NY: Privately published by Arleen Schloss, 1979. 4to. Original photocopied sheet as issued. The handbill announces "C2" at A's, part of a regular series of events at artist Arleen Schloss' loft on Broome St. dubbed "Wednesday's at A's." Arleen is a performance and film/video artist and curator who was hugely..... More

[SF]: Bay Area Daddaists, 1972. Two quarto sheets stapled at the corner. A dada periodical from the Bay Area, this is the first issue to be published in San Francisco. Illustrated with photographs and graphics. Fine. More

NY: Privately published by Dan Burley, 1944. Softbound (only issued softbound). Second printing (published the same year as the first). Illustrations, including the terrific zoot-suit-wearing hepcat cover illustration, by Melvin Tapley. Six years after Cab Calloway's classic "Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A 'Hepster's' Dictionary," the first dictionary of jive slang, Burley..... 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: Cafe Bizarre, ca. 1959. The cigarette holder prints the word "Bizarre" in the same spooky stylized lettering used on the cover of the LP that was recorded there, along with their catch phrase "Where the Beat Meet the Elite." The Cafe Bizarre, founded in 1957, was one of the..... More

[San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1965]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Issued as part of the notable '60s James Bond sleaze parody series. Terrific Robert Bonfils cover art showing agent 0008, gun-in-hand, barging into a dimly-lit room with scantily-clad, unconscious (presumably drugged) women strewn across the floor. "Meet 0008---Peerless Lover..... More

[NY]: Beacon, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Cover illustration of a naked woman with a sheet seductively draped around her while her beatnik lover stands in the background. "An uncensored novel of love among the beats, where every man does as he pleases---and every chick aims to please"..... More

[Norway]: J. W. Cappelens Forlag, [1988]. Hardbound in illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket. First Norwegian edition (originally published in Germany). Illustrated by Matthias Schultheiss. Short stories by Bukowski are the basis for this graphic novel beautifully executed by Schultheiss who accurately portrays Buk's down-and-out lifestyle. Don't worry about the..... More

[Sydney, Australia]: Calvert Publishing Co., [1972]. First edition of this Paperback Original, a rare hippie exploitation novel. Unusual because set in the milieu of the medical world rather than more overtly hippiesque environs. Cover illustration of a long-haired, bearded doctor in his white coat holding hands with his hippie girlfriend..... More

[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside. First edition. Self-deprecating sentiment intended to warn the hippie community of the danger of looking for leaders. The Communication Company and the Diggers were very influential in the Haight-Ashbury scene while often being critical of it. Three-hole-punch to left edge as issued, else very..... More

NY: Psychedelic Solution, 2003. A complete set, plus extras and variants, of invitations and announcements for the 23 exhibitions held at the Psychedelic Solution Gallery between 1986 and 1995. This is the third state of the packaging for these cards, in a red envelope with a b&w label printing a...... More