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
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
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 Features four previously unpublished poems from Corso's final manuscript "The Golden Dot" written while he was dying from cancer.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
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
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
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
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
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
[SF]: City Lights, [1961]. 16mo. Softbound. Second printing. Ginsberg's most important book after Howl. Bright, about fine. More
SF: City Lights, [1977]. 16mo. Softbound. First edition. Number 35 in the Pocket Poets Series. Signed by Ginsberg. Small corner crease to front cover, touch of rubbing to covers, else very good plus to near fine, and unread. More
SF: Sore Dove Press, 2008. Small poetry broadside tipped into a printed folder. Tipped-in on the opposing page is an original acrylic painting of a guitar by Soheyl Dahi. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Leonard Cohen (there were also 100 unsigned copies without the folder or..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1978. Folio. Broadside. First edition. Prints an excerpt from Cities of the Red Night. A handsome production illustrated by James Silke. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author and the artist (of a total edition of 126). A couple of small, faint corner..... More
NY: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1964. Two pages are quarto, one is octavo, stapled at the corner. The first page lists the four initial programs of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque. The first program features "Newsreel" by Andy Warhol, "Senseless" and "Chumlum" by Ron Rice, "A Movie" by Bruce Conner, and "Thigh Line Lyre..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1963]. A pen and ink line drawing in red and black reminiscent of flames burning inside a wire cage. This is the original drawing that John Martin used to make a smaller serigraph print that he bound into special copies of Living on Luck. Signed by Bukowski in full..... More
SF: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. Oblong 8vo. Quarter-bound in leather and paper covered boards. First edition, deluxe issue. One of only "14 or 15" specially-bound copies with leather spine and front and back cover design by Robert LaVigne (not present on the regular copies). Small, clear stain to spine leather, some toning..... More
NY: Privately published by the Yippies, 1968. 4to. Illustrated with a photograph of a pre-Columbian sculpture of a laughing figure. Signed by Paul Krassner. The handbill states: "MACY'S GIANT NEW-NATION CELEBRATION to help free us from the property fetish, macy's will become a liberated zone SATURDAY, June 8, from 1..... More
SF: Goethe Center, 1971. Fine (6.75" x 4"). More
Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1968. The front and back of the card features a silk-screen reproduction of Warhol's "Flowers" design that was also used on the cover of the catalog and the poster for this exhibition. Printed inside the card: "Andy Warhol Screens, Films, Boxes, Clouds and a Book, 1968," along..... More
LA: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. Originally issued as the colophon lithograph for a set of lithos titled Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974, but here offered separately. It features a bold line of Berman's Hebrew lettering that extends from one side to the other. This colophon lithograph was the only one signed by Berman..... More
NY: Transition Press, 1937. Edited by Eugene Jolas. Important avant-garde periodical with contributions by Man Ray, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and James Agee, among many others. Art by by Leger, Miro, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, et al. Cover illustration by Marcel Duchamp, reproducing the Readymade, "Comb." Printed in..... More
NY: Pop Shop, 1985. A yellow paper bag from the Pop Shop featuring Haring's illustration of a radiating man with the words "Pop Shop" where his head should be. Along the left edge Haring has inscribed the bag in black marker: "For Jan Erik Love K. Haring 1987." Lowenadler was..... More
Hollywood: Burn Again Press, 1989. (The imprint is fictitious, actually published by John Martin at Black Sparrow Press.) Hardbound in cloth-covered boards. First edition. Prints a single poem about Buk's friend and favorite bookseller, Red Stodolsky. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. Laid in is a TLS from..... More
Paris: Dead Language Press, [1959]. Square 16mo. Single long sheet folded three times to make a booklet. First edition of Maclise's first publication. Cover design printed in black with text in red. Very near fine. Rare. More
NY: Cafe Cino, 1968. 4to. "Monuments" consisted of 8 monologues by di Prima directed by James Waring. It was the last performance at the legendary Cafe Cino, a Greenwich Village venue that was the first Off-Off Broadway theater. The Cino staged one-act plays by established authors, eventually presenting only new..... More
NY: Cafe Bizarre, ca. 1959. Single tall sheet folded to make four pages. Cover illustration of a sinister, demented person acting as the doorman exemplifies the "bizarre" concept of this cafe, with a small map of Greenwich Village bohemian hot spots on the back cover. The menu includes such items..... More