Penguin Modern Poets 5: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg by Gregory Corso (1970-08-05)
Penguin Books Ltd. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear. Rubbed edges and corners. Binding still tight and text unmarked. More
Beat Generation
Howl (7013)
Fantasy Records, 1959-01-01 05:00:00. Vinyl. Good vinyl in mildly worn sleeve. More
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible : A Portrait
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), August 1994. Trade Paperback. With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius (Norman Mailer). Photos. More
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Ecco, 2004. Trade Paperback. Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it. More
Dangling in the Tournefortia
Black Sparrow, 1981. Trade Paperback. There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the Tournefortia, a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure. Octavo. Mildly darkened spine and margins. Damp stains..... 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
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 This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of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
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems
Black Sparrow, June 1990. Trade Paperback. 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
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
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
Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain : New Poems
Ecco, January 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Throwing away the alarm clock my father always said, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. It was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee..... More
Cities of the Red Night
Henry Holt & Company, March 1995. Trade Paperback. 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
Naked Lunch
Grove Press, May 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. 1966, 8th printing. Minor shelf wear and tanning. Faint name stamp on the top edge of the print block. Two price stamps on the title page. More
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Grove Press, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in a commemorative edition that features restored text, archival material, Burroughs's own later introduction..... More
Nova Express
Evergreen Black Cat / Grove, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. 1965, 3rd printing. Pages lightly tanned, else very good. More
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Burroughs, William S.)
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that..... 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
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Grove Press, November 2009. Trade Paperback. The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR DARLINGS In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a...... More
The First Third : A Partial Autobiography
City Lights, January 1974. Paper Back. Early printing, 1974; Covers gently worn from handling; Spine-length smooth and un-creased; Previous owner name present at fore-edge; Pages free of markings; An excelelnt copy w/ cover photo featuring Jack Kerouac. 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
Long Live Man -- NDP127
New Directions, 1962. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. Octavo. Mild shelf wear. Previous dealer's rubber stamped name/address on half title. [93 pages plus three page list of New Direction titles]. More
