Straight Arrow Books; [distributed by Quick Fox Inc.), January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First edition in second state DJ. Signed & inscribed by Hunter S. Thompson on half title page. Signed & inscribed on opposite page (recto) by U.S. Senator, George McGovern (Democratic Party presidential nominee/candidate, 1972). Octavo. In edgeworn..... More
Pub Group West, December 1997. Trade Paperback. Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the truth - maybe - in the long-awaited new edition of Robert Anton Wilson's classic cult bestseller The Illuminati Papers. Created as a vehicle to amuse and enlighten, the story of the Illuminati has..... More
City Lights Books, June 1956. 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
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
Paragon House Publishers, June 1990. Paper Back. More
Grove Press, August 1989. Trade Paperback. Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On The Road. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2002. Trade Paperback. In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a...... More
Overlook TP, April 2001. Paper Back. The Process has the dazzling impact of a drug-inspired dream and, since its publication more than thirty years ago, has established itself as a classic of twentieth century modernism. Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of the History of Slavery, who is in North..... More
Grey Fox Pr, June 1979. First American. Paper Back. Soiling and mild wear to cover. 92 pages. More
City Lights Books, 1983. Trade Paperback. Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again. This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General..... More
Fourth Estate Ltd, January 2010. Trade Paperback. By the author of 'Naked Lunch', this fantasy Western features a cast of notorious characters including the Crying Gun, the Priest and the Nihilistic Kid. It explores some of society's controlling forces - the Church, women, literature and drugs. More
Cambridge University Press, November 1989. Hardcover. Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1999. Trade Paperback. The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips..... More
Avon Books (P), March 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Grove Press, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Heavy edgewear to covers. Curling. Dog-earred lower corners. Text is without markings, underlining, & notations. More
Signet, October 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 8th printing of 1959 Signet / New American Library mass market edition. Edgewear and scuff marks to wrapper. Small chip (with tear) at base of spine. Damp stain with some curl right lower corner of text block, first 20 pages. (192 pages). More
Grove Press - Evergreen Black Cat, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing. Reading copy with damp staining and curling. Cover has sticker residue front cover panel in 3 places. Back cover panel has removal scar at top edge and lower left corner. Darkening and marginal tanning verso of front..... More
Mcgraw-hill Inc, 1974. Trade Paperback. More
Thunder's Mouth Pr, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Generally acknowledged to be the first Beat novel, go was originally published in 1952, five years before Kerouac's On the Road. John Clellon Holmes became the Beat Generation's chief chronicler.--Newsweek. More
New Directions, January 1971. First Edition. Paper Back. 12mo.; Five-inch x Six & 1/4-inch. Clean, sound, gently handled. 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
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
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.
