Search Results: BEATS from Skyline Books

[London]: SAF Publishing, [2002].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of the more interesting '60s counterculture memoirs. Illustrated with photographs. Guthrie recounts his international adventures and drug-taking escapades in the hip scenes of LA, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Tangier, and elsewhere. Along the way he encountered Allen Ginsberg, Richie Havens, Del Close, Hube the Cube, William Burroughs, and various famous rock musicians, among others. Small spot to front board, else fine in dust jacket with a trivial touch of use.

NY: Abbeville Press, 1995.. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Prologue by Allen Ginsberg. Excellent book documenting the Beat influence on the art, music, fashion, and popular culture of the '50s and '60s. Issued to coincide with the 1995 landmark exhibition at the Whitney Museum. It traces the Beat connection to the New York School, Happenings, Abstract Expressionism, jazz, and the underground films of Robert Frank and John Cassavetes, with the accent on the visual contributions of the Beats. Profusely illustrated, with reproductions of paintings by Kerouac, Harold Norse, Robert Rauschenberg, Jay De Feo, Wallace Berman, and others, installations by Ed Kienholz, stills from Cassavetes' films, documentary photographs, and much more. Essential book for anyone interested in the Beats or the avant-garde. Highly recommended. One corner bumped, else fine in near fine dust jacket with minute tears to the top of the flap folds.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971].. Hardbound in dust jacket. Later printing. Lively and well-researched overview of the Beat scene including much first-hand material from interviews with the Beats. Fine in dust jacket with the red spine lettering faded.

No place: MGM Records, [1959].. 45rpm record in picture sleeve featuring a small reproduction of the poster for this Beat exploitation film starring Mamie Van Doren (and in which Gregory Corso has a cameo). "The Wild World of the Beatniks!" Tiny remainder drill hole through sleeve and record label, else very good record in very good sleeve with a patch of tiny spots.

n.p.: Musitron, 1960.. LP record. Readings by Blake who was active in North Beach in the late '50s, author of the book 21 Carlisle, appeared in Beatitude magazine, etc. Issued as Volume 2 in Musitron's series of Beat Generation recordings. Must be heard to be appreciated---terrific Beat/beatnik poetry rife with hipster lingo. Near mint record in very good jacket with two small splits to spine. All of the releases from the short-lived Musitron label are very scarce.

[California, PA: Privately published, 1978] Softbound.. First edition. Contributors include Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Whalen, Huncke, Carolyn Cassady, Corso, Clellon Holmes, et al. Illustrated with photographs by Fred McDarrah and others. Comprises Volume 8 of the unspeakable visions of the individual. Near fine.

Hollywood: HiFi Records, 1959.. LP record, mono. McKuen reads beat poetry with titles such as "Co Existence Bagel Shop Blues," "Haiku Poems," "What is a Fabian," and "Like," to jazz accompaniment. Terrific cover photograph of McKuen sitting pensively at a table in a Beat coffee house with a wine bottle and candle on the table, a large abstract painting on the wall behind him, ignoring the beautiful Beat woman sitting across from him. Amusing liner notes describe a typical night on the Beat scene "whether in the North Beach section of San Francisco the beach town of Venice or the far away hangouts in New York's Village." Record near mint, cover bright very good plus with trivial wear to spine (the original innersleeve is included). The classic cover photo alone makes this a zeitgeist highspot.

Newark, DE: University of Delaware Library, 2020.. Large 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Beat Visions and the Counterculture. Beautifully printed letterpress by Lead Graffiti. As new.

n.p.:n.p., [1959].. Shows a scene from the film with beatniks playing bongos and guitars in a Beat coffee house. Fine (slight ripple to bottom).

NY: Beech Tree/William Morrow, [1987]. Hardbound in dust jacket.. First edition. The author traces the development of the bohemian tradition from the early scene in Greenwich Village through the Beats, hippies, and Punks. Illustrated with photographs. Minor tap to one corner, else fine in about fine spine faded dust jacket.

NY: Privately published, 1968.. Legendary mimeo mag edited by Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones. An important showcase for Beat, Black Mountain, New York School, and other avant-garde writers. Includes Lamantia, Lenore Kandel, LeRoi Jones, et al. Horizontal fold from mailing, ink stain to one page probably from printing process, else very good. Addressed to David Haselwood thus a very nice association.

[Hollywood: MGM, 1959].. Features a huge, beret-wearing, bearded beatnik face, next to which is scantilly-clad Mamie Van Doren. In bold, jazzy letters: "THE BEAT GENERATION." At the top, an illustration of Louis Armstrong playing in a Beat jazz club. "Behind The Weird 'Way-Out' World of the BEATNIKS!" An unusually nice copy showing only minor wear and an occasional small tear where the folds intersect (folded as issued).

[Brush Creek, TN]: Wild Dog Books, [2000].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. An autobiographical novel partly based on the author's encounters with Ginsberg, Burroughs and others gathered around Naropa in the '80s, intersperced with poetry, tales of shamans, Tibetan masters, and more. Corners bumped, else fine.

SF: Privately published, 1980.. Printed in black on yellow stock with a small ornamental device. Fine.

[Chicago]: Chicago Review Press, [2006].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Very fine.

No place: Warwick Records, ca. 1959.. LP record. Accomplished recording from this UK folk singer who states in the liner notes: "Beatdom is considered by some an oasis in a concrete desert where the rebels of society and convention go to release their whip-lashed souls. To others, it is a concoction of confused, mixed-up kids whose half-dream lives are sprinkled with sex, poetry, and pot." Near mint record in very good plus jacket.

SF: Intersection, 1968.. Oblong 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Catalog of events for this festival of underground art which took place at various venues in San Francisco, 1968. Essays by Ralph Gleason, James Broughton, David Meltzer, Robert Duncan, and others, trace the development of the poetry, jazz, and painting of the Beats to the psychedelic expression of the '60s. Illustrated with photographs of works by Jess, George Herms, Robert La Vigne, Michael Bowen, Roy DeForest, Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Mouse, and others. Tiny stain to back cover, corner of cover slightly faded, very good plus to near fine overall. Important booklet linking the art of the Beat Generation to the hippie counterculture.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1966].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.

NY: Gallery Gertrude Stein, [1964].. Softbound. First edition of the author's scarce second book. In 1957 Hart, Lamantia, and Kerouac gave the first jazz poetry reading in N.Y.C. White covers very slightly sunned around the edges, else fine.

n.p.: Privately published, 2001.. 2 LP records in fold-out jacket. In 1990 Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso were invited by friend and artist/sound producer, Jeff Gordon to do a reading in downtown Manhattan. This recording of that event was issued in a pressing limited to 1000 numbered copies that were over-subscribed shortly after release. As new.