San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2001. Inscribed by the editor; Card covers. pp 364, (6, ads). Just a mite leaned; orange portions of spine and upper and inner margin of rear cover sunned to yellow, crinkling to the spine lamination. VG+ otherwise. Title page has the circular rubber stamp of Shakespeare & Co., Paris, and the 13 Nov., 2009, ink inscription of Meltzer to Canadian author Jim Christy, himself an authentic "beatster", "For Jim - respect ! D.M." Di Prima, Everson, Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Kyger, Lamantia, McClure, Meltzer, Micheline, Rexroth, Snyder, Welch, and Whalen. ; Octavo; Signed by the editor

New York: Evergreen Review. Issues for Feb., April, and June, 1966. Quarto, card covers. VG. Contains the first appearance in print of Jack Kerouac's "Satori in Paris" complete. Also contributions by Herbert Gold, Samuel Beckett ("Imagination Dead Imagine"), Jean-Claude Forest (third installment of "Barbarella"), Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, George Grosz, Eugene Ionesco, Lenore Kandel, and others.

New York: 1965. Quarto, paper covers. Spine has skinning to bottom inch, slight rubbing to the folds; vertical crease and small corner crease to front cover; VG otherwise. Contains excerpts of the court testimony of Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer in defense of Burroughs' hugely controversial novel. Also, contributions by Octavio Paz, Leroi Jones, Ionesco, Vian, Grass, and a few others.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. Octavo. Fine in fine jacket. With review slip an promo sheet laid in. 0809315645

San Francisco: City Lights, 1981. Octavo, card covers. Book just a little leaned, spine faintly yellowed, else fine, uncreased copy, no owner names. 0872860051

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. The author's second thriller novel. Blue boards. Foxing to top page edges; two faint tan spots to front free endpape, page edges faintly yellowedr; else fine in fine jacket. "a highly original murder-thriller involving the worlds of beatniks and pop-stars, racketeers and prostitutes, corrupted politicians and psychedelic drugs." - jacket flap.; Octavo.

New York: Something Else Press, 1969. Quarto, blue cloth. (143) pp. Numerous photos in colour and black & white. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has a 1 cm tear to front panel, else fine. Gutman's day job was in the stock market, but he was also an artist and pal of some of the Beats. He produced the film Pull My Daisy. Photos of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Larry Rivers, Corso, David Amram, and some fetching nude models. Contains first publication of some quotes by Kerouac. Charters B41.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981. Octavo, brown boards. pp 162 + photos. Fine copy. Jacket has yellowing to white spine lettering, else fine.

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1965. Second edition, restored text. Octavo, pp (25), (3), stapled in illustrated card covers. Printed price at bottom of rear cover inked out, else a VG clean copy, with ink ownership signature of an important Canadian poet, Patrick Lane (signed "Lane 69"). The poet's first book, first published in 1958, with some text censored. Young, Male Homosexual in Literature, 2772. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

Derby, Connecticut: Bruce Publishing Co, 1959. pp 72 stapled in paper covers. VG clean and unworn copy. Contains on p. 72 "The Last Word" a regular column by Jack Kerouac, here writing about baseball. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Quarto

Derby, Connecticut: Bruce Publishing Corporation, 1960. pp 72, stapled in paper covers. Contains on p. 72 "The Last Word", a regular column by Jack Kerouac. Corner creases to covers, VG otherwise. Kerouac writes about the Berlin question. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Quarto

Derby, Connecticut: Bruce Publishing, 1960. pp 72, stapled in paper covers. Contains on p. 72 "The Last Word", a regular column by Jack Kerouac. VG+ copy. Kerouac writes about his experiences in Tangiers. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Quarto

Derby, Connecticut: Bruce-Royal Publishing Corporation, 1961. pp 72, stapled in paper covers. Contains on p. 72 "The Last Word", a regular column by Jack Kerouac. VG+ copy. Kerouac writes about his experiences in the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco, and about Neil Cassady. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Quarto

New York: 1959. 16mo. Avon paperback T-302. Small soft creases to upper outer corner of front cover, very soft vertical crease to rear cover, cheap paper yellowed as always, else a fine, crisp copy. First published in hardcover in 1958, this paperback is the first with the Miller preface. His third novel, one of the essential beat documents. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.

New York: 1959. 16mo. Avon paperback T-302. Very light sunning to red spine lettering, else a crisp, near fine copy, no cover creases. The Canadian printing. First published in hardcover in 1958, this paperback is the first with the Miller preface. His third novel, one of the essential beat documents. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.

Willits, CA: Rainy Day Women Press, no date. Single sheet folded to make four 22 x 18 cm pages. Folded once horizontally, small soil spot to inner edge of front cover, soft corner creases, VG otherwise. Two poems written about beat godfather Neil Cassady. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.

20.5 x 18 cm, typed on one side of onion skin paper, signed in typescript, 1978. Some creases, VG+ otherwise. To a Toronto Kerouac collector. 8 paragraphs. Speaks of Kerouac speaking French and having been noticed by Pierre Trudeau. Will sell him a copy of JACK'S BOOK when shipment arrives. Mardou's real name was not used. Speaks about other Kerouac related publications. Shooting for the film "Heartbeat" will start in Sepember, but he doesn't plan to watch it. John Montgomery (1919-1992) was a beat poet and friend of Kerouac. He appears in DESOLATION ANGELS as "Alex Fairbrother" and in THE DHARMA BUMS as Henry Morley.

New York: Viking, 2008. Octavo, two tone grey boards. Remainder stripe to bottom page edges, skinning to pastedowns where the jacket flaps were once pasted down, nice copy otherwise. Written in 1955 and now first published.

New York: Seaver Books, 1981. Octavo, black cloth & boards. pp (xxii), 250; photos in text, indexed.Fine in fine jacket. Interviews with William S. Burroughs done over six years. Also includes transcripts of conversations with Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, Jeff Goldberg, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Tennesee Williams, and others. 0394518098