No place: Privately published, ca. 1960. Photo illustrated handbill showing The Kellers in a couple of the guises they assume in their act, including the pair dressed as beatniks: "The Kellers as they appear in their new novelty as 'The Creeps'. Magic in the 'beat manner' it's way out." Printed..... More
Boston: Baker's Plays, [1961]. Pamphlet. First edition. A play with a sympathetic beatnik character. Very good. More
[NY: Dell Publishing, 1962]. A comic book featuring a cover illustration of a beatnik placing his head on the tray as a waitress serves a couple of elderly women. Very good minus. More
NY: Mills Music, [ca. 1942]. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Prints music and lyrics for "Minnie the Moocher" and 17 other of Calloway's most famous songs. The inside back cover prints, almost in its entirety, "Cab Calloway's Jive Dictionary" (a.k.a. The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary), the most famous..... More
NY: Leeds Music, [1944]. Single quarto sheet folded to make four pages, with another sheet laid in loose. Sheet music printing this song based on Cab Calloway's book, "The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary." Calloway performed this song in the film "Sensations of 1945" for which they printed..... More
[NY: Dell Publishing, 1961]. A comic book featuring a cover illustration of beatniks in a dingy basement playing bongos, smoking pipes, drinking coffee, and lounging decadently. In their midst one of them is giving a speech: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see..... More
[NY: Headline Publications, 1962]. A satirical cartoon mag styled after Mad magazine. The Beatnik issue, with a cover illustration spoofing beatniks and an "8 page special BEATNIK pull-out-section." The beatnik section is a newspaper titled "Daily Beatnik" in which all the ads for popular products of the day are rewritten..... More
[Barcelona]: Ministerio de Cultura, [1988]. Square 8vo. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards. First edition. Signed by Witkin. Issued to coincide with the 1988 exhibition at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Fine. (Spanish text.). More
[NY]: Aperture, [1994]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of Sturges' second book. Introduction by Elizabeth Beverly. Very fine. More
[NY]: Aperture, [1991]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of Sturges' first book. Essay by Jayne Anne Phillips. Very fine. More
CA: Elkhorn Slough Foundation, 1991. Square 8vo. Softbound (no cloth issued). First edition. Fine. More
NY: Macmillan, [1971]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. "Traces the history of the Women's Liberation movement through seventy-seven songs, many of which were written long before the existence of a unified organization." Illustrated with photographs. Fine (touch of wear to top of dj spine)... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1987. Softbound. First edition. Very fine. More
Memphis: Kimbrough Publishing, n.d. [ca 1959]. Small pamphlet. First edition under this title. A glossary of beatnik lingo illustrated with drawings. Interestingly, and inexplicably, the entire contents of this book (save for the title page) are exactly the same as "Beatnik Dictionay" published around the same time by Publishers Moderna..... More
[NY: Olympia Press, 1969]. First edition of this Paperback Original. The author's sensationalized account of beatnik life in New York, including her fictionalized liaisons with Kerouac and others. Published as part of the Traveller's Companion Series. Publisher's small "NR" remainder stamp to front cover, front cover just perceptibly faded, else..... More
n.p.: Compass Line, [1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "They lived in a whirlwind of free and easy love and sin." Fine. Scarce, especially without the usual remainder notch. 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
[Berkeley?]: Privately published, ca. 1970. Two mimeo sheets printed on both sides, stapled at the corner. Prints a long text on how and why students at Berkeley and elsewhere should strike in opposition to the invasion of Cambodia. Some occasional slight discoloration to paper but still nice. More
West Hollywood: The Western Empire, 2018. 4to. Hardbound, with Coffin Cheaters logo embossed on front board, issued without dust jacket. First edition. A terrific collection of photographs documenting, from an insider's point of view, the Coffin Cheaters who were a prominent 1% motorcycle club active in LA between 1962-1966. Most..... More
[Dallas: Documentary Arts, 1989]. Pamphlet. Second edition of this title originally published in 1953. A collection of "Jive Talk" terms including how they can be utilized in sentences. Durst was one of the first Black DJ's in Texas and he hosted a popular program on KVET specializing in blues, jazz..... More
Peoria, IL: Publishers Moderna, n.d. [ca 1959]. Small pamphlet. First edition under this title. "The Official Handbook for Everyone in Orbit." A glossary of beatnik lingo illustrated with drawings. Interestingly, and inexplicably, the entire contents of this book (save for the title page) are exactly the same as "Swinging Syllables"..... More
[San Jose: Mex-I-Can-Ink Publishing, n.d. ca. 1979]. Pamphlet. First edition. Slang terms from the Pachuco counterculure movement that originated among the Chicano and Mexican-American community in El Paso in the late '30s and eventually migrated to LA. A group associated with jazz and swing music, zoot suits, dancing, tattoos, and..... More
Chicago: Burley, Cross, & Co., [1959]. Softbound (no cloth issued). First edition. Illustrated with drawings. A collection of short stories (in some cases adapted from fairy tales or literary classics) written entirely in Beat slang. An amazing tour de force of hip lingo, one of the two most important books..... More
[Stinson Beach: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959]. Pamphlet. First edition thus (preceded only by the rare mimeo edition), first issue without the single hand correction by the author. Limited to 750 copies, not all of which were offered for sale. Cover and illustrations by Jess. One staple rusted (but not bleeding), very..... More
