Beat Generation / Counterculture from Derringer Books

Pleasantville, NY: Redgrave Publishing, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Trade paperbound book. 208 pp. With introduction and text by William F. Van Wert. Includes a biographical background, synopsis of films, film distributors and other details about the films of Alain Robbe-Grillet. A handsome very good copy.

Cleveland: K.D.S., a Corporation, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Good. Pocket paperbound original bbok. 204 pp. Subtitled "Exposing the weird rites of orgiastic hedonism in America's sexual underground!. A good copy only with cover wear and paper loss on the front cover. Quite an uncommon title.

Los Angeles: The Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tabloid newspaper format. Unpaginated. Issue number eight of this underground newspaper offshoot of The San Francisco Oracle which was edited by Allen Cohen. Unfolded format and uncommon thus. Not folded and in handsome very good condition. Posters included.

Los Angeles: The Oracle of Southern California, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tabloid newspaper format. Unpaginated. Issue number nine of this underground newspaper offshoot of The San Francisco Oracle which was edited by Allen Cohen. Unfolded format and uncommon thus. Not folded and in handsome very good condition. Posters included.

Los Angeles: The Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tabloid newspaper format. Unpaginated. Issue number six of this underground newspaper offshoot of The San Francisco Oracle which was edited by Allen Cohen. Unfolded format and uncommon thus. Not folded and in handsome very good condition.

New York: Film Culture, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Trade paperbound format. 94 pp. Issue 20 of Jonas Mekas' long-running and respected film journal. Cover photo of Orson Welles from Touch of Evil. A very good example. Uncommon early issue.

Los Angeles: The Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tabloid newspaper format. Unpaginated. Issue number seven of this underground newspaper offshoot of The San Francisco Oracle which was edited by Allen Cohen. Unfolded format and uncommon thus. Not folded and in handsome very good condition.

New York: Film Culture, 1960. First edition. Paperback. Good. Trade paperbound format. 94 pp. Issue 20 of Jonas Mekas' long-running and respected film journal. Wear and small tears to covers. A good example overall. Octavio Paz, Parker Tyler, Stan Brakhage et al contribute. Uncommon early issue.

Venice: St. John's Bread Wednesday Messenger, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Good +. 4to. Side-stapled wrappers. 38 unnumbered pp. Early, if not, first issue of this rather bizarre early 1970's hippie publication with accent on the paranoid and new-age spiritual. About very good condition. Rear cover has original stamps and hand-written mailing address to an organization in NYC. Quite… Ler mais sobre este item

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 296 pp. Illustrated. An examination of blues music and the culture it spawned. A handsome near fine copy in lightly used dustwrapper. With flexi-disk in sleeve laid in to the rear of the book.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First edition of the author's 1973 drug novel. 194 pp. A handsome very good copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper. Clipped at front flap.Son of William S. Burrough's second book.

London: Verso, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Trade paperbound volume. 156 pp. First printing with complete number row on the copyright page. With some black and white illustrations. An unmarked copy in very good condition.

Cornville, AZ: Firepower Publications, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Stapled 4to. 38 pp. With illustrations. A fine copy. The title kind of sums it all up.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Wide, square hardbound book. Issued without dustwrapper and housed in a cardboard sleeve made to look like a sleeve for an LP. With 267 color illustrations. A near fine copy. Great Crumb reference book.

New York: Film Culture, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Paperbound quarto. Over 68 pp plus ads at rear. Edited by Jonas Mekas. Illustrated in black and white. Uncommon issue with contributions by Jack Smith, Gregory Markopoulos, Frank Kuenstler and more. Cover photo is from a still of an Andy Warhol film.A handsome very good example. Scarce.… Ler mais sobre este item

Seattle: Fantagraphics Underground, 2018. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Thick paperbound quarto. 341 pp. With numerous illustrations. An essential bibliography. Couple of pages have light pencil markings else a fine copy in bound illustrated wrappers. The book sold out quickly.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition. Paperback. Good +. Tall, wide trade paperbound volume. 54 pp. First edition of the beat poet's first book. Silkscreen cover also by McClure. Book designed by Dave Haselwood. General light wear. A good to very good example. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.

No Place: Portents, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First and only edition of this poetry broadside. One large sheet folded to make a booklet with photograph to one side and a one page poem by Kerouac on recto. As with some other copies we have seen, the photo has come loose from the glue that once held… Ler mais sobre este item

Great Britain: Thames & Hudson, 1979. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Wide hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 160 pp. First UK edition presumed with no indication of additional printings. The book has 146 black and white illustrations. A handsome very good example in very good unclipped dustwrapper (no price indicated). This copy has been SIGNED by the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Realist Association, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Stapled newsprint. Issue number 81 of Paul Krassner's underground newspaper. 23 pp. This issue devoted to The Diggers. This copy only in fair to good condition with all pages having folds at the bottom right-hand corner of each sheet. Paper tanned as expected.