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The Alternative Press Number Eleven
Grindstone City: Alternative Press, No date. First edition. Paperback. Issue number eleven in the Alternative Press' series of broadside mailings. No date, but from circa 1982. A collection of hand-printed broadsides, postcards, bookmarks etc from the publishers (Ann & Ken Mikolowski). A notable issue and quite scarce. Includes Ted's "Paris... More
Harrison Street Review 2
Kansas City: Harrison Street Review, 1971. First edition. Paperback. 4to. 60 pp.. A very copy of the second issue of this poetry journal. With notable contributions by Bukowski (a four pp portfolio with illustrations by Wayne Philpott), James Tate, J. D. Reed, John Ciardi and many more. More
Proof: Los Angeles Art and The Photograph 1960 - 1980
Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art and Laguna Art Museum, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Wide paperbound quarto. 142 pp. Text by Charles Desmarais. A clean very good copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers with wide French flaps. A superb survey of the L. A. art scene of the 60's and 70's... More
Jim Buckels - Metaphysical Landscapes (Inscribed by the Artist and with a Handwritten Letter laid in)
New York: The International Archive of Art, Ltd., 1995. First edition. Cloth. Wide clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 96 pp. With introduction and commentaries by Ed McCormack. Includes 68 color illustrations plus an index of the work. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. Nicely INSCRIBED by the artist on the page... More
Edward Ruscha
Paris, New York Etc: Alexandre Iolas Gallery, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Wide paperbound 8vo. Catalog of the 1970 exhibition at Iolas Gallery. The artist's fifth exhibition, but this volume represents his first significant catalog. Two pages of text by Henry T. Hopkins. A very good example in printed off-white bound... More
A Decade of California Color 1960 - 1970
New York: Pace Gallery, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Exhibition catalog for the November 7 - 25, 1970 show of the same name at the Pace Gallery in New York. A fine copy. Glossy sheets laid into decorated folder. Artists included in this show were Edward Ruscha, Ed Moses, Larry Bell... More
Artforum Volume III Number 5
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1965. First edition. Paperback. February 1965 issue of this art magazine. Uncommon early issue features an interview with a young Ed Ruscha plus John Cage in Los Angeles, Philip Leider, Ashile Gorky and more. Light crease to front cover. A clean very good copy. More
Alice Is In You / Your Sweet All
Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Small square stapled wrappers. Two short volumes of poetry bound dos a dos. A fine example in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. Scarce offering from John Sinclair's Artists' Workshop Press. More
Us Dead Talk Love
Long Island City: MOMA PS1, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A book published to coincide with a 2013 exhibition at MOMA PS1. An unpaginated volume of experimental writings. Fine condition. More
Points / Counterpoints
Santa Fe: Fact-Simile, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. Special limited edition reprint of Baker's 1970/73 volume of poems. This is copy 4 of only 100 hand-numbered copies printed here in simple tape-bound wrappers with paper label afixed to the front cover. A fine example. More
The Beats A Graphic History
New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 199 pp. A graphic history of the beat generation movement by the likes of Harvey Pekar and others. Edited by Paul Buhle. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Monday, December 20, 1965 The Folklore Center Presents Ted Berrigan & Ed Sanders reading from their published and unpublished works
New York: The Folklore Center, 1065. First edition. Paperback. Legal size sheets, stapled at top left corner. 3 pp. Mimeographed typescript. Printed on rectos only. A very good example of this uncommon piece of New York Schhol / Fuck You Lower East Side Poetry Ephemera. A program from a joint... More
Milk Quarterly #7
Chicago: Milk Quarterly, 1974. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Small press poetry magazine edited by Richard Friedman and others. Includes work by Rochelle Kraut, Tom Veitch, Joel Oppenheimer, Berrigan and more. A clean very good copy in thick stapled wrappers. Cover by Gail Angell. More
Prologue February 1949 (Reed College)
Oregon: Reed College, 1949. First edition. Paperback. February 1949 issue of this student literary journal published at Reed College. This issue is notable for containing the third appearance in print by Philip Whalen, a five page poem entitled "From The Temptation of St. Anthony". Very good condition in decorated stapled wrappers. More
How Do You Do; A Play
Corte Madera: Illuminations Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. First edition of the author's first book, a play. 31 numbered pages plus additional info at rear of book. A sharp near fine example in photo-illustrated wrapperes. African American lit. More
The Barking Rabbit or The Buddhist Oracle Vol. 2 #5 (3rd Last Issue)
Cleveland: Junkmail Oracle, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Tall newspaper format. 16 pp including covers. Unfolded. An issue of the Cleveland-based underground newspaper, The Buddhist Junkmail Oracle. In very good condition. Paper toned as expected. Includes a notice that d. a. levy, the previous editor of this paper, committed suicide by... More
Typewriter 9
Iowa City: Typewriter / B'rd in the B'sh, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 9th issue of this magazine devoted to visual poetry. Cover by Betty Radin. Loose sheets laid into ilustrated paper covers. A very good copy. Small hand-drawn figure above the title on the title page. All issues of... More
Tightrope #12
Amherst: Swamp Press, No Date. Steven Ruhl. First edition. Paperback. Issue number twelve of this small press literary magazine. Unusual design: bound with a metal rivet at top front left corner. With not one, but two separate top layers of clear plastic covers which have been illustrated by Guy R.... More
Gladly The Cross-Eyed Bear (Inscribed)
New York: Warner Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing. A 326 pp crime novel by the prolific McBain (aka Evan HUnter). A clean near fine copy in dustwrapper. This copy INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page and signed off as Evan "Ed McBain" Hunter. More
The Hard-Boiled Omnibus; Early Stories from Black Mask
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Classic crime omnibus collecting hard-boiled stories from issues of Black Mask magazine. 468 pp. Featuring work by George Harmon Coxe, Norbert Deavis, Raymond Chandler and others. Small prior owner name to front endpaper else a very good copy in green boards... More
Dinner At MME
Berkeley: Oyez, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this poetry volume, perhaps best known for the glossy cover design by Ed Ruscha. Near fine with two scuffs to bottom page edges (remainder marks?). More
Yellow Lola, formerly titled Japanese Neon (Inscribed)
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Small nearly square paper wrappers. First trade edition of this volume of poems. 128 pp. Drawing of the poet by Tom Clark at rear. A very good copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Nicely INSCRIBED by Dorn on the title page and dated in 1985. More
Straits Volume 3
Detroit: Straits / Detroit Free Press, 1984. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Literary magazine which includes an informal talk with Ed Dorn, poems by Henning, Tysh, Glen Mannisto and others. Near fine condition in stapled wrappers. A newsletter of the Detroit Free Press. More