Beat Generation

This is a first-class copy of Ginsberg's famed exchanges with "Fellow Poets, Students, Scholars, Sadhus." Like new red binding with silver lettering on the spine. Copy signed by Ginsberg on first front end pages "Allen Ginsberg" and "AH" (Omah Hum). No marking throughout. Dust jacket has slight wear along the bottom and top edges, minor scuffing on front and back, not price clipped. Great find!

Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 100pp (plus foldout texts), printed wrappers. The rare first issue of this essential multi-language literary magazine from Mexico City, includes drawings by Leonora Carrington and Elaine de Kooning; writing by Philip Lamantia, Rochelle Owens, Raquel Jodorowsky, and others. Unmarked copy, some cover wear, faint storage smell.

Boise ID Limberlost Press, 1998. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Sewn wrappers. Chapbook. Very fine.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 4to, 16pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. A rare early issue of this seminal 1960s little magazine, entirely devoted to work by John Wieners. An unmarked copy (aside from stray doodle to front leaf), folder shadowing to front leaf (which has edge folds), a little marginal staining. (First two leaves are most worn.)

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 12pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. Scarce early issue of the seminal sixties underground mimeo revolution mag, distributed by mailing list. Includes work by John Ashbery, Carl Solomon, and A. B. Spellman. Unmarked copy, horizontal mailing crease (but not addressed or mailed), some general wear and outer soil.

Aldous Huxley, born 1894, is best known for his fictional dystopian novel Brave New World, as well as his non-fiction account of his experiences with psychedelics, The Doors of Perception. He was adept at writing a variety of genres, however, including poetry, literary criticism, screenplays, and short stories.
Little Mexican, alternatively known as Young Archimedes in the US and first published in 1924 was Huxley's third collection of short stories, which he primarily wrote in Italy between 1923-1924. There are six stories in total, some of which are semi-autobiographical in nature. The stories in the volume are, "Uncle Spencer," "Little Mexican," "Hubert and Minnie," "Fard," "The Portrait," and "Young Archimedes."

This edition may be described as being in Very Good condition. There is some bumping to the corners and ends of the spine, but the pages are clear and save for some mild age-related discolouration are in excellent condition. There is a previous owners name and date on the front… Read More

Random House, 1959 Very nice copy. Clean and crisp. First printing stated. Unclipped. Signed on FFEP. A forgotten classic by a maverick and overlooked Beatnik era writer. Founder of The Paris Review with Peter Mathiessen. Unmarked. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Ventura, CA, and Worcester, England: Gael Turnbull, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 24 leaves (mimeographed one-side), stapled wrappers. Poet Larry Eigner's copy, with penciled verse by Eigner on the reverse of two pages. Otherwise shows signs of reading and use, some toning and stains.

Ventura, CA, and Worcester, England: Gael Turnbull, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 24 leaves (mimeographed one-side), stapled wrappers. Includes three early poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Although unmarked, this copy belonged to poet Larry Eigner. Does not include "A Poem in Nine Parts" by Matthew Mead (mentioned on contents page). Otherwise shows signs of reading and use, some toning and stains.

Bensenville, IL: Ole, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Rare second issue of Douglas Blazek's great mimeo magazine. Includes a 9-page essay by Bukowski and work by levy, Wantling, et al. A publisher's ditto-printed announcement for works by Bukowski and Wantling is laid in. Unmarked copy, nicely preserved with a little wear.

New York: The Poetry Project, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 69 leaves (mimeographed one side), stapled wrappers. Thick and rare early issue of this seminal little magazine, includes 3 poems by Lou Reed, 10 by Jim Carroll, work from many other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, light stains to fore-edge, minor wear and soil otherwise.

Hardback, first UK edition, DJ intact, not price clipped.
'John' is in fact Jack Kerouac. His first novel.

Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. Signed and dated 6/12/94 with large drawing of a flower, a sun, the moon and a star across the title page and the facing page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Number 90 of 500 in signed limited edition. Numbered and signed on first free end. Brown cloth on boards, in brown slipcase. Fine copy.

8vo, softcover stitched in publisher's signature blue wrappers, uncut pages, 318pp. Stated fifth printing, January 1939. Wrappers creased at corners, closed tears to top and bottom edges of spine, creasing to spine and to outer edge of rear wrapper. Pages internally clean though age toned, brittle with fragile binding. A nice example of the original Paris edition of Miller's famously expurgated work, preserved in shrink wraps.