Scarecrow Press
Pages: 361
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-8108-2621-2 • Hardback • November 1992 • $103.00 • (£79.00)
Ralph T. Cook (BBA, National University, San Diego, CA) is a former rare book dealer and editor of a little magazine, Atticus Review. He has studied the Beat Generation writers for the past 20 years and is the author of The City Lights Pocket Poets Series: A Descriptive Bibliography (1982).
...an inevitable resource for the bibliographers of a host of modern authors as well as providing the basis of the history of an important publishing venture.
— Papers Of The Bibliographic Society Of America
...meticulously thorough....serves as a record of the avante-garde's delightfully eclectic taste over more than three decades.
— Wilson Library Bulletin
...meticulously defines his terms and explains his methodology, thereby making his volume useful even for the nonspecialist who is unfamiliar with the arcane jargon of descriptive bibliography...invaluable not only to researchers but also to librarians, rare book dealers, and book collectors.
— American Reference Books Annual
...will prove to be a valuable publication for students, scholars, librarians, booksellers, and book collectors.
— Reference Reviews