n.p.:n.p., [1938]. One of Miro's fanciful creatures floats amidst a shining sun and some abstract shapes. Printed in dark red and blue. Issued in the French art magazine XXe Siecle No. 4, Christmas 1938, but here offered separately. Fine in its original state with the edges untrimmed leaving the publisher's..... More
NY: Lospecchio Press, 1986. Hardbound, issued without dust jacket. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Allen Ginsberg and Bill Morgan. A 60th birthday tribute to Ginsberg with contributions by Ram Dass, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Thon Gunn, Paul Bowles, and many, many others. Fine... More
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.: Privately published, ca. 1968. Features an image of Black Panther leader Huey Newton. The rally sponsored by "Campus Peace and Freedom" is scheduled to take place at De Fremery Park in Oakland, where Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and others will speak. Toned with a few tears, tiny chips, and..... More
[Toronto]: Anansi, 1970. Softbound (issued simultaneously with the cloth edition). First edition, first issue (without the announcement of Governor-General's Award on front cover). Briefly inscribed by the author. Fine. More
[Toronto]: Anansi, 1970. Softbound (issued simultaneously with the cloth edition). First edition, second issue with the Governor-General's Award stamp to front cover. Signed by the author. Very near fine (tiny spot to fore-edge). More
[Iderton, Ontario]: Nairn, [1978]. Square 8vo. Pamphlet. First edition. Signed by the author. Ink name, else fine. More
n.p.:n.p., [1970]. Actually the ninth Fluxus newspaper (although mistakenly numbered 8). This issue a double sided poster entirely devoted to photos by Peter Moore of various Fluxfest events involving John and Yoko, with an insert laid in describing the photos. Folded as issued, small patch of light foxing, but a...... More
LA: Gary Panter, 1980. Pamphlet in color illustrated staped wrappers. First edition. Signed by Panter in the year of publication. Panter's second comic, photocopied and hand-assembled by him. Panter was an early participant in the LA Punk scene of the '70s during which time his work appeared in Slash magazine..... More
Hermosa Beach, CA: Walt Phillips Productions, 1962. Features photos of surfers surfing. Printed in red and blue against a white background. Classic early poster from the heyday of surf culture. Very fine (approx. 9" x 12"). More
NY: Sidney Janis,1952. Very attractive, nicely designed announcement printed on both sides with reproductions of Pollock's work, one side printed in red the other in black. Measues ca. 9" x 28" unfolded. An elaborate announcement for an important early show. Very near fine. 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
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
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
NY: Privately published by the author, 1947. Pamphlet. First edition. Cover illustration by Max Ernst. Imaginatively designed brochure for this landmark 1947 surrealist film directed by Hans Richter. One of the seven dream sequences in the film is devoted to Marcel Duchamp, others focus on Man Ray, Max Ernst, Hans..... More
[Berkeley: Rubin for Mayor Committee, 1967]. 8vo (we've also encountered a slightly larger format version of this---no priority known). Pamphlet. First edition of the author's first book. A promotional booklet for Rubin's campaign for mayor of Berkeley, stating his positions on the draft, marijuana, Vietnam, abortion, and more. Nicely designed..... 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
SF: Privately published, 1965. 4to. "This weekend The Fugs! zany, satirical, beatnik, loud, rock 'n' roll group! on the West Coast only a month---see them now!" This was The Fugs first West Coast visit, the last stop on their "Fugs' Cross Country Vietnam Protest Caravan." In the Bay Area they..... More
NY: Fuck You Press, 1967. Folio. Tabloid format, with the headline: "Poet Ted Berrigan Teaches Parot to Scarf Cock." Outrageous one-shot publication of humor and observation from the Fuck You Press, with many drawings by Ed Sanders. "Created, published, & edited by an anonymous spurt-phantom at a secret location on..... More
NY: Fuck You Press, 1964. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at the left edge. First edition. Corner crease to one page, else near fine. More
SF: Unicorn, 1958. Pamphlet. First edition. Schock takes us on a cynical tour through the Beat haunts of '50s North Beach making snide observations about the habitues. Illustrated with accomplished, evocative and lovely illustrations of beatniks at poetry readings, jazz clubs, etc., by Trubee Campbell whose drawings are much more..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. 4to. Hardbound in pictorial boards with dust jacket. First edition. Drawings by Louise Fitzhugh. A children's book with illustrations and text about a beatnik baby growing up in Greenwich Village. Ownership signature, else near fine in spine faded, very good dust jacket with an inconspicuous..... More
[Ann Arbor: Artists' Workshop Press, 1968]. Legal-size mimeographed sheets, stapled at the edge. First edition. Limited to 250 copies. Distributed for free to garner support for John Sinclair who was on the verge of receiving a 10 year sentence for two joints of marijuana. This prints the legal briefs prepared..... More
