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William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Grove Press US hardback, First edition, First printing (1962)
£450.00 – £625.00 First US edition/first printing of 3,500 copies of William Burroughs' Beat classic Naked Lunch in...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
William Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded, 1st Edition Olympia Press paperback (1962)
£375.00 First edition and first printing : December 1962 Olympia Press Paris, France Text revisions were...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, Novel, BooksView Details -
William S. Burroughs, Nova Express, First US Hardback edition, Grove Press (1964)
£75.00 First US Grove Press hardback edition Condition of book is VG+ with slightly rubbed dust jacket and...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
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William Burroughs, Ah Pook Is Here And Other Texts, Riverrun Press/John Calder, First UK paperback edition (1979)
SOLD First paperback edition in Ex + condition Other texts include: The Book Of Breathing (illustrated...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
William S. Burroughs, Doctor Benway (signed), Bradford Morrow First Edition hardback (1979)
£325.00 A variant passage from The Naked Lunch, with a new introduction by the author Signed edition of 150...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
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William S. Burroughs / Brion Gysin, The Third Mind (signed), John Calder, First UK hardback edition (1979)
£500.00£375.00 First UK hardback edition of this classic cut-up collaboration between Burroughs and fellow...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
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The essential Lenny Bruce : his original unexpurgated satirical routines
£10.00 – £15.00 The Essential Lenny Bruce: His Original Unexpurgated Satirical Routines, edited by John Cohen...Category: Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Charles Bukowski : > Hello It’s Good to Be Back< 1978 German (only) LP
£100.00 Original, German only release in 1978 Condition : LP NM : No spindle marks on label, no...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Guitar Army, street writings / prison writings by John Sinclair, signed copy
SOLD Signed copy of GUITAR ARMY contains the saga of the former "rock and roll guerrillas", the MC5, who...Category: 1st Edition, Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
Chicago Review: Summer 1958 ZEN: D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett
£125.00 Age toning on cover VG+ Includes excerpt from Dharma Bums by Kerouac Plus The Unnamable by Alan...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Big Table 2: Summer 1959 EX+
£55.00 Second issue of this important and influential Beat-era literary magazine Includes “In Quest of...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Big Table 4: The New American Poets 1960 VG+
£35.00 USA publication set up following Naked Lunch Chicago Post scandal Contributions by Ginsberg,...Category: Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Big Table #1-4 (out of 5)
£200.00 Irving Rosenthal set up Big Table in Chicago in response to the Naked Lunch trial A literary...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg, 1959 USA
£65.00 8th printing VG- Grubby covers, but a 1950s printing! To order: please click the enquiry button...Category: Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg, 1958 USA, 6th printing
£60.00 No markings inside Scarce early printing of 1956 classic To order: please click the enquiry...Category: Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Pictures Of The Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
£75.00 #1 in the famous 'Pockets Poets Series' (in which Howl was famously #4)Published March 1956 by City...Category: Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960 by Allen Ginsberg, 1961 UK 1st printing
£60.00 Previous owner's name on title To order: please click the enquiry button or email...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Pictures Of The Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1955 City Lights
£42.50 Originally published in 1955 This is the 3rd printing of Ferlinghetti's first book To order:...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
The First Third by Neal Cassady, published by City Lights, USA 1971
£40.00 Scarce autobiographical writings 2nd...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties by Eric Mottram, Unicorn Bookshop Brighton/Seattle
£25.00 1972 UK No markings To order: please click the enquiry button or email...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Neurotica 6, published quarterly in New York, USA 1950
£100.00 Edited by Jay Irving Landesman, Neurotica is a quarterly publication and features contributions by...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
The First Third & Other Writings by Neal Cassady
£30.00 This is the original, much lost-and-found book of autobiographical writing by the "real life hero"...Category: Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Penguin Modern Poets 5: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg
£17.50 1961 revised French edition, first published in 1956 Lettering on cover by Alberto...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Guttersnipe by Tom Pickard, published by City Lights, 1971
£20.00 A working class dropout from Newcastle-on-Tyne, insisting to Dole authorities that his only "job"...Category: Beat Writers, Books, Novel, PoetryView Details -
Tyrannus Nix? by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A New Directions Paperbook, 1969
£25.00 This version of Ferlinghetti's Tyrannus Nix is produced from author's handwriting To order:...Category: Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Mind Breaths Poems 1972-1977 by Allen Ginsberg, City Lights book 1972
£45.00 1st Printing 1977 -EX+ condition To order: please click the enquiry button or email...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
Kesey’s Garage Sale Featuring 5 hot items with guest leftovers – Paul Krassner, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Hugh Romney
£45.00 With an introduction by Arthur Miller 1st edition paperback, published by The Viking Press...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, PsychedeliaView Details -
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Patti Smith : A Useless Death : 1972 signed edition of 300 – bootleg edition also available
£250.00 – £1,500.00 One of the rarer Patti Smith poetry books -and her second published Typical small press chapbook...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Music Book, Poetry, PUNK, SignedView Details -
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The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson , illustrated by Ralph Steadman
£30.00 – £55.00 " The Curse of Lono" is the oddball child, an unclassifiable mix of fiction, reportage, mythologies...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Bandido : Biography of Oscar Zeta Acosta and the Chicano Experience (Hunter S. Thompson’s “attorney”)
£35.00 by ILan Stavans For more background info see : Oscar Zeta Acosta -The Autobiography of a Brown...Category: 1st Edition, Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, Books, Film Tie In / TVView Details -
Hunter S. Thompson Rum Diaries Audio Book : 4 cassettes.
