New York: Basic Books, 1961. First Edition. A thoroughgoing attempt, not entirely sympathetic, at a socio-psychological examination of the Beat lifestyle, by two Bay Area psychiatrists. Chapter 9 comprises a brief anthology of Beat literature, mostly poetry; this section includes 3 works ("23rd Raga / For Tina;" "14th Raga /..... More

New York: New Directions Books, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-192pp. Light wear to spine ends and lower board edges, a few tiny tears to crown, with subtle tanning to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped..... More

New York: Grove Press, 2001. First Thus. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 289pp. Fine, unmarked copy in fine, unclipped dustwrapper. "Corrects numerous textual errors accumulated over the years...[and] incorporates Burroughs's own notes on the text, all the accompanying essays that he added to later editions, and...an appendix of abundant..... More

1967. Limited Edition. Broadside, a single folded folio sheet. 33cm x 18cm. Stiff grey card printed with a photo collage by Dorothy Hawley. Printed in a limitation of 300 copies, and issued as "Portents #8." Clean and sharp, with a little innocuous edgewear. An evocative and very characteristic mid length..... More

Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, [1974]. First Edition. Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 99. Octavo (21cm.); original lavender printed staplebound wrappers, French flaps; unpaged. Light fading to spine edge, else Fine. Printed by Skelton's Press. More

San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1950. First Edition. A superb copy of this important early collection by Duncan who, along with his friends Kermit Sheets and James Broughton (proprietors of the Centaur Press) occupied a central place in the vibrant San Francisco literary scene of the 1950s. Limited to 250 copies..... More

New York: New Directions, (1968). Second printing of the 1968 hardcover reissue. Octavo; yellow cloth hardcover in publisher's slipcase; 116pp. Spine cloth just a bit dull, else a fine copy. In the original pictorial slipcase, lightly rubbed and soiled, Near Fine. A new edition of Ferlinghetti's third book, originally published..... More

New York: New Directions Books, 1969. Second Printing (wrappered issue). Octavo (20.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [vi],[2],3-48,[10]pp. Light wear to extremities, a few faint foxed spots to wrappers; Near Fine. LEPPER, p.199. More

San Francisco: Beatitude, 1976. First Edition. Late issue of "perhaps the quintessential "Beat" publication...originally published in mimeograph at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's very hip North Beach" (Clay & Phillips, p.81). Contents include contributions by Neeli Cherkovski, Andre Codrescu, Jack Hirschman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob..... More

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968. First Edition. Issued as no.23 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. MORGAN A15.a1.1. First Printing, one of 25,000 copies. Octavo (15.75cm); black and white card wrappers; 144pp. Light sunning to spine, pinpoint wear to extremities, with a sprinkle of foxing along upper edge..... More

London: Fulcrum Press, 1968. First UK Edition. Trade Issue. Slim octavo; olive green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 48pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, price-clipped, with some trivial wear to the extremities. Ginsberg's long poem written while traveling through Cambodia, illustrated throughout with photographs..... More

[NY: 1973]. Offset-printed promotional flyer. 11" x 8-1/2", printed in black and white on a single sheet of white wove stock. Fine. Original show flyer for a reading/performance at Barnard College, 1973. Designed by noted Irish-American conceptual artist Les Levine. More

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963. First Edition. First printing, wrappered issue (there was a simultaneous case-bound issue of 35 copies). Octavo (22cm); printed laid-paper wrappers; [32pp]. Limited to 750 copies. Gentle aging to wrappers, still Near Fine. Hoyem's first book. More