4to. Mimeographed, stapled, unpaginated (94pp.). The tenth of twelve issues published between 1968 and 1975, and the so-called “anonymous” number in which no authors are credited, no publication details are given and even the name of the magazine is absent. The covers print a pornographic cartoon strip reproduced from “School Days”, a Tijuana bible from the 1930s. Contents include “Fits of Nerves with a Fix” by William Burroughs (reprinted from the cut-up issue of C magazine, February 14, 1965); a Glen Baxter drawing; and, reportedly, contributions from John Baldessari; Salvador Dalí; Robert Duncan; Red Grooms; Philip..... More about ADVENTURES IN POETRY 10 (Np. [New York]: no date [1974?

Np. (NY): no pub. (Adventures in Poetry), nd. (1974). First trade edition. 4to., mimeographed (printed rectos only), stapled, unpaginated (28pp.). Front cover by Joe Brainard. A homage to Arthur Rimbaud, “drawn” by Joe Brainard and printed in facsimile holograph. Small indentations to fore-edge of upper wrapper from having been stacked together with similar stapled publications; slight rust spotting near staples; o/w Very Good plus. More about The Drunken Boat

Chicago: 1959-1960. Ed. Irving Rosenthal (#1), and Paul Carroll. Wrps., 120pp.-152pp. Issue #1 (Spring 1959): Prints “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch” by William Burroughs, “Three Poems” by Gregory Corso and “Old Angel Midnight” by Jack Kerouac (who gave the magazine its name). This issue constitutes the suppressed Winter 1958 issue of Chicago Review and was itself banned in March 1959 following an unofficial complaint from August Derleth, publisher of HP Lovecraft and a writer himself. At the trial in June 1959 the Judge declared Big Table “obscene”, “filthy”, and its writing “not meritorious”, though it was subsequently acquitted..... More about BIG TABLE #1-5 (all published

SF: Carp Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Wrps., stapled. Unpaginated (22pp.). Front cover illustration by Kenn Davis. Association copy, SIGNED and inscribed by Brautigan on the first preliminary page to Joanne Kyger for her 30th birthday (November 19, 1964): “a Happy 30 to Joanne Love Richard 1964 and Janice 1864”. Brautigan has embellished the inscription with a drawing of three small dogs, and added stick drawings below both his name and that of his new girlfriend, Janice Meissner. Brautigan and Kyger first met in San Francisco in the spring of 1957, soon after which, as his..... More about Lay the Marble Tea

NY: Tomkins Square Press, 1967. First edition. 18mo. Blue cloth, with decorative illustration in white to upper board. 62pp. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Preface by Michael Perkins. Cover and drawings by Renie Perkins. Frontispiece photograph of the author, who wrote the work during the course of one night spent in solitary confinement in New Jersey State Prison, Trenton. Fine in the fragile unprinted glassine dw. Together with the publisher’s promotional sheets. One of 974 copies (from a total edition of 1000). More about Angel

Paris: The Olympia Press, July 1959. First edition. 12mo. Wrps., 226pp. Issued as no. 76 in the Traveller’s Companion Series. Price on lower wrapper not cancelled (copies distributed following the revaluation of the Franc in January 1960 had the printed price stamped over). Presentation copy, SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page: “For Douglas Line William Burroughs” [sic]. A fairly worn copy, but with an interesting provenance. Douglas Lyne and William Burroughs had a brief series of meetings during the early to mid-1960s, documented in two books, “Walking the London Scene: Five Walks..... More about The Naked Lunch

Cambridge: Blackmoor Head Press, 1971. First edition. 4to. Wrps., 76pp. Cover drawings by Brion Gysin. Layout by Henri Chopin. Prints an important text on tape cut-ups by William Burroughs, with French translations by Jean Chopin. One of 450 numbered copies, from a total edition of 500 (there was also a deluxe edition of 50 hardbound copies). Clean and tight, Near Fine. More about Electronic Revolution