£15.00 The Lost Novel -Simon & Schuster Audiobooks USA 4 x unplayed cassettes - 45 hours read by...Category: Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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When The Going Gets Weird : A Very Unauthorized biography of Hunter S. Thompson
£25.00£20.00 Out of Print 1983 US biography by Peter O Whitmer Publisher : Hyperion Books; First...Category: 1st Edition, Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Hunter S. Thompson 1977 High Times cover article + 8 page Interview
£25.00 As New- Unread copy : Complete, no previous owner’s markings, no writing, no loose pages, no...Category: Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Hunter S. Thompson : 1972 Rolling Stone Article – Nixon Bites the Bomb
£45.00 Condition : Complete, no previous owner’s markings, no writing, no loose pages, no clippings, no...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Hunter S. Thompson : 1973 Rolling Stone Article – Fear & Loathing The Past -The End of the Campaign Trail
£30.00 9 page article relating to Thompson's stand in the US election- see Hunter S Thompson, Fear And...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Hunter S. Thompson The Great Shark Hunt 1983 US Paperback
£20.00 Early printing of the 1st edition Paperback Condition ~: See Photo : VG : Read : no previous...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Rolling Stone Hunter S. Thompson 1974 article Fear & Loathing in Washington : Boys in the Bag article
£20.00 + Great Jane Fonda In Vietnam article + The Carpenters + Zappa _ Ralph Steadman...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Gonzo – Hunter S. Thompson deluxe -box edition + print
£325.00 This is by far the most comprehensive "museum in a box" dedicated to Thompson life, his Gonzo ...Category: 1st Edition, Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Through Beatnik Eyeballs – 1961 UK exploitation paperback
£80.00 by R A Norton Published by Pedigree Books, London, 1961 A Novel of Teen-age Life + Beatnik...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
Timothy Leary The Politics of Ecstasy U.S HB 1st edition
SOLD Scarce 1st edition of Leary's 4th -non-academic- published book 1968 by GP Putnam Condition : ...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, PsychedeliaView Details -
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Timothy Leary Start Your Own Religion 1967 1st edition : Millbrook.
£475.00£425.00 Leary's 3rd, non academic title -Published by League for Spiritual Discovery (Kriya Press of Sri...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground Press, PsychedeliaView Details -
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William Burroughs Interzone US Viking proof
£120.00£95.00 Interzone was Naked Lunch's original title and this material was written in Tangier during the...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
William S. Burroughs : A Collector’s Guide by Eric Shoaf
£15.00 Useful 2015 Burroughs bibliography that builds on the 1978 Maynard & Miles ( Indica Bookshop...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
William Burroughs Maynard & Miles A Bibliography 1953 -73 (1978 US hardback)
£50.00 Published for the Bibliography Society of the University of Virginia, USA Published in Hardback...Category: 1st Edition, Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
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William Burroughs Exterminator 1960 US 1st edition
£275.00£250.00 Published by the Auerhahn Press San Francisco this book has the distinction of being Burrough first...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
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William Burroughs Soft Machine 1961 Olympia press first edition / 1st printing with original text
£1,500.00£1,250.00 Signed and dedicated by Burroughs in green pen to beat writer and publisher Allen De...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
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William Burroughs Soft Machine US Grove Press first editions : Signed and unsigned
£125.00 – £500.00 Soft Machine was first published by the Olympia Press in Paris in 1961 The US edition text is...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
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Adrift in London by Colin Wilson British 1st edition Hardback or 1st Paperback
£20.00 – £45.00 Willson's classic novel set more in Notting Hill than Soho but still captures a snapshot of the...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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Colin Wilson – Introduction to the New Existentialism 1967 1st edition
£60.00£45.00 US 1st paperback edition VG+ : Wear on spine otherwise clean copy Other Colin Wilson : Colin...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Ken Kesey The Day After Superman Died – signed
£175.00 Limited edition of 300 copies - signed Presentation copy Condition : Near Fine : No jacket ...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Jean Genet -Our Lady of the Flowers – 1957 Olympia Press English language edition
