Penguin (Non-Classics), March 1995. Trade Paperback. For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with..... More
Warner Books, December 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. More
City Lights, May 1965. Paper Back. 2nd printing. (Four & 7/8-inch x Seven & 1/4-inch); 12mo.; Duodecimo; heavily worn paperback with darkened edges Deeply leaning spine that nevertheless remains sound; dark, dust-stained textblock edges, especially top. Cover is worn with light creasing & bruised fore-edge corners, and lightly damp stained..... More
The Citadel Press, January 1958. Hardcover. Octavo; Dustjacket is missing; Mildly dust stained Lavender cloth covered boards with white lettering at spine. Faded pink textblock topstain. Darkened for-edge. Boards worn at edges, bruised bottom of spine. (384 pages). More
Coffee House Press, June 2009. Trade Paperback. "At Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, there has long been an illuminating, dynamic, ongoing exchange of ideas about the history and legacy of the Beat Generation--an exchange fortunately that has been carefully archived and preserved. This valuable anthology does not..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 1993. Trade Paperback. "When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard it in school, heard it..... More
Ballantine Books, September 1995. Trade Paperback. "Bill Clinton would have played the Jew's harp stark naked on 60 Minutes if he thought it would help him get elected. He is the Willy Loman of Generation X, a traveling salesman from Arkansas who has the loyalty of a lizard with its..... More
Citadel Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. As is. Heavy foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Penguin Classics, October 2016. Trade Paperback. Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road..... More
The ultimate beat tome and the book largely responsible for me landing on these shores. An entirely different American dream. Jack and Neal were hipsters before it was a dirty word. Essential.
Hanuman Books, September 1987. Paper Back. #9 Hanuman Books release., Paperback in jacket. 64mo (miniature). Dustjacket has edgewear around pictorial front panel & darkening to spine & back panel. There is a loose thread in binding but it remains sound. More
Grove Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. Sunned spine. Clean, unmarked text. Mild bump bottom fore-edge corner. Creased first inside page. Good+/Very Good-- reading copy. More
Seven Stories Press, September 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse..... More
Viking Adult, December 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Green cloth spine with gold & black lettering on spine & black paper covered boards. Black & grey decorated end pages. More
Kit Knight & Fotofolio, 1965 & 1976. Postcards. Two Kerouac postcards: 'Woman' a poem by Jack Kerouac on beige cardstock from 1976; Photograph with Kerouac & his cat by Jerry Bauer; Fotofolio; 1965. More
Grove Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Viking Adult, November 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished..... 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
Trapart Books, April 2018. Trade Paperback. Brion Gysin (1916-86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the "cut-up" technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: together with his friend Paul Bowles..... More
Harpercollins, March 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Allen Ginsberg helped found the Beat Generation, along with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in 1944 in New York City. His poetry, especially the masterpieces "Howl" and "Kaddish", formed and influenced a generation of writers, musicians, and poets. Now, on the third anniversary of..... More
Black Sparrow Press, January 1971. Paper Back. More
Grey Fox Pr, August 1977. Paper Back. Some fading, shelf wear to the cover. More
Black Sparrow Press, January 1980. Trade Paperback. More
New Directions Books, February 1974. Trade Paperback. As is. A very small amount of margin notes. More
North Point Press, December 1998. Trade Paperback. This insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as a living bio-alchemical organism through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement. As is. A...... More
