Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., [1990]. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards, issued wthout dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Barber. Fine. More
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William S. Burroughs: A Reference Guide.
NY: Garland Publishing, 1990. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards, issued wthout dust jacket. First edition. An interesting and useful reference. Part bibliography but also includes a guide to critical articles, interviews, biographical material, and what institutions hold Burroughs letters and manuscripts. Fine. More
A Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg October, 1943 to July 1, 1967.
[SF]: City Lights Books, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. Fine in slightly used dust jacket with a couple of small creased tears and a minute chip. More
Allen Ginsberg: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969-1977.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards, issued wthout dust jacket. First edition. Minute, faint touch of wear to spine corners, else fine. More
Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary.
Derby, CT: T.W.O. Charles Co., 1945. Pamphlet. First edition. Illustrated with photos of swing musicians. Nice cover illustration of a couple joyously dancing to swing music. Contains over 1500 words and phrases, with a test on the inside back cover asking questions such as: "Would you like to be described..... More
Basquiat: A Portrait.
London: NJG Studio, 2019. Folio. Long accordion-folded portfolio (almost 13 feet unfolded), enclosed in a handmade blood red slipcase, presenting for the first time 12 large-format images of Basquiat taken in 1984 at his studio at 57 Great Jones Street. Of the 12 large images 9 are b&w and 3..... More
Guillaume Apollinaire.
NY: Twayne, [1967]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with some rubbing to back panel. More
Bukowski-Lujon Press Catalog Number One.
New Orleans: House of Books 1994. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 250 copies. Nice Buk catalog featuring items from the collection of Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb including some terrific association copies. Spine and edges of front and back cover faded, a few catalog entries circled in ink, else very..... More
The New Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary: Language of Jive 1944 Edition.
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
The Beat Generation and Other Avant-garde Writers.
Santa Barbara: Anacapa Books, ca. 1979. Softbound. First edition. Catalog 3 from Anacapa Books offering an extensive selection of rare books relating to the Beat, San Francisco Renaissance, New York School, and Black Mountain writers. Some wonderful books, including Kerouac presentation copies, at mouth-watering prices. One of the earlier, and..... More
''If I Am Doing It at All...''
[SF: Communication Company, 1967]. 4to. Broadside. First edition. Prints an anonymous poetic statement (in full): "If I am doing it at all, its for love not for oil. I love crusaders! Whoes got the grail! If its full of oil there's a better one made its new and its theory..... More
Handbill announcing the ''Digger Free Poetry Reading for the Spring Mobilization for Peace.''
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. The event was scheduled to take place at the Glide Church in San Francisco, 1967. Richard Brautigan, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Andrew Hoyem, Ed Bullins, and others, are listed as participants. Features an illustration of a naked man carrying a sheep over his shoulders. This is..... More
Handbill announcing: ''The Diggers Have a Hotel.''
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside. First edition. The Diggers request help from the hip community to bring their "hotel" up to code asking: "Please help. It will be free to all when it's done." They go on to explain their intentions to "have an all night center, sack out..... More
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
The Good Brother.
[NY]: Simon and Schuster, [1997]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. One of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. As new. More
Handbill announcing a ''Rockdance-environment Happening Benefit for the Communication Company in Honor of the CIA.''
SF: Communication Company, 1967. 4to. This event, also known as Bedrock One, was a concert/Happening presented by the Diggers during the "Summer of Love." Richard Brautigan & the Caped Crusaders, the Diggers, the S. F. Mime Troupe, the Steve Miller Blues Band, The Orkustra, and others, are listed as participants..... More
The Beautiful Poem.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Short-lived hippie publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Brautigan was active in the Haight hippie community and formed an alliance with the Communication Company who published this and other works..... More
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
[SF: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition, second issue (with illustrations of dogs and photo of computers as the background). Ephemeral publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Published by Brautigan's friends at the Communication Company who were..... More
Love Poem.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Evanescent hippie publication that was given away free in the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." In our experience, along with Flowers for Those You Love, the scarcest of Brautigan's Communication Company broadsides. Very fine. More
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition, first issue (with text and illustrations of amplifier diagrams rather than illustrations as the background). An ephemeral publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Very fine. More
Saint Thomas.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, [1965]. Softbound. First edition. Near fine. More
Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition (issue with the background illustration of bones printed in black rather than red, priority unknown). A fugitive item from the Communication Company who also published the Diggers' communiques during the "Summer of Love" as well as work by other poets and..... More
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley 111.
NY: St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books, [2016]. Hardbound in dust jacket. Second printing. A biography of one of the preeminent LSD chemists of the sixties and the person who designed the Grateful Dead's sound systems. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of small, slightly toned patches... More
The Collector's Guide to Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters, Postcards and Handbills 1965-1973.
Berkeley: Privately published by the author, n.d. [early 2000's]. Thick 4to. Plastic comb binding. Revised and expanded from the previous edition published in 2000 (this edition consistes of 664 numbered pages). A mammoth undertaking listing all the issue points needed to distinguish between the various original printings and reprints of..... More