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NY: Basic Books, 1961. Red hardcover, no dust jacket. A sociological and psychological study of the 'Beats'. Includes glossary of beat terms, Making the Scene, Kicks, The Tormented Rebels and the Lonely Ones, etc. Anaylysis of Beat poetry and Beatniks in early 1960's.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Book.

Name stamped on end paper. Lightly toned. Pages are clean and unmarked. Minor dust soiling to exterior page edges. Dust jacket is light toned. Has shelf wear at edges and chip at spine.

NY: Basic Books, 1961. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 250. A fine copy in taped and stained dj. A study by a psychiatrist and pyschologist.

New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 250pp. Owner's neat stamp on title page, glue stain on rear pastedown, small brown stain on a couple of preliminary pages, corners lightly rubbed, about very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips, short creased tears and edge wear. Contains the first book appearance of Allen Ginsberg's "Mescaline" [Morgan B13].

Basic Books, 1961T. hardcover. Good. 1.2000 8.4000 5.8000.

Basic Books, New York, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". xxii + 250pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and faded. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Covers marked. Corners slightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 1950s; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 46360. .

Basic Books, 1961. Very Good / Good+. First edition, first printing. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Book is very good, square with clean and unmarked text. No P.O. names, bookplates, etc. Protected in Durafold mylar cover. Price-intact dustjacket has chips and wear at extremities. From the dustjacket flap: "Their poetry, quoted here in extenso, may be bizarre, their sex lives sometimes promiscuous, their personal lives often shocking." Extensively researched, 250 pages including appendix, index and references. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.

New York: Basic Books. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges, small chip to spine heel. Stated 1st. .

New York: Basic Books, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Warmly inscribed by editor Rigney to David Meltzer (contributor to the work) and his wife: "To David & Tina Meltzer with my deep appreciation for their very real help in producing this book - Francis Rigney." Undated, but clearly contemporary with date of publication. Faint foxing to text block edges and prelims; still a straight, tight copy in slightly rubbed but wholly intact dustwrapper; Very Good. A thoroughgoing attempt, not entirely sympathetic, at a socio-psychological examination of the Beat lifestyle, by two Bay Area psychiatrists. Chapter 9 comprises a brief anthology of Beat literature, mostly poetry; this section includes 3 works ("23rd Raga / For Tina;" "14th Raga / For Donald Schenker;" and "30th/June:1959") by the inscribee David Meltzer. With much on the promiscuity, drug use, and determined anti-establishment stance of the Beats.