LA: Wallace Berman, ca. 1964. Affixed to the card is a small photo by Berman of a flower in silhouette against an abstract background. "Love from the Bermans" is printed above. Fine with a few minute remnants of archival tape to verso from previous framing (4" x 3").
Larkspur, CA: Wallace Berman, 1960. The front of the card features a lovely, soulful close-up self-portrait of Berman's face looking directly into the camera. The photo has intentionally been torn with irregular edges and affixed to the card. The back of the card is stamped and hand-addressed by Berman in...
LA: Wallace Berman, 1962. Features an original photo by Berman of his beloved hand-printing press on which he produced Semina (and that he can be seen with on the cover of Semina Culture). Beneath the photograph is a handwritten message to his friend and Semina contributor, poet and publisher William...
n.p.: Privately published, 1963. Arguably Berman's most interesting poster design utilizing various photographs culled from newspapers and magazines to create a dynamic collage effect (Support the Revolution, p. 170.). Old creases where folded as issued, paper slightly toned, the toning a bit accentuated at the center fold, but an exceptionally...
LA: Privately published by Wallace Berman, 1957. The second issue of Berman's legendary handmade mixed-media periodical that was produced in various formats for nine issues from 1955-1964. This number is the only one that was bound as a booklet stapled at the spine. Published after Berman's first exhibition at Ferus...
Larkspur, CA: Privately printed and hand-assembled by Wallace Berman, 1961. Limited to 200 copies. Folder with an altered photographic still of actress Susan Hayward on the cover. Laid into a pocket inside the folder are 18 inserts of various sizes printing photographs, texts, and drawings. This issue is devoted entirely...
n.p.: Privately published, 1965. This is one of only 6 signed numbered artist proofs. Berman has written in the bottom corner: "W Berman artists proof 3/6." Printed in black on yellow stock. (Wallace Berman: American Aleph p. 86.) Couple of small pieces of archival tape to verso of top corners...
n.p.: Privately published, 1965. Printed in black on yellow stock. (Wallace Berman: American Aleph, p. 86.) Fine (21" x 17").
n.p.: Maya Quarto, 1970. 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Published as No. 7 in the Maya Quartos series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Very near fine (hint of fading to edges).
LA: Kohn Gallery, [2016]. 4to. Hardbound, issued without a dust jacket. First edition. Terrific book on Berman profusely illustrated throughout. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap.
n.p.: Don Allen for the S. F. Arts Festival, 1964. Folio-sized folder containing 10 illustrated poetry broadsides created for the San Francisco Arts Festival. Limited to 300 copies signed by both poet and illustrator (except for David Meltzer who refused to sign his, and artist Phyllis Bailey). Includes the broadside...
[SF]: Privately published, 1967. Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, Lenore Kandel, and Lew Welch are among those scheduled to read in San Francisco during the "Summer of Love" in support of the Diggers who were instrumental in feeding and informing the influx of hippies to the Haight-Ashbury. Text and design printed...
NY: Tompkins Square Press, [1967]. Hardbound in glassine dust jacket. First edition. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. One of 974 copies (of a total edition of 1000). A long, Beat jazz poem written during the course of one night in jail. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
[n.p.: Paperbook Gallery, 1965]. Pamphlet. First edition of the author's first book. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Bremser was one of the original Beats, and one of the best of the jazz poets. Fine.
[Germany & CA]: Hatje Cantz/Foggy Notion, [2011]. 4to. Hardbound in photo-illustrated boards. First edition. Brilliant photos by Brittin of the LA art scene in the '50s including Wallace Berman and his friends, early shots of the Venice scene, as well as photos from the '60s civil rights struggle, and more.....
NY: Privately published by Slim Brundage, 1960. 4to. This handbill was the inspiration of Slim Brundage, hobo, Wobbly, writer, and proprietor of the Village coffee house College of Complexes where this convention took place to nominate a Beat candidate for the 1960 election. "Cool delegates wanted to nominate a Beat...
[Cambridge: Living Color Productions/Jack Stevenson, 1986]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Review copy with a TLS from the publisher to Reinhold Aman, editor of Maledicta, laid in along with a handbill to raise legal funds for the publisher who was undergoing efforts by John Martin to suppress...
Middlesex: Penguin, 1969. First paperback edition. Published as Penguin Modern Poets 13. Very fine.
[Hollywood: Living Color Productions/Jack Stevenson, 1982]. The "Special Family Issue" of this periodical from the publisher who issued Pandemonium. Features an interview with John Waters, five poems by Charles Bukowski, a photo essay on "The Future That Never Came," and more. Very near fine.
n.p.: Privately published, 1994. White, Anvil brand, large size T-shirt printing drawings by Bukowski of multiple faces and "little man" figures. This quote by Bukowski is printed on the back: "The Difference Between Life And Art Is Art Is More Bearable." Hand-numbered "26" in the collar leading us to believe...
NY: Privately published by Dan Burley, 1944. Softbound (only issued softbound). Second printing. Illustrations, including the terrific zoot-suit-wearing hepcat cover illustration, by Melvin Tapley. Inscribed by Burley: "To a real hepcat / on the other side / of the big drink / Paul Graae--- / Dan Burley / '48 /...
[NY]: Olympia Press, [1970]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Cover photo by Ira Cohen. The author's first book, an account of his days as a methedrine addict. Evocative of his father's first book, Junkie. Minor wear, solid very good.
[Gottingen: Expanded Media Editions, 1973]. Softbound. First edition thus. Fine. (Bilingual English/German text.).
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing on a fire escape in N.Y.C. in the sixties. He's wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, and is in the process of taking a puff on his cigarette. He's looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, stoned, classic Burroughsian look. A shot that epitomizes.....
Atlanta: Coca-Cola Co., 1941. Softbound. First edition. The second of three books on flower arranging by William Burroughs' mother. Illustrated with amazingly kitch color photos of flower arrangements and bottles of Coke. Interesting item because her middle name "Lee" was the pseudonym Burroughs used for his first book Junkie. She...
