Jack's book: An oral biography of Jack Kerouac
Penguin Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. More
Beat Generation
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series, Number Four)
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
On the Road (Penguin 20th Century Classics)
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
On the Road (Essential Penguin)
Penguin Books Ltd, September 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfillment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom..... More
Happy Birthday of Death
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1960. Trade Paperback. Gregory Corso has been much publicized as one of the leading literary spokesmen for the "Beat Generation, " together with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the "Beats"..... More
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: Volume I: 1945-1959
Viking Adult, July 1993. Hardcover. Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Pages free of markings; Publisher remainder mark present at lower outer edge text-block; Un-clipped dust jacket VG, mildly edge-worn w/ single closed tear present at lower jacket front, approx. 1 inch; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure..... More
Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
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
White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985
Harper Perennial, November 1987. Trade Paperback. Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry".-- Helen Vendler. A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg..... More
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series, Number Four)
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
Word Virus : The William S. Burroughs Reader
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
Naked Lunch
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
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
Women
Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty..... More
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Prestel Publishing, May 2010. Oversized Clothbound. This intimate family album is a revealing photographic look at the Beat Generation as chronicled by the movement s great poet Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg began photographing in the late 1940s when he purchased a small, second-hand Kodak camera. For the next fifteen years..... More
Open eye, open heart
New Directions, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More
America: A History in Verse, Vol. 1: 1900-1939
Black Sparrow Press, February 2000. First Thus. Trade Paperback. "Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!" Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders' three-volume, America: A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells the story of America...a million stranded fabric / woven by billions of..... More
Unfair Arguments With Existence: Seven Plays for a New Theatre
New Directions, January 1963. Paper Back. Fifth printing; Mild wear from use; 1.5 in crease presetn at rear cover upper corner; Clean text. More
Naked Lunch
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
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams..... More
Book of Haikus
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2003. Trade Paperback. Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings..... More
Night Torn Mad With Footsteps : New Poems
Harpercollins, September 2001. Paper Back. This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom. More
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Black Sparrow, September 1999. Trade Paperback. This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s. More
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Black Sparrow, 1999. Trade Paperback. Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. More
sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
Ecco, January 2004. Trade Paperback. One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it, and through it all charts the mutations of morality in..... More
