Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts, 2011. Nicely designed catalog and 38 unbound plates (some in color) reproducing works by these artists enclosed in a cardboard box with printed label. First edition. Published on the occasion of an exhibition exploring the work of these two influential Southern California artists. As..... More
n.p.: Columbia Records, 1970. A quarto page neatly excised from Billboard magazine. The advertisement utilizes a disturbing still from D.W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation." At the bottom the anonymous artist placed 5 handheld transistor radios identical to Berman's and in each he put a photo of one..... More
Berkeley: Privately published, 1979. Features an illustration of one of his verifaxes. Two words underlined in red ink on verso, imperceptible pin hole to two corners, else fine. More
n.p.: Privately produced by the artist, 1962. Small framed etching that Berman found and gifted to Meltzer. Inscribed on the verso by Berman who has done a small drawing of Meltzer: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID From Wallace, Shirley & Tosh 1962." A charming artifact linking these two longtime best friends. The..... More
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..... More
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..... More
LA: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. An offset lithograph photographed from Berman's original Verifax collage. Limited to 50 copies. Originally issued as part of a set of lithos titled Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974, but here offered separately. On this print the images within the four hand-held radios are: a woman sitting in a...... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1965. Printed in black on yellow stock. (Wallace Berman: American Aleph, p. 86.) Fine (21" x 17"). More
SF: Open Skull Press, 1967. A literary magazine published by poet Doug Blazek. Prints letters from Al Purdy to Bukowski, and letters to Blazek from William Wantling, T.L. Kryss, Harold Norse, et al. Illustrated with ink pressings by Blazek. Several tiny specks to cover, else very good plus... More
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. More
[SF]: Communication Company, [1967]. 4to. The event was scheduled to take place at the Glide Church in San Francisco, 1967. Richard Brautigan, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Andrew Hoyem, Ed Bullins, and others, are listed as participants. Features an illustration of a naked man carrying a sheep over his shoulders. This..... More
[SF]: Privately published, 1967. 4to. 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..... More
SF: Privately published, 1960. 4to. An exceptionally early piece of Brautigan ephemera. This 1960 reading (where Brautigan received second billing) is the second earliest reading by him that we've ever seen an announcement for. Printed in black on white stock. A fine copy of a scarce, very early handbill... More
[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. More
Middlesex: Penguin, 1969. First paperback edition. Published as Penguin Modern Poets 13. Very fine. More
[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. 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
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
[Gottingen: Expanded Media Editions, 1973]. Softbound. First edition thus. Fine. (Bilingual English/German text.). More
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..... More
NY: High Risk, [1995]. Softbound. "Advance uncorrected proof" in printed glossy wraps. Fine. More
Santa Barbara: Am Here Books, 1982. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Landmark catalog of Beat, avant-garde, and modern literature offered for sale, with commentary by Burroughs, Creeley, Clark, et al. Lacks the Burroughs record. Few handling impressions, very good plus. More
[NY: Viking, 1989]. Softbound. Uncorrected proofs. Few faint specks of foxing, else very near fine. More
[London]: Picador, [1995]. Softbound. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Features Charles Burn's excellent illustration of Burroughs on the front cover. Very fine. More
NY: Grove Press, [1962]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition in later printing dust jacket (with roman numerals and zip code on back panel). Fine in about fine dust jacket with a touch of fading to spine. A nice bright copy. More
