Beat Generation / Counterculture from Derringer Books

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First edition of the author's 1973 drug novel. 194 pp. A handsome very good copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper. Clipped at front flap.Son of William S. Burrough's second book.

London: Verso, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Trade paperbound volume. 156 pp. First printing with complete number row on the copyright page. With some black and white illustrations. An unmarked copy in very good condition.

Cornville, AZ: Firepower Publications, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Stapled 4to. 38 pp. With illustrations. A fine copy. The title kind of sums it all up.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Wide, square hardbound book. Issued without dustwrapper and housed in a cardboard sleeve made to look like a sleeve for an LP. With 267 color illustrations. A near fine copy. Great Crumb reference book.

New York: Film Culture, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Paperbound quarto. Over 68 pp plus ads at rear. Edited by Jonas Mekas. Illustrated in black and white. Uncommon issue with contributions by Jack Smith, Gregory Markopoulos, Frank Kuenstler and more. Cover photo is from a still of an Andy Warhol film.A handsome very good example. Scarce.… Read more about this item

Seattle: Fantagraphics Underground, 2018. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Thick paperbound quarto. 341 pp. With numerous illustrations. An essential bibliography. Couple of pages have light pencil markings else a fine copy in bound illustrated wrappers. The book sold out quickly.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Good +. Tall, wide trade paperbound volume. 54 pp. First edition of the beat poet's first book. Silkscreen cover also by McClure. Book designed by Dave Haselwood. General light wear. A good to very good example. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.

No Place: Portents, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First and only edition of this poetry broadside. One large sheet folded to make a booklet with photograph to one side and a one page poem by Kerouac on recto. As with some other copies we have seen, the photo has come loose from the glue that once held… Read more about this item

Great Britain: Thames & Hudson, 1979. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Wide hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 160 pp. First UK edition presumed with no indication of additional printings. The book has 146 black and white illustrations. A handsome very good example in very good unclipped dustwrapper (no price indicated). This copy has been SIGNED by the… Read more about this item

New York: Realist Association, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Stapled newsprint. Issue number 81 of Paul Krassner's underground newspaper. 23 pp. This issue devoted to The Diggers. This copy only in fair to good condition with all pages having folds at the bottom right-hand corner of each sheet. Paper tanned as expected.

London: Aloes Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 34 pp. Introduction by Jim Pennington. Book includes two tape transcripts. The first is a radio broadcast by Eric Mottram; the second is a meeting between Mottram and William Burroughs. A clean very good copy in stapled wraps with photograph to front cover. Some offset to the front… Read more about this item

Hermosa Beach: Horseshit, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. First issue (of four published) of this magazine of satire, protest and general ill-will towards the establishment. Written and drawn by the Dunker brothers. In about very good condition with some wear to covers. 44 pp.

New York: Belier Press / Cheri Mag, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Slender oversized stapled wrappers. 16 pp. A special preview mini-issue of this comic. Originally inserted in an issue of Cheri Magazine. Illustrated by Crumb in full color. A handsome very good example.

No Place: Gnaoua Press, 1967. Second Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 20 pp. With some illustrations. Second printing from 1967 (original edition printed one year earlier). A most handsome near fine copy.

San Francisco: Coyote, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Trade paperbound original book. 82 pp plus an afterword. Fine condition. A play by one of the original "beats". This copy nicely INSCRIBED by McClure to fellow poet Paul Kahn.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books, 1967. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Tall slender trade paperbound book. 51 pp. Second printing. Originally published in 1960. With illustrations by Gysin. Early cut-up book by this beat generation duo. Light overall wear. Very faint spotting to the front endpaper. A very good example.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Slender stapled wrappers. An unpaginated poetry chapbook from the founder of City Lights Books. Light handling wear to covers, a sound very good or better copy. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author and has added a small drawing as well. Uncommon thus.

New York: The Viking Press, 1979. First edition thus. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. Clothbound book in dustwrapper. 605 pp. A new edition of the Keoruc classic with essays by John Tytell, Norman Podhoretz, John Clellon Holmes and Kerouac himself (so-called "critical commentary"). Edited by Scott Donaldson. Part of the Viking Critical Library. Light wear to very base… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Ludlow Hip/Pocket And/Or Press, 1974. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Pocket paperbound size book. 263 pp. First printing of this edition. A book originally published in 1911. A collection of stories with illustrations by King. A well used copy, but still in good condition.

Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1969. No edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Original photograph of poet and novelist Richard Brautigan. Printed on pressboard. Measuring approx. 9" x 11 1/4" tall. Hnadwritten annotation at the very bottom of the photo reads "Beautigan, Nov. 21, 1969 Consulge. SIGNED Dorfman 69 at bottom righthand corner. An original Elsa Dorfman photograph with her stamp… Read more about this item