Search Results: Beat Literature from Charles Agvent

New York: The Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Fine and an uncommon survival. Pictorial stapled wraps with a photo of the subjects on the rear. A 16-page program (including the covers) for a tribute show to Four Octogenarians: Mary Beach, Boris Lurie, Taylor Mead, and Herbert Huncke, the only one deceased at the time of the show. With biographies of the subjects and illustrated with 2 color examples of each participant's art. The program comes with a slightly larger advertising card featuring the same Mary Beach art that is on the cover.

n.p., [@1970]. First Edition. Hardcover. A couple of pages with some edgewear at the beginning and a few more with a dark ink stain at the outer margin, but generally clean. The binding with expected wear. Very Good. Typescript of 175 photocopied pages with minor corrections in a black cloth binder of McClure's second and, so far, last novel, "a phantasmagorical adventure story of cocaine and murder." The inside front cover is SIGNED by McClure in block lettering. He's also written his San Francisco address and phone number. He has rather cryptically INSCRIBED it to someone whose name is whited out: "In friendship/for saving/Allen Ginsberg's/The Rise & Fall of America." In 1969 McClure began a collaboration with the legendary singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison, in writing a film script based on this then unpublished novel. The script, titled SAINT NICHOLAS, was completed after many nights of drinking but never published. McClure gave his first poetry reading at the age of 22 at the legendary Six… Read More

New York, 12 March 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. But for the mailing folds the letter is Fine with very dark and clear writing. The book is Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A two-page handwritten letter on separate sheets SIGNED by Ginsberg to the writer Doris Grumbach asking for her assistance in getting one of his students, Brian Jackson, into the Iowa Writer's Workshop where she was a teacher at the time. The letter is tucked into a First Edition of Barry Miles's biography of Ginsberg, SIGNED by Grumbach at the bottom of the front endpaper. The letter begins: "An excellent student of mine, Corso's, Burroughs' & Anne Waldman's at Naropa several years ago went on to get his BA in Classics inspired by his study of Pound, & continued some postgraduate Greek & Latin.... Jackson is a remarkable scholar poet and extraordinarily active person -- he worked as Gregory Corso's unpaid secretary, as studious friend, classic disciple with good manners -- for several years & was my T.A. often at Naropa."

Boulder, CO, 14 June 1983 (from postmark). Letter. Folds from mailing. Near Fine. On both sides of a letter on 6" x 9" lined paper to Ginsberg asking if he were still involved with the Hare Krishnas, he responds: "Not since 1968-- No-- I like Bhaktivedanta Swami Dispite [sic] his hard-shell Baptist style orthodoxy-- but I don't follow their theistic approach and I do follow Buddhist meditation practice Take a look at Chogyam Trungpa's books-- MEDITATION IN ACTION and CUTTING THRU SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM published -- Shambhala Press, Boulder. or see NEW AGE JOURNAL June 1983 for my meditation activities. or read BEGINNERS MIND, ZEN MIND by Suzuki Roshi (not D. T. Suzuki) OK--" With the envelope hand-addressed by Ginsberg with the return address of the Naropa Institute. While not signed by the poet, interesting content.

California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1979. First Edition. Broadside. Light edgewear. Very Good. 14-1/2" x 22". Limited to 500 numbered copies, this fairly large (14-1/2" x 22") broadside with a rather simple line drawing by Corso of the sun peeping from behind a tree and a chair with a bird flying over comprises Volume 9 of THE UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL. SIGNED by the author, though not issued as such.

(California, PA): (Arthur and Kit Knight), (1977). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps, 8-1/2" x 11", with a photograph of Kerouac on the cover. Edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. Contributions by all of the major Beat figures. Although there is no indication of such, this is from the library of Herbert Huncke.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dust spotting to the top and bottom bulked text edges. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by Ginsberg with his "AH" trademark and dated 1994 on the title page.

(New York): Full Court Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Copy #29 of 100 SIGNED by Ginsberg on the colophon page.

(New York): Full Court Press, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Copy #72 of 100 SIGNED by Ginsberg on the colophon page.

[New York]: [Jerry Poynton], (1996). First Edition. stiff wraps. About Fine. Stiff brown wraps printed in black; 48 pages. This is an unbound copy from the publisher without the black string ties, loose pages in the boards. Produced with an introduction by Jerry Poynton, edited by Benjamin Schafer, and designed by Sophie Murer. Published in an edition of about 100 copies, this memorial tribute to the life of Herbert Huncke contains work by Huncke along with tributes in prose and poetry by Raymond Foye, John Wieners, Janine Pommey Vega, David Sands, Marty Matz, Valery Oisteanu, Zachary Wollard, Ilka Scobie, and Steven Watson. Illustrations include several photographs, a two-page facsimile of Huncke's handwriting.

[San Francisco]: Fantasy, [1969]. First Edition. Record Album. A few minor scratches, not played but appears to be Near Fine in a Near Fine sleeve. Pictorial sleeve containing a 33 1/3 rpm vinyl "Long Playing Microgroove" record album of Ginsberg reading "Howl," as well as "The Sunflower Sutra"; "Footnote to Howl"; "A Supermarket in California"; "Transcription of Organ Music"; "America"; "In the Back of the Real"; "Strange New Cottage in Berkeley"; "Europe, Europe"; and "Kaddish."

Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Blue stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11", with cover calligraphy by Brion Gysin. Published and edited by Allen De Loach. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and others.

(Highlands, NC): Jargon, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. About Fine in original envelope. Fielding Dawson. Yellow folder with fourteen loose sheets laid in reproducing the holograph poems of the fourteen contributors, including Paul Blackburn, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Denise Levertov, Edward Dahlberg, William Stafford, Louis Zukofsky, Franz Klein, and Jonathan Williams. Dedicated to William Carlos Williams with each poem featuring an illustration by Fielding Dawson.

(New York): Pequod Press, (1984). First Edition. Wraps. About Fine. Printed wraps. One of 500 numbered copies illustrated by Roberta Collier. A poem from a 1956 Journal about making love to Neal Cassady, apparently for the first time, beginning "Neal Cassady was my animal: he brought me to my knees."

New York: Viking, (1995). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps.

New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, (1960). First Edition. Softcover. Light soiling to covers. Near Fine. Stapled wraps. First issue of his first collection of poetry published in the United States.

[University Park & Las Cruces, NM]: [Nine Rings Press], [1966 - 1967]. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". The first and likely only 3 issues of this scarce poetry publication out of New Mexico. Contributors include Jack Anderson, Ronald Anthony Punnet, Stephen Stepanchev, and others.

San Francisco: Re/Search, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Creasing to rear cover. Very Good. Pictorial wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". With 7 pieces by Burroughs including excerpts from THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS and a chapter not included in CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Burroughs TWICE, once to R'Lene Dahlberg at the top of the table of contents on 27 August 1982 and again to Herbert Huncke at the appearance of THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS on 1 August 1982: "For Herbert Huncke/who would have been at/home with the Johnson Family/William S. Burroughs/August 1, 1982."

Nederland, CO: Rocky Ledge, 1979. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with cover drawing by Glen Baxter. Edited by Anne Waldman and Reed Bye with a poem by Allen Ginsburg and poems and prose by several other contributors. SIGNED at the bottom of the first page by Baxter. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory after the store closed.

Nederland, CO: Rocky Ledge, 1979. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with cover drawing by Glen Baxter. Edited by Anne Waldman and Reed Bye with a poem by Allen Ginsburg and poems and prose by several other contributors.