's legendary City Lights Books. Eight are signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including one for..... More
Flint, Michigan: Bamberger Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie on the half title to Ann and Ken Mikolowski, publishers of The Alternative Press: "For Ken and Ann with / love, / Joe." And: "Feel all right? Feel all right." / Love, / Kenward..... 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. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm), [i-ii], 1-46 pages in side-stapled orange wrappers. Pages printed on rectos only. Some soiling to upper wrapper, light creasing to some lower page corners. A Very Good copy. *A City Lights..... 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
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. Oblong 16mo (6 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 167 x125 mm), [14] pages, in saddle-sewn cream card wrappers covered by a wrapper made from brown rice paper. SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg on the title page and dated '73. A single poem inspired..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (9 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches / 245 x 308 mm), [26] loose leaves housed in a red cloth box lettered in black. Black ribbon attached inside the box. SIGNED by Jack Hirschman on the title leaf..... More
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New York: Kulchur Press, Inc., 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 213 x 140 mm), 104 pages, in illustrated wrappers. Scarce copy of the spring 1964 issue of Kulchur, an avant-garde literary magazine. Contributions from Richard Brautigan, Allen Ginsberg, Pauline Kael..... 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
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
[San Francisco?]: Self-published, 1981. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 212 x 135 mm), [42] pages, in stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBEDÂ on the lower wrapper to Nathan May, the editor and publisher of Beatitude #32, the San Francisco magazine of Beat poetry. Poems reflecting Vinograd's street-smart sensibilities... More
San Francisco/Cleveland: Zero Publications, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 220 mm), [45] yellow and white mimeographed leaves, printed rectos only, in illustrated black and gold stapled wrappers, ragged edged along fore and bottom edges of the upper wrapper. An anthology of..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 151 pages. A 1970 film was loosely based on this book, which is written in diary form and deals with the Columbia University student protests of 1968. Clean, unmarked pages, slight lean to spine, in a price-clipped dust jacket that..... More
Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 222 mm), [28] mimeographed pages, with drawings on paper attached to the stapled card wrappers. A long poem by the celebrated Cleveland poet and publisher d.a. levy (1942-1968). In a "pre-face," levy writes..... More
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm), [28] pages, mimeographed typescript with an original screenprint overlaid on the stapled card wrappers. A tribute to Rev. John R. Scott, who was was sentenced in 1968 to two years in the..... More
London: Humanities Society, Chelsea College, [ca. 1974]. First Edition. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 152 mm), 39, [1] pages in green stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED on the inside front cover by David Russell, one of the editors. A rare issue of New Leaf, which was published by the..... More
San Francisco: Beatitude Magazine, 1979. Small Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 278 x 213 mm), 83, [1] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Neeli Cherkovski on the title page. The 20th anniversary issue of Beatitude, "the most important Beat-associated little magazine..... 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]: Beat Poetry and Arts/BEST of San Francisco, 1994. Small Quarto (9 x 7 1/4 inches; 228 x 184 mm), 121, [1] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED by Jack Hirschman (page 15) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (page 119). An anthology featuring numerous San Francisco poets. Besides..... 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
La Souterraine, France: La Main Courante, 2005. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 245 x 168 mm), 268, [4] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neeli Cherkovski, and Jack Hirschman, three of the poets featured in this bilingual English-French..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Controversial revue devised by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan, who asked a number of authors to write erotic material that could be used in creating a series of sketches. There's a brief prologue by Samuel Beckett and contributions by Sam..... 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