£45.00 No 36 in Maurice Girodias' infamous Traveller's Companion series -which included Burroughs Naked...Category: Beat Writers, Books, Collections, Novel, TheatreView Details -
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Jean Genet in Tangier : 1974 book – Introduction by Burroughs, translated by Paul Bowles
£35.00£30.00 76 pages, with B&W photos - text translated by Paul Bowles- foreword by William...Category: 1st Edition, Autobiography/ Biography, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
My Life and Loves Frank Harris / Alexander Trocchi -1966 Olmpia Press
£20.00 Frank Harris My Life and Loves became a five volume set published by WHAllen I can't quite recall...Category: Beat Writers, Books, Theatre : PlaysView Details -
Colin Wilson The World of Violence 1963 UK 1st
£50.00 Colin Wilson's 3rd novel Condition : Near Fine : Clean no marking : DJ is un-price clipped with...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
Brion Gysin Tuning Into the Multimedia Age 2003
£25.00 Gysin : Artist, Author - Inventor of the " cut-up" and the Dream Machine Published by Thames &...Category: 1st Edition, Art, Art & Artists, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
William Burroughs The Wild Boys : UK and US 1st edition paperbacks
£35.00 – £40.00 Burroughs' dystopian novel that had wide pop culture influences - from David Bowie (Diamond Dogs)...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands, UK Picador 1988
The Western Lands, the final instalment of Burrough last trilogy 1988 Picador UK 1st edition /...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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William Burroughs Cities of the Red Night 1981 US HB 1st edition
£40.00£30.00 First instalment of Burrough final trilogy :Cities of the Red Night, The Place of the Dead Road and...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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William Burroughs, The Last Words Of Dutch Schultz
£30.00 – £40.00 "Laid out as a stripped-down movie script, [this is] a gruesome, hallucinatory exposition of the...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
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Arcade #1 -1964 – William Burroughs Special
£70.00£65.00 Edited by Martin Leman Contributions by Jane Beckett, William Burroughs, Mike Foreman, David...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Magazines/ Fanzines/ Pamphlets, MemorabiliaView Details -
William Burroughs Local Stop On the Nova Express by Stephen Davis
£12.50 Long-lost interview with author William S Burroughs, never reprinted since its first appearance in...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
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William Burroughs The Job 1974 Grove Press 1st Paperback
£30.00£25.00 1974 Evergreen paperback Condition : VG+ No significant flaws other than the slight rubbing on the...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
William Burroughs Spare Ass Annie 1993 CD -collaboration with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
£10.00 ~Not a Book but a CD Amongst Burroughs' last spoken word releases A collaboration with the...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Naked Lunch : Restored Text paperback
£6.50 Condition : New To order: please click the enquiry button or email...Category: Beat Writers, BooksView Details -
Patti Smith Seventh Heaven 1972 poetry book
£85.00 Great early poetry book First published in 1972 with $1 price on the back- Then...Category: Beat Writers, Books, Music Book, PoetryView Details -
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Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas { Rolling Stone #95&96, 1st edition HB & PB}
£110.00 – £1,750.00 Hunter S Thompson's 2nd published book - "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, NovelView Details -
Hunter S Thompson : A collection of Rolling Stone Articles & Stories including Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
£200.00 This lot consists of 5 copies of Rolling Stone magazine # 95, 96, (1971 ) 115, 117, (1972) 155...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Magazines/ Fanzines/ Pamphlets, MemorabiliaView Details -
William Burroughs, Interzone, 1989 Picador UK 1st edition hardback
£45.00 Interzone was Naked Lunch's original title and this material was written in the period 1953-1958...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
Planet News 1961-1967 by Allen Ginsberg, 1968 USA first edition
£22.50 – £27.50 Stated 1st US edition November 1968 Previous owner's name inside coverCondition : Read but...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details -
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Bomb Culture Jeff Nuttall : available proof, 1st paperback & modern reprint
£10.00 – £145.00 To order: please click the enquiry button or email info@pleasuresofpasttimescom and state your...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Biography, Books, Collections, Counter Culture/ Underground PressView Details -
Ted Joans – A Black Pow-Wow of Jazz Poems
£17.50 – £65.00 A collection of jazz-poetry originally published in the US in 1969published in Britain in 1971 ...Category: 1st Edition, Beat Writers, Books, PoetryView Details