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Blake

By: Clarke, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canton, The Institute of Further Studies: 1973

Seller ID: 13265

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stapled black wraps with white titles and design. Yapp edges with some, typical wear including a small impression tear on bottom edge; otherwise, near fine. ; A Curriculum of the Soul, 7; Cover Art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; John Clarke was an avant garde poet and editor of this series, A Curriculum of the Soul. He was also a noted scholar on William Blake andwrote this poetic drama about Blake.
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Letter to David Meltzer of City Lights Books, Typed on Kenneth Patchen Card with Poem and Drawing by Patchen

By: Climenhaga, Zoe

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, Patchen Cards: 1962

Seller ID: 8853

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light wear from handling. Periods typed on the folded card have left small indented dots on both front and back of the card. Joel and Zoe Climenhaga, according to Miriam Patchen "Knew Kenneth Patchen's work better than anyone". In 1961 they originated TRANSIENT PRESS, when they published the first issue of Seed, a poetry magazine, under its imprint. Zoe Clinenhaga was its Co-Editor. During the greater part of the 1960's, other magazines (Jacaranda, Ferment, Rananim and Open Letter) were published through Transient Press. Later, during the 1970's and 1980's, other ephemeral poetry magaz...
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The Book of Genesis

By: Crumb, R.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2009

Seller ID: 7851

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Brand new copy. ; Cartoons; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Pristine copy of stated First Edition of The Story of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb.
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Soheyl Dahi: Photographs

By: Dahi, Soheyl

Price: $650.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Sore Dove Press: 2011

Seller ID: 16073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

5 loose introductory sheets (with black paper magnetic wraparound band) + 12 black and white photographs of poets and artists, most from the Bay Area: photographs are 8X10. 26x20 cm (8x10"). All housed in a black leatherette drop-back box, lettered in silver. No. 11 of 30 copies. Photographs and box are all fine. Born in Iran, Soheyl Dahi is a professor, artist and poet, and also the founder of Sore Dove Press in San Francisco. He took the photographs in this limited edition with a Kodak Instamatic Camera he purchased in Teheran in 1966 when he was 12 years old. The images are of Leonard Coh...
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Novalis' "Subjects"

By: Dalke, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Canton, The Institute of Further Studies: 1973

Seller ID: 13275

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stapled olive-green wraps with black titles and illustration. Yapp edges have light age-toning and very light wear along spine. ; A Curriculum of the Soul, 11; Cover ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Robert Dalke was a poet and writer.
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Point Omega

By: De Lillo, Don

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2010

Seller ID: 8306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are New. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 117 pages; Recent novel by National Book Award winner.
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Mao II

By: Delillo, Don

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York City, Viking: 1991

Seller ID: 7654

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Near fine copy with slight wear to corners of wraps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages; Uncorrected proof in illustrated wraps, signed in blue ink by DeLillo on the title page. ; Signed by Author
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Hotel Albert

By: Di Prima, Diane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York City, Poets Press: 1968

Seller ID: 7739

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light shelf wear. ; Line drawings; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Stapled wraps. Copy #77 of 150 copies signed by di Prima in red ink on last page. In red card covers, the booklet was reproduced from her handwritten text. Beautiful copy. Not paginated. ; Signed by Author
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The New Handbook of Heaven

By: Di Prima, Diane

Price: $45.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Auerhahn Press: 1963

Seller ID: 7742

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light wear and aging around edges. Square with uncreased spine, appears never to have been read. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Limited edition (1030) of early book of poems by Beat/Hippy writer, di Prima. Unpaginated.
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Oh, hippie days! Carnets americains 1966-1969

By: Dister, Alain

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Artheme Fayard: 2001

Seller ID: 16156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book has only very light shelf wear. Appears unread. This book was published in France and is written in French. It deals with the Beat Generation and hippie culture in the United States. Dister has signed on the half-title page with his initial "A" preceded by the inscription, "and the beat goes on --- yours, truly." ; B&W Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 348 pages
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A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco, A New Directions Book: 1970

Seller ID: 11559

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Pictorial wraps with very light wear except for small diagonal crease on upper right corner. Spine is neither creased nor cracked. Binding is square and secure. Very attractive later printing -- I'm guessing at the date. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages; Ferlighetti's most famous volume of poetry.
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Love in the Days of Rage

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $70.00

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: 1988

Seller ID: 15087

ISBN: 037031266X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Both book and jacket have only very light wear and almost non-existant aging. This copy is signed on the title page with the author's typical "Ferlinghetti." This is a novel about a love affair during the student uprisings in Paris in 1968. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 116 pages; Signed by Author
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A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, A New Directions Book: 1968

Seller ID: 16030

Binding: Softcover

This copy is signed by Ferlinghetti on the title page. The book has yellow cloth with black titles on spine. No dustjacket, as issued, but with the original slipcase which has a B&W photo of Ferlibgetti on one side and a framed two paragraph description of the book on the other. This is the first hardcover edition. The book has some age-toning, mostly light. Overall the book is VG+ to NF. The slipcase has a good bit of scuffing and some wear at corners but is structurally sound. About VG-. Besides A Coney Island of the Mind, this volume includes Oral Messages and Poems from Pictures of the Gon...
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Wiersze

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Poland, Wydawnictwo Miniatura: 1992

Seller ID: 16177

ISBN: 837081042X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Book is about new with very light bumps at corners. Signed and dated 7/95 on the title page by Ferlinghetti. This is a Polish edition of selected poems by Lawrence Ferlingetti. The English and Polish translations are on facing pages. The poems all came from Ferlinghetti's European Poems and Transitions which wa published in 1991. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 85 pages; Signed by Author
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Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals, 1960-2010

