n.p.: Bailey Films, 1967. 16mm educational color film about LSD. Running time 18 minutes. Narrated by Sal Mineo (who also sings the song that plays over the credits!). Includes an interview with Sidney Cohen and others who declare how LSD can lead to suicide or insanity, a history of how... More about LSD: Insanity or Insight?
[Chicago: SDS,1968]. Pamphlet. First edition. An essay on how white radicals can help Blacks. Fine. More about Youth Will Organize for Freedom
NY: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1965. When Conner was commissioned to design the poster for the 1965 New York Film Festival he created "Ten Second Film," a film that he intended to be a television commercial for the festival, and precede the screenings of the films at the... More about 1965 Lincoln Center Film Festival poster
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1971]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Lively and well-researched overview of the Beat scene including much first-hand material from interviews with the Beats. An unusually fine, fresh copy. More about The Beat Generation: The Tumultuous '50s Movement and Its Impact On Today
Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, 1974. 4to. Pamphlet, stitch bound. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Published as Strastreams Poetry Series No. 1. Slip laid-in listing the cast for the first, and only, performance of this poem/play in Kathmandu, Nepal. The cast members included Ira Cohen and Angus MacLise both... More about Way Out: A Poem in Discord
NY: Falcon Books, [1952]. First edition of this Paperback Original digest. Wonderful, scantily-clad-junkie-woman cover illustration. "Steve's search for Wally's murderer takes him into sordid 'Dream Street,' the world of 'junkies,' murderers, and prostitutes..." One of the half dozen scarcest and most desirable classic drug exploitation paperbacks. Has all the requisite..... More about "Junkie!": The Life and Loves of a Drug Addict!
[San Francisco: Privately published by the author, 1967]. Square 8vo. Pamphlet. First edition. Nice photo-documentary of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene in its heyday and one of the scarcer books on the subject. Some light foxing to edge of front cover with a couple of spots on back, bright very good... More about Hippy Hi
Cleveland: American Greetings, 1966. Features two color illustrations (one on the front one inside) of one of Crumb's trademark buxom women stuffed into a too-small dress. Signed by Crumb on the verso. A year after graduating high school Crumb moved to Cleveland where he got a job with American Greetings... More about Folding greeting card designed by R. Crumb
n.p.: n.d., ca. late 1960's. Crumb's famous image printed in black and white against a red background. Fine (ca. 4.5" x 9.25"). More about ''Keep on Truckin'' bumper sticker
SF: San Francisco Examiner, 1985. The poster proclaims: "Hinckle Free at Last Only in the Examiner" and reproduces a drawing by Crumb showing Hinckle and his hound dog being dragged away by three burly police officers. Printed in black and red on white card stock. Fine (14" x 21"). More about Poster featuring an illustration by R. Crumb promoting Warren Hinckle's column in the San...
SF: San Francisco Examiner, 1985. The poster proclaims: "Hinckle Free at Last Only in the Examiner" and reproduces a drawing by Crumb showing Hinckle and his hound dog being dragged away by three burly police officers. Presentation copy inscribed by Crumb to his publisher, John Martin of Black Sparrow Press... More about Poster featuring an illustration by R. Crumb promoting Warren Hinckle's column in the San...
[Chicago: SDS, 1968]. Pamphlet. First edition. Near fine. More about The New Radicals in the Multiversity
n.p.: Privately published, 1963. Features a photo of a surfer riding a wave, printed in dark blue on light blue stock. Early ephemera from the halcyon days of surfing before it went mainstream. As new (approx. 5.5" x 8.5"). More about Flyer for Dale Davis' 1963 surf film, Walk on the Wet Side
Detroit: Radical Education Project, ca. 1967. Pamphlet. First separate printing of this article that originally appeared in Dissent. Near fine. More about G.E.: Profile of a Corporation
n.p.: Romeo Records, 1957. 45rpm record in photo-illustrated sleeve showing Dean playing a conga drum. Home recording of James Dean in a late-night jam session with L.A. musician, Bob Romeo who plays flute. The actor can be heard talking and laughing with his friends in the background between songs. James..... More about Jungle Rhythm / Dean's Lament: James Dean on Conga Drums in an Ad-Lib Jam Session
[NY: Olympia Press, 1969]. First edition of this Paperback Original. The author's sensationalized account of beatnik life in New York, including her fictionalized liaisons with Kerouac and others. Publisher's small "NR" remainder stamp to front cover, else a crisp, unread copy with a few minute specks of rubbing. More about Memoirs of a Beatnik
[Berkeley]: Weather Underground Organization, 1974. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Issued by the Weather Underground in support of the Symbionese Liberation Army in wake of the May 17, 1974 police seige of the SLA headquarters in Compton. Prints a long, incendiary text mourning the death of Cinque... More about Those Who Do Nothing Make No Mistakes
n.p.: Ten Speed Press, [1971]. Oblong 16mo. Softbound. Second printing. Cartoons and text about dopers and drugs. Tiny remainder line to bottom edge, else fine. More about Dr. Natural's High Toy Guide
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. A slick-format counterculture magazine from London edited by Ian Duncan. Prints excerpts from the 1967 Dialectics Conference, "Fisheye Nudes" photographs, drawings, psychedelia, articles on exorcism, mandalas, and more. Couple of minuscule chips to fore-edge of cover and first couple of pages, else fine. More about Image, Spring 1968
NY: Folkways Records, [1950]. 33rpm record. The record jacket bears Dylan's pencil ownership signature as well as some lyrics from the album that Dylan has transcribed on the front cover. The LP was issued with a postcard that customers could fill out and return requesting additional products. Dylan has filled... More about Bob Dylan's personal annotated and signed copy of Pete Seeger's Darling Corey LP TOGETHER WITH...
n.p.:n.p., [1969]. Chicago's premiere underground paper. Articles on the Bank of America bombing, the Black Panthers, Gay Liberation, drugs, and various counterculture subjects. Also features Ron Cobb cartoons, prints Jerry Farber's "The Student as Nigger," and more. Covers and some pages printed in color. Fine (short tear to edge of..... More about The Seed, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1969
n.p.: Privately published, 1966. The event was scheduled to take place at the Discovery Bookshop in San Francisco, but it never occurred due to Farina's death in a motorcycle crash in Big Sur after the first publication party for this book. Handsomely printed letterpress in black on orange, textured, deckle-edge... More about Broadside announcing: ''An autograph party will be held for Richard Farina. He will sign copies...
SF: Last Gasp, 2007. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of 40 numbered copies signed by Felver with an original signed and numbered print of the cover photograph of William Burroughs. Nice collection of Felver's photographs of the Beats and counterculture heroes from the sixties. As new. More about Beats
[Berkeley]: Ginko Press, [2009]. 4to. Softbound. First American edition. Terrific photo-documentary of the avant-garde of the period including early shots of Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Iggy Pop, Taylor Mead, New York Dolls, John Waters, William Burroughs, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Debbie Harry, Joey Ramone, and many, many... More about Bande a Part: New York Underground 60's 70's 80's
SF: Privately published, 1972. Single sheet with an interesting graphic design utilizing images of Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg. The Cockettes were an LSD-inspired, gay liberation theatrical group of hippie drag-queens founded by Hibiscus, whose real name was George Harris. After a philosophical dispute with The... More about Handbill announcing "Earthquake" performed by Hibiscus and The Angels of Light