A Casebook on the Beat
Thomas W. Crowell, 1969. Paper Back. Binding beginning to split at middle spine, else Good. More
Beat Generation
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series, Number Four)
City Lights Books, May 1980. Soft Cover. 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
Doctor Sax
HarperCollins Distribution Services. Mass Market PaperBack. More
A Coney Island of the Mind
New Directions, 1958. Trade Paperback. More
Ham on Rye: A Novel
Ecco, March 2007. Trade Paperback. "Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and theBeats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more naturallanguage. Bukowski moved it a little farther." -Los Angeles Times Book Review In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowskidetails the long, lonely..... More
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Penguin Classics, August 2008. Trade Paperback. The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it "The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing."--The New York Times..... More
The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after "On..... More
On the Road
Penguin (Non-Classics), 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
How We Are Hungry
Vintage, October 2005. Trade Paperback. In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story. "These tales reinvigorate ... the short story with a jittery sense of adventure." --San Francisco Chronicle Including the..... More
Indian Journals
City Lights, 1971. Soft Cover. Second printing. More
Her
New Directions, January 1960. Paper Back. "To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow," wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when Her was published in France as La Quatrieme Personne du Singulier. Calling..... More
Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
University of California Press, February 1994. Trade Paperback. In 1969 Jack Kerouac died a premature death. While his legendary lifestyle and unique creative talent made him a hero in his lifetime, his literary influence has grown steadily since. With Memory Babe (a childhood nickname honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald..... More
On the Road
Penguin (Non-Classics), 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
San Francisco Poems (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series)
City Lights Foundation Books, January 2003. Paper Back. Here are all of Ferlinghetti's poems set in the city he has lived in for over half a century. He brings alive, with wit and lyricism, scenes of city life: a Giants baseball game, the Green Street Marching Mortuary Band, bohemian North..... More
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977
Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on..... More
Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977
City Lights Books, January 1977. Paper Back. Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the First Noble Truth, inspiring quiet Sung sunlit..... More
On the Road (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, January 2003. Trade Paperback. The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a..... More
Pulp
Ecco, 2002. Trade Paperback. Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this gritty noir satire demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Bukowski's final novel is a surreal pastiche..... More
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills
Black Sparrow, 2000. 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 Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore..... More
post office: A Novel
Ecco, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Charles Bukowski's classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski's life from the..... More
The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1992. Trade Paperback. Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstacy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It..... More
The Western Lands
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 1988. Trade Paperback. From the legendary author of Naked Lunch, the conclusion of his trilogy that includes Cities of the Red Night and Palace of Dead Roads The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough's profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life..... More
Desolation Angels
Bantam, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd Bantam printing. Moderate cover wear. More
Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America
City Lights Publishers, March 2011. Trade Paperback. A companion to our guides to San Francisco and New York, Beat Atlas: A Guide to the Beat Generation in America is a state-by-state guide to the rest of the nation's significant Beat locales. From Jack Kerouac's Lowell to William Burroughs' Lawrence, Kansas..... More
