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 Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1979. Paperback. 68p., a large pamphlet-style softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps, stapled, staples all have a touch of rust else very nice condition, clean, sound and unmarked. More

Cat.No: 252157

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

Paris: Larousse, 1993. 381p., massive production, nice alkaline paperstock on which, amidst a running text, are reproduced many period images of cafe interiors and patrons. Hardbound in 13x10 inch openweave brown cloth boards gilt, and decorated dust jacket. The book itself is virtually as new, while the dj spine panel..... More

Cat.No: 250983

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 6.5x9 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

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988. xi, 160p., coated paper throughout on which profuse color plates and period photographs. Color 11.5 x 7.75 inch frenchfold wraps, cover decorated with Raffaelli's Absinthe Drinkers. Lovely book in fine clean condition. A very successfully sumptuous visual appraisal of the phenomenon. More

Cat.No: 72177

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

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