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 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
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
Brooklyn: Verso, 2014. xii, 228 pages, very good paperback. History of the counterculture told in comix format. More
Cat.No: 224143
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
New York: Wings, 1933. 32p., 6x9 inches, worn journal in stapled tan wraps printed in red. Find a tribute to and excerpts from George Sterling, in a reprinted 1923 essay (GS took cyanide in 1926). Coblentz became best-known as a science fiction author and editor. More
Cat.No: 165096
[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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Oneonta NY: Butcher Shop Press, 2001. Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 40p., alkaline paperstock throughout with interspersed collage art reproduced b&w and color; the main feature, poems by three dozen writers, are reproduced in a variety of fonts. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch copyshop wraps (side-stapled with a binder's tape overlay), slightly edgeworn..... More
Cat.No: 221226
[Seattle]: Laocoon Books, 1988. Pamphlet. 60p., a variety of simple illustrations printed in blue amongst the b&w text, softbound in 8.5x6.5 inch stapled wraps. Both corner-tips faintly bumped, foredge of entire item bears a subtle bend from careless storage, a sound copy clean within, no ownership or institutional markings. Reasonably..... More
Cat.No: 218410
New York: Brookwood Publishing Corp. 1958. Hardcover. 184p., very good first edition in boards, and price-clipped dj. Grier A. The dj says "novel", the title page says "true stories", Grier says "thinly disguised tales" about real people. More
Cat.No: 22690
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Hardcover. xiv, 577p., illustrated with photos, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. A seminal study of gay life in NYC in the twentieth century. More
Cat.No: 175583
Carmel-by-the-Sea: Carmel Art Association, 1987. Paperback. vii [sic; vi], 63p., index; find b&w photoportraits of early member artists and a fine color cover photo of the charming gallery site. Paperbound in 9x9 inch glossy color wraps, has a light lower-corner bump affecting every leaf, else sound and entirely clean. Inscribed..... More
Cat.No: 215700
Zagreb: Most/The Bridge & Forest Books, 1991. Paperback. 244p., illustrated with numerous scattered period photos/images in b&w, an elegant little trade-paperbound in glossy 7.5x5 inch decorated wraps. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Most/The Bridge / Forest Books, Croatian Literature Series vol. 4. More
Cat.No: 229387
Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, 1995. Hardcover. 270p., fine first limited edition of 1300 copies in red cloth and gilt, unclipped dj. Signed by the author on the title page. Second in a series of generic mythological novels in a magical realist style. More
Cat.No: 123132
New York: Library of America, 2001. Hardcover. 1068p., first edition of this 5-novel collection with notes by Tim Page (and possibly the extensive chronology too), green cloth boards with place-keep ribbon and glossy black dust jacket, the usual Lib of Amer format, an immaculate never-handled copy. Literary classics of the... More
Cat.No: 241928