London: Aloes Press, 1973. First edition. B/w wrps., perfect bound, printed on grey paper. 74pp. Illustrated. SIGNED by the author in blue ink on the title page. Misbound copy, with pp. 25-28 and pp. 45-48 positioned upside down and in reverse order. The book takes its title from a section of “The Soft Machine” and collects a number of pieces, including cut-up and three-column style texts (“Who Is the 3rd…?”, “The Last Post Danger Ahead”, and “From a Distant Hand Lifted”) that had originally appeared in little literary magazines, such as Gnaoua, Spero, Underground..... More about White Subway

Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1976. First edition. 4to. Screenprinted black wrappers lettered in silver, bound with three staples and black binder’s tape. Title lettering in gothic font; purple endpapers. 37pp. Cover drawing by Petra Vogt. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies (this one #152). Poems written in Kathmandu, 1973-74, reproduced in holograph facsimile, accompanied by the author’s b/w photographs of his muse, Petra Vogt. Fine. More about From The Divan Of Petra Vogt: Poems & Photographs

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1961. First edition, first state (price not overprinted on lower wrapper), with white photographic dustwrapper printed in black and red. Wrps., 242pp. No. 85 in the Traveller’s Companion Series. Illustrated with drawings by the author. SIGNED and briefy inscribed by Corso on the front free endpaper: “hello, Gregory Corso April 28 1961”. Corso’s first and only novel was published only four days before this date by Maurice Girodias, who had been introduced to Corso by William Burroughs. Girodias held a big party to launch the book at his nightclub, La Grande Séverine..... More about The American Express

London: Fulcrum Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo. Black boards. 76pp. Dw. cover drawing by Fielding Dawson. One of 50 copies numbered and SIGNED by the author, from a total of 1000 copies printed on Glastonbury pure white antique laid paper. Slight spotting along top edges, o/w Near Fine in lightly rubbed dw. More about Geography

SF: City Lights (1961), 12th printing, April 1971. Wrps. 18mo. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page: “for Sue Miles from Allen Ginsberg”. Ginsberg has also written out Miles’s Hanson Street address and the date (“Aug 29 1973”), and drawn a small sunflower. In addition, he has embellished the inside of the upper wrapper with a full-page drawing of a skull and crossbones set within the Hebrew pentagram, a radiant halo and his ‘AH’ mantra above. Slight edge-wear and light rubbing to wrappers, o/w Very Good plus. Ginsberg first stayed with..... More about Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960

London: Writers Forum (WFP 5), November 1963. First edition, corrected state, with the author’s name printed correctly (copies of the first state had it as ‘Ginsburg’, most of which were altered by hand in black ink to the correct spelling). 8vo. Stapled wrps. 24pp., mimeograph, printed rectos only. Linocut cover design by Jeff Nuttall. The poem’s title refers to Ginsberg’s renunciation of the drug experience and his long-held quest for cosmic consciousness that occurrred during his travels through India and Japan in 1963. Faint age-toning to extremities, o/w Near Fine. More about The Change

SF: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971. First edition thus, and the first hardbound edition of “Howl”. Sm. folio. 48pp. Pictorial linen-covered boards featuring a design by Robert LaVigne. Printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on handmade paper. One of 255 copies SIGNED by Ginsberg on the title page (the colophon states that 275 copies were produced, but several copies were misbound; the remaining 20 sets of sheets were bound in a new cover design in 1992 which did not include the LaVigne illustration). The text comprises “Howl” as it was published in 1956, with “minute revisions” by the..... More about Howl for Carl Solomon

Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1973. First edition. Wrps., 56pp. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Epigraphs by William Blake and Herman Melville. Front cover photographic self-portrait taken by the author in 1949. Includes “A Prefatory Letter” from Allen Ginsberg to William Carlos Williams (the book gives the year as 1949, though the correct date of the letter, according to Miles’s biography of Ginsberg, was March 4, 1950; Williams later included it in its entirety in Part Four of “Paterson”, published in 1951). Also includes a closing text by Ginsberg in which..... More about The Gates of Wrath. Rhymed Poems: 1948-1952

