[Kansas City, MO]: Hallmark, no date [ca. 1960s]. Printed in several colors the card unfolds to poster size. Aside from printing "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (the official title of the poem) in beatnik lingo, the card is also profusely illustrated with drawings of Santa and his reindeer as beatniks..... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1937. A classic, reefer-madness-era anti-marijuana film styled after Reefer Madness and taking its title from a line in a Harry Anslinger article that appeared in The American Magazine that same year. The front cover states: "A Puff---A Party---A Tragedy! Assassin of Youth---Daring!" with an ilustration of a...... More
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
NY: United Press International, 1959. The blurb pasted on the back reads: "Anyone with a yen for solitude can step into the meditation room at the Gaslight. Terry Danielsen, 19, leaves the tiny cubicle, which used to be an air vent, leading up to a shaft between tenements." Also on..... More
n.p.: Bedstand, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Kooks, Beatniks, and Babes Meet in an Orgy of Summer Lust." Fine. Only three copies on OCLC. More
[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. Published as part of the Traveller's Companion Series. Publisher's small "NR" remainder stamp to front cover, front cover just perceptibly faded, else..... More
[France: Dernier Cri, 2013]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. Features the work of various artists. A contemporary take on the surrealist's "cadavre exquis." Excellent work both macabre and vibrant. Wonderfully silk-screened throughout, with the pages cut into three sections that can be flipped through to make endless..... More
n.p.: Compass Line, [1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "They lived in a whirlwind of free and easy love and sin." Fine. Scarce, especially without the usual remainder notch. More
San Diego: Publisher's Export Co., 1966. First edition of this Paperback Original. One of the all-time best sleeze/exploitation titles, with terrific cover art by Doug Weaver showing Satan, a scantily-clad woman, and a whip-bearing lesbian dominatrix. A fine, fresh copy and scarce thus. More
Amarillo, TX: Baxter Lane Co., 1969. An anti-hippie flyer listing the requirements for membership in the Belligerent Student and Happy Hippie Society including: being "obligated to demonstrate conformity by: indulgin' in like free and prosmiscuous love; blowin' the 'mind' with drugs, spongin' meals off the squares; stealin'; demonstratin'; screaming 'Pigs!'..... More
n.p.: Pot Head Experimental Films,1967. Printed in day-glo orange, pink, and purple featuring an illustration of a shade-wearing hippie couple and a scantily-clad hippie gal. "UP-TIGHT SQUARES Join the HIPPIES and their HIP CHICKS they've scored for ACID, POT, & GRASS! THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT...IT'S A SEX FREAK OUT."..... More
Hollywood: Nordyke Publishing, 1959. 4to. Single sheet folded to make four pages. Sheet music and lyrics for this beatnik-related song. Cover illustration of a bearded beatnik and a man strumming a guitar. Front cover has an "X" to the corner in magic marker and a tiny price sticker, else about..... More
Santa Fe: Bajada Pass Media, 1971. 4to. Softbound. First edition. An over-the-top, erotic photo-novel in magazine format with dialog balloons for the characters in the photos. Prints three stories about hippies involved in various sexual escapades including much nudity, drug references (especially marijuana), and countercultural themes. Minute tear to cover..... More
[NY: Beelzebub Books, 1959]. Second printing of this softcore men's magazine flagrantly exploiting the then current beatnik phenomena. Published as Beelzebub Books No. 1. "An uncensored, unexpurgated expose of the 'BEAT GENERATION'." Sensational articles on the Beat phenomenon such as "Shook-up Shebas and Be-Bop Babes" and "Beat Broads Curiously Cavort."..... More
SF: George Brooke Photography, [ca. 1959]. Henri Lenoir was the founder of Vesuvio Cafe, one of the most famous North Beach bars during the beat period. In this photo he's standing in front of the window of the cafe, and on display in the window is a mannequin of a...... More
Boston: Baker's Plays, [1961]. Pamphlet. First edition. A play with a sympathetic beatnik character. Very good. More
[France: Dernier Cri, 2011]. Square 4to. Softbound. First edition. Features the work of various artists paying tribute to Satan. Includes works that are often highly sexual---some done in cartoon style, others are highly detailed, all are bizarre. Beautifully silk-screened throughout. Very fine. More
[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1968]. Hippie exploitation mag documenting what happens when a "HIGH SCHOOL GIRL Drops Out to LIVE WITH NAKED HIPPIES." Here we "SEE Naked teen-age kids bathe their young bodies and minds in bold sunshine and pine-needled shadow." Article by William Mullins explaining the activities at this..... More
SF: KYA, 1958. Broadside poem. First edition. Signed by the author. A scathing anti-beatnik tract from O'Hara, a disc jockey at KYA the "Family Radio" station in San Francisco. In part: "A Beatnik is Grant Avenue with a beard on it's facade; / Beauty with a wart on its finger;..... More
No place: Tampa Records, no date [ca. 1950's]. LP record. Latin bongo music with a classic cover illustration featuring a seductive beatnik couple leaning against a lamp pole with the female beatnik scantily-clad and holding a long cigarette holder. Near mint record (one cosmetic scratch) in very good minus jacket..... More
NY: JMc & GHB editions, 2006. 16mo. First edition of this Paperback Original. An artists' book by Prince profusely illustrated throughout with images from sixties porn films. Fine. More
LA: Privately published, 2016. A pack of rolling papers given to VIP attendees of the Richard Prince curated High Times show that took place at the Blum & Poe Gallery in LA, 2016. The pack is illustrated with a b&w drawing of a "hippie" by Prince with his facsimile signature..... More
NY/London: Award Books/Tandem Books, [1968]. Magazine-format publication devoted to "stripping the petals off the Flower Children" revealing "them to be floundering in a cesspool of sex, half-crazed with weird drugs, parasitic, selfish, diseased..." Sensational, scathing attack on the hippie subculture with articles and first-person accounts of "orgiastic parties" and "sexual..... More
No place: Privately published, [ca. 1960]. Pamphlet. First edition. Each page features a cartoon drawing of a different type of person with a sarcastic text reproduced in holograph describing why the person is, or is not, a beatnik. Cover illustration of dejected beatniks lounging on a brick wall with guitars..... More
SF: Unicorn, 1958. Pamphlet. First edition. Schock takes us on a cynical tour through the Beat haunts of '50s North Beach making snide observations about the habitues. Illustrated with accomplished, evocative and lovely illustrations of beatniks at poetry readings, jazz clubs, etc., by Trubee Campbell whose drawings are much more..... More
