NY: Interview, 1972. The "Gala Christmas Issue" featuring a cover photo of Warhol in a tassled Santa cap taking a Polaroid. Bold and beautifully signed in brown marker by Warhol along the edge above his photo making a nice presentation. Contents include a color Diana Ross centerfold photo-collage, Bette Davis..... More
SF: City Lights, 1956. 18mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Number 4 in the Pocket Poets Series. One of the most important books of modern poetry, and the first major work to define the Beat ethos. Some sunning to spine that overlaps a bit onto the edge..... More
[Tucson]: Nazraeli, [2001]. Tall folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of Hido's first book. Signed by Hido. Lonely, atmospheric photos of suburbia at night. Fine. More
[Tucson]: Nazraeli, [2002]. Tall folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Hido. Hido's second book. Bleak, but beautiful photos of suburbia at night. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of soft, barely perceptible gentle creases to the jacket due to being too tightly shrink-wrapped by the publisher..... More
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. Hardbound in full decorated cloth with printed spine label. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed (in pencil) by Alastair Johnston to Bob Hawley publisher of Oyez Press: "the alleged book lovingly inscribed to Bob Hawley, yr servant, the author, Alastair Johnston." The following items are laid in..... More
NY: Abbeville Press, 1995. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Prologue by Allen Ginsberg. Excellent book documenting the Beat influence on the art, music, fashion, and popular culture of the '50s and '60s. Issued to coincide with the 1995 landmark exhibition at the Whitney Museum. It traces the Beat..... More
n.p.: Kreiss, ca. 1960. Bearded, hirsute, beret-wearing, standing male beatnik with a cigarette dangling from his lips while he carries a book under his arm. One foot cracked and was imperceptibly repaired, else about fine. The large-size Kreiss beatnik statues are scarce. More
NY: Ticknor & Fields, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. As new. More
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, [1991]. Ownership signature, else fine in dust jacket with some slight fading to spine and edge of front panel. More
[London]: SAF Publishing, [2002]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of the more interesting '60s counterculture memoirs. Illustrated with photographs. Guthrie recounts his international adventures and drug-taking escapades in the hip scenes of LA, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Tangier, and elsewhere. Along the way he encountered Allen Ginsberg, Richie..... More
[Chicago]: Chicago Review Press, [2006]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Very fine. More
Salem, OR: Privately published by the author, 1983. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Barker with an original initialed linoleum cut frontispiece portrait of Bukowski by Barker. Spine slightly faded, else near fine. More
Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, [2019]. Softbound. First edition thus. Very good plus to near fine. More
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, [1989]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. Very fine in dust jacket with some yellowing to flaps. More
NY: William Morrow, [1994]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book. Signed by Phillips. As new. More
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1992]. Softbound. Uncorrected proof, second issue with some blackened-out passages. Fine. More
[Santa Fe]: Synergetic Press, [2010]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by John Barlow.Interviews and remiscenses with Leary, Metzner, Ram Dass, and others who were involved in the Harvard experiments, Millbrook, and the early days of the Psychedelic Revolution. Illustrated with photographs. Very fine, basically as new... More
NY: Vrej Baghoomian, 1989. The front of the card reproduces Basquiat's "Red Warrior" painting. Baghoomian gave Basquiat his last show while he was alive---this show took place only about a year after his death. Fine (ca. 8.75" x 5.75" folded). More
[San Diego: Publishers Export Company, n.d. ca. 1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Cover illustration by Doug Weaver featuring two women disrobing while a hippy stud in jeans and knee-high fringed boots watches---all against a background of orange and yellow floating globules. In contrast, the back cover simply features..... More
LA: Ultima Books, 1969. First edition of this trade Paperback Original. A "case study of a girl's climax-to-climax search in a freaked-out nightmare of drugs and perversion!" Unlike most titles in the genre, this erotic hippie exploitation "study" has the distinction of having 5 full-page, b&w psychedelic photos of naked..... More
[Zurich]: Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, n.d. [ca. 1996]. 16mo. Softbound issued in dust jacket (only issued softbound). First edition. The book is devoted to Basquiat's portraits of famous artists done in 1983-1984 on ceramic plates then owned by Andy Warhol. Features Basquiat's expressionist portraits of his heros and influences including Dali..... More
Pasadena, CA: X-Ray Book Co., 2005. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards (measuring approx. 4.5" x 3"). First edition. One of 26 lettered copies (the entire cloth edition). The first appearance of these previously unpublished poems written by Brautigan in the mid 1950's. Another charming production from Brewton's X-Ray Book Co. As..... More
