Barcelona: Le Cool, 2008. Hardcover. ix, [259]p., ads and directions in multicolor postmodern styles, where to buy fashionably countercultural things and services. A small hardcover guidebook in semiflexible 7x5 inch yellow cloth boards titled in minimalist black lettering. Back cover sports a vertical obi sash jacket with a bit of..... More

Cat.No: 223412

New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1970. 392p., red cloth boards with spine titling in black. Slight edgewear and handling soil, a good copy. This is a compendium for students (compilers were teaching at University of Dayton) that "tries to be interesting. If this collection seems a bit irreverent at times..... More

Cat.No: 170280

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. Paperback. 63p., 7x5 inch very good, tight first edition small trade paperback original in glossy pictorial wraps with author photo credited to Allen Ginsberg, original price of $1.25 on rear cover. More

Cat.No: 191736

San Francisco: City Lights Foundation, 2004. Paperback. 276p., very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Collection of two dozen essays "originating in the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of a campaign to elect underdog Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco..." The publisher, City Lights Foundation, "is..... More

Cat.No: 138509

Sherborne, Dorset: a south street publication, no date [circa 1970]. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages printed smallpoint on light cardstock, a stapled softbound in 9x6.5 inch laid-lined slate grey wraps with overlapping edges and tissue-guard endpapers. Slightly edgeworn, staples rusted, the non-archival tissue leaves are heavily foxed and the..... More

Cat.No: 226547

Tokyo: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1991. Hardcover. Hardbound issue, the American first edition: 230p., illustrated with numerous b&w photos and personal snapshots, hardbound in 8.5x6 inch boards in dust jacket. Top and tail rims of the casing show minute crimping, and every leaf of the textblock is faintly toned, the dj..... More

Cat.No: 245049

Santa Fe NM: Kapala Press [www.dpress.net], 2013. Paperback. 124, xxvi, 175p., softbound facsimile of an amateur artist's sketchbook, b&w with some reproductions in colors, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch color wraps. A little crudely bound: wrapper is fractionally too small for textblock, a color section protrudes but seems not at risk..... More

Cat.No: 219432

New York: Clayton Eshleman, 1970. 252p., ads (for bohemian literature and dives) and a few illustrations, cover by Robert LaVigne; paperback in 7x5.5 inch wraps. Mild edgewear, slightly rubbed, clean within, a good copy that is signed by LaVigne next to his credit line, table of contents. More

Cat.No: 188892

Oakland: The Seven Seas Publishing Co., 1934. Single leaf of coated paperstock printed in blue ink and folded to make a 4p. newsletter "magazine," 8.5x5.5 inches, banner shows a three-masted clipper in silhouette. Ex library with accession and withdrawn stamps, bears some crimpings, a vertical fold, and some red-pencil emphases..... More

Cat.No: 184521

Nagoya: Shikosha, 2004. Paperback. 204 p., illustrated with scattered b&w snapshots (of rock singers, of self and others lounging with beer), softbound in 7x5 inch plain printed cover with a dust-wrapper in colors; text in Japanese. Author decided to leave for Jamaica while still in high school. Recollects how he..... More

Cat.No: 172924

Rockaway Beach NY: Butcher Shop Press, no date, circa 2005. Paperback. Unpaginated, 40 or 50p. (of which 8 are ads for other smallpress productions), alkaline paperstock throughout with interspersed photoportraits and ads reproduced b&w and color; poems by some three dozen writers reproduced in a variety of fonts. Softbound in..... More

Cat.No: 221288

Oakland: PM Press, 2009. Paperback. 128p., wraps, new, signed by author. PM Fiction Series No. 4. A mystery whose would-be private detective is a bisexual book scout in Berkeley. More

Cat.No: 169010