San Francisco: Mercury House, (1991). First edition - A coming-of-age novel set in 1950s San Francisco's bohemian North Beach. The story of three generations of an Irish family - 11 year old Pearce, his father Joe, and Joe's father MJ. Haunted by his past with the IRA, MJ hides his crimes - and condemns his son for supporting the IRA, driving a wedge into the family. 273 pp.

New York: Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited by Juanita Liebermann-Plimpton and Bill Morgan, these journals "cover the most important and formative years of [his] life. During this time. . . he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures in their own right. Ginsberg's journals--so candid he insisted they be published only after his death--also document his complex relationships with other figures of Beat lore as Carl Solomon, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke... He reveals a growing self-awareness about himself, his sexuality and his identity as a poet." Illustrated with black and whte photographs from Ginsberg's private archive. An appendix of over 100 of Ginsberg's earliest poems, includes over 50 previously unpublished. Index. xviii, 523 pp. ISBN: 0-306-814625.

Mountain View, CA: Ocean View Books, 1991. SIGNED first edition - An uncommon back-to-back book - these books are designed to pair a science fiction writer with a mainstream writer to reveal their commonalities. In this pairing, poet Anselm Hollo, who is associated with the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics at Naropa is matched with P.K. Dick winning writer Rucker - whose contribution is a novel written, as Kerouc's 'On the Road' was, on a continuous scroll of paper. Uncommon both in its conception, and rather difficult to find. SIGNED by Rudy Rucker on the title page of his novel. ISBN: 0-938075-128.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second (and final) volume of his selected letters, these letters written between 1957, the year 'On the Road' was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors; among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, Gary Snyder and Malcolm Cowley. Edited and with an introduction and commentary by Ann Charters. Notes, index. xvii, 514 pp. ISBN: 0-670-861901.

Columbia: University of Missouri, 1994. First edition - Features fifteen never-before-published letters from Jack Kerouac to Ed White written from 1947-1968; a section of poetry by McAfee Discovery Poet Ruth Ellen Kocher; a long interview with Pulitizer Prize Winner Robert Olen Butler; an essay on anthropologist Patrick Putnam, "The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies," by Joan Mark, short stories, poetry by Gary Fincke and S. Ben-Tov, photographs, cartoons, reviews, etc. 219 pp plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1879758121.

New York: Paragon House, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of writings which become, in effect, an unofficial history of the rise of the counterculture in New York city. Included is an essay on the Kerouac legacy, another on the influence of the New Yorker magazine, an unpublished excerpt from his prose poem 'Chaos' and more. Foreword by James Walcott. Index, 194 pages. ISBN: 1557784701.

Francestown, New Hampshire: The Golden Quill Press, (1955.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first collection of poetry (preceded by two novels and other works) - the dramatic title sequence was presented as an oratorio for four voices in 1954. 75 pp. Lipton is perhaps best known now for his 1959 history of the beats "The Holy Barbarians."

San Diego: Atticus Press, 1984. SIGNED first edition - Poems spanning the years from 1954 to 1984. A 4 pp foldout broadside poem, signed in the plate, is bound-in at the center of the book. SIGNED by Norse on title page. 28 pp. ISBN: 0-912377-070.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a feminist coming of age story - it follows the experiences of a young woman over two decades - in the 50s, she escapes her midwestern suburban town to live among the Beats in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, but it is only in the 60s, with the beginnings of the feminist movement, that she finds herself fully committed and engaged. Bibliography. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-394-400216.