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson, eds.)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2015

Seller ID: 15074

ISBN: 163149001X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

Except for a remainder dot on bottom edge, book is pristine in a similar jacket. Large selection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's travel journals dating back to 1960, when the Beats were in their prime. The book is a chance to listen in on an earlier time fro one who was there. Signed "Ferlinghetti" on the title page. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 464 pages; Signed by Author
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um parque de diversoes de cabeca (A Coney Island of the Mind)

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (trans. Eduardo Bueno and Leonardo Froes)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Brazil, L&PM Pocket: 2007

Seller ID: 16174

ISBN: 8525417157

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Book is as new and unread. This is the Brazilian edition of Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind, translated into Portuguese. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 191 pages
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Phil Frank's Henry Miller Set of Note Cards

By: Frank, Phil

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Robert Jackson: 1996

Seller ID: 15298

Binding: Non-Book

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very minor wear to the edges of the textured paper covering the box the note cards are stored in. There are 26 5 1/2 by 4 1/2" foled note cards, each with a B&W drawing of Henry Miller by Phil Frank. 20 are printed on 20 different specialty papers, there are 5 duplicates, plus one signed in pencil by Frank and lettered "Q". Each has a plain white envelope. Each also has a different quote from Miller on the inside. The set was described in the Ohio State Library Henry Miller archive as being a set of 20 cards. The cards are housed on a beautiful box covered in a beige and brown textured paper...
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The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture

By: George-Warren, Holly

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1999

Seller ID: 16186

ISBN: 0786864265

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is as new and unread. Jacket has some very light shelf wear. This is a fully illustrated history of the Beat Movement. ; B&W Illustrations; Thick Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 452 pages
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Signed Poster for Poetry Reading, April 28, 1995, NYU

By: Ginsberg, Allen

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Program Board: 1995

Seller ID: 15334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

14 1/2 X 11 Poster announcing a poetry reading at NYU's Eisner and Lubin Auditorium at Loeb Student Center with black type on white paper with B&W photograph of Ginsberg. Poster has very lightcorner wear, about fine. Signed by Ginsberg under his photo with the date and his typical circled AH. Very attractive poster and autograph of this icon of the Beat Generation and of American literature. ; B&W Photograph; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author
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Visiting Father & Friends - Broadside

By: Ginsberg, Allen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Louisville, White Fields Press: 1995

Seller ID: 15517

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Almost no wear, one almost unnoticeable crease on left edge. Close to fine. This was is #28 in a Series of Broadsides by the White Fields Press. The Series was entitles Heaven's Poster Series. There were 25 hand-lettered and signed copies by Ginsberg, 100 signed copies and an unspecified number of unsigned copies. This is is one of the unsigned copies. WorldCat locates 11 copies in libraries. ; Heaven's Poster Series #28; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1 pages
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The House of Breath

By: Goyen, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York & Berkeley, Random House / Bookworks: 1975

Seller ID: 10763

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Pale blue wraps with darker blue titles and illustration. Book I square and binding is secure. Age toning on edges and spine. Light superficial crease on spine but book appears to be unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages; This edition was published jointly by Random House and Bookworks with 1500 hardcover and 7500 softcover.
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Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

By: Grauerholz, James and Ira Silverberg

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1998

Seller ID: 16182

ISBN: 0802116299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket both have only very minor shelf wear. The CD holder in the rear has been opened but the CD is present. There are a couple of very small scuffs on the front pastedown where something, probably a bookplate, has been removed. This volume of selections from the works of William S. Burroughs has an Introduction by Ann Douglas and further introductory essays by the editors to each Burroughs' selection. The spoken word CD is of special interest. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 532 pages
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To Master, a Long Goodnight The Story of Uncle Tom, a Historical Narrative

By: Gysin, Brion

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York City, Creative Age Press, Inc.: 1946

Seller ID: 6835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Pages somewhat yellowed, light crease acoss top right corner of first few pages, small blue stain at top of Contents page, otherwise VG+. Gilt titles bright. DJ has about 1/2" loss at head of spine, general wear with some small tears along top edges, some yellowing. Harriett Beecher Stowe based the character of Uncle Tom on a real slave, Josiah Henson, who suffered as the fictional man did, escaped to Canada and had a career that included preaching, teaching, lecturing, and shepherding folks on the Underground Railway. However, he set a precedence for the behavior of African - Americans in...
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Legendes de Brion Gysin

By: Gysin, Brion (trans. Brice Matthieussent)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: France, Gris Banal: 1983

Seller ID: 16184

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Gray wraps with B&W photograph of Gysin as a small child and black titles. This copy has light edge and corner wear but with some age-toning on edges, particularly on rear wrap. Rear wrap also has a couple of small stains. Book is still square and secuely bound. My French is pretty bad so I'm not sure of exactly what this is -- whether it is about Brion Gysin or by him. It is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the ffep; I'm not sure why. Many photographs of Gysin from childhood on. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Associated
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Vision

By: Hadley, Drummond

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Canton, The Institute of Further Studies: 1972

Seller ID: 13271

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stapled tan wraps with black titles.. Yapp edges with very light wear. ; A Curriculum of the Soul, 21; Cover ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Drummond Hadley was a Beat Generation poet who left the world of Ginsburg and Ferlinghetti to establish a ranch in the Southwest near the Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico borders. He still lives there today.
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Category: American Edge