Ex library. Good condition. 1st printing. #hardcover #fiction #beat #kerouac #classic #literary #booktok #literature #novel #beatgeneration

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

The Lost Novel

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled itThe Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.

Written seven years beforeThe Town and The City officially launched his writing career,The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works asOn the Road,The Dharma Bums, andVisions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.

 

The Sea Is My Brother

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#paperback #fiction #brooklyn #classic #newyork #drama #beat #slum #america 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

The decadence and violence of the urban streets is graphically portrayed in a novel set in a New York slum

Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Ex library copy. Good condition. 1st printing. #bodymindspirit #hardcover #kerouac #classic #beat #literature #literary

A Life of the Buddha

Published for the first time in book form, an account of the life of the Buddha by the author of On the Road traces Prince Siddhartha Gautama's life-long search for enlightenment and his encounters with the natures of life, wisdom, and suffering. 30,000 first printing.

Wake Up

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#paperback #poetry #1950s #beat #coneyisland

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's—as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.

This little classic book of poems is in fair vintage condition. Binding is in good shape. Pages are unmarked but starting to yellow. Owners name written on first page. Cover shows some wear. Printed in 1958, 92 pp.

Minnesota

A Coney Island of the Mind

Florida

Tyrannosaurus Nix ?

#paperback #thestrand #bannedbook #beat #classics #contemporary #drugaddiction #literature #williamsburroughs #controversialbook

Georgia

The Restored Text

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume—that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs—is a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satirical bite.

Naked Lunch

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Illinois

#fantasy #farce #sixties #collectible #beat #1960s #vintage

In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to  destroy his community in this brilliant  "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex."

This paperback from the 1960's is a rare find. Book is in very good structural condition but smells a little musty. Great to fill out a collection of sixties beat writers.

Giles Goat-Boy

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Describes both humorous and deadly contacts between humans and bears in Alaska and reviews the precautions for avoiding a bear attack

Alaska Bear Tales

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#paperback #fiction #drugs #beat #classic #literature #nakedlunch #anthonybourdain 

Alaska

Die ursprüngliche Fassung

Bill Lee, an addict-hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world

#paperback #burroughs #classic #beat #beatnik #addiction #beatgeneration #fiction 

Nevada

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.

Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume--that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs--is a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satirical bite.

#essays #journals #beat #beatnik #playwrite


Two of cult American performer Eric Bogosian's most unsettling works: Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World.

Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who desperately wants to belong to society but instead inhabits a hell of his own creation.

In Scenes from the New World, one of Bogosian's first plays, a narrator participates in three dramas set variously in a seedy city replete with winos, whores and thugs; a trendy restaurant; and the office of a wheeling-dealing talent agent.

Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World

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#paperback #beat #beatnik #kerouac #classic #ontheroad #bobdylan #jazz #fiction 

(Penguin Orange Collection)

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition

For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.

On the Road

Jack Kerouac's masterpiece of the Beat era was first published in 1957 and continues to provide a vital portrait of a generation adrift, as well as inspiration for travelers, dreamers, and artists in every generation that has followed.

On the Road

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This magical poetry creates a contemporary urban bucolic in its electric transitions between city and wilderness, human design and the natural world. Lamantia combines savage satire with a intense lyricism. These poems open the coiled dream door of the labyrinth to apocalyptic terrors, catastrophes of the political world, old myths of the earth, the sublimity of birds, the wild West, the commune of anarchs and the regenerative power of love.

Meadowlark West

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#williamburroughs #theplaceofdeadroads #wildwest #beat #beatlit #beatgeneration 

By the author of 'Naked Lunch', this fantasy Western features a cast of notorious characters including the Crying Gun, the Priest and the Nihilistic Kid. It explores some of society's controlling forces - the Church, women, literature and drugs.

The Place of Dead Roads

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#paperback #fiction #bukowski #poetry #beat

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.

"there is a loneliness in this world so great

that you can see it in the slow movement of

the hands of a clock."

Love Is a Dog from Hell

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New Jersey

A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City

Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New York, packed with photos of the Beat Generation and filled with undercover information and little-known anecdotes.

Eight easy-to-follow walking tours guide you to:

Greenwich Village bars and cafés where Kerouac and his friends Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Gregory Corso, Hettie and LeRoi Jones, John Clellon Holmes, Joyce Johnson, and others read poetry, drank, turned-on, and talked all night long.

The Chelsea-district apartment where Jack wrote On the Road.

Midtown clubs where Beat poets mingled with artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and listened to jazz and blues greats Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Billie Holiday.

Times Square, a magnet for Kerouac and the Beats.

Columbia University, where the original Beats first met and began a revolution in American literature and culture.

Each tour includes a map of the neighborhood, subway and bus information, and an insider's angle on Jack Kerouac's life in New York. A must for Beat enthusiasts and critics.

Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant working in New York City. His previous publications include The Works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Comprehensive Bibliography. He has worked as an archivist for Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary.


Beat Generation in New York

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Like new from my personal collection. Time to thin out. Great history of Paul Bowles in Tangiers. No damage of any kind. #paulbowles #tangier #tangiers #beat #beats #alternative #burroughs #morocco 

California

Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangiers

A senior writer for People magazine offers a remarkable group portrait of incredible figures who congregated during the 1950s and '60s in Tangiers. In this mesmerizing account, Green explores decadent Tangiers as the source of inspiration and madness for such remarkable writers as Truman Capote, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, and Tennessee Williams, and explains its hold as a deliciously depraved version of Eden. 16-page photo insert.

Jack Kerouac

The Sea Is My Brother

Hubert Selby

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Jack Kerouac

Wake Up

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Tyrannosaurus Nix ?

William S. Burroughs; James Grauerholz (Editor); Barry Miles

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs; James Grauerholz (Editor); Barry Miles

Naked Lunch

John Barth

Giles Goat-Boy

Larry Kaniut

Alaska Bear Tales

William S. Burroughs

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs Jr.; James Grauerholz (Editor); Barry Miles (Editor)

Naked Lunch

Eric Bogosian

Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Philip Lamantia

Meadowlark West

William S. Burroughs

The Place of Dead Roads

Charles Bukowski

Love Is a Dog from Hell

Bill Morgan

Beat Generation in New York

Michelle Green

The Dream at the End of the World