London: Faber & Faber, 2020. Quarter-bound in blue cloth and orange paper-covered boards. First edition. One of 250 hand-numbered copies signed by Van Morrison. Foreword by Paul Muldoon. The second volume to collect Van Morrison's superb song lyrics that cover the wide range of topics that he's been preoccupied with..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1967]. First edition. Limited to 1200 copies. (Art of Rock, p. 235.) Very fine (27" x 20"). More
[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1968]. Hippie exploitation mag documenting what happens when a "HIGH SCHOOL GIRL Drops Out to LIVE WITH NAKED HIPPIES." Here we "SEE Naked teen-age kids bathe their young bodies and minds in bold sunshine and pine-needled shadow." Article by William Mullins explaining the activities at this..... More
No place: no publisher, ca.1960. Nord was a noted Beat-era nightclub owner, poet, actor, and self-proclaimed "King of the Beatniks." He was owner of the Co-Existence Bagel Shop in North Beach and later co-founder of the Gas House in Venice, a popular beatnik hang-out that was used as the setting..... More
No place: Tampa Records, no date [ca. 1950's]. LP record. Latin bongo music with a classic cover illustration featuring a seductive beatnik couple leaning against a lamp pole with the female beatnik scantily-clad and holding a long cigarette holder. Near mint record (one cosmetic scratch) in very good minus jacket..... More
[Great Barrington, MA]: The Figures, [1990]. Softbound. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Padgett with an original self-portrait drawing. Minute abrasion to front cover at top of spine, else fine. More
SF: Auerhahn Press, 1961. 16mo. Folding broadside poem. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Couple of stray marks to verso, else fine. Scarce, early Auerhahn item. More
n.p.: Privately published, 1955. Broadside. First edition. Silk-screened in color by Frank Bacher from Patchen's original illustrated manuscripts. Printed by hand on handmade Japanese paper in an edition of 200 copies, for this broadside Patchen hand-colored the paper. Originally issued as part of the folio of broadsides Glory Never Guesses..... More
Boston: Meador, 1939. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Payne, a self-proclaimed "hobo philosopher," describes his theory of living simply, stating that he can survive happily by working one day a week. He suggests that with proper management of America's industrial capability we could produce a...... More
Venice: Privately published, 1973. Perkoff was the preeminent poet and an influential presence during the Venice Beat scene from the '50s through 1974 when died at age 44. In Lawrence Lipton's 1959 book, The Holy Barbarians, a fictional depiction of the Venice Beat scene, Perkoff appears under his own name..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. An LA street scene featuring an image of the Star Cafe sign with a movie billboard in the background. Printed in black and gray on thick white stock. One of 26 numbered copies signed by Price dated 1982, this being copy No. 1. In..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. An LA street scene featuring an image of the Tiki Motel with a Tiki face above the hotel sign. Printed in black, blue, and gray on thick white stock. This copy designated "publisher's copy" and signed by Price dated 1982. In the corner are..... More
East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, [2003]. 4to. Softbound. One of 1000 copies published in conjunction with an exhibition. The wonderful world of books photographed by Prince with an essay by McWhinnie. Presentation copy inscribed by McWhinnie: "For---, The Good Life according to Glenn Horowitz Bookseller's inventory, seen through the..... More
LA: Privately published, 2016. A pack of rolling papers given to VIP attendees of the Richard Prince curated High Times show that took place at the Blum & Poe Gallery in LA, 2016. The pack is illustrated with a b&w drawing of a "hippie" by Prince with his facsimile signature..... More
n.p.: Privately issued by the artist, ca. 1978. Single octavo sheet printing: "SOIL MECHANICS / CALL MARCELLUS / 212 2840664." On the verso Prince has placed his rubber stamp "post / richard prince / card." Prince recalls pasting these to lamp posts around NYC at the time. A rare, early..... More
SF: New Langton Arts, ca. 1978. Each postcard features an image from one of the installations or performances there. Founded in 1975, New Langton Arts was part of the first wave of alternative art spaces in the US. Near fine (one card a bit scuffed on verso). The lot:... More
Ontario: Paget Press, 1980. Large folio. Broadside poem housed in a folder printed with gilt lettering. Limited to 44 numbered copies signed by the author, this copy is dated and there is also one correction to the text in Purdy's hand. Illustrated with a photograph of the plumed serpent tile..... More
[London: Aloes Books, 1980]. Pamphlet. First separate printing of this story that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and later appeared as part of The Slow Learner collection. This copy is inscribed by Pynchon: "For Irving / Thomas Pynchon." Pynchon is notoriously reclusive avoiding photo opportunities and interviews and..... More
NY/London: Award Books/Tandem Books, [1968]. Magazine-format publication devoted to "stripping the petals off the Flower Children" revealing "them to be floundering in a cesspool of sex, half-crazed with weird drugs, parasitic, selfish, diseased..." Sensational, scathing attack on the hippie subculture with articles and first-person accounts of "orgiastic parties" and "sexual..... More
SF: Michael Zagaris, 1974. The photograph shows a blonde, bespectacled Lou Reed using the microphone cord to tie himself off while he injects a syringe into his right arm. This print is from the archive of Jon Goodchild, the original art director for OZ magazine until he was lured to..... More
Washington: Black Sun Press, 1946. Folio. Broadside. First edition. A broadside relating to the landmark 1947 surrealist film directed by Hans Richter. Illustrated with stills from the film, as well as a photo of Richter and Duchamp looking at Duchamp's Roto-relief machine. Originally issued in Black Sun Press' Portfolio 111..... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1963. Nicely designed handbill with photos of crashing waves, text in red and black. "Grant Rohloff personally brings you the indescribable power and excitement of a 'North Swell' his all new surfing adventure film." The ticket reproduces a photo of a surfer riding a wave. Couple of..... More
Santa Barbara & LA: MOCA/Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Illustrated with photographs and graphics. Virtually as new. More
[LA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968]. Oblong 8vo. Softbound. First edition. Catalog for a 1968 traveling exhibition of works by Billy Al Bengston. Catalog designed by Ed Ruscha featuring sandpaper covers bound with screws and bolts, with pink ribbon marker. Profusely illustrated (many in color), featuring every work..... More
Ostfildern-Rutt: Haatje Cantz, [2005]. Oblong 16mo. Softbound. First edition. Published on the occasion of the 51st Venice Biennale. Text by Joan Didion, Frances Starck, Donna De Salvo, and Linda Norden. Ten color reproductions. As new in publisher's shrink-wrap. More
