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No Eyes: Lester Young

By: Meltzer, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow: 2000

Seller ID: 16153

ISBN: 1574231294

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book has only very light shelf wear. This is the first softcover edition There was also a limited, signed hardcover editon. This copy feels unread. This book is in Meltzer's words "a meditation on the last year of Lester Young's life." ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages
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Six (6)

By: Meltzer, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow: 1976

Seller ID: 16164

ISBN: 0876852703

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Some light curling on bottom right corner along with bump to top right corner and an old, 3" flattened, diagonal crease in the top rightl area. Light aging. Still an attractive softcover copy of this volume by Beat poet David Meltzer. Meltzer has signed boldly on the ffep with an inscription to Aya [Tarlow], Beat Generation poet, artist and friend of Meltzer. Nice association. Laid in is a flyer for Meltzer's 1970 book of poems, Luna. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Signed by Author
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Insomnia or the Devil At Large

By: Miller, Henry

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday and Co.: 1974

Seller ID: 9039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Black covers with gilt signature of Miller on front and gilt titles on spine. Book has only light wear and aging. Jacket has a good bit of edge and corner wear along with some small chips and minor loss at extremities. Odd and interesting book about Henry Miller's love for a Japanese singer when he was 75 and she was 25. Book is printed in Miller's script along with many color and b&w illustrations done by the author. ; B&W and Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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Kerouac West Coast A Bohemian Pilot Detailed Navigational Instruction

By: Montgomery, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, Fels & Firn Press: 1976

Seller ID: 7698

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

Booklet with light general wear and aging. The back of the title page has the address of the Publisher marked out and new address stamped to the side. I would imagine that this was done by the Publisher. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; John Montgomery appears as Henry Morley in The Dharma Bums and Alex Fairbrother in Desolation Angels. He was a California friend of Kerouacs and did a number of publications about the writer. Fels & Firn Press was Montgomery's business.
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House of Incest

By: Nin, Anais

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Anais Nin Press: 1959

Seller ID: 16157

Binding: Softcover

B&W pictorial wraps with white titles. Some edge and corner wear with rubbing along spine edges and some age-toning to edges. Small stain at top right corner that just affects corner of a few pages. Square and securely bound. VG to VG-. This copy is signed boldly by Nin on the ffep with an inscription to Janet Miller. This is the stated second printing and was published by the Anais Nin Press in New York. The press statement in the back has a blank paper label over it, which on other copies often has another publisher's name on it. House of Incest was Nin's first novel. ; B&W Photomontages; 8v...
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The Quitter

By: Pekar, Harvey

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York City, Vertigo (DC Comics): 2005

Seller ID: 7826

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Book and jacket are brand new, never read. ; Comic Book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Great autobiographical graphic novel by Pekar, signed on half-title by Pekar and Haspiel, the illustrator. Pekar's confrontational style got him banned from David Letterman for a number of years. ; Signed by Author & Illustrator
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City of Night

By: Rechy, John

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York City, Grove Press: 1963

Seller ID: 6264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light age-toning to endpapers from DJ, a little general shelf wear. D J has some light wear to edges and folds. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 410 pages
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The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

By: Rechy, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, Grove Press: 2003

Seller ID: 7798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket have only very light shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages; Novel based loosely on Tom Jones -- the main character, Lyle Clemens, a modern young man has picaresque adventures.
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Transit: A Little Magazine of the Beat Generation, Summer 2008

By: Ring, Kevin (ed.)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Coventry, Albert & Charles Boni: 2008

Seller ID: 16154

ISBN: 1574231294

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stapled, pictorial wraps with B&W portrait of David Meltzer. This copy has only very light general wear. This copy features a long poem by David Meltzer titles "A Slew of Blues." Meltzer has also signed this copy on the Titke/Contents page ("David") dated it, inscribed "To Aya" (Aya Tarlow), and drawn a facial profile with a small heart. Other work is by Dian di Prima, Barry Gifford and Jack Foley. Very nice Beat magazine and David Meltzer signature with association to Tarlow. ; No. 19; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Associated
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Evergreen Review, No. 30

