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

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 about A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

Cat.No: 179047

Brooklyn: Verso, 2014. xii, 228 pages, very good paperback. History of the counterculture told in comix format. More about Bohemians: a graphic history

Cat.No: 224143

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 about Wings; a quarterly of verse; volume I, number 3, Autumn 1933

Cat.No: 165096

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 about A Book of Drawings from Luminous Peak

Cat.No: 219432

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 about Caterpillar 10, "A Gathering of the Tribes," January 1970

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

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, the first separate (or "book") appearance. Also a Brautigan first, as well as another feather in the Jack Stauffacher (Greenwood's maestro) cap. Limited to... More about The overland journey of Joseph Francl the first Bohemian to cross the plains to the California...

Cat.No: 211548

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