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$45.00Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1987. First edition. xi + 267 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. The first of three volumes of selected essays by Holmes, featuring his long series on Vietnam, “Walking Away from the War.”
$150.00[NY]: Portents (1967). First edition. Single large sheet folded once (12 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches, closed). Small bend near top of spine, else near fine. One of 190 (of 200) copies. Kerouac’s text opposite a tipped-on photograph of a painting by Weber, taken by Ann Charters. Charters A23.$500.00NY: Coward-McCann (1965). First edition. xxvii + 366 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket with light soiling and sunning to spine. Introduction by Seymour Krim. Part of Kerouac’s “Duluoz Legend,” this novel was composed years before it saw print.$100.00London: Andre Deutsch (1973). First UK edition. 242 pp. Inked ownership names inside front board (covered by jacket flap), small stain on fore-edge. In all, near fine in very good plus dust jacket with several internally-mended tears along top edge. Charters A28b.
$25.00California: the unspeakable visions of the individual (1978). First edition. 5 x 7 inch illustrated card. Fine. Three short poems by Kerouac printed atop a photographic background.$350.00NY: Coward-McCann (1968). First edition. 280 pp. Anticipated oxidizing to spine lettering, foxing along top edge. In all, near fine in near fine dust jacket with just a slight fade to the yellow spine lettering. The last work published before Kerouac’s death in 1969. Charters A25a.$200.00London: Andre Deutsch (1964). First UK edition. 192 pp. Small ink name to first leaf, and light foxing to page edges, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with some rubbing to spine, a crease to the front flap, and two short tears and a small chip to the front panel. Review slip laid in. Charters A19b.$45.00California, PA:unspeakable visions of the individual, 1977. 1st edition Gift inscription, else near fine in wraps, cover photo of Kerouac, drawing of Neal Cassady by Carolyn Cassady, portfolio of photos by Fred McDarrah, contributions by Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs, Huncke, Ferlinghetti, Whalen, Snyder, etc..$15.00Berkeley: Conari Press (1996). First edition. xii + 366 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$25.00NY: Frank Hallman (1975). First edition. Single large sheet, folded into fourths to make a booklet (7 x 5 inches, closed). Fine. One of 150 copies “for the poet & the publisher.” INSCRIBED by Hallman. Original mailing envelope accompanies.$125.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First edition, lettered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral dust jacket with printed paper cover label. Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge, MA. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by McClure.$75.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral dust jacket with printed paper cover label. Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge, MA. This copy designated “hors commerce” on the colophon page.$75.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral dust jacket (one corner clipped) with printed paper cover label. Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge, MA. This copy designated “out-of-sequence” on the colophon page.$50.00Göttingen: altaQuito, 2010. First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers and printed dust jacket. One of 270 numbered copies. Translated into German by Ingrid & Reinhard Harbaum. INSCRIBED by McClure on the title page, “Für Tom / MAL / SIND / WIR / ADLER.”$25.00[San Francisco]: (np) 1969. First edition. 13 x 7 inch broadside, printed in two colors. A few spots of foxing along top and bottom edges, else near fine.
$35.00NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1954). First edition. 213 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with an internally mended tear at the rear flap, and light wear along the top edge. One crazy weekend, “the most moving novel of adolescent life to appear since J.D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.” - from the jacket text.
$125.00San Francisco: synaesthesia press (1998). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers Designed by Johnny Brewton, with his illustration. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Norse. First separate appearance of this excerpt from BEAT HOTEL, with an introduction, slightly revised, that appeared previously in MEMOIRS OF A BASTARD ANGEL. synaesthesia press chapbook series number 9.$35.00San Francisco: synaesthesia press (1998). First edition. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 103 (of 200) numbered copies. Designed by Johnny Brewton, with his illustration. First separate appearance of this excerpt from BEAT HOTEL, with an introduction, slightly revised, that appeared previously in MEMOIRS OF A BASTARD ANGEL. synaesthesia press chapbook series number 9.$25.00Clarence Center: Moody Street Irregulars (1988). Small 4to. 47 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.$27.50NY: Pantheon (1995). First edition. x + 387 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Over one hundred photographs enhance this examination of the links between primary and secondary figures of the Beat Generation.$75.00San Francisco: Adler Press (1960). First edition. [16 pp]. Toning along spine and top edge, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Mel Weitsman. INSCRIBED by weiss inside the front cover, “for alice and don / making flying / sounds / easy waiting / to catch / moods flying / in /to out / you are / ruth.”$100.00San Francisco: Adler Press (1960). First edition. [16 pp]. Toning to extrems, else very good plus stapled wrappers. Cover art by Mel Weitsman. Dated (nov. ‘67) and SIGNED by weiss on the title page. The fourth book by this undersung Beat poet$15.00San Francisco:Argonaut, 1993. 1st edition. Near fine in wraps. Also includes Ishmael Reed, Ralph Steadman, R. Crumb, Hunter S. Thompson, etc.$50.00NY: Viking (1992). Uncorrected proof. 643 pp. One page corner badly trimmed (not effecting text), else near fine in printed wrappers with light sunning to spine. Promotional flyer laid in.$250.00Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/The Gale Group (2001). First edition. 4to. xxvi + 508 pp w/cumulative index. Very near fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.$75.00[Minneapolis]: Walker Art Center [1979]. First edition. 17 x 5 1/2 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. Annoucement for this reading by Burroughs, with a photograph of a seated WSB by Tina Freeman.
$75.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books (1981). First edition. 4to. 146 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. 2102 item rare books catalogue featuring post-modern poetry books, manuscripts, & letters. Several writers were called upon to comment on their contemporaries. Tom Clark, Dennis Cooper, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Amy Gerstler, Charles Plymell, and others contribute. There is also printed the text of a William S. Burroughs piece, “The Last Words of Hassan-i-Sabbah.” As if that were not enough, a 7 inch 45 rpm recording of Burroughs reading the piece accompanies in an envelope at the rear of the volume. Both the catalogue and record fine. An excellent reference and read.$35.00Santa Barbara: Am Here Books (1981). First edition. 4to. 146 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. 2102 item rare books catalogue featuring post-modern poetry books, manuscripts, & letters. Several writers were called upon to comment on their contemporaries. Tom Clark, Dennis Cooper, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Amy Gerstler, Charles Plymell and others contribute. There is also printed the text of a William S. Burroughs piece, “The Last Words of Hassan-i-Sabbah.”$35.00California: unspeakable visions of the individual (1976). First edition. 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch postcard. Fine. Drawing of Neal Cassady at the typewriter by his wife Carolyn Cassady, dated 1951.$25.00Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First edition. 254 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Review slip accompanies.$35.00Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First edition. 254 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a sticker shadow to the base of the spine. INSCRIBED by Cherkovski, “Sacto / 1-12-89 / For Doug / the Blaz / out of Bensenville! / Neeli C.”$10.00[Boulder]: Naropa Institute (nd). First edition. 8 1/2 x 3 1/4 in sheet, printed on recto only. Fine. “He will be teaching a class during week 4, giving group interviews both weeks, and joining scheduled faculty for panels, colloquiums, MFA poetry classes and readings.”