By: Rosset, Barney (ed.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Evergreen Review:

Seller ID: 10455

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Perfect bound. Light general wear. Small chip on spine edge. Spine has light crease but magazine appears unread. ; May-June, 1963; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; Special book-length feature, The New Life by Fyodor Abramov, plus full contents of poetry, stories and essays.
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Evergreen Review: September, 1969

By: Rosset, Barney (Ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, Evergreen Review, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 10458

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Very light edge and corner wear. ; Vol. 70; Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages; September, 1970 issue of famed counter culture magazine of the 60's and 70's. This issue has articles by Julius Lester, Nat Hentoff, John Lahr, Charles Bukowski and others. The ads alone will take you to another time.
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Evergreen Review: February, 1970

By: Rosset, Barney (ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, Evergreen Review, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 10459

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Very light edge and corner wear. A couple of pages in the back hace dogears. ; Vol. 75; Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages; September, 1970 issue of famed counter culture magazine of the 60's and 70's. This issue has articles by Seymour Krim, Dotson Rader, Nat Hentoff, John Lahr and others. The ads alone will take you to another time.
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Continuouse Flame:A Tribute to Philip Whalen

By: Rothenberg, Michael and Suzi Winston (eds.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Fish Drum: 2004

Seller ID: 16183

ISBN: 1929495072

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book is as new and unread with a hint of shelf wear. This is a collection of essays, poems, writing and photographs in tribute to Philip Whalen, Beat poet and Zen Buddhist. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has signed by his name in the Table of Contents. A card, annoucing a reading from Whalen's work is laid in. The unscanned side of the card is the same as the cover of the book. ; Fish Drum Vol. 18/19; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages; Signed by Associated
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs

By: Sanders, Edward

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Canton, The Institute of Further Studies: 1973

Seller ID: 13270

Binding: Softcover

Stapled beige wraps with black titles and decorations. Yapp edges with light wear and aging along with rust on staples. VG to VG+. ; A Curriculum of the Soul, 17; Cover ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Edward Sanders was a founder of the Fugs and the author of The Family, a book on the Manson family murders. He is considered a link between the Beat Generation and the 1960's counterculture. He now lives near Woodstock, New York.
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Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch & the Beat Generation

By: Saroyan, Aram

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1979

Seller ID: 16178

ISBN: 0688034365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book is as new and unread. Jacket is also as new. This is the story of Beat Generation poet, Lew Welch, who was a friend of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and many others. He left Gary Snyder's house one day with a pistol and headed into the mountains, never to be seen again. This book is his story as an artist and a mystery. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages
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Etel Adnan / Lyn Hejinian / Jennifer Scappettone

By: Scappettone, Jennifer, et. al.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Brooklym, Belladoona/ The Elder Series 5: 2009

Seller ID: 16165

ISBN: 0982338708

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Book appears as new and unread. This is a collection of three poetic works by Adnan, Hejinian and Scappettone. The Introduction is by Scappettone. The colophon says that this is a Limited Edition but does not state the limitation. Belladoona is a press that specializes in female writers. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 74 pages
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Allen Ginsberg, Praha 1965

By: Stivina, Jiriho (photographer)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Prague, Stivin Quodlibet System: 1998

Seller ID: 16220

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

White, stiff paper folder, with B&W image of Allen Ginsberg and black title. The folder shows very light wear while the paper, photocopied photographs are very fine, since they have not been removed -- the folder is till held together by its original adhesive fastener. Inside are12 photocopied photos of Ginsberg taken by well-known Czech photographer Jiriho Stivina. Stivina has also signed and dated the front of the folder. The folder has information printed on the inside, but I have not broken the seal to read it. Interesting and ephemeral bit of Ginsberg memorabilia. ; B&W Photographs on pap...
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Music

