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A collection of interviews, letters, and memoirs from Beat authors like Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. A crucial, often out-of-print, exceedingly rare resource for understanding the literary and personal lives of the Beat Generation.

Spark’s novel about a group of British bachelors being targeted by blackmail and fraud is perhaps the great writers funniest novel. Sex and deceit weave through the story, and her biting take on London’s upper and low echelons remains incisive and biting. First edition.

Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava created this most legendary work in 1955, combining Hughes poetry with DeCarava’s photography in a book that set the standard for poet/artist collaborations. This is the soft back first edition, published ever so slightly before the hardback.

First edition of the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists. Williams roman à clef captures the energy and characters of the civil rights movement in his inimitable prose.

A spiritual manual for prison life, this book was not meant to be circulated out of incarceration, but here we have the first edition. Full of Ram Dass wisdom to get one through literal, or psychological, confinement.

A beautiful edition of one of Didion's greatest and controversial works. Worth it just for the back cover.

An ever so Ackerian play which uses the French Revolution as its basis, with several stylish subplots that are erotic, historical, and fantastical. Fabulously designed with pulpy blood splatter, this is a wonderful Acker oddity that pulls no punches.

Lee Eiferman's entry into the legendary Top Stories prose periodical. Based out of New York, Top Stoiries spotlighted experimental and avant-garde women writers in small print editions. 1982 First Printing, in near fine condition.

Incredibly rare, ecclectic little volume of beat recipes, each fully illustrated, including but not limited to Ginsburgers, Pablo Piccaserole, Rex Broth, and the Kerouac Kocktail.

First full-length poetry collection by the founder of the Umbra Workshop, which would become a significant influence on the Black Arts Movement. Includes Reed's major long poem "Catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church", in the first edition paperback.

First edition. Literature has never been as fun since - Calvino's Cosmicosmics manage to be as light and joyous as anything while having such philosophical, metaphysical, and emotional depth. This is, I believe, his crowning achievement, though he saw them as ongoing writing exercises.

A lovely 60s edition of the foundational text of the Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley in 1904. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".

Five experimental prose pieces from the elder statesman of modernism, who took his training as a physician and wrote some of the most beautiful lines in the English language. First edition.

First edition, third printing of Wolfe's first published collection of essays, featuring his inimitable insights of everything from Las Vegas and Rudyard Kipling to UES Doormen and hot rod culture.

John Lennon's second book, published in 1965, contains nonsensical stories, poems and his illustrations. Is it good? Not really. Is it enjoyable? Entirely. Is a historic document of Lennon? You bet.

Incredibly rare pocketbook that offers everything you need to know to find, take, and properly experience magic mushrooms. A mycological grail of sorts.

Our favourite of the legendary Great Bear Pamphlets, covering the manifestos of every avant-garder you could possibly want. Original, 1966 printing in lovely condition.

First edition of twenty three essays by Albert Camus, selected by the author prior to his death that year. His final work.

Three novels by Ronald Firbank in one dust jacket designed by Andrew Warhol, who would later go by Andy. Before he made it, Warhol worked as a book cover designer, and this is one of his very finest.

In dazzling style and keen wit, Wolfe takes aim at Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. First edition.

Telepathy Tapes before the Telepathy Tapes, a rigorous dive into psychic communication, in a very handsome first edition.

Roald Dahl's least child friendly book, perhaps the worlds least child friendly book. A hilarious, depraved tale of a niece and uncle who steal the sperm of wealthy men mid coitus, and yet it reads with the wit and brilliance of Dahl's best. A significant, overlooked work, in the very handsome first edition.

The first English language appreciation of the work of French movie pioneer and master illusionist, Georges Melies, full of insight and illustration. First Edition.

Full run of Traveler's Digest, a magazine with the best contributor to quantity ratio of all time. Not a punk zine, not a literary journal, not a downtown chronicle - Travelers Digest feels like it was destined to be a historical oddity, appreciated too late.