The Good Brother.
[NY]: Simon and Schuster, [1997]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. One of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. As new. More
New Arrivals
Handbill announcing a ''Rockdance-environment Happening Benefit for the Communication Company in Honor of the CIA.''
SF: Communication Company, 1967. 4to. This event, also known as Bedrock One, was a concert/Happening presented by the Diggers during the "Summer of Love." Richard Brautigan & the Caped Crusaders, the Diggers, the S. F. Mime Troupe, the Steve Miller Blues Band, The Orkustra, and others, are listed as participants..... More
The Beautiful Poem.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Short-lived hippie publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Brautigan was active in the Haight hippie community and formed an alliance with the Communication Company who published this and other works..... More
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
[SF: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition, second issue (with illustrations of dogs and photo of computers as the background). Ephemeral publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Published by Brautigan's friends at the Communication Company who were..... More
Love Poem.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition. Evanescent hippie publication that was given away free in the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." In our experience, along with Flowers for Those You Love, the scarcest of Brautigan's Communication Company broadsides. Very fine. More
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition, first issue (with text and illustrations of amplifier diagrams rather than illustrations as the background). An ephemeral publication that was given away free on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Very fine. More
Saint Thomas.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, [1965]. Softbound. First edition. Near fine. More
Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4.
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. Broadside poem. First edition (issue with the background illustration of bones printed in black rather than red, priority unknown). A fugitive item from the Communication Company who also published the Diggers' communiques during the "Summer of Love" as well as work by other poets and..... More
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley 111.
NY: St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books, [2016]. Hardbound in dust jacket. Second printing. A biography of one of the preeminent LSD chemists of the sixties and the person who designed the Grateful Dead's sound systems. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of small, slightly toned patches... More
The Collector's Guide to Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters, Postcards and Handbills 1965-1973.
Berkeley: Privately published by the author, n.d. [early 2000's]. Thick 4to. Plastic comb binding. Revised and expanded from the previous edition published in 2000 (this edition consistes of 664 numbered pages). A mammoth undertaking listing all the issue points needed to distinguish between the various original printings and reprints of..... More
The Sexual Paradise of LSD.
North Hollywood: Brandon House, [1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. A highspot in the LSD-sex-hippie exploitation genre: "A book that will startle, shock, and warn the unwary." The cover features a psychedelicized photo of a woman's naked body. Fine, crisp copy. Scarce, especially in this condition... More
Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist.
NY: Granary Books, 1998. Softbound. First edition. Some fading to spine, else fine. More
R. Crumb Checklist of Work and Criticism.
Cambridge, MA: Boatner Norton Press, 1981. Softbound. First edition. Spine faded and page edges slighty toned, solid very good plus. More
Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography.
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1991. Hardbound in cloth-covered illustrated boards. First edition. The ultimate reference from the preeminent Mail Art scholar. One corner gently tapped, else fine (few microscopic specks to edges of text block). More
LSD: Battle for the Mind.
Glendale, CA: Supreme Recordings, ca. 1966. LP record. Evangelist Willard Cantelon should be given credit for conceding that God can be reached through LSD, though he suggests religion as a more reliable way, not fraught with the perils of a possible "freak-out." However, the real virtue of this album is..... More
Paul Bowles 1910-1999.
Newark, DE: University of Delaware Library, 2000. Softbound. First edition. Profusely illustrated catalog showing the best of the University of Delaware's amazing Paul Bowles holdings. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. Fine. More
Bradford Morrow Bookseller Catalogue Eight: John Steinbeck A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Formed by Harry Valentine of Pacific Grove, California.
Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow, [1980]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Foreword by John Payne. Photo-illustrated catalog of rare Steinbeck material offered for sale. Fine. The hardbound edition is scarce (only 250 copies). More
The Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine. More
The Graphic Art of Paul Bacon.
Wilkes-Barre: Sordoni Art Gallery, 1999. Oblong 8vo. Softbound. First edition. Essays by Hank O'Neal and Stanley Grand. Profusely illustrated in color. Bacon was among the preeminent designers of dust jackets with the one for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest among his many credits. Published on the occasion of an..... More
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey.
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, [1990]. Large 4to. Softbound. Later printing. Excellent psychedelic, metaphysical, fantasy art. Fine (minute nick to spine). More
The Aguero Sisters.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. As new. More
Intimate Distance: Twenty-five Years of Photographs, a Chronological Album.
[NY]: Aperture, [2016]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. A terrific, comprehensive survey of Hido's work profusely illustrated throughout. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap. More
Play This Love with Me.
[Covina, CA: Collectors Publications, 1967]. First American edition, a Paperback Original. An erotic novel originally published by the Olympia Press exploring both the underground and high society scenes in Paris in the '60s---including drug themes. Corner chip to one page not affecting text, tiny sliver from bottom edge of front..... More
The Underpainter.
[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart, [1997]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First Canadian edition (the correct first edition). As new. More