Grove Press, June 2000. Trade Paperback. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career..... More
Grove press, 1959. Trade Paperback. Grove E-513; first Evergreen edition; in overall very good condition, with notable crinkling (but no cracking) on spine and 1.5-inch tear on lower front cover that has been taped with clear tape; corners are sharp with only slight shelfwear; binding is in very good condition..... More
Penguin, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential..... More
Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. "The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he..... More
Grove Press Inc. / Evergreen, 1959. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo with darkened spine and mild marginal darkening/foxing. Heavy tanning of cover verso front and back. Stated, First Grove Press Edition, 1959. Seventh Printing. [244 pages]. More
Harcourt, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former associate of the Hell's Angels, one Hunter S. Thompson. Their working relationship resulted in..... More
Henry Holt & Company, March 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Grove Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. "Naked Lunch" is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good and evil vie for..... More
1970. Trade Paperback. First trade edition. Light foxing on spine. Tiny coffee mark on the fore edge of the print block. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2003. Trade Paperback. Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from..... More
City Lights Books, May 1980. Trade Paperback. The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL & Other Poems! HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1974. Trade Paperback. These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might..... More
New Directions, 1968. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn jacket with small tears. Front flap not clipped Red cloth covered boards with white lettering along spine. Edges worn. Bump along bottom rear panel edge. Some scattered spots of discoloration. I believe this is a First Edition. But I have no information how..... More
Grove Press / Black Cat, 1978. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 4th printing of Black Cat / Grove mass market paperback. Clean & sound with some slight darkening to edges. [217 pages plus list of Grove Press Paperback titles then available.]. More
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as..... More
Penguin Classics, August 2008. Trade Paperback. The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road--typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper..... More
Running Press Book Publishers, October 2007. Oversized Hardcover. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the defining book of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac wrote his masterpiece in one frenzied three-week period in 1951 on the infamous 119-foot scroll, which has been "on the..... More
Grove Press, 1984, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Henry Holt & Company, March 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1989. Trade Paperback. The Job is William S. Burroughs at work, attacking our traditional values, condemning what he calls the American nightmare, and expressing his often barbed views on Scientology, the police, orgone therapy, history, women, writing, poitics, sex, drugs, and death. His conversation splices images of..... More
CITY LIGHTS BOOKS, April 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. 7th printing. Soiling, foxing & dust staining scattered over -- mostly the front -- cover. Spine darkened. Foxing & ink staining verso of front cover panel. There is also some ink staining along bottom edge of rear cover panel verso. Also..... More
Penguin Books, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates..... More
Thunder's Mouth Press, October 1993. Paper Back. Hunter S. Thompson is the quintessential outlow journalist, the one true prince of Gonzo, and an American legend. In this "violently unauthorized" biography, Paul Perry offers never-before-related details of this outrageous writer's escapades and finally answers the provocative questions that hound Thompson's hordes..... More
Grove Press, December 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" brings together selections of Burroughs' most important and challenging work - beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel, "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks"..... More
