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

[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.: 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

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

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

[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

LA: Associated Press, 1959. The photo shows Nord, Lipton, Nord's lawyer, and guitar-strumming-singer Julie Meredith in an office with artworks strewn in front of them. The blurb at the bottom reads (in part): "Representatives of a beatnik hangout known as the Gas House in suburban Venice display some of their..... 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

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

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

Milwaukee: Associated Press, 1960. A beatnik, Robert 'Bohemian Bob' Schweda, who barricaded himself inside a store window in protest, is seen being forcibly removed by the police who had to smash the window to remove him. Associated Press rubber stamp on the back, with the word "beatniks" written in ink..... More

[LA: Classic Publications, 1968]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Sensational short stories around the theme of sex and drugs including one about Helen who was addicted to sex and pot at 13, or Wendy, a hippie, whose psychedelic sex trips lasted for days. Fine and scarce thus... More