Beat Literature
An Evening with Gary Snyder; A benefit reading for Gene Covert's campaign American Victorian Museum Nevada City, California. Thursday, Septamber 23 7:30.
Nevada City, CA: NP, 1976. Paperback. 11x17" Black & white poster with nice drawing of the Sierra Nevada. A nice piece of Snyder ephemera. More
RIPRAP: a cobble of stone laid on steep slick rock to make a trail for horses in the mountains
[Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1959. Second edition. SIGNED. 34 pp. Octavo [21 cm] in tan wraps with Japanese stab-binding, paper cover label. Extremities rubbed, decorative paper band at spine foot mostly chipped away, small smudge to front wrap, else light wear; a few small smudges to interior. Signed by Snyder..... More
Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End Plus One
London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 47pp. Small octavo [21.5 cm] Olive green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Corners of rear inside flap clipped, however the price is intact on the front inside flap. Signed by Gary Snyder on the title page..... More
Mishaps, Perhaps
San Francisco: City Lights Books / Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1969. Second edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 60pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] White and black illustrated wraps. Near fine. The wraps are age-toned and very lightly scratched. The rear wrap has a minor trace of soiling. This is the author's first book..... More
On Barbara's Shore
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Signed, limited edition. Hardcover. Slim duodecimo [21 cm] 1/4 decorative floral cloth with blue paper over boards. The top edge of the text block is just a little foxed. Number 20 in a hardcover edition limited to 100 copies. Signed by Diane Wakoski on..... More
Kill or Cure
New York: Penguin Poets, 1994. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 260pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps, with only a minor pen mark on the rear wrap. Signed by Anne Waldman on the title page. "Her poems fling themselves at us, offering an involving view of life as it hammers away in..... More
Sun The Blond Out
Berkeley: The Arif Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Thin quarto [27 cm] Stapled illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly creased and soiled. One of 900 copies. Anne Waldman is a poet and teacher. She co-founded with Allen Ginsberg the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa..... More
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[Women Writers] [Beats]. Helping the Dreamer. Together with a piece of publisher's correspondence, three contemporary copies of book reviews and a promotional pamphlet
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, [1989]. Advance reading copy. Spiral Bound. Quarto. 245 pp. [28 cm]. Pink spiral bound wraps. Advance reading copy. Edges of wraps slightly sunned, else Fine. Piece of original correspondence detailing a press release for Waldman's collected poetry release, "Helping the Dreamer" on Coffee House Press letterhead..... More
Overtime; Selected Poems
New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Second printing. Paperback. 311pp. 23 cm. in multicolored wrappers (sepia-toned pictorial front cover, orange and black backstrip, lime green rear cover). New. Introduction by Leslie Scalapino. Edited by Michael Rothenberg. Philip Whalen played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the fifties and..... More
A Quest Among the Bewildered; The early autobiographical novel by Wulf Zendik
North Carolina: Zendik Communal Arts, 2004. Paperback. 180pp. 22.5 cm. in red wrappers. New. "This writing was begun in Laurel Canyon-- 1957 and completed in Paris-- 1958. It is no more or less incoherent than I during that time." Zendik was an American novelist and founded the Zendik Farm arts..... More