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

[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: 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

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. 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

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

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