Beat Generation from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 134pp, printed wrappers. This issue of the Atlantic Monthly features In the Ring, a brief boxing memoir by Jack Kerouac. Unmarked copy, a bit of general wear.

Los Angeles: Coastlines, 1957. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Another issue of this important and overlooked L.A. little magazine. This issue includes an address by Arthur Miller, comments on the "Howl" controversy reprinted from the San Francisco Chronicle, and work by a range of largely coastal contributors, et al. Unmarked copy,… Read more about this item

n.p.: Samuel Charters, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Accordion-folded broadside printed on card stock. 1 of 300 stated copies of this elegant Charters broadside, featuring a 1957 letter from John Wieners to Charles Olson. Unmarked copy, light soil and toning.

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: Michael Gibbs, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tabloid, 18pp, self-cover. 1 of 500 copies. Tabloid-format issue of this influential experimental writing magazine edited by Michael Gibbs, includes work coverage of the Colloque de Tanger with work by William Burroughs (Schottlaender v4.C406, Shoaf III-233), Brion Gysin, et al. Unread-looking copy, has been… Read more about this item

Cleveland, OH: Frontier Press, 1967. 2nd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 88pp, printed wrappers. The enlarged second edition (1967) of this Sanders collection. Lyrics to two Fugs songs (The Lord of the Trenches and Coming Down) have been neatly written in pencil on two back blanks (presumably copied from The Fugs Song Book). No… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Review of Books, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Features an interview with Ray Bradbury, a review of William Burroughs's Junky by Barry Gifford, contributions by Alvah Bessie, et al. Unmarked copy with wear to mailing label.

London: John Calder in Association with Olympia Press, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. VG in Good+ dw. 8vo, 220pp, grey cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. The first edition of this Burroughs work published in England only (Schottlaender v4.A7, Shoaf I-7). This copy from poet, artist, and experimental impresario Opal Louis Nations includes pencil notes by Nations… Read more about this item

New Orleans, LA: Loujon Press, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 102pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this classic title, printed by hand with a stellar roster of contributors (including William S. Burroughs; Schottlaender v4.C33, Shoaf III-27). Unmarked copy (except for publisher's stamps to first and last page, as issued), toning… Read more about this item

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near VG in Near VG dw. 8vo, 160pp, brown cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First UK edition of the first novel by one of the Beat Generation's most influential figures. Unmarked copy, light spotting to page edges and a bit of staining to boards and endpapers.

Tucson, AZ: Loujon Press, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. VG+ in Fair dw. 8vo, 212pp (plus plates), printed boards with printed dustwrapper. 1 of 500 stated copies of this double final issue in book format of this classic title, with a stellar roster of contributors. Includes floral insert by Gypsy Lou Webb. Unmarked copy, solid with a little light… Read more about this item

Pleasant Hill, OR: Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Second issue of Ken Kesey's seventies periodical, dedicated to Saul Alinsky. Includes two letters from Timothy Leary and a photo and brief quotation from Bern Porter, much else. Nice unmarked copy with mailing label and stamps to back… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Review of Books, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Includes an interview with Michael McClure by Stephen Vincent, a section on the Book Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, work by others. Unmarked copy with tiny corner chip to back cover and minor spots to fore-edge.

Berkeley: Circle, 1946. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. An important issue of this mid 1940s Berkeley little magazine. Includes the work of a wide range of artists of the period (such as Henry Miller, Robert Duncan, Anais Nin, Paul Radin, Darius Milhaud). Also includes a foldout Map of Joyce's… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Circle (printed by The Greenwood Press), 1944. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 64pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Scarce issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter), an elegantly designed early production of Jack Werner Stauffacher's Greenwood Press. For a brief span of years in the mid-forties this was… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Circle, 1946. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 110pp (plus inserts), silkscreened wrappers. Ninth issue of this vital 1940s Berkeley little magazine. Includes a full-page still from Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon opposite an advance notice of the groundbreaking Art in Cinema film series. A sound copy of the eye cover variant… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Circle (printed by The Greenwood Press), 1944. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 80pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Early issue of this signal 1940s Berkeley little magazine (co-edited by Bern Porter), an elegantly designed early production of Jack Werner Stauffacher's Greenwood Press. For a brief span of years in the mid-forties this… Read more about this item

Boston: Alan Davies / Other Publications, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 14pp, corner-stapled self-cover. This issue includes work by Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Winfield Knight, et al. Copy was addressed and mailed to Michael McClure. Unmarked copy, a little mailing/reading wear.

San Francisco: San Francisco Review of Books, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Features a few excerpts from the Ginsberg-Cassady correspondence, with an introductory note by Barry Gifford. Also a Herbert Gold interview and pieces on Joan Didion, Ursula LeGuin, et al. Unmarked copy with some reading wear and soil/sunning.

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Stated second printing of this peak sixties work by one of the Beat Generation's most influential poets. Owner name to title page (otherwise unmarked), an experienced copy with reading wear and a little rippling.

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Apparent first printing of this peak sixties work by one of the Beat Generation's most influential poets. An experienced, unmarked copy with reading wear and outer staining and spots.