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$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.$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$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.
$75.00Santa 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.”$25.00Exeter: Stride (1998). First edition. 163 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. In addition to a number of interviews with WSB, two of which are previously unpublished, contains contributions by Jim Burns, Michael Horovitz, Peter Dent, Peter Finch, Alan Halsey, Edwin Morgan, and many others.
$35.00Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1969. First trade edition. 39 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies. This issue features Burroughs’ “Academy 23” along with five poems by William Wantling. Prints also, at the request of Sue Finlay, her letter excoriating the Fulcrum Press and its treatment of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work.$27.50NY: Twelve (2014). First edition. xviii + 718 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. At the time of publication, the first biography of WSB in twenty-five years, and the first to describe the last decade of Burroughs’ life.$20.00NY: Holt (1988). First edition. ix + 659 pp w/notes & index. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket.
$35.00San Francisco: Re/search Publications 1982. Later trade edition. 96 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A wealth of images of, work by, and interviews with Burroughs,Throbbing Gristle, and Brion Gysin.$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.$20.00London: Hearing Eye (1989). First edition. 103 pp w/notes & bibliography. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. US distributor sticker on the copyright page.$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.”$10.00NY: The New Yorker, 1996. First edition Near fine in wrappers.$50.00NY: McGraw-Hill (1974). Uncorrected proof. 269 pp w/index. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid-in.
$35.00[Berkeley]: ASUC [1971]. First edition. 14 x 8 1/2 inch illustrated flyer, printed in lavender on white paper. Fine. “ASUC Presents a Benefit for The Living Theatre who are busted & behind bars in Brazil.” Readers are Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima. Also, The Cockettes, Magic Theater, and filmmaker Saul Landau.$25.00NY: Random House (1969). First edition. xix + 202 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. “Ron Loewinsohn / Berkeley, 1971” inked to front free endpaper.$22.50London: Victor Gallancz, 1970. First UK edition. 202 pp. Two lines canceled on the copyright page, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket with one short tear.$15.00Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated.$55.00NY: Lospecchio Press, 1986. First edition. 90 pp. Fine in gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Morgan. A 60th birthday tribute, printing contributions by Blaser, Bowles, Carolyn Cassady, Ram Dass, Duncan, Gaddis, Gunn, Levertov, Laura Riding, Rorem, Snyder, Updike, Waldman, and many others.$25.00Santa Rosa: Culture Counter (2014). First edition. 30 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Appearances by Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and original art by Robert LaVigne.$35.00NY: Atlantic Monthly (1968). Vol. 21, No. 3. 4to. 134 pp. Light corner crease to front cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Prints a one page essay on boxing by Kerouac.$50.00Binley Woods: Beat Scene Press (2010). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 125 numbered copies. Number 27 in the Beat Scene Pocket Book Series.