NY: Viking, 1984. First edition. Black cloth. 840pp. SIGNED by the author on the title page, who has added his ‘AH’ mantra below. Dw. illustration of three fish with one head by Harry Smith, based on Allen Ginsberg’s original sketch of “the Buddha’s footprint”, glimpsed by him in Bodh Gayā, India, in 1962. Author’s photograph to lower panel by Robert Frank. The collection presents Ginsberg’s poems in chronological order for the first time and achieved his intention to make “a graph or a picture of my mind over the seasons, months, years, decades.”... More about Collected Poems, 1947-1980

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1977. First edition, softcover issue. 228pp. Edited with an introduction by Barry Gifford. Foreword by Carolyn Cassady; afterword by Allen Ginsberg. SIGNED by Ginsberg on the half-title page, and inscribed by him “House Copy”, dated “2/2/96”. Below, his biographer Barry Miles has added a pencilled annotation: “not stolen but left at my place in London after we spent a day working on Selected Letters. Miles.” Spine slightly leaned; wrappers lightly rubbed; o/w a tight, Near Fine copy. More about As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady

Paris: Editions Agentzia, 1972. First edition. Wrps., 80pp. Dustwrapper cover by Wolf Vostell (from a 1956 series of Décollages ‘Tour de Vanves’). SIGNED on the title page by William Burroughs. Texts (in English) by Jan Herman, Jürgen Ploog and Carl Weissner, and printing “Tickertape” by William Burroughs as a continuous text printed along the upper edge of each page. “As Burroughs and Ballard have pointed out, the Media are now producing mass fictions at such a staggering rate that the writer’s sole function can be summed up as CUT UP OR SHUT UP” (blurb from front..... More about Cut Up Or Shut Up

West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth. 242pp. Publisher’s printed review card laid in. An extensive poem in prose and verse in five cantos realised at different times, the first in 1960-62 and the last in 1970. The last book by Higgins to be published by Something Else Press, the publishing imprint he founded in 1963. Fine in dw. More about A Book About Love & War & Death

NY: Printed Editions, 1978. First edition. Wrps., 112pp. Illustrations by Ken Friedman. One of 750 softbound copies, from a total edition of 800. Includes “The Life and Times of the Croissant”, an account of European history seen in the microcosm of the croissant. Spine panel slightly toned, o/w Near Fine. More about The Epickall Quest of the Brothers Dichtung and Other Outrages

SF: City Lights, 1961. First edition. Stiff white paper wrappers printed in blue. Cover designed by M.E. Cranston featuring a photograph of the author asleep by Robert Frank. A catalogue of the author’s dreams, written during the period 1952-60. Spine panel lightly tanned; pencilled UK price (18/-) to title page; o/w a tight, Near Fine copy. More about Book of Dreams

NY: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1963. First edition. Patterned paper over boards, with black cloth spine lettered in gold. Illustrated with drawings by James Spanfeller. Near Fine in unclipped dw. (some very faint foxing). More about Visions of Gerard

NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1965. First edition. Orange cloth, with gilt facsimile signature to upper cover. Introduction by Seymour Krim. Follows Jack Duluoz from 1956 to 1957, with much autobiographical detail, including the period Kerouac spent on Desolation Peak as a fire lookout, and his travels through Mexico, New York and Tangier. Gilt lettering to spine slightly tarnished, as usual, o/w about Near Fine in unclipped dw. (spine panel slightly age-toned, though unfaded; a little light creasing and rubbing to corners of upper panel). More about Desolation Angels

London: André Deutsch, 1967. First UK edition. Dustwrapper design by Michael Farrell. Faint age-toning to white dustwrapper, o/w Near Fine (not price-clipped). More about Satori in Paris

