San Francisco: Bloyer for Assembly Committee, [1982]. Handbill. Single sheet, printed one side only, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. "It is currently legal to kills cats and dogs for human consumption. Because of Assemblyman Art Agnos it is possible your cat or dog might end up being eaten. Last year..... More
Cat.No: 322956
New York: Poseidon Press, 1989. Paperback. 158p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The 1960 edition was Young 11*. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. Cover depicts Bates, Oldman and "Evie" the Alsatian. More
Cat.No: 264666
Baltimore: McLean Co., 1917. Hardcover. 67, [1] pages, illustration, boards. Bound in blue cloth, gilt stamped cover. Cover soiled. Good. Novella about a Civil War veteran and his dog. More
Cat.No: 338579
Sausalito, CA: Deer Creek Press, 1984. Paperback. 97p., illustrations, wraps. Photographs by Imogen Cunningham. Illustrations by David Richardson. Campbell reflects on his relationship with the photographer Cunningham through a series of photographs she took of his two dogs. More
Cat.No: 294500
Los Angeles: Published by Almo, "His Master's Eyes" Co., 1938. Paperback. xvi, 124p., glazed paperstock throughout with scattered b&w photographic illustrations. Softcover; staplebound textblock in 8x5 inch decorated cardstock wraps. Third "edition" of a revision of the 1935 first issue. One blank has pulled back to reveal that the staples..... More
Cat.No: 183587
Oakland: Zeitgeist Press, 1989. Pamphlet. 66p., 5.5x8.5 inches, decorated with cover drawing and rear panel author photo, very good poetry chapbook in pictorial wraps. Inscription on title page. Dedication page: "to the dogs"; humor vies with bitter wit. Eli's first book, so stated; at this writing she was living in..... More
Cat.No: 243871
2010: Unbearable Books / Autonomedia, Brooklyn. Paperback. Copyright page states "First American Paperback Edition"; 208p., nicely printed with excellent cover art on alkaline paper, covers slightly curled with a few tiny corner-tip turnings to interior text, else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Unbearable Books - 6..... More
Cat.No: 295734
Providence: Lost Roads, 1995. Paperback. 62p., scattered b&w illustrations, square 7.3 inch glossy wraps featuring b&w self-portrait in oils (photoportrait at the back). A fine copy. Texts range from postmodern fancy to children's-story plain. Foo, born in Malaya, lives in New York; Karl Barx was a beagle who lived with..... More
Cat.No: 177314
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, n.d., circa 1950s. Pamphlet. 32p., self-wraps, profusely illustrated with doublespreads that alternate color with b&w. Unusually good sketches and color art, the critters shown being vigorous (hopping, touching, preying) . Males often are drawn with visible if not explicit genitalia. The text is quite informative about familiar..... More
Cat.No: 296731
Rohnert Park CA: Real Action 80's, Inc., 1982. Paperback. 50p., illustrated with profuse captioned b&w photos of designer Hill and/or his friend and model Jacqie Cryer. Softbound in 8x5 inch photographic wraps, a well-made little item in fine shape: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 322830
Ann Arbor: [the author], printed by Braun-Brumfield, 1959. Hardcover. 174p. hardcover, very good. An Armenian immigrant musician's tongue-in-cheek paean to saintly dogs exhibiting universal consciousness, including his own beloved dog, Yogi. The author states that his self-deprecating pen name, Koyoun Kafa, is Turkish for "Mutton Head." More
Cat.No: 317498
n.p. Self-published by the author, 2022. Pamphlet. Folded & scissored origami booklet, 5.5x4 inches, color-xeroxed by expert artist-author Kane, a pretty booklet about vomit, moldy food and animal poo, featuring a fine back cover cartoon of Dino & his owner. Quite sound (origami rules!) and clean (in production if not..... More
Cat.No: 318679
n.pl: S. P. Co., n.d. 3.5x5.5 inch post card; color photograph on front depicts an African-American boy reading a Bible while sitting next to a dog. Form 649. More
Cat.No: 349057
New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. [ix] 337p. 3 leaves [6p.] of ads, color frontispiece, hinges sound, very good first edition per Sisson page 94, BAL 11973, red cloth boards with black vignette of two dogs in silhouette, gilt titles, author name in black, covers lightly rubbed, 5 small stains at..... More
Cat.No: 191778
[Place of publication not identified]: Kim Maenak, 1996. Hardcover. 1 volume (20 prints), boards. 7.25 x 5 in. Original photographs mounted on one side of a continuous strip, folded accordion style and attached at its ends to separate boards. Title page laid in. Ornamental steel dagger mounted on front cover..... More
Cat.No: 319458
New York: Holiday House, 2000. Hardcover. Hardbound item; [28]p., color illustrations throughout, first edition laminated pictorial boards in glossy ditto-image dust jacket, 10x10 inches, a fine clean copy. Blues story for children, featuring two dogs, a young guitarist and an elderly percussionist who plays "the bones". Includes lyrics and notations..... More
Cat.No: 138371
San Francisco: Benro Ent. 2010. Magazine. 32p. includes covers, 5x8 inches, bars, clubs, entertainment, events, ads, very good glossy digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 324832
Torino: Ente Nazionale Fascista per la Protezione degli Animali, 1941. 29p. staplebound booklet, very good. 5.75x8.25 inches. One black and white photo of the author's dog. Collection of poems, published by the National Fascist Agency for the Protection of Animals. More
Cat.No: 338314
San Diego: Publisher's Export Co., 1971. Paperback. 158p., very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction set at Royal Benson Dog Kennels. French Line FL-96. "There are 68 ways to go to the dogs - - heres the 69th!" More
Cat.No: 58104
Madrid: Editorial Betania, 2002. Paperback. 144p., text in Spanish, signed and inscribed by Thomas on the half-title, lightly-worn first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Coleccion Narrativa. Author was born in Mexico and lived in San Francisco at the time of publication. More
Cat.No: 251000
