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
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
NY: Cafe Wha?, ca. 1964. Single octavo sheet folded to make four pages. "Soulful Souvenir Menu" (price .10 cents) from one of the most legendary music and entertainment venues in Greenwich Village. Founded in 1959 by Manny Roth (uncle of singer David Lee Roth), the Cafe Wha? was the venue..... More
NY: Cafe Wha?, ca. 1964. Business card from one of the most legendary music and entertainment venues in Greenwich Village. Founded in 1959 by Manny Roth (uncle of singer David Lee Roth), the Cafe Wha? was the venue for some of Dylan's very earliest performances after he arrived in NYC..... More
NY: Night Owl, ca. 1965. The shot glass features an illustration of an owl perched on a lamp post dressed as a beatnik wearing sunglasses and a beret. The Night Owl was one of the legendary music venues in the Village during the '60s. Richie Havens, Buzzy Linhart, The Blus..... More
NY: The Bitter End/The Tin Angel, ca. 1965. The two night spots were doing some cross promotion---one side of the card is for The Bitter End and at the bottom it reads: "Before the show, enjoy dinner at (see other side)." The other side of the card is for The..... More
NY: The Bitter End, ca. 1964. A single large quarto sheet folded to make four pages. The covers print a poem by Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret along with an illustration of a female cabaret performer. This is the scarcer version of the two Bitter End menus that we are..... More
NY: The Bitter End, ca. 1964. A single quarto sheet folded to make four pages. The covers print a poem by Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret. The Bitter End was one of the primary music clubs and entertainment venues in Greenwich Village during the '60s. During it's heyday it featured..... More
NY: Gerde's Folk City, ca. 1960. A small folding card that the club placed on the tables stating: "Welcome to Gerde's Folk City New York's Center of Folk Music Open Every Night" and "Minimum $2.50 Per Person." After he arrived in Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan's very first professional gigs took..... More
NY: Gaslight Cafe, ca. 1962. A single quarto sheet of thick pink stock folded twice. The cover features a place to put a stamp and mailing address so presumably the cafe could mail this to potential customers or tourists could mail this to friends at home. The Gaslight Cafe was..... More