SF: Grey Fox Press (1973), revised edition, 1998. 8vo. Tan cloth, with spine lettering in gilt (issued without a dw.). 69pp. Edited by Donald Allen, with an introductory note by him. Contains “Trip Trap”, a Haiku written by the three authors along the road from San Francisco to New York in 1959; “A Recollection” by Albert Saijo; and “We Started for New York” and “Dear Jack” by Lew Welch. Though not stated, one of only 50 copies bound in cloth (the only hardbound edition of this title). Fine. More about Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road

NY: Printed Editions, 1980. First edition. Wrps., unpaginated (80pp.). Photograph of the author to lower wrapper by Dick Higgins, to whom she was married, first in 1960 for ten years, then again in 1984. A flyer issued to advertise the book at the time of publication described it as a “nature book [that] combines my own and other peoples’ observations of specific behavior patterns in plants and animals.” Near Fine. More about Natural Assemblages and the True Crow

NY: Spring 1960-Winter 1965. 8vo. Wrps., 52pp.-104pp. First issue staple-bound, perfect bound from issue #2 on. Printed offset. Published and edited by Marc Schleifer (#1-3); Lita Hornick became the publisher from issue #3 and the editor from issue #6. Issues #4 and #5 were guest-edited by Gilbert Sorrentino and Joel Oppenheimer respectively. Contributing editors include John Fles, LeRoi Jones, Charles Olson, Diane di Prima, A.B. Spellman, Bill Berkson (film editor), and Frank O'Hara (art editor, issues #7-15). The front covers feature work by Arthur Freed, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Kenneth Eisler, Joe Brainard, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol (+..... More about KULCHUR #1-20 (all published

NY: Telegraph Books, 1972. First edition. 12mo. Wrps., 48pp. Author’s photograph of Leigh Taylor-Young to front cover. Malanga has SIGNED this copy in red ink alongside his printed name on the title page, which he has crossed through, and added the inscription: “this copy for Zoe () Gerard 4:i:73 Bolinas Day of the Earthquake”. A collection of previously unpublished poems, the second of which, “White Rain”, is dedicated to Jim Morrison. Telegraph Books was founded in 1971 by Victor Bockris, Aram Saroyan and Andrew Wylie and over the course of the following two or..... More about Poetry on Film

Ed. Jeff Nuttall. Four mimeographed foolscap sheets, stapled, printed rectos only. The rare first issue, containing work by Keith Musgrove and Jeff Nuttall. Nuttall recounts in “Bomb Culture” that “The French teacher at the school where I worked duplicated the first mag for me. He liked it. He said, ‘Do it again’. He was called Bob Cobbing”, and of how he “circulated the first Mag to twenty or so people who I thought might be interested. Better Books took the rest and sold them at a penny each… I got replies from Ray Gosling, Anselm Hollo..... More about MY OWN MAG #1 - A Super-Absorbant Periodical (Barnet, Herts.: nd. [November 1963

Ed. Jeff Nuttall. Eleven mimeographed foolscap sheets, stapled, printed recto and verso. Contains several contributions by William Burroughs (“Nut Note on the Column Cutup Thing”, “WB Talking”, “Quantities of the Gas Girls”, and an untitled piece, all appearing in The Moving Times (a magazine edited by Burroughs that appeared regularly in My Own Mag), as well as work by Bill Butler, Claude Pélieu and Jeff Nuttall. Very slight lower left corner creasing, o/w Near Fine. More about MY OWN MAG #15 (Barnet, Herts.: April 1966

Np. (SF): Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1966. First edition. 8vo. Stitched wrappers (15pp.). One of 100 copies printed on mould-made paper for Donald Allen as a Christmas greeting. An autobiographical essay about the poet’s father, Karl, who died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 53 in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1935. Fine. More about Stocking Cap

Santa Monica, CA: Earth Books & Gallery, 1966. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrps., unpaginated. Front cover drawing by Richmond, with another glossy print of a drawing by him bound in at the back. The author’s first book, featuring a 3pp. introduction by his friend, Charles Bukowski: “it is a sweet god damned pleasure to write a foreword to these poems. Yet this foreword, like the poems, is going to bring the enemy out from under the rock. Well, at least we will be able to look at him and vomit”. Loosely inserted is an ALS from..... More about Hitler Painted Roses

