New Arrivals
Angel Cassoulet.
[France: Dernier Cri, 2013]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. Features the work of various artists. A contemporary take on the surrealist's "cadavre exquis." Excellent work both macabre and vibrant. Wonderfully silk-screened throughout, with the pages cut into three sections that can be flipped through to make endless..... More
Nacht Schlacht (Night Battle).
[Berlin: RE: Surgo!, 2013]. Tall 4to. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 133 numbered copies signed by the artist. Striking, bold silk-screen prints of works by Bernhart depicting women being abused---rendered almost like caricatures, in a detailed cartoon-like style. The artistic skill of Bernhart and the quality silk-screens done by Gfeller..... More
Mateo Falcone.
[Berlin: RE: Surgo!, 2012]. Tall 4to. Softbound. First edition. Full-page, color screenprint reproductions of terrific expressionistic works. One of 77 numbered copies signed by the publisher. As new. More
Kaja.
New Orleans: Perdido Press, 1998. Small 4to. String-tied pamphlet issued in red card stock dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies. A tribute to Kay Johnson a.k.a. Kaja---poet, famous bohemian, and muse to Corso, Bukowski, and others. Kaja lived at the Beat Hotel, traveled the world, had a...... More
Patchen Paintings.
New Orleans: Perdido Press, n.d. Square 16mo. Nicely designed pamphlet printing Edwin Blair's recollections of the landmark 1965 Patchen exhibition at the Glade Gallery in New Orleans. Limited to 60 numbered copies. Illustrated with photographs. As new. More
The Berenson Collection.
Milan: Arti Grafiche Ricordi, [1964]. Thick folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Preface by Nicky Mariano. Profusely illustrated in color throughout. Fine in publisher's slipcase. More
Michelangelo the Painter.
Milan: Arti Grafiche Ricordi, [1964]. Thick folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated in color throughout. Fine in dust jacket with an imperceptible closed tear to front panel. Housed in publisher's slightly toned slipcase. More
Roma Amor: Essay on Erotic Elements in Etruscan and Roman Art.
Geneva: Nagel, [1961]. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout including many tipped-in color plates. Fine in dust jacket with a small snagged tear to rear dj flap. Housed in publisher's cardstock slipcase. More
Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1962]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Published as part of the Twentieth Century Views series. About fine in price-clipped, very good dust jacket. More
Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire.
NY: Grove Press, [1985]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Fine (small sticker to dj flap). More
Ionesco: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1973]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Published as part of the Twentieth Century Views series. Fine in bright, very near fine dust jacket. More
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
NY: Pantheon, [1993]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition (issued simultaneously with the Canadian edition). Signed by Cohen (and stamped by him with his interlocking hearts symbol). Some foxing to top edge of text block and book spine, owner's gift inscription and small sticker to f.f.e., else near fine..... More
Postcard announcement for Keith Haring's 1985 show at the Tony Shafrazi and Leo Castelli galleries.
NY: Privately published, 1985. The card prints an untitled colorful painting by Haring of a bizarre creature with its nipples being sucked by baby creatures. Light stress crease to the right side, else fine (4" x 6"). More
Postcard announcement for Keith Haring's 1988 "Recent Work" exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery.
NY: Tony Shafrazi, 1988. The card prints a photograph of Haring at age 12 in his hometown Kutztown, Pennsylvania, taken by his father, Allen Haring. This was Haring's last exhibition at Shafrazi during his lifetime. Fine (5.75" x 4"). More
Postcard announcement for Keith Haring's (with LA2) 1982 show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery.
NY: Tony Shafrazi, 1982. The card prints a photograph of Haring and Angel Ortiz posing in a room filled floor-to-ceiling with their graffiti. Fine (ca. 6" x 4"). A scarce card from the early phase of Haring's career. More
"Season's Greetings" card from the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1984 featuring a work by Keith Haring.
NY: Tony Shafrazi, 1984. This oversize card prints an untitled, intricate and colorful piece by Keith Haring. Fine (5.75" x 8.5"). A scarce card. More
Folding announcement card for Keith Haring's "Important Early Works from the Estate" show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1992.
NY: Tony Shafrazi, 1992. This large card prints a 3-eyed smiley face in black against a bold pink background. Fine (7" x 7"). More
The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary.
No place: Privately published, 1939. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.25" x 2.75"). Second edition of this legendary title, the "revised 1939 edition," published a year after the first (the book went through six printings until 1944). Regarded as the first dictionary by an African-American, and the first glossary of counterculture..... More
Melted Parchment.
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
They Eat Shit.
SF: Walter/McBean Gallery, 1993. Pamphlet. First edition. Catalog to accompany Williams' show at the Walter/McBean Gallery of the San Francisco Art Institute. Designed by Sue Williams and Ursula Brookbank. Illustrated with outrageous, sometimes humorous drawings on sexual themes exploring the role of women in society. Not for the squeamish since..... More
Oversize announcement card for the Wallace Berman Retrospective at the Otis Art Institute Gallery, 1978.
LA: Otis Art Institute, 1978. Reproduces a terrific untitled verifax by Berman of a hand with Hebrew lettering and diagrams superimposed. Exhibition info on back. Fine (7.5'' x 5.5''). More
The ''Outsiders'' together with Outsiders Supplementary List One.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Roman Books, 1962. Pamphlets. First editions. Introduction by David Meltzer. Rare book catalogs from Roman Books offering "A Collection of First Editions by Avant-garde and 'Beat' Generation Authors..." Two of the earliest (if not the first) bookseller's catalogs to specialize in Beat and Avant-garde literature. Many rarities..... More
To Kiss the Worms Goodnight.
LA: Black Sparrow, 1966. Broadside poem. First edition. Limited to 27 numbered copies signed by Bukowski (of a total edition of 30), this being copy No. 4. Of the 30 copies some are in institutional libraries---others haven't survived the passage of years---and when a survivor does surface it's inevitably in..... More
The Great Hippie Hoax: A Scalding Indictment of the Phoney Movement That Has Trapped Thousands of Teenagers.
NY/London: Award Books/Tandem Books, [1968]. Magazine-format publication devoted to "stripping the petals off the Flower Children" revealing "them to be floundering in a cesspool of sex, half-crazed with weird drugs, parasitic, selfish, diseased..." Sensational, scathing attack on the hippie subculture with articles and first-person accounts of "orgiastic parties" and "sexual..... More