Handbill announcing an early performance of The Beard at the Flora Schwimley Little Theatre in Berkeley.
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Printed in red and blue on white stock with a reproduction of the "Love, Lion, Lioness" poster. Fine. More
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War is Decor in My Cavern Cave.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem, with the text reproducing the author's handwriting. First edition. Published by the Communication Company who issued several broadsides by Richard Brautigan and other poets, as well as various communiques from the Diggers and the Black Panthers. Very fine. Scarce... More
Packet advertising ''Coca Wine and Sachet Powders" from Theodore Metcalf.
Boston: Theodore Metcalf, [ca. 1910]. Envelope printed on both sides with one side featuring a color illustration of a woman and a coca plant, and the other side printing: "Metcalf's Coca Wine A Wonderful Restorative of Vocal Mental and Natural Powers. Assuages thirst and hunger and promotes digestion. For loss..... More
The Loves of the Poets.
Tuscon: Nazraeli, 2005. Hardbound in green felt-covered boards quarter-bound in faux alligator skin. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 100 copies signed by the artist with an original signed numbered print mounted on a sheet of antique paper laid in. Included is a separate sheet printing an excerpt from a...... More
Marilyn Minter from Six by Six (6 x 6) Set Six.
[Portland]: Nazraeli, [2016]. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 100 signed numbered copies with an original 11" x 14" signed numbered print laid in. Originally issued as part of the set Six by Six: Set Six but here offered separately. As new... More
The Beatnik Scene: Recorded Live at the Californian Club.
Culver City, CA: Kent Records, 1962. LP record. Rudy Ray Moore (pseud. for Rudolph Frank Moore) was a comedian, singer, actor, and film producer most famous for creating the character Dolemite, the pimp from the 1975 film Dolemite and its sequels. He developed this character on his early comedy records..... More
Live Naked.
[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
Associated Press wirephoto of Eric Nord and author Lawrence Lipton and others.
LA: Associated Press, 1959. The photo shows Nord, Lipton, Nord's lawyer, and guitar-strumming-singer Julie Meredith in an office with artworks strewn in front of them. The blurb at the bottom reads (in part): "Representatives of a beatnik hangout known as the Gas House in suburban Venice display some of their..... More
Through Beatnik Eyeballs.
London: Pedigree Books, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Nice cover illustration of a bearded beatnik playing guitar for his girlfriend. Includes a substantive glossary for "bods from squaresville." Spine leans slightly, light corner crease to back cover, else very good or better. More
What is a Beatnik?
SF: KYA, 1958. Broadside poem. First edition. Signed by the author. A scathing anti-beatnik tract from O'Hara, a disc jockey at KYA the "Family Radio" station in San Francisco. In part: "A Beatnik is Grant Avenue with a beard on it's facade; / Beauty with a wart on its finger;..... More
The Big Something.
[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
Babywhipland.
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
Poemscapes and A Letter to God.
[NY]: New Directions, [1958]. First edition thus, a trade Paperback Original. Presentation copy inscribed to fellow poet, Ben Tibbs: "for Ben Tibbs with all friendly good wishes Kenneth Patchen November 1966." Fine. More
To Run the Crown.
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
Why Work or The Coming Age of Leisure and Plenty.
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
1929.
Paris & London: Alyscamps Press, [1996]. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition in English. A book of explicitly erotic poems illustrated with four hardcore photographs by Man Ray. Originally published secretly in Belgium in 1929 and intended for private distribution in France. Most copies were confiscated by customs. Fine... More
Flyer for Walt Phillips' 1960 surf film, Surf Mania.
n.p.: Privately published, 1960. Features a photo of a surfer riding a wave printed in blueish-green against a white background. The filmmaker would personally narrate the film when it was screened at various small venues. Scarce ephemera from earliest days of the surfing scene. Very fine (approx. 6.25" x 6.5")..... More
The Cantos of Ezra Pound 110-116.
NY: Fuck You Press, 1967. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at the edge. First edition thus. Cover by Joe Brainard. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Fine. Scarce item from the Fuck You Press. More
The Good Life.
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
Bob Crane: He Got it Coming.
NY: Fulton Ryder, 2012. Hardbound in gold cloth-covered boards. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. A book designed by Prince published under his pseudonym John Dogg. Reproduces explicit erotic photos from Bob Crane's homemade porn movies, juxtaposed with interesting facts about his life and career. The actor, best known for..... More
Richard Prince rolling papers.
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
''Soil Mechanics'' multiple by Richard Prince.
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
A group of 12 b&w postcards from New Langton Arts in San Francisco.
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
The Great Hippie Hoax: A Scalding Indictment of the Phoney Movement That Has Trapped Thousands of Teenagers.
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
Original vintage print photograph of Lou Reed shooting up on stage at Winterland, 1974.
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