NY: Gerdes Folk City, 1961. 4to. The first in the series of concerts was a long stint by Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey and David Gude playing September 12 through the 24th. From September 26 through October 8th the Greenbriar Boys were playing with Bob Dylan, then entirely unknown and having... More about Handbill announcing a series of 1961 concerts at Gerdes Folk City in Greenwich Village, one of...

Rotterdam: Galerie Delta, 1986. Promotional poster for the 1986 "To Repeal Ghosts" exhibition at Gallerie Delta, a small show consisting of just four paintings acquired by Hans Sonnenberg, the owner of the gallery. It reproduces a painting by Basquiat of fellow artist Jack Walls. According to Walls, he and Basquiat... More about Poster featuring Basquiat's painting "Portrait of Jack Walls" announcing Basquiat's...

n.p.: Privately published, 1937. A classic, reefer-madness-era anti-marijuana film styled after Reefer Madness and taking its title from a line in a Harry Anslinger article that appeared in The American Magazine that same year. The front cover states: "A Puff---A Party---A Tragedy! Assassin of Youth---Daring!" with an ilustration of a.... More about Promotional matchbook for the 1937 marijuana exploitation film, Assassin of Youth

[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 about Handbill announcing the ''Digger Free Poetry Reading for the Spring Mobilization for Peace.''

[SF: Communication Company, 1967]. 4to. Broadside. First edition. Prints a long anonymous text (probably by Emmett Grogan) about rebellion against America's consumer culture stating: "the diggers are a rebellion against commodities and the hierarchy of commodity values. Through FREE diggers expose the lie of the oppressive rationality of commodities and... More about Term Paper

[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. 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... More about Handbill announcing the ''Digger Free Poetry Reading for the Spring Mobilization for Peace.''

SF: Oar Books, 1966. 4to. A small signed drawing of a trout by Brautigan is reproduced in facsimile. Printed in black on beige stock. Barely perceptible touch of toning to one edge, else a fine copy of this scarce piece of early Brautigan ephemera. More about Handbill issued by Oar Books announcing publication of their reprint of The Galilee Hitch-Hiker...

NY: Julien Levy Gallery, 1945. 4to. Single sheet folded to make four pages. The cover features Duchamp's design showing a silhouette of two lovers kissing. The inside prints a statement by Man Ray and a list of the works on display. The back cover prints a surreal text titled "Objects... More about Large folding exhibition announcement with cover by Duchamp for Man Ray's 1945 show at at the...

SF: Dave Haselwood, 1968. Oblong 32mo. Pamphlet bound in limp, brown suede covers with the title stamped in black. First edition. One of about 50 copies (there were going to be 60 but they ran out of suede for the covers). Small, barely perceptible darkened area to the suede on... More about Courses: No Credit No Blame No Balm

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 about One sheet day-glo poster advertising two hippie exploitation films offered as a double-bill,...

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 about Life Is a Lousy Drag

NY: B.B. Sales, 1968. First edition of this Paperback Original. Published as an Olympic Photo-Reader. A novelization of the film about "what it's like to spend a wild weekend with drug-happy, sex-mad motorcyclists...sharing all their weird hangups." Lavishly illustrated with unbelievable photos of naked bikers and their female cohorts, including..... More about The Acid Eaters

LA: UCLA, 1992. Single quarto sheet folded twice to make a leaflet for mailing. Illustrated with photos of several works by Kruger including her famous "I shop therefore I am." Mailing label, small soft crease, but still fine (8.5" x 11" unfolded). More about Announcement for a 1992 "Q & A with Barbara Kruger" at UCLA