Athens, Greece: privately published by the author, 1963. First edition. Sm. 8vo. Printed wrps., with front and rear flaps. 14 leaves. Colophon states an edition of 150 copies signed and numbered by the author, though this copy is neither signed nor numbered. The poem draws on Rooks’s experiences with drugs and alcohol in mythological terms, particularly in relation to Native American culture in Chappaqua, the small town in Westchester County, New York where he spent five years of his childhood. It also deals with his relationship with his recently deceased father, Russell Rooks, one of the founding Presidents..... More about Chappaqua Or the Invocation of Bran

London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. First edition. Cream boards with gilt title lettering to spine. A collection of poems dating from the previous fifteen years or earlier, dedicated to Kenneth Rexroth. A section at the end of the book is devoted to Snyder’s translations of eighteen poems by Kenji Miyazawa. Faint spotting to top edge, o/w Fine in Near Fine dw. (short, 1 cm. closed tear and pinhole to tail of spine). More about The Back Country

Most of the items are accompanied by their original printed envelopes, as mailed to Frederic Hunter, bibliophile, historian of journalism and a pioneer of independent radio who worked at the Central Office of Information in Whitehall, London, during the 1960s. The collection includes: i) A TLS to Fred Hunter from Barbara Moore, typewritten on Something Else Press stationery, dated March 24, 1965. Approx. 179 words. In it, Moore, who was Something Else’s first ‘Editorial Director’, describes it as “a small, recently formed publishing house dedicated to the so-called unpublishable in avant-garde art, primarily happenings and related art..... More about SOMETHING ELSE PRESS EPHEMERA. A collection of more than 30 ephemeral items produced by the...

4to. Wrps., 176pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. Presentation copy to the editors, husband-and-wife duo Arthur and Kit ‘Glee’ Knight, SIGNED by 19 of the contributors (as well as by Arthur Knight), several of whom have added a personal inscription: Allen Ginsberg (a nice, long inscription on the first page); Peter Orlovsky; John Clellon Holmes (three times); Carolyn Cassady; Philip Whalen; William S. Burroughs; Jack Micheline; Gregory Corso; Gary Snyder; Herbert Huncke; Louis Cartwright; Carl Solomon; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Fernando Pivano (Kerouac’s Italian translator); John Tytell; and photographers John Montgomery, Gerard Malanga, Larry Keenan and Mellon Tytell (twice). The majority of..... More about THE BEAT BOOK - Volume 4, 1974, of the unspeakable visions of the individual (California, PA:...

4to. Mimeographed, stapled, each 8pp. Ed. Ted Greenwald. A broken run of nine issues, all mailed to the author, editor and publisher Bill Levy in Rotterdam. Based at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, The Poetry Project Newsletter began as a monthly publication in 1972 and continues as a quarterly to this day. Its function, then as now, was to list new publications and upcoming events, most of them concerned with contemporary poetry, but also including announcements of plays and exhibitions, later expanding to include reviews, articles, poems and gossip. Among the contributors to the issues here are..... More about THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER #29, #33-37, #39-41 (NY: The Poetry Project, November 1, 1975 -...

i) Myself As A Menu (Excerpts From Something In Progress). Three photocopied quarto size sheets, folded twice for mailing, with author’s holograph note to first sheet: “Dearests - this was in Wallpaper, a guest issue - Susan Hiller asked me (also Carla [Liss]) to be her guest - I’d always wanted to lay something out on a menu - Much love xx L.” (the note is to Bill Levy and Susan Janssen, for whose underground paper, Suck, Tillman had previously worked as an editorial assistant). The piece appropriates the menu from Longchamps, a now defunct New York restaurant, and appeared..... More about A small collection, including three early book publications accompanied by the author’s...