n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1960's. Printed in red on card stock: "The John Drew Repertory Company CATCH-22 A Dramatization by Joseph Heller Directed by Larry Arrick." Slightly toned around the edges, else fine (17" x 11"). Scarce ephemera. More
NY: Cafe Wha?, ca. 1964. Business card from one of the most legendary music and entertainment venues in Greenwich Village. Founded in 1959 by Manny Roth (uncle of singer David Lee Roth), the Cafe Wha? was the venue for some of Dylan's very earliest performances after he arrived in NYC..... More
England: Track Records, 1967. 45 rpm record. One small cosmetic scratch, else near mint in plain white sleeve. More
LA: Love Press, 1979. Limited to 1000 copies. Herms did a drawing a day for a year, based on Sabian symbols received by clairvoyant, Elsie Wheeler in the 1930's. Each drawing is photographically reproduced on quarto stock with Dane Rudyhar's psychological interpretation of the symbol that inspired it printed at..... More
SF: Privately published by Todd Hido, 2005. A huge, original print of one of the photos from Hido's book Between the Two. One of only 10 numbered copies signed by Hido and dated 2005 on a printed label affixed to the verso. The photo, shot through a rain-flecked windshield, shows..... More
SF: Privately published by Todd Hido, 2005. A huge, original print of one of the photos from Hido's book Between the Two. One of only 10 numbered copies signed by Hido and dated 2005 on a printed label affixed to the verso. The photo, shot through a rain-flecked windshield, shows..... More
Amarillo, TX: Baxter Lane Co., 1969. An anti-hippie flyer listing the requirements for membership in the Belligerent Student and Happy Hippie Society including: being "obligated to demonstrate conformity by: indulgin' in like free and prosmiscuous love; blowin' the 'mind' with drugs, spongin' meals off the squares; stealin'; demonstratin'; screaming 'Pigs!'..... More
n.p.: Pot Head Experimental Films,1967. Printed in day-glo orange, pink, and purple featuring an illustration of a shade-wearing hippie couple and a scantily-clad hippie gal. "UP-TIGHT SQUARES Join the HIPPIES and their HIP CHICKS they've scored for ACID, POT, & GRASS! THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT...IT'S A SEX FREAK OUT."..... More
NY: Sotheby's, 2007. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by Bono. Catalog for this charity auction for AIDS relief in Africa featuring works by Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Christo, Jasper Johns, et al. Signed on the cover by Damien Hirst and U2 frontman Bono both of whom were instrumental..... More
Hollywood: Nordyke Publishing, 1959. 4to. Single sheet folded to make four pages. Sheet music and lyrics for this beatnik-related song. Cover illustration of a bearded beatnik and a man strumming a guitar. Front cover has an "X" to the corner in magic marker and a tiny price sticker, else about..... More
NY: Privately published by the Yippies, 1968. 4to. Illustrated with a photograph of a pre-Columbian sculpture of a laughing figure. Signed by Paul Krassner. The handbill states: "MACY'S GIANT NEW-NATION CELEBRATION to help free us from the property fetish, macy's will become a liberated zone SATURDAY, June 8, from 1..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. Prints a long text about the "International Youth Festival" to be held in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic convention. "...there will be music playing and people swaying, dancing in the streets...agents of the Pothead's Benevolent Association have planted hundreds of pot seeds...free people, free pot, free music, free..... More
London: Steam Press, 1979. Oblong 4to. Hardbound in black cloth-covered boards. First edition. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Hughes and Steadman. Minute tap to two corners, the boards have a couple of barely perceptible small blemishes, else fine. More
[NY: Fuck You Press,1964]. 4to. "Attention poets, historians, flame brains, spaceouts, & madmen Herbert Huncke Reads! from his absolute work." This was a very early reading for Huncke preceding publication of his first book. Le Metro was an important, though short-lived, mid-sixties showcase for the N.Y.C. avant-garde. A 1964 reading..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, [1960]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. "A ridiculous novel about two beatnik girls in college." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a faint touch of soiling to back panel. More
London: Privately published, 1983. Gold-edged, stiff white card printed in black. In addition to celebrating Mick's birthday, guests were also invited to participate in the launch of "Jagger" by Carey Schofield. This is Steve Abrams' personal invitation with his name handwritten in the corner. A superb association since Abrams was..... More
Vancouver: Image Bank, [1977]. First edition. Original publisher's printed box containing 47 (of 48) postcards plus one card listing the participants. Includes cards by Ray Johnson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vito Acconci, Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Les Levine, Eleanor Antin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Peter Hujar..... More
Vancouver: Image Bank, [1972]. First edition. Original publisher's box with an illustrated label affixed to the top stating "Greetings from Image Bank B.C." The box contains 93 cards (including 6 duplicates), by 49 individual artists, and 14 collectives. Individual artists include Ray Johnson, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joseph Beuys, Gary Lee Nova..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1980]. Johnson has utilized a b&w photo of "Ian Richardson as Jean-Paul Marat entering his bath" and has affixed a color photograph of a naked male torso viewed from behind while he stands in the woods. The position of the torso in the photograph mimics the position of Ian..... More
Newark, DE: University of Delaware Library, 2020. Large 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Beat Visions and the Counterculture. Beautifully printed letterpress by Lead Graffiti. As new. More
[Tucson]: Nazraeli Press, [2007]. 4to. Bound in three-quarter leather and linen-covered boards. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 50 copies signed by Kenna with a signed numbered and matted original silver gelatin print enclosed in a folding chemise (the photo is mounted to the matte using corner mounts so it..... More
NY: Viking, 1957. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. Very near fine with bright top stain, in like dust jacket with judicious, minor restoration by Pofelski. More
n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1972. 4to. Broadside. First separate printing of this piece that originally appeared in The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog. Prints four b&w photos of Kesey wearing a helmet and sunglasses while rubbing cornstarch on his privates. Printed below is a statement by Kesey explaining..... More
[NY]: Viking, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Kesey in silver marker. Very fine. More
