New York: The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2015. First edition. Five volumes. Stapled printed wrappers. Comprises: Kathy Acker: Homage to Leroi Jones (ed. Gabrielle Kappes). Jean Sénac: The Sun Under the Weapons, Correspondence & Notes from Algeria (Parts I & II) (ed. Kai Krienke). Langston Hughes.....
![Item #2211 Tosh. Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World [first edition, signed]. Tosh Berman](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2211.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661222531)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2018. First edition. xvi, 309, [3] pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. An excellent memoir by Wallace Berman's son, signed by him on the title-page. Fine copy.
Larkspur: [Wallace Berman], 1961. [18] unbound sheets, laid into a printed manila pocket mounted in a folded cardstock cover with photo mounted on front panel. Slight rubbing to the spine, else fine, complete, and very rare thus. One of 200 copies printed. This is the sole issue of Semina.....
New York: Howard Wise Gallery, 1967. Original wrappers. [12] pp. Some handling wear, old stain and minor creasing to front cover. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the works of Panagiotis "Takis" Vassilakis at the Howard Wise Gallery, April 7-29, 1967. Texts by Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso, and Nicolas.....
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.
n.p. Fantasy Records, 1969. LP record. LP recording of Ferlinghetti's reading of his original poems Assassination Raga; Big Sur Sun Sutra; Moscow In The Wilderness, Segovia In The Snow; Tyrannus Nix? Minor rubbing to edges of jacket sleeve, record shows one minor blemish but is otherwise clean.
New York: Shorecrest, Inc, 1966. First edition. 180, [4] pp. Gray cloth boards, spine lettered in green, with the dust jacket. Some edgewear and toning to jacket. A classic look at the East Village, with photographs by the legendary chronicler of the downtown scene.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. Single sheet, folded into sixths, with front cover serving as title-page. Small old mark on upper corner of front cover, else about fine. The first book by the enigmatic African-American Beat affiliate, published September 1959 in an edition of 1000 copies, predating.....
![Item #2283 The Blood of the Air [one of fifty signed copies in boards]. Philip Lamantia](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2283.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685825716)
San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First edition. [12], 45, [6], pp. Gray paste-paper boards over green cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt. Slightest rubbing to corners, else fine. One of fifty numbered copies in boards, signed by the author. The uncommon limited edition of this collection.....
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. Second edition, i.e. first trade edition, one of 1250 copies, following a hardbound edition of fifty copies. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Cover collage by Bruce Conner. Some handling wear, slight foxing. Johnston, Auerhahn, 18.
Lawrence, KS: Tansy/Wakarusa Press, 1972. no binding. Single sheet broadside, folded twice as issued. One fold slightly off-center, else a fine copy.
New York: The Pierrepont Press, 1969. First edition. Acrylic hinged box with printed label, containing fabric bag with drawstring and 28 printed cards. One of 300 copies, numbered and signed. There were also 26 lettered and 4 hors commerce copies. The box shows some slight rubbing on the top but.....
New York: Poets Press, [1968]. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled pictorial wrappers. [12] pp. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine copy.
Big Sur: Jonathan Williams, Publisher, 1956. First edition. [12] pp. String-tied printed wrappers. One of 200 copies printed. Some foxing, primarily first and last leaves. McClure’s first book. Printed by the Windhover Press and published as Jargon 20. With original prospectus laid in, which contains the full text of the.....
New York: [Phoenix Bookshop], 1980. First edition. Original Wraps. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers. Christmas greeting from the legendary bookseller, recounting a visit to Michael McClure in San Francisco in the 1960s. First issue. Wilson has written on the inside front cover, "The unissued, suppressed (because of poor inking, broken type.....
![Item #2229 Hallelujah Anyway [hand-painted binding]. Kenneth Patchen](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2229.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666641687)
New York: New Directions, 1966. First edition. Rebound by Patchen with an original watercolor/gouache binding. Most of Patchen’s special painted bindings were created within numbered editions; this book is a unique copy bearing a particularly lovely painting.
![Item #2259 Mendicant. #1, Autumn 1961 [all published]. Kenneth Patchen, ed, et. al. William J....](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2259.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1672975697)
Boston: William J. Margolis, 1961. First edition. [36] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers toned with some minor soiling. Only issue of this little magazine. Contains a six-page reproduction of Patchen's picture-poems, along with work by Stuart Z. Perkoff (on Aleister Crowley), James Boyer May, and others. See Semina Culture, p......
San Francisco: [Auerhahn Press], 1961. First edition. [8] pp. Paper wrappers, sewn with red yarn. Folded once, some minor handling wear. Program for an event held January 29, 1961, at the Marines' Memorial Theatre, to raise funds for treatments of Patchen's illness. Readings by Rexroth, McClure, Broughton, Jonathan Williams, Whalen.....
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. [48] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else a fine, fresh copy. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. The first book by one of the more unsung members of the Beat Generation, the publisher of Cherry Valley Editions and the.....
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2011. First edition. 424 pp. Blue boards over red backstrip, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to jacket corners, else fine. Review slip laid in. Signed by Sanders on the front free endpaper. An indispensable history of the scene, by one of.....
![Item #2153 Mountains and Rivers Without End [first edition, signed]. Gary Snyder](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2153.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1645047435)
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1996. First edition. 166 pp. Deep green paper boards over red cloth backstrip, spine and front board lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight rubbing to head of jacket spine, else fine. Signed by Snyder on the half-title.
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1969. First edition. 50 pp. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Spine a bit faded, as usually seen, else fine. One of 280 numbered copies, signed by the author. One of Snyder's most beautiful and.....
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: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 66 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spicer's last book to be published in his lifetime (published June 10, Spicer died August 17). Some toning to cover extremities, minor spotting to lower corner of front cover. Johnston, White Rabbit, A30.
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. First edition, one of 1000 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. Printed wraps. 91 pp. A posthumous publication collected from his writings by David Rattray. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Called "the lost angel" of Beat poets, Van Buskirk died at the age of 23 in.....