By: Swan, Claudia (ed.) with Paul Bowles et. al.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, EOS Music, Inc.: 1995

Seller ID: 15065

ISBN: 0964808307

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book is new and unread. The book is square and straight. No dustjacket as issued. This book was issued in conjunction with The Music of Paul Bowles Festival in New York City in 1995. It features two essays by Bowles as well as an interview with him on his music along with a number of essays on Bowles' music including two by Virgil Thomson. Very nice apppreciation of Bowles as a composer. ; Color and B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 146 pages
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Alchemy

By: Tirrell, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canton, The Institute of Further Studies: 1972

Seller ID: 13269

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stapled yellow wraps with black titles. Yapp edges with some light wear and aging. Frontispiece by Tirrell. ; A Curriculum of the Soul, 19; Cover ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages
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Italian Greetings: Allen Ginsberg in Italia (1990-1996)

By: Toccaceli, Enzo Eric (photographer)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Florence (Firenze), City Lights Italia (Luci della citta): 1997

Seller ID: 16175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This is a small folder containing 13 B&W, photographic postcards by Italian photographer, Enzo Eric Toccaceli. These appear to have been published in conjunction with a large showing of Toccaceli's photographs of Ginsberg in Italy. The folder has a poem on the back, Allen Ginsberg muore, by Lawrence Ferlinghett. Ferlinghetti has signed inside the front panel of the folder with the date "6/97" and "Roma." The folder has a bump on the bottom right corner. Otherwise it and the postcards are in Fine condition. Please see scans. ; B&W Photographs on Postcards; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 13 pages; Signed b...
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Italian Greetings: Allen Ginsberg in Italia (1990-1996)

By: Toccaceli, Enzo Eric (photographer)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Florence (Firenze), City Lights Italia (Luci della citta): 1997

Seller ID: 16176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This is a small folder containing 13 B&W, photographic postcards by Italian photographer, Enzo Eric Toccaceli. These appear to have been published in conjunction with a large showing of Toccaceli's photographs of Ginsberg in Italy. The folder has a poem on the back, Allen Ginsberg muore, by Lawrence Ferlinghett. Ferlinghetti has signed beside his name on the back and written the date, "7/97." There are a couple of light ink smudges in the signature. The folder has a bit of light surface and corner wear. Otherwise it and the postcards are in Fine condition. Please see scans. sold Sam Da...
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Angelheaded Hipster: A Life of Jack Kerouac

By: Turner, Steve

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.: 1996

Seller ID: 16181

ISBN: 0747524807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book is as new and unread. Jacket shows no wear. This is an interesting and copiously illustrated biography of Jack Kerouac. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages
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The Beats Go On Beats and Blues Survivors, American Literature and Music of the 1950's and 1960"s

By: Various

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berlin, Amerika Haus: 1985

Seller ID: 16252

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

The manuscript is typescript, with a glued spine edge that is partly separated, in a black cardstock portfolion that shows some wear to the corners and edges. It contains information from an exhibiton and seminar held in February and March 1985 at the Amerika Haus in Berlin,. The text is partly in German and partly in English, with B&W photos. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 71 pages
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The Romance Thing

By: Waldman, Ann

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Flint, Bamberger Books: 1987

Seller ID: 16162

ISBN: 0917453115

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book appears as new and unread. This book deals with Waldman's travels, but it is more than a travel book. ; Cover Art; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 72 pages
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The Birth of the Beat Generation Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960

By: Watson, Steven

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York City, Pantheon Books: 1995

Seller ID: 7877

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book shows almost no wear but there is a small remainder line on bottom foredge and some light soiling on foredges. Jacket shows very light shelfwear. Overall a solid VG+ to NF copy. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages; Excellent, illustrated history of the beat writers and their companions. Signed and inscribed by Watson on half-title. Uncommon signed. ; Signed by Author
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Category: American Edge