New Orleans, LA: Tulane University, 1965. Signature-bound in pictorial wraps. 247pp with two tipped-in foldout leaves on red and beige paper. Volume 10, number 2 of the Tulane Drama Review, devoted entirely to the Fluxus art movement and its attendant periphery.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Beige cloth boards backed with brown cloth with lettering stamped in gilt to spine. Brown endpapers. 185pp. First Trade Edition of this major work from the versatile and prolific author Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991), delineating her.....
New York: Croton Press, 1970. First Edition, stated. Hardcover, octavo, navy cloth boards, stamped gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 166 pp.
New York: Full Court Press, 1978. Octavo (5-3/4 x 8-7/8 inches) gray cloth boards and black stamped spine titles in illustrated dust jacket, 198 pp.
New York City, NY: 1965. Cover and drawings by Joe Brainard. Second Edition. Hand-numbered (167) of 200. Stab-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 8-1/2 x 11 in. [34]pp, text and illustration to recto only. Early mimeographed poetry collection from Ron Padgett on Ted Berrigan's "C" Press, illustrated by their mutual friend.....
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966. Jacket by Frank Uptapel. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Gray endpapers. 321pp.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. Jacket Design by Paul Bacon. Fourth printing. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and gilt, black, and metallic red to spine. Textured black endpapers. 186pp. Signed to half-title page. Arguably the most famous work from American.....
Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1974. Saddle-stapled in illustrated orange cardstock wraps. 50pp. 8-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. Holograph letter on lined notebook paper laid in. Second book by poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947, China), with a laid-in letter to poet Hugh Seidman (1940-2023) in Berssenbrugge's hand. "Dear.....
New York: Yugen / Totem Press, 1958 - 1962. Saddle-stapled in illustrated colored wraps. 8-3/8 x 5-1/2 in. Vols 1-8: 24pp; 24pp; 24pp; 28pp; 40pp; 52pp; 66pp; 64pp. All eight issues of literary journal Yugen, published between 1958 and 1962 by poets LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka] and Hettie Cohen [Hettie.....
New York: Poseidon Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Cream paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with titles stamped in silver to spine. 240pp. First printing of the 1990 novel Car by esteemed American author Harry Crews (1935-2012), inscribed to fellow author Pete Dexter (b. 1947), who.....
Washington D.C. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), 1964. Signature-bound quarto in printed cream cardstock wraps. 184pp, b&w illus. 1964 report from the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Research compendium on thought regarding the developing field of UFOlogy from one of the most highly regarded organizations in.....
Washington D.C. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), 1969. Saddle-stapled quarto in printed cream cardstock wraps. 46pp, b&w illus. Scarce 1969 report from the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Includes writings and research on:The UFO Revolution, Extraterrestrials, Vehicle Pacings and Encounters, Close-Range Sightings, Structural Details, Scientific Support.....
Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover.no dust jacket. Black cloth with illustration stamped in silver to top board and titles stamped in silver to spine. 83pp. First Edition of this debut collection of verse from Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), journalist, labor organizer, and poet of the Black.....
Paris: Edition 7L, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover quarto in illustrated boards. 289pp; b&w and color plates. No dust jacket, as issued. Lavishly illustrated photobook exploring the work of celebrated French hairstylist Odile Gilbert; the only hairstylist to have received entry into the esteemed Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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[San Francisco]: Frank Espada, 2006. Signature-bound in photo-illustrated French wraps. Oblong quarto. 191pp; b&w plates. Photobook by Puerto Rican photojournalist and community organizer Frank Espada (1930–2014) documenting Puerto Rican communities across the United States and the archipelago. Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs, with texts by Espada throughout, along with brief.....
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover in printed dust jacket. Black cloth with decorative titles in gold. Mustard end papers. xliii, 270pp; b&w illus. The first published collection of the fourteen Holy Books received by English occultist and writer Aleister Crowley (1875-1947); the central text of.....
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Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1990. Sewn in photo-illustrated French wraps.152pp; color plates; b&w illus; one gate-fold leaf. Catalog for a traveling exhibition of paintings by American artist Edward Ruscha (b. 1937). This copy signed and inscribed in black marker by Ruscha at title page: "Greetings Noriko & Best WIshes Ed.....
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1984. Hardcover in halftoned photo-illustrated dust jacket. Dark gray cloth with titled stamped in red. 112pp; b&w illus. Collection of verse by American poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez (1934-2012), including work drawn from previous volumes published under her Bola Press imprint, as well as.....
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New York: Harmony Books, 1990. First Edition, stated. Hardcover in photo-illlustrated dust jacket. Mustard textured boards backed with white cloth. Titles stamped in metallic pink to spine. xv, 318pp. Memoir from Ronnie Spector (1943-2022) of the Ronettes, one of the most influential groups in post-war American pop music. This copy.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. First UK Edition. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Mustard cloth with titles stamped in gilt to spine. 253pp. The first of three published novels by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (b. 1934), recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and noted particularly for his.....
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Oatmeal cloth with titles in black to spine and top board. Illustrated end papers, black topstain. [128]pp; b&w illus. The first novel by American writer and architect Madeline Gins (1941-2014); a high-point of American experimental literature. With drawings.....
New York: Villard, 2004. First Edition, stated. Hardcover in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Purple-paper-covered boards backed with black paper-covered spine. Titles stamped in gilt to spine. 499pp, b/w illus. History of American popular music in the pre-WWII era written by guitarist and music writer Lenny Kaye. Kaye is perhaps best-known as.....
[New York]: [Angel Hair], 1975. Stab-stapled in printed card wraps. [23]pp. First book authored by poet Bernadette Mayer, written when she was just seventeen years old but would not be published until eleven more years had passed and three other titles had been published. Signed to first page in.....
New York: Bola Press, 1978. M. Sila Errus. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. 45pp, b/w illus. Collaborative poems in a Surrealist vein by American poet Ted Joans (1928-2003) and Egyptian-French poet Joyce Mansour (1928-1986). Illustrated with collages by M. Sila Errus, and cover by Cogollo. Issued on Jayne Cortez's Bola Press.....
New York: Walker and Company, 1969. Jacket illustration by Jack Gaughan. First Edition. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. Slate-gray cloth with titles stamped in black to spine. Publisher's blue topstain. 286pp. Ex-library copy. First printing of the landmark science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), which follows a galactic.....