Instant city: a literary exploration of San Francisco; issue no. 5, Fall 2007
San Francisco: Instant City, 2007. Paperback. 103p., illustrations, photos, very good literary journal in trade paperback format, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 169223
Bohemia
Le Cool / lecool, una guia unica e insolita de Madrid
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
Poetry USA; a quarterly; Summer 1991 issue no. 23
San Francisco: National Poetry Association, 1991. 28p., folded tabloid, photos and illustrations, ex-library with stamps. More
Cat.No: 121397
The Three Arts of Murase Taiitsu: A Japanese Eccentric.
New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1979. Paperback. 68p., a large pamphlet-style softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps, stapled, staples all have a touch of rust else very nice condition, clean, sound and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 252157
Jumping to Conclusions
Northampton, MA: Big Tree Books, 2018. 647p., very good paperback. Overlong novel by a longtime SF State lecturer, set in NY and SF in the longlong 60s and 70s. More
Cat.No: 229141
Documentary history of Eastern Europe
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
Greenwich Village; culture and counterculture
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press for the Museum of the City of New York, 1993. xii, 420p., foreword, introduction, index, photos and illustrations, 10.2x7.2 inches, very good first edition in dj. More
Cat.No: 137694
Colette. Passion. Ambivalences et Paradoxes
Paris: Les Editions Textuel, 2004. Paperback. 192p., profusely illustrated with rare photos, period imagery, and documents in facsimile, cheek by jowl in now-normal postmodern layout panache; presswork on alkaline matte cream paperstock. Softbound in 11x10 inch frenchfold wraps. The line of the back-cover joint bears two minute dings, and spine..... More
Cat.No: 250882
Histoire de Cafes et des Cafetiers
Paris: Larousse, 1993. 381p., massive production, nice alkaline paperstock on which, amidst a running text, are reproduced many period images of cafe interiors and patrons. Hardbound in 13x10 inch openweave brown cloth boards gilt, and decorated dust jacket. The book itself is virtually as new, while the dj spine panel..... More
Cat.No: 250983
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. Paperback. 63p., 7x5 inch 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, light chipping to fore-edge of front cover. More
Cat.No: 179047
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
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
Bohemians: a graphic history
Brooklyn: Verso, 2014. xii, 228 pages, very good paperback. History of the counterculture told in comix format. More
Cat.No: 224143
The Political Edge
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
Mother lode and other short stories
Forestville: Ron Graham Press, 1976. 224p., clip art throughout the text, first edition orange wraps. Perfectbound textblock has cracked at pp94/5 but is in no immediate danger of losing leaves; expect mild handling soil as well. Author has inscribed and signed one of the title pages (there are at least..... More
Cat.No: 167836
Wings: a quarterly of verse; volume I, number 3, Autumn 1933
New York: Wings, 1933. 32p., 6x9 inches, worn journal in stapled tan wraps printed in red. Coblentz became best-known as a science fiction author and editor. Find a tribute to and excerpts from George Sterling, in a reprinted 1923 essay (GS took cyanide in 1926). More
Cat.No: 165096
The ballad of Christopher Street
[New York]: Floyd Dell, 1926. Broadside, 17x11 inches, decorated with a nicely-done expresionist street-scene measuring 5.5x3 inches (uncredited); neatly creased horizontally and vertically folding to 5.5x8.5 inches else very good condition; signed in the plate with a reproduction of Dell's signature. Poem about life & loves while living on Christopher..... More
Cat.No: 211106
A Book of Drawings from Luminous Peak
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
Love and revolution; my journey through an epoch
New York: Random House, 1964. Hardcover. xiii, 665p., illus., first edition, previous owner's inscription on front paste down, signed by Max Eastman on a special tipped in sheet, very good condition in an edge worn price-clipped dj with minor chipping. "The second part of the autobiography of one of the..... More
Cat.No: 2267
Bohemian San Francisco; with illustrations from old woodcuts
San Francisco & London: The Porpoise Bookshop & Kenneth Lindsay, 1955. 32p. including covers, 4.25x5.5 inches, numerous period illustrations (chosen and captioned for their humorous content), very good in staplebound wraps. The San Francisco bookseller's little promotional booklet, a memoir of the denizens of early San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 209828
Sail on The Islander: a magazine of life, romance, adventure. Hails monthly from Jack London's home port. vol. 1 #1 July 1934
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
Sail on The Islander: a magazine of life, romance, adventure. Hails monthly from Jack London's home port. vol. 1 #1 July 1934
Oakland: The Seven Seas Publishing Co., 1934. Magazine. 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. A very worn creased copy with what looks like a job-lot printer's notes in red pencil..... More
Cat.No: 184522
Masegaki judai bokenki: マセガキ十代冒険記 : Kanaetarimassa ore no yume [A chronicle of the adventures of a teenager acting grown up: my dream come true!] 叶えたりまっさ俺の夢
Nagoya: Shikosha 志考社, 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..... More
Cat.No: 172924
Comme si tu avais touche mes levres. Avant-propos, post-scriptum et adaptation par Pierre Calderon; Choix et traduction par Blazenka Budanj
Zagreb: The Bridge, 1997. 132p., an elegant little paperbound in glossy 7.5x4 inch decorated wraps; mass-market size but trade-paper production qualities. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good to fine copy. The Bridge Collection, classical and contemporary Croatian Writers 3/1997. "Most/The Bridge, A Journal of Croatian Literature ..is financially supported..... More
Cat.No: 229386
Salt Lick; volume 2, numbers 1 and 2
Quincy: Salt Lick Press, 1972. 66p. including covers, 8.5x10.5 inches, illustrations, 5 pieces laid-in including original square from a collage-mural in an envelope, very good in stapled wraps and an ingeniously beautiful spray-painted manila envelope. Poetry and art. More
Cat.No: 137091
Bibliographie des deutschen Volksliedes in Bohmen. Zusammengestelit von Dr. Gustav Jungbauer
Prag: (Robert Gerche), 1913. xlvii, 240p., hardbound in utilitarian library binding, plain boards with hand-lettered cloth backstrip. Ex library, has a "Withdrawn" stamp and a pencilled note reading "576 pages on LC card," evidently there's some discrepancy with the Library of Congress record. Whatever the case, this item is sound..... More
Cat.No: 260313