The Yage Letters
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. First edition. 68 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight rubbing to rear cover fore-edge, and head and tail of spine, near fine. Maynard & Miles A8. Morgan B22. Cook 45.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. First edition. 68 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight rubbing to rear cover fore-edge, and head and tail of spine, near fine. Maynard & Miles A8. Morgan B22. Cook 45.
London: Aloes Books, 1971. [16] pp. Stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else fine. Originally published by White Rabbit Press in 1963 as "Lament for the Makers." Contains the poems "Dover Beach," "The Birds," "The Birth of Venus," "Lament for the Makers," and "Postscript." Uncommon.
San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1967. First edition. Side-stapled printed wrappers. [2], 46 leaves, printed on rectos only. Only issue of this mimeo publication, with contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Carl Solomon, Bob Kaufman, Ferlinghetti, Michael Ratcliffe, Janine Pommy-Vega, Michael Hannon, Claude Pelieu, and others. Some creasing to rear cover, near.....
n.p. 1981. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers. Slight rubbing to corners, near fine. An edition of 75 numbered copies, signed by both poets. Cover art uncredited but likely by Mayer.
New York: Aperture, 1986. First edition. 144 pp. Oblong quarto. Blue cloth backstrip over blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to lower board edges, else fine. Parr & Badger note the book, "like most of the great photobooks, is an honest, troubling.....
[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], 1972. First edition. [8] pp. Folded sheets, bible paper issue. Folded twice; fine copy. Johnston notes, “While it looks like a newspaper, Bean News is full of in-jokes that are hard to decipher…” The Zephyrus Image archives at the University of Delaware: Bean News is “an.....