San Francisco: Trinity Press, 1973. 8pp. The premier issue of this influential mag from the Bay Area Dada scene. Illustrated with photographs and graphics. Slightly toned, with a thin line of dampmarking to bottom edge, very good (5.25" x 4.25"). More
San Francisco: Trinity Press, 1974. A major publication from the Bay Area Dada scene. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and unusual graphics. Fine (5.25" x 4.25"). More
San Francisco: Trinity Press, 1975. A much-respected "Dadazine" from the Bay Area Dada scene, this issue devoted to "The Visual Poetry of Opal L. Nations." Cover illustration of Captain America. Illustrated throughout with drawings and unusual graphics. Fine (5.25" x 4.25"). More
San Francisco: Trinity Press, 1974. The "Editor's First Invitational Issue." One of the most illustrious periodicals, or "Dadazines," from the Bay Area Dada scene. Illustrated throughout with photographs and unusual graphics. Barely perceptible touch of toning to spine, else fine (5.5" x 4.25"). More
Chicago: Burley, Cross, & Co., [1959]. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition. Illustrated with drawings. A collection of short stories (in some cases adapted from fairy tales or literary classics) written entirely in beatnik slang. An amazing tour de force of hip lingo, one of the two most important books..... More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1989]. Hardbound in dust jacket. The correct first edition of the author's second book. Only 1250 copies printed. Very fine. More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition. Only 1000 copies printed. Very fine. More
n.p.: X-Ray Book Co., 2004. First edition. Likely issued as part of an issue of X-Ray magazine but here offered separately. Nicely printed in red on textured white stock. Fine (3.5" x 5.25"). More
n.p.: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2009]. Small poetry card. First edition. Issued in an edition of 700 copies for friends of the press. Printed in black and red on white textured stock. As new (5.5" x 4.25"). More
n.p.: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2009]. 8vo. Broadside poem. First edition. Limited to 26 copies for the friends of John Martin. Nicely printed in black on yellow textured stock. As new. More
San Diego: Phenix Publishers, ca. 1968. 4to. A hippie exploitation mag with a cover blurb advertising a "nude hippie party with a naked rock band" named "The Monkey Wenches" whose photo appears on the cover. Filled with photos of naked hippies frolicking outdoors and, of course, at the nude hippie..... More
[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1969]. Hippie exploitation magazine exposing "The True Inside Story of Hollywood's Naked Hippies." Lots of b&w (and some color) photos of hippies having sex, playing cards, smoking a mammoth hookah, dancing with a dog, body painting, playing guitar, etc. Small price sticker to front cover, else..... 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: 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
Berkeley: Psychological Consultation Services, ca. 1956. 4to. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. First edition. A form created by Leary for use in interpersonal diagnosis of personality. Reproduces one large Interpersonal Diagnostic Circle that Leary devised for measuring characteristics of personality (also prints eight smaller circles). One of..... More
Santa Barbara: Maurice Neville, 1980. Hardbound in full leather. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. As new. More
[NY: Beelzebub Books, 1959]. Second printing of this softcore men's magazine flagrantly exploiting the then current beatnik phenomena. Published as Beelzebub Books No. 1. "An uncensored, unexpurgated expose of the 'BEAT GENERATION'." Sensational articles on the Beat phenomenon such as "Shook-up Shebas and Be-Bop Babes" and "Beat Broads Curiously Cavort."..... More
n.p.: Bookslinger/Toothpaste Press, 1983. Small broadside printing this poem by Buk. First separate printing. As new (7.5" x 5"). More
No place: Cab Calloway Inc., 1939. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.5" x 2.75"). First (and only) edition. Illustrated with charming small drawings. Calloway wrote this as a sequel to his classic "The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary" published to great acclaim a year earlier. The purpose of this..... More
NY: Privately published by Dan Burley, 1944. Softbound (only issued softbound). Second printing (published the same year as the first). Illustrations, including the terrific zoot-suit-wearing hepcat cover illustration, by Melvin Tapley. Six years after Cab Calloway's classic "Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A 'Hepster's' Dictionary," the first dictionary of jive slang, Burley..... More
NY: Gaslight Cafe, ca. 1960. A single wide quarto sheet folded accordion-style. Prints a long text about the history of Greenwich Village bohemianism and the role that the Gaslight played stating that: "Poetry readings in New York originated at the Gaslight. Jack Kerouac, Alan [sic] Ginsberg...found our cellar the ideal..... More
No place: no publisher, 1965. Beatnik TV character Maynard G. Krebs on the show "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" was easily the most conspicuous appropriation and parody of beatniks ever devised by mainstream culture. Here Maynard is shown in goatee and torn sweatshirt playing the bongos. Several rubber-stamped dates..... More
n.p.:n.p., [1970]. The blowfish (yes, an actual blowfish) was delivered to Plunkett by their mutual friend "Marilyn" around 1970. It was enclosed in a white cardboard box with the the following instructions written boldly in Ray Johnson's hand with a red magic marker: "MARILYN--THIS BOX IS FOR ED PLUNKETT" and..... More
NY: Cafe Bizarre, ca. 1959. The cigarette holder prints the word "Bizarre" in the same spooky stylized lettering used on the cover of the LP that was recorded there, along with their catch phrase "Where the Beat Meet the Elite." The Cafe Bizarre, founded in 1957, was one of the..... More
[San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1965]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Issued as part of the notable '60s James Bond sleaze parody series. Terrific Robert Bonfils cover art showing agent 0008, gun-in-hand, barging into a dimly-lit room with scantily-clad, unconscious (presumably drugged) women strewn across the floor. "Meet 0008---Peerless Lover..... More
