Jefferson, North Carolina & London: McFarland & Company, 1993. Hardcover blue cloth boards with white lettering, no dust jacket, 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", 782 pp. History and discography of the Liberty record label founded by Simon Waronker in 1955.
Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1998. Signature-bound, [octavo], with illustrated wraps and french flaps, 351 pp.
Austin, TX: Angels at Work Publishing, 2006. Revised first edition, sixth printing. Perfect-bound, 7" x 9", glossy pictorial wraps, 438 pp.
New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Hardcover, 6" x 8 3/4", in glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket, 160 pp. Literary criticism of Joan Didion, focusing on Run River, Play It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, Democracy, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, and Miami.
Kingston, Jamaica: Paul Issa Publications, 1980. First printing. Signature-bound, 7 1/4" x 9 1/4", in black paper wraps with red end papers, 64 pp. Mutabaruku's first book of poems written from 1970 to 1979. Inscribed by both author and publisher.
Santa Cruz, CA: Boneset, 1983. Saddle-stapled [octavo] in textured illustrated card wrappers. Unpaginated [28 pp]. Second book of poetry from the accomplished and rightfully-decorated writer Nathaniel Mackey, best known for his experimental prose trilogy From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Like many of poetry's best practitioners, Mackey's.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover [octavo] red cloth boards with black and gilt lettering and decoration in pictorial dust jacket, 410 pp.
Cambridge: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Hardcover quarterbound blue cloth spine with pasted paper title and paper boards with blue lettering, no dust jacket, 4" x 6 1/8", 130 pp. Otto Neurath was a pioneer in infographics and inventor of the the pictorial method of.....
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1977. First Edition. Stapled gray pictorial card wraps [octavo], printed with blue and black ink, 16 pp. First edition, unsigned (not one of the 100 numbered or 26 lettered signed editions) of Smith's early poetry chapbook put forth by Gotham Book Mart in 1977, five.....
New York: Kent Fine Art, 1989. First printing of 3,000 copies. Hardcover [quarto] in black cloth with stamped lettering, 108 pp. No dust jacket, as issued. Catalog from Laffoley's 1989 show from Kent Gallery, limited to 3,000 copies. Inscribed by Laffoley "To: Rollie Ristine, architect / From: Paul Lafolley, 1998".....
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984. Side-stapled [quarto] in printed card wraps. Yellow end papers. 32 pp.
New York: Vantage Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 174 pp.
State College, PA: Pete Sheridan, 1995. Spiral-bound [quarto] in yellow printed card wrappers, 48 pp. Self-published guidebook from accomplished underground "blues harp" (harmonica) player Pete "the Jukester" Sheridan. Covers different methods and gear configurations for achieving different styles and tonal qualities in blues harp, as well as a selected discography.....
San Francisco: City Lights, 1978. First Edition. Perfect-bound [12mo] in pictorial wraps. 144 pp. First collection from Orlovsky, Beat luminary and lifelong partner of Allen Ginsberg, who hired Ted Berrigan to help Orlovsky collate and edit this work after years of composition. Number 37 of the Pocket Poets Series.
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition, stated, with full number line to pp 172. Hardcover [octavo] in pictorial dust jacket. Maroon paper boards backed with purple cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Illustrated end papers. 172 pp. Moving and influential memoir from the son of famed psychoanalyst and.....
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. Perfect-bound, [octavo], in illustrated wraps, 304 pp.
Cambridge, England: Philip Steadman, 1967. Cover image by Josef Albers: Sanctuary, lithograph 1942. Saddle-stapled with glossy b/w wraps, 9 3/4" x 9 3/4", 32 pp. Form appeared from 1966 to 1968 edited by Mike Weaver, Philip Steadman and Stephen Barr. Steadman designed and published the 10 issues, existing mostly as.....
Cambridge, England: Philip Steadman, 1967. Cover image by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: 'Transparency' 1922, and 'Light Display Machine', 1922-30. Saddle-stapled with glossy b/w wraps, 9 3/4" x 9 3/4", 32 pp. Form appeared from 1966 to 1968 edited by Mike Weaver, Philip Steadman and Stephen Barr. Steadman designed and published the 10.....
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. Hardcover red cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 9 1/4" x 6 3/8", 172 pp. Translated with commentary by Frederic Lieberman.
no place. Sonny Barger Productions, 2000. Uncorrected Galley Proof. Three-hole punched and bound with brads [quarto], xeroxed. Unprinted transparency front wrap with blue textured rear wrap. 280 pp. Uncorrected Galley Proof of Barger's memoir recounting his years founding and leading the infamous Hells Angels, from the 1950s through the late.....
Copenhagen: Pork Salad Press, 2005. Limited to 1000 copies. Signature-bound in photo wraps, 6 1/4" x 8 7/8", 112 pp.
Chicago: Swallow, 1971. First Edition paperback, simultaneously published with the cloth first edition. Signature-bound [quarto], in illustrated wrappers, 202 pp. Little-known experimental "concrete" novel, utilizing many of the placement methods of concrete poetry throughout its prose.
New York: New Directions, 1982. Hardcover [quarto] in pictorial dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 107 pp.
Richard Barnes, 1966. Cover design by C.H. Hertel. First Edition. Softcover [quarto], in printed brown card wraps, 100 pp. Self-produced edition of Barnes' early theatrical and critical writings, compiled in 1966 soon after his lifelong post teaching English at Claremont McKenna began in 1966. Barnes was a poet of some.....
New York: Radiofile, 1960. Second edition, third printing. Hardcover, 6 /14" x 9 1/8", yellow cloth boards with black lettering and decoration in pictorial dust jacket, 326 pp.