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[BEAT LITERATURE]. Large Group of 60 Beat and Underground Fiction, Poetry and Drama Titles. [V.p., ca. 1950s-1980s]. Publisher’s bindings, in dust jackets (where called-for). Generally rubbed, some occasional soiling, wear, ownership marks. Generally very good. Various editions, mostly firsts. Some titles include: Still Life with Woodpecker (SIGNED, second printing), Suzuki Beane (2 different editions of this children’s book about “beatniks”), Encounters (SIGNED by Ted Berrigan), Going Places, (first in wrappers), How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (first in jacket), The Grass Pipe (first in price-clipped dust jacket), Gasoline (first in wrappers), 5 Numbers (SIGNED TWICE by Robert Creeley), Revolutionary Letters (first in wrappers), Like Crazy Man (first in wrappers), The Ancient Rain: Poems, 1956-1978 (first in jacket), Joanne (2 copies of the first in wrappers), 21 Gay Street (first in wrappers), No Eyes: Lester Young (lettered copy with a drawing by the author, David Meltzer), Clean Asshole Poems (first in wrappers), Hunk of Skin (by Picasso, first U. S. in wrappers), Collected Shorter Poems by Kenneth Rexroth (first in jacket), Requiem for a Dream (first in dust jacket), Witt (2 copies of later printings in wrappers - by Patti Smith), Sing a Battle Song Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization (staple-bound facsimile edition), and more.