[Port Townsend, WA]: Process Media, [2013]. 4to. Hardbound in blue, faux suede-covered boards with an illustrated plate affixed to the cover showing a naked woman emerging from the smoke of a hookah. First edition in English of this charming tale ("a great Oriental Romance") about hashish originally published in Germany..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. Later printing. Lively and well-researched overview of the Beat scene including much first-hand material from interviews with the Beats. Fine in dust jacket with the red spine lettering faded. More
[Vienna, VA: Quadrus Communications, 2005]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Ben Rapaport. A terrific book profusely illustrated with color photos of elaborate and beautiful antique opium pipes and accouterments. Fine (minute tap to bottom corner of front board)... More
No place: Privately published by Elmer Batters, ca. 1961. The model is lying on a mattress seductively cuddling a pair of bongos. Elmer Batters was the preeminent fetish photographer of the period. Fine (ca. 2.5" x 2.5"). More
No place: Privately published by Elmer Batters, ca. 1961. The model is lying on a mattress with her head resting on pillows as she looks upward directly at the camera. Elmer Batters was a pioneer in fetish photography. Fine (ca. 2.25" x 2.25"). More
No place: Privately published by Elmer Batters, ca. 1961. There are LP record covers around the mattress and on the floor, and part of the model's body can be seen reflected in a large mirror on the wall. Elmer Batters was an early master of fetish photography. Fine (ca. 2.5"..... More
NY: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1946. A quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Terrific cover illustration reproducing a painting by Tanguy. This exhibition was held in connection with the publication of collected essays and poems on the work of Yves Tanguy by Andre Breton. Very good or better... More
Studio City, CA: Warner Brothers, 1959. A set of 12 folding Christmas-themed notecards printing illustrations of beatniks with their dialog printed above and a humorous sentiment inside. Included is a cover card showing a photograph of Kookie poised with comb-in-hand doing his famous "combing my hair" pose. Edd Brynes was..... More
Studio City, CA: Warner Brothers, 1959. A set of 12 folding notecards printing illustrations of beatniks with their dialog printed above and a humorous sentiment inside. Included is a cover card showing a photograph of Kookie poised with comb-in-hand doing his famous "combing my hair" pose. Edd Brynes was the..... More
NY: Off Broadway, 1961. Pamphlet. First edition. The "Special Coffee House Edition" of this guide to NYC nightlife. Lists all the hip coffee houses and clubs in Greenwich Village, with some pages devoted to Off Broadway theater. Illustrated with photographs including one of the Cafe Wha? and another that shows..... More
No place: Warner Brothers, ca. 1960. 45rpm record in picture sleeve with a photo of Edd "Kookie" Byrnes. Edd Brynes was the heartthrob hipster in the cast of the popular '60s TV show "77 Sunset Strip." Mint record in very good plus sleeve with some rubbing to one corner and..... More
Chicago: Nelson Hall, [1977]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. A solid and presentable reading copy only. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1966]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. More
East Hampton, NY: Harper's Books, 2013. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Catalog to accompany the exhibition "Stuart Sutcliffe: Yea Yea Yea" at Harper's Books. Covers reproduce works by Sutcliffe with three other pieces featured inside. Curated by Richard Prince who also wrote an essay for the catalog. Fine... More
NY: Viking, [1972]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Fine. More
NY: A. S. Barnes, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Illustrated with photographs. Trivial soiling to boards, else near fine in very slightly rubbed, price-clipped very good plus dust jacket. More
[London]: Gen X Publishing/General Publishing Group, [1997]. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Interesting account of Hakman's adventures in the world of surfing and hashish smuggling. Top edge of pages slightly rippled from moisture, else near fine in like dust jacket with a minute puncture to spine... More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [2000]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition published the same year as the UK edition. Includes some photographs and antique graphics. As new. More
n.p.: [Pleasure Editions, 2015]. 4to. Unbound folded sheets laid into transparent red glassine covers. First edition. Limited to 50 copies. Features risograph prints of Maclise's lovely, intricate, and transcendent calligraphy described by Ira Cohen as "his own special calligraphy, a kind of Atlantean script with suggestions of Sanskrit and Arabic..."..... More
SF: San Francisco Art Institute, 1987. Square 4to. First edition. Exhibition packet for the landmark "Cure of Souls" exhibition of LSD blotter art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Curated by Mark McCloud, the foremost collector and scholar on the subject. Consists of a psychedelic, elaborate three-panel interlocking gatefold cover..... More
No place: no publisher, ca. 1960. A staged photo of a half-naked "beatnik" temptress straddling a conga drum that she's playing as she looks upward. A guitar leans against the wall next to her. Fine (ca. 8" x 10"). More
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Thick 4to. Softbound (only issued softbound). First printing. An exhaustive compendium of virtually everything relating to the cultural change of the '60s. Interesting graphics, photos, collage art, and reprinted texts are used to chronicle the people, movements, and events of the decade. Modest toning and..... More
London: Pedigree Books, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Nice cover illustration of a bearded beatnik playing guitar for his girlfriend. Includes a substantive glossary for "bods from squaresville." Spine leans slightly, light corner crease to back cover, else very good or better. More
SF: New Langton Arts, ca. 1978. Each postcard features an image from one of the installations or performances there. Founded in 1975, New Langton Arts was part of the first wave of alternative art spaces in the US. Near fine (one card a bit scuffed on verso). The lot:... More
Denver: Band Box Records, no date [ca. 1960]. 45rpm record in picture sleeve. Absolutely terrific, ridiculous, and really well executed use of full-on beatnik lingo to tell a couple of humorous tall tales---over jazz background by the Saints. Probably the best beatnik lingo spiel ever recorded. Near mint record in..... More
