Atlanta: Coca-Cola Co., 1941. Softbound. First edition. The second of three books on flower arranging by William Burroughs' mother sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company! Illustrated with amazingly kitchy color photos of flower arrangements, some posed with bottles of Coke. Interesting item because her middle name "Lee" was the pseudonym Burroughs..... More
Providence, RI: Brown University, 2000. Softbound. First edition. Catalog for an exhibition of Burroughs material at the John Hay Library, Brown University. Illustrated throughout. Essays by Jennie Skerl, John Tytell, and Robert Jackson. Near fine. More
No place: Cab Calloway, 1944. Small pamphlet (measuring 4.5" x 2.75"). The sixth, and final, and most definitive, edition of this title originally published in 1938. Issued as a promotional item for the movie Sensations of 1945, in which Cab and his band appeared (an ad for the film appears..... More
[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Psychedelic sin-trippers---Way Out and Wanton." Features one of the most terrifically ridiculous covers in the genre showing a partially uniformed, helmet-wearing, football player in his underwear launching himself across the room toward a scantily-clad hippie seductress. Owner's name and..... More
LA: Synaesthesia Press, [2016]. A "magazine" assembled and edited by Jim Camp in the spirit of Wallace Berman's Semina, this issue done in the style of a small, handsomely printed chapbook. The "Busty Pin-ups!" issue devoted to color collages utilizing images of pin-ups. One of 250 numbered copies (of a...... More
[Berlin: Pogo Books, 2018]. Four separate pamphlets bound together. First edition. Essay by Alexa Hunter. Features Carrithers photographs (many in color) of the people who frequented Club 57, one of the most popular clubs in the East Village and party headquarters for the '80s downtown art scene. Photos include familiar..... 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
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. Softbound. First edition. Faint foxing to top edge of text block and a few specks to fore-edge, else very fine and bright. More
[LA]: Century, [1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Acid, pot, STP, DMT, sex in any form or combination! Nude parties, wife-swapping, deafening music, psychedelic neon assaults on the senses!" An "expose" of the famed Sunset Strip during the height of the '60s, published shortly after the famous riots there..... More
San Francisco: Trinity Press, 1973. 8pp. The premier issue of this influential mag from the Bay Area Dada scene. Illustrated with photographs and graphics. Slightly toned, with a very thin line of dampmarking to bottom edge, very good (5.25" x 4.25"). More
London: Tangerine Press, 2015. Hardbound in marbled paper-covered boards with burlap spine. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Childish using his hangman drawing as his signature. A handsome production. Over-subscribed upon publication. As new. More
London: BC Studio Editions/L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, 2017. Folio. Hardbound in heavy gray 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
Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, ca. 1975. Broadside poem. First edition. Decorative design and lettering by Sidney E. Hushour. Woodblock printed in black and red on handmade Nepalese Lokta paper. Small, narrow chip to bottom left margin, else very good plus to near fine. More
NY: Off Broadway, 1961. Pamphlet. First edition. The "Special Coffee House Edition" of this guide to NYC nightlife. Lists all the hip coffee houses and clubs in Greenwich Village, with some pages devoted to Off Broadway theater. Illustrated with photographs including one of the Cafe Wha? and another that shows..... 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
NY: Falcon Books, [1952]. First edition of this Paperback Original digest. Wonderful, scantily-clad-junkie-woman cover illustration. "Steve's search for Wally's murderer takes him into sordid 'Dream Street,' the world of 'junkies,' murderers, and prostitutes..." One of the half dozen scarcest and most desirable classic drug exploitation paperbacks. Has all the requisite..... 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 patches of faint foxing to covers, some crimping to bottom edge, very good... More
n.p.: n.d., ca. late 1960's. Crumb's famous image printed in black and white against a red background. Fine (ca. 4.5" x 9.25"). More
London: Belmont Press, 1999. Hardbound in illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine (issued without dust jacket). First edition. Illustrated by Eileen Hogan. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Prospectus laid in. As new. More
No place: no publisher, 1965. Beatnik TV character Maynard G. Krebs on the show "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" was easily the most conspicuous appropriation and parody of beatniks ever devised by mainstream culture. Here Maynard is shown in goatee and torn sweatshirt playing the bongos. Several rubber-stamped dates..... More
NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. Oblong 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 18 in the Phoenix Oblong Octavo series. Fine. More
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/LaSalle Bank, 2002. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Highly accomplished color photographic portraits. As new in publisher's shrink-wrap. More
Paris: Olympia Press, [1960]. Reprint of this title originally published as a Paperback Original by Olympia Press five years earlier as part of their famed Traveler's Companion series. Signed by Donleavy. The author's first book. Barely perceptible foxing to top edge, corner crease to back cover, else a fine, unread..... More
[San Diego: Corinth, 1969]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Terrific cover illustration of a helmeted biker on his bike, in front of him a naked hippie woman is taking off her panties while in the foreground a hippie couple is having sex as a snake winds around the woman's..... More
