Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2000. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies with an original silk-screen print by Bukowski. Photo postcard of Bukowski laid in. One corner slightly bumped, small indentation to bottom of front board, else fine. More
London: London Magazine Editions, 1973. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition of Bukowski's first novel. Top corners very slightly bumped, else fine and bright. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First trade edition, one of 1000 copies. Signed by Bukowski (though not called for). Buk has also added a small drawing of a man with a bottle. Red title lettering on spine label almost completely faded, one corner slightly bumped..... More
Washington: Black Sun Press, 1946. Folio. Broadside poem. First edition. Bukowski's first separately published work. Originally issued in Black Sun Press' Portfolio 111, but here offered separately. Minor edge-wear and a few minute edge tears to right edge, else near fine. More
Sudbury, MA: Jeffrey Weinberg, 1984. Pamphlet. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. Early, probably the first, comprehensive rare book dealer's catalog devoted to Bukowski. Illustrated with drawings by Buk and photographs of him by Michael Montfort. Minute tap to corner, else fine. More
LA: Synaesthesia Press, [2009]. A "magazine" assembled and edited by Jim Camp as a tribute to Wallace Berman's Semina. Consists of a black envelope printed in silver containing various small broadsides, a found color transparency, photos, and a colophon sheet printing Berman's "Art is Love is God" quote. Limited to..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1984. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First trade edition, one of 500 copies. Signed by Bukowski though not called for. Fine. Signed copies of the trade edition are scarcer than the signed limited. More
[LA]: Choke Publications, 1977. Oblong 12mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Photographs and texts document Burden's B-Car project where he designed, built, and tested a one passenger car that would achieve speeds over 100 miles per hour while maintaining 100 miles per gallon fuel efficiency. As new and scarce thus... More
Chicago: Burley, Cross, & Co., [1959]. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition. Illustrated with drawings. A collection of short stories (in some cases adapted from fairy tales or literary classics) written entirely in beatnik slang. An amazing tour de force of hip lingo, one of the two most important books..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing on a fire escape in N.Y.C. in the sixties. He's wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, and is in the process of taking a puff on his cigarette. He's looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, stoned, classic Burroughsian look. A shot that epitomizes..... More
[NY: Viking, 1989]. Softbound. Uncorrected proofs. Few faint specks of foxing, else very near fine. More
n.p.:n.p., [1966]. Ian Sommerville is standing by the window holding a joint. Taken by a friend of Burroughs using Burroughs' camera, ca. 1965. Never published. Fine (8" x 10"). More
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing on a fire escape in NYC in the sixties. He's wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, and is holding a cigarette at waist level. He's looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, classic Burroughsian look. One of the best shots of Burroughs we've seen..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1978. Folio. Broadside. First edition. Prints an excerpt from Cities of the Red Night. A handsome production illustrated by James Silke. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author and the artist (of a total edition of 126). A couple of small, faint corner..... More
Studio City, CA: Warner Brothers, 1959. A set of 12 folding notecards printing illustrations of beatniks with their dialog printed above and a humorous sentiment inside. Included is a cover card showing a photograph of Kookie poised with comb-in-hand doing his famous "combing my hair" pose. Edd Brynes was the..... More
[NY]: Viking, [1986]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Briefly inscribed by the author. The hardcover printing was small. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. More
[Bolinas]: Yanagi, [1977]. Broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated by Marc Blane. One of 300 numbered copies. Minute edge tear, barely perceptible touch of toning to right edge, near fine. More
London: BC Studio Editions/L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, 2017. Folio. Hardbound in heavy grey book card, quarter bound in linen with an illustrated plate affixed to the front cover, issued in woodcut dust jacket. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Childish with an original three-color woodcut dust jacket..... More
NY: Ecco, 2006. Tall folio. Broadside printing this poem from the concurrently published "Book of Longing." First separate printing. Printed in red and black on white stock, illustrated with a small reproduction of a drawing by Cohen. Limited to 250 copies, this copy signed by Cohen though not called for..... More
NY: Odyssia Gallery, 1971. Features a lovely, intricate collage by Jess. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Jess in pencil in the bottom corner. Very fine (20" x 26"). More
NY & SF: Odyssia Gallery/John Berggruen Gallery, 1989. Catalog with color illustrations, supplementary text by Madeleine Burnside, a chronology, checklist, etc. Fine. More
[Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1959. Sewn Japanese-style in wraps with title label. First edition. Will Petersen's copy with his ownership stamp to title page. Petersen, a Beat artist and printer closely associated with Gary Snyder, helped Corman design the early issues of Origin. He is also the dedicatee of this..... More
Athens, Greece: Raymond Foye Books, 2019. 4to. Accordion-folded poetry broadside printed on both sides---one side in English the other in Greek. Features four previously unpublished poems from Corso's final manuscript "The Golden Dot" written while he was dying from cancer. Translated by Yannis Livadas. Cover photograph of Corso by Allen..... More
[San Francisco: Privately published by the author, 1967]. Square 8vo. Pamphlet. First edition. Nice photo-documentary of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene in its heyday and one of the scarcer books on the subject. Couple of small sepia spots to bottom edge of front cover that shows a bit of gentle rippling..... More
SF: San Francisco Examiner, 1985. The poster proclaims: "Hinckle Free at Last Only in the Examiner" and reproduces a drawing by Crumb showing Hinckle and his hound dog being dragged away by three burly police officers. Presentation copy inscribed by Crumb to his publisher, John Martin of Black Sparrow Press..... More
