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

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

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

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

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]: 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

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

San Francisco: Greenwood Press SF for William P. Wreden, 1968. Hardcover. 55p. [iv] illustrated with 7 plates from drawings, rubricated title page, introduction, afterword by Wreden, very good first edition thus limited to 540 copies bound in brown pictorial boards and lightly-worn and soiled plain white publisher's shipping dj, 4-panel... More

Cat.No: 211548

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

[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: 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

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