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[Rochester, New York]: Cherry Valley Editions, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. A memoir of Allen Ginsberg by Dick McBride, the long-time manager of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. There's also a short introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 137 mm), 61, [1] pages, in perfect-bound, photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION:… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Road Kill Press, [1994]. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Jack Micheline on the title page. Prose and poetry by Jack Micheline (1929-1998), the outlaw poet associated with the San Francisco Beats. Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 215 x 165 mm), [2], 9, [1] pages, in stapled, printed wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION:… Read more about this item

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 London. CONDITION: Some soiling and fading to wrappers and light edge wear… Read more about this item

[Ferlinghetti] Diano, Giada and Matthew Gleeson (Editors). Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 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. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) on the title page. Fascinating travel stories… Read more about this item

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.

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 and compiled his bibliography. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. CONDITION: Some smudges to the ivory-colored boards and spine as well as a couple small stains… Read more about this item