Beat Generation
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Neurotica (Complete Set, 9 Volumes)
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23.5cm x 15cm. 9 volumes. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
A complete set of the proto-beat literary journal dedicated to expressions and explorations of art, sex, and neuroticism. The first 8 issues edited by Jay Irving Landesman, the final 9th “castration” issue by Gershon Legman. Featuring contributions by Kenneth Patchen, David Cornel De Jong, Rudolph Friedmann, Henri Michaux, Richard Rubenstein, Douglas P. Rodewald, Nathaniel Thornton, Marc Brandel, Ellis Foote, Justine Krug, Leonard Bernstein, William Krasnet, Gerald W. Lawlor, Harry Karetsky, John Clellon Holmes, Hubert Crehan, Carol Hall, William Stern, Lila Rosenblum, Alistair Kahn, J. B. Smith, John Goldston, Judith Malina, Lawrence Durrell, Winston Weathers, Joanne de Longchamps, Themistocles G. Hoetis, Herbert Benjamin, Norman Maclaine, Osmond Beckwith, Ralph Gilmer, Mortimer Slaiman, Louis Triefenbach, Joseph Kyeff, Sidney E. Porcelain, Ray H. Zorn, Marshall Mcluhan, Charles L. Newman, Jean B. Welch, H. Phelps Putnam, Allen Walker Read, Theodor Reik, Thelma J. Levy, John Del Torto, Alfred Towne, Anatole Broyard, Peter Viereck, Chandler Brossard, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Towne, Wallace Markfield, Carl Gentile (Goy), William Barrett, Anatole Broyard, Lawrence Rivers, Hy Sobiloff, William Steig, John Del Torto, Victor Tausk, Christopher Maclaine, Jacques Schnier, Maurice M. Shudofsky, Herbert Wolf, Ella Freeman Sharpe, Rudolph Friedmann, Otto Fenichel, James Clark Moloney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and Mason Jordan Mason. Cover illustrations by Alvin Lustig. All first printings, except for No 1, which is the second printing.
Some issues with minor tanning or discolouration, and minor wear to edges. Nos. 1 and 3 with crease to wrappers lower panel. No 8. with a small indent line to upper panel. No. 4 with a very small chip to spine at upper staple. No. 1 with a very small chip to crown fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel, the same panel with a couple of light soil marks. Very Good Condition. -
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
$100.00 Add to cartGregory Corso
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2007].
The Pocket Poets Series: Number 8. A circa 2007 later printing. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. -
Planet News 1961-1967
$100.00 Add to cartAllen Ginsberg
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2000.
The Pocket Poet Series: Number Twenty Three. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. -
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960
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Thirty-third Printing. Signed by Editor
16cm x 12cm. 99 pages. Lettered wrappers.
The Pocket Poet Series: Number Fourteen. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Mind Field
$300.00 Add to cartGregory Corso
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989.
Hanuman Books 27, first edition of beat poet Gregory Corso. Cover photo by Allen Ginsberg. This copy signed by Corso on the front flyleaf. -
Kerouac in Ecstasy: Shamanic Expression in the Writings
$50.00 Add to cartThomas R. Bierowski
Jefferson and London: McFarland & Company, 2011. -
Mishaps, Perhaps
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First Edition.
20cm x 14cm. 60 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
First edition, first printing of Solomon’s prose and poetry pieces. COOK 59.
Moderate handling wear. Minor soiling to wrappers. Insect damage to edges. Crease to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers rear panel. Very minor foxing. Good Condition. -
Reconstructing the Beats
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First Edition.
23cm x 15.5cm. vi, 241 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor shelf wear and foxing to edges. Very Good Condition. -
William S. Burroughs’ Unforgettable Characters: Lola “La Chata” & Bernabe Jurado
$20.00 Add to cartWilliam S. Burroughs; Michael Spann
[Providence]: Inkblot Publications, 2013. -
The Transnational Beat Generation
$40.00 Add to cartNancy M. Grace; Jennie Skerl
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. -
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature
$100.00 Add to cartA. Robert Lee
London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
The world of Beat literature beyond San Francisco. -
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
$30.00 Add to cartWilliams S. Burroughs
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017.
“In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after an expedition through Latin America, William Burroughs began a notebook of reflections. This notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs as a man staring down personal catastrophe and visions of looming cultural disaster.” (publisher’s blurb) -
William S. Burroughs: A Collector’s Guide
$30.00 Add to cartEric C. Shoaf
Providence: Inkblot Publications, 2014.
“For decades collectors have marveled and admired the works of William S. Burroughs. The sheer number and variety of publications, whether books, pamphlets, limited editions, signed editions, magazine or journal contributions, contributions to the works of other authors, or simply books and other printed biographical material about Burroughs is well over a thousand different items. The purpose of this Collector’s Guide is to provide a gathering of Burroughs material which was available in the published world through 2008.” (publisher’s blurb) -
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
$30.00 Add to cartLawrence Ferlinghetti
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2015. -
Against Control
$35.00 Add to cartJack Sargeant; [William S. Burroughs]
Goteburg: Eight Millimetres, 2014.
A collection of essays that explores the multiple influences of William S. Burroughs and various aspects of the wider Burroughs’ Universe. “In these essays aspects of Burroughs’ work, and especially his speculative ideas, are presented through their interections with sound, with imagined histories, and with mythologies. Incorporating ideas from the philosophies of libertarian pirates to Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville’s Dreamachine, from the space program and science fiction literature to the Master Musicians of Joujouka, and all points in between” (rear cover) -
Beat
$50.00 Add to cartChristopher Felver
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. -
The Yage Letters Redux
$25.00 Add to cartWilliam Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2006.
Edited with an Introduction by Oliver Harris. -
White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
$25.00 Add to cartPeter Conners
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010. -
The Beat Boys
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Ace Books H262.
18cm x 11cm. 204 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Originally published under the title Go, this is the original novel of The Beat Generation.
Cocked with creasing to spine. Some creasing to wrappers with a small touch of staining to the edges. Some tanning to the pages. Good Condition. -
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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Reprint.
20cm x 13cm. vii, 289 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles.
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The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. viii, 218 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Kerouac West Coast: a Bohemian Pilot: Detailed Navigational Instructions
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First Edition.
24cm x 14cm. 24 pages. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Unnumbered edition of 2,000 copies.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Minor creasing to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
Howl and Other Poems
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Later Edition.
16cm x 12cm. 57 pages. Lettered wrappers.
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Ghost Tantras
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99 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
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When I Was A Poet
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First Edition.
The Pocket Poets Series: Number Sixty.
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The Beat Boys
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Ace Books H262.
18cm x 11cm. 204 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Originally published under the title Go, this is the original novel of The Beat Generation.
Spine and hinges repaired with tape. Tanning. Minor foxing and soiling. Fair Condition. -
Journal of Beat Studies: Volume 6, 2018
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Reprint.
23cm x 15cm. [v], 169 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
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Journal of Beat Studies: Volume 5, 2017
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Reprint.
23cm x 15cm. [v], 297 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
This issue In Honor of Ann Charters: Architect of Beat Studies.
Very minor soiling to edges. Near Fine Condition. -
Visions of Kerouac: The Life of Jack Kerouac
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Second Printing.
21.5cm x 14cm. x, 220 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Moderate shelf and handling wear. Foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. xi, 130 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
. Fine Condition.