SF: Privately published by the Diggers/Free City Collective, 1967. Legal-size sheets, bound with a metal clip, as issued. First edition. A collection of 11 (of 12) broadsides (several printed on both sides) featuring psychedelic art, poetry, hippie philosophy, news from the street, and where to find free food and lodging... More
[SF: Communication Company, 1967]. A spoof dollar bill issued by the Diggers during the "Summer of Love" and distributed on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury. The Diggers used a real dollar bill which they enlarged and embellished by hand and then reproduced on the Communication Company's Gestetner machine. "Within a.... More
NY: Chemical Bank, 1960. Frederick Fried was the Art Director/window designer for the famous luxury department store Bonwit Teller, whose flagship store was in the heart of NYC at Fifth Ave. and 56th St. Andy worked as his assistant before he became famous and even afterward. The check has Andy... More
Newport, RI: The Samaritans, 1981. Square 8vo. Stapled pamphlet with a dangling tassle on a string. Boldly signed by Warhol on the back cover. The highlight of this extravagant event was a charity auction of works by Warhol and photographer Marie Cosindas to benefit The Samaritans. Nice cover collage utilizing... More
Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 1987. Printed in black on slick white stock. Fine (4.25" x 6"). Scarce. More
NY: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987. The other side prints an announcement for a show by Simon Linke. Printed in white, gray, and brown on slick stock. Fine (ca. 8.5" x 6"). More
NY: Bruno Bischofberger/Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, 1984. Nicely printed in green and black on textured beige stock. An early show for Basquiat. Fine (5" x 7"). More
NY: Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, 1988. Invite for Basquiat's final exhibition featuring a b&w cover photo of Basquiat holding a copy of Kerouac's The Subterraneans. Fine (three small spots to back cover, a minor blemish from the printing process). A nicely designed announcement measuring 9" x 6" folded. More
NY: Izzy Young, 1961. Single sheet folded to make four pages. The cover features a photo of a young Dylan wearing a corduroy cap and playing harmonica. Prints biographical info, including some "embellishments" supplied by Dylan such as how he started "playing Carnivals at the age of fourteen." Includes extensive... More
[Barcelona]: Ediciones Poligrafa, [1966]. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Barely perceptible touch of yellowing to dust jacket, else fine with the original wrap-around band and housed in publisher's cardboard box. (Text in English, French, Spanish, and German.). More
[NY: Leon Amiel, 1980]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. A special issue of the XX Siecle Review. Profusely illustrated throughout including two original lithographs by Lindner. Supplemenray texts by Werner Spies and others. Touch of yellowing to top edge of front and back blank pages, else very fine. More
NY: Museum of Modern Art, [1993]. Thick 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout, many in color. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. Very fine. More
n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1967. Issued by the hippies in the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Handed out to straight people and tourists to provide them with "safe passage " through the hippie populated streets of the Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere. "Housewives...students...parents...athletes...doctors...squares...Indian chiefs...policemen...Have you heard of all those wild rumors..... More
LA: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. An offset lithograph photographed from Berman's original Verifax collage. Limited to 50 copies. Originally issued as part of a set of lithos titled Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974, but here offered separately. On this print the images within the four hand-held radios are: a woman sitting in a.... More
Boston: John Sdoucos/Music Productions Inc., 1966. 4to. The front is illustrated with a collage utilizing photos of Andy Warhol, Nico, Elizabeth Taylor, a Warhol movie poster, and various newspaper clippings. The back prints another newspaper clipping "A Far-Out Night With Andy Warhol," along with the blurb: "Andy Warhol's smash scene... More
[Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, 1977]. Small 4to. Pamphlet, stitch bound. First edition. Of 250 numbered copies signed by Valenza. The colophon page is also signed by an unidentified person involved with the publication. Illustrated with charming woodblock prints. Printed on lovely handmade rice paper. Color photo of the author in... More
NY: Dial Records, ca. 1948. 8vo. Single sheet folded to make four pages. Second edition. The front cover features the Wallace Berman illustration used on the cover of "Be-Bop Jazz," a set of 78 rpm records issued by Dial in 1948. A terrific illustration by Berman and his first published... More
NY: Fuck You Press, 1965. 4to. "THE WORLD PREMIER OF THE FUGS! an unbelievable group of singers featuring Tuli Kupferberg on farto-phone, Brillo Box, finger symbols, & various percussion instruments; Ed Sanders on organ, sex-organ, & harmonica...dirty folk spews, rock & roll, poetry, Amphetamine operas and other freak beams..." The... More
LA: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. An offset lithograph photographed from Berman's original Verifax collage. Limited to 50 copies. Originally issued as part of a set of lithos titled Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974, but here offered separately. On this print the images within the four hand-held radios are: a nebula swirling in outer... More
[LA: Fellows of Contemporary Art, 1978]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by Hal Glicksman. Essays by Robert Duncan and David Meltzer. Profusely illustrated throughout. Issued to coincide with an important exhibition---Berman's first major retrospective. Thin abrasion to bottom of front cover, barely perceptible yellowing to top edge of first few... More
n.p.:n.p., [1959]. A head-shot of a turtle-necked young Wieners that the Auerhahn bibliography describes as "a linen weave line screen" photograph---titled in the lower left by Berman "John W. 1959." On the verso in an unknown hand (probably Haslewood's): "Photograph 1959 by Wallace Berman." Included is a copy of the... More
NY: Village Vanguard, 1957. The card, mimeographed from typescript, reads (in part): "The voice of the 'Beat Generation' ---Jack Kerouac---will step off the road momentarily for a stop at the Village Vanguard beginning Thurs. Dec. 19th for his first nightclub appearance ever. Author of 'On the Road' which has been... More
England: The British Journal of Addiction, 1957. 8vo. Offprint of Burroughs' first periodical appearance, and his first appearance under his own name, in the January 1957 issue of The British Journal of Addiction. First separate printing of this long statement by Burroughs on his experiments with various drugs and different... More
[Mt. Kisco, NY: Tyler Graphics, 1989]. Large 4to. Softbound. First edition. Essay by Judith Goldman. Profusely illustrated throughout. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition. As new. More
NY: The Village Gate, 1966. The card invites you to "Take a trip on LSD (equal parts Laughter, Song, Dance) in large doses as often as required." "Admission by prescription only." The card, designed to look like a prescription from the "Zafero Clinic," "must be presented at the door." For... More
