San Francisco: the club, 1931 - 1973. Hardcover. 4 + 1 small hardbound books in series design, uniformly 7x4.5 inch red cloth boards cover- and spine-titled gilt; these average 150 pages, mostly taken up with lists of deceased males. Four of these little volumes are in nice clean condition, one... More about Bohemian Club certificate of incorporation; constitution; by-laws and rules; officers and...

Cat.No: 231499

St. Louis: Big River Association, 1979-95. Paperback. Thirteen issues of the literary journal, generally very good, some issues with minor handling wear, trade paperback format in pictorial wraps. Numbers present are 4-8, 12, 14, 17, 24-26, 32, and 44. Contributions by Gary Snyder, Ntozake Shange, Allen Ginsberg, Simon Ortiz, bell... More about River Styx [13 issue broken run]

Cat.No: 218650

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 about Documentary history of Eastern Europe

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 about A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

Cat.No: 191736

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 about Bo Heem E Um - a quarterly magazine

Cat.No: 226547

[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 about The ballad of Christopher Street

Cat.No: 211106

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 about Love and revolution; my journey through an epoch

Cat.No: 2267

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 about Bohemian San Francisco; with illustrations from old woodcuts

Cat.No: 209828

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 about Sail on The Islander: a magazine of life, romance, adventure. Hails monthly from Jack London's...

Cat.No: 184522

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 about Comme si tu avais touche mes levres. Avant-propos, post-scriptum et adaptation par Pierre...

Cat.No: 229386

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 about The Butcher's Block, Volume III / Spring 2001

Cat.No: 221226

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 about Women without men: a novel; true stories of lesbian love in Greenwich Village

Cat.No: 22690

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 about Carmel Art Association: A History

Cat.No: 215700