Simon & Schuster, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, coffee brown. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Fine book even considering very mild bumps to top corners and a......
1960. An original black-and-white photograph, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, taken by his wife Virginia, ca. 1960. Brautigan is sitting on a porch in the sun with his head titled and his knuckles to his chin as squints in the direction of the camera. He wears a short-brimmed straw hat with.....
Simon & Schuster, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, a deep navy blue. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. A fine book, without imperfections. Not signed, but perhaps the.....
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy: a softcover uncorrected proof from the library of Joan Didion, with a short signed letter dated 1980 from the director of advertising, publicity and promotion at the publisher conveying the proof to her in Los Angeles and asking for praise.....
Straight Arrow Books, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unique because it's inscribed by Beat legend Herbert Huncke under his full-page photo in the photo section that follows page 64: "For Steve Chandler, with good wishes, Herbert Huncke." Also signed by the biographer Ann Charters on the title page. Fine book in.....
SF: Staight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "To Pat -- Ann Charters." Also boldly signed there by Michael McClure and, a few pages in, signed and dated "6/11/94" by Allen Ginsberg at his very succinct foreword. A nice and rare collection of signatures from several.....
NY: Scribners, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes to Michael, Francis." Michael McClure is the seminal Beat poet who shared the stage with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery Reading that kicked off the Beat generation.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Michael and Joanna [McClure], Francis." Michael McClure is the seminal Beat poet who shared the stage with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery Reading that kicked off.....
NY: Scribner's, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: Diane Di Prima's copy with her ownership signature at the top of the front free endpaper. Di Prima and Duncan were friends and both significant poets in the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet scene. Di Prima wrote of her friendship with.....
Twayne, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy: Kenneth Rexroth's own copy, inscribed to him and his wife by the author on the half-title page: "For Kenneth + Carol, from Morgan + Ada, Nature through you to us + back again, Santa Barbara, February 1973." Although a major champion of the.....
Chicago: Big Table, Inc., 1959. First edition. Softcover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg, David Meltzer, and Jules Feiffer, and thus uncommon. Ginsberg signs and dates (1994) at his contribution, "Kaddish"; Meltzer and Feiffer are not contributors to this issue, but have signed where their names are mentioned in rear ads. Big.....
Hanuman Books, 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A miniature book, signed on the first blank by Huncke, and an association copy, from the library of Edith (Edie) Kerouac-Parker, Jack Kerouac's first wife (but not inscribed to her). Edie and Herbert of course were friends in New York from the earliest.....
NY: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. A roman a clef whose main character, Japhy Ryder, is modeled after Gary Snyder, modeling Buddhist practice in the Bay Area and eventually leading the narrator up the Matterhorn in the Eastern Sierra for a sublime experience. A very good copy with light.....
NY: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. An association copy: signed by Gary Snyder on the copyright page. Apparently when asked to sign the book, Snyder replied, slyly, "But I didn't write it." He then relented, though, and out of deference to Kerouac signed the copyright page instead of the.....
NY: Signet, 1959. First thus. Softcover. Ninth printing of this mass market paperback. An association copy, inscribed on the verso of the front cover in thick pen: "For Robert Novak, GS, Japhy Ryder." Also two Japanese characters in the inscription. Robert Novak is probably the poet, critic, and editor who.....
NY: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. An association copy: signed and dated by both Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg on the lower corner of the half-title page. Also signed by Snyder as "Japhy Ryder" on the bottom of the title page in a more flowing calligraphic style, probably on.....
NY: Viking, 1997. First thus. Hardcover. An association copy, signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and dated "5/98" at the top of the front free endpaper. Perhaps his own copy, his ownership signature, as stapled publicity sheets are laid in that announce the edition and tell the history of On the Road's.....
Cranium Press, San Francisco, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A notable association copy, inscribed to McClure s friend and sometimes editor-publisher Jack Shoemaker, a legend in the independent press world who has stuck with the Beats (in particular, Gary Snyder) from start to finish. "This copy for Jack Michael," it.....
New Directions, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Leslie Scalapino who, as founder and editor of O Books (in Oakland), published McClures Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven in 2002. Scalapino was considered a language poet, but felt her closest ties were to the Beats.....
1st Edition. Soft cover. Arif Press, Berkeley, 1973. First edition, quarto in wraps and with a black-and-white blossom image on the front. One of 100 copies for the friends of the author and the press, signed by the author and not for sale. There were also 30 additional numbered copies.....
NY: Random House, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. A great association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Robert [Duncan], love to you and your poems and thanks for the lines on page 21." Uncommon signed in hardcover. The epigraph to the poem, "Searching / Not Searching" on page 21 is.....
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1983. First edition. Paperback. First printing of the simultaneous paperback issue. Inscribed handsomely on the title page in green ink: "For Tom -- Gary Snyder." His first book largely set in the Sierra Nevada foothills where moved after returning from Japan, an announcement and demonstration of.....
NY: New Directions, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Fred Martin, Gary Snyder." Martin was the managing editor of New Directions, which published this volume, the first of Snyder's New Directions publications. This book in general uncommon signed. Very good on account.....
Phoenix Bookshop, New York, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by Snyder. This copy is number 19. There were also 26 signed lettered copies not for sale. Approximately 5 x 6" in blue wraps, 24 pages, string bound, with a white jacket that has.....
NY: Library of America, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. The slipcased edition, only sent to subscribers and uncommon thus. Edited by Jack Shoemaker and Anthony Hunt. Includes his eleven books of poetry plus uncollected poems, translations, and more. A fine copy in very good slipcase on account of a bump to.....