Item 1351Good Luck in Cracked Italian
New York and Cleveland: The World, 1969. Jacket design by Ruffins/Taback. First printing. Hardcover green cloth with red lettering and gilt decoration in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 5 1/2" x 8 1/4", 94 pp.
Tom Verlaine Collection
Item 1349Breakthrough Fictioneers
West Glover, VT: Something Else Press, 1973. Experimental prose, poetry and graphic arts anthology featuring contributions from William S. Burroughs, Dieter Roth, Etheridge Knight, and much more edited by Richard Kostelanetz.
Item 1339The Use of Pleasure
San Francisco: Terrain, CA. Hand-editioned [53] of 175 to inside back wrap. Spiral-bound [8-1/2 in x 11 in]. Cardstock wrappers with toner printed front cover. Unpaginated [49 pp]. Exhibition catalog for Robert Nickas' group show at Terrain gallery from February 15 to March 12, 1994. Thirty-four artists represented include Larry.....
Item 1347The Hat Book
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition. Hardcover black cloth boards with red lettering and pasted prints on front and back cover, no dust jacket, 7 5/8" x 6 7/8", 127 pp.
Item 1359Postmodernism, Religion and the Future of Social Work
Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 1998. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 92 pp.
Item 1338Pastoral Medicine
Hudson, NY: Anthrosophic Press, 1987. Perfect-bound [octavo] in illustrated blue card wrappers. 162 pp, 6 colored plates. With laid-in errata slip. Eleven lectures from Steiner delivered in Dornach in 1924.
Item 1370Drown Radio Vision, and Homo-Vibra Ray Instruments and their uses
Vista, CA: Borderland Science Research Foundation, n.d. [circa 1950s]. Comb-bound [quarto] in printed orange card wraps, 91 pp, xxx. Guidebook to the unique vibraphonic and radio signal medical techniques of infamous California naturopath and engineer Ruth B. Drown.
Item 1476Let the Inside Be Sweet
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 180 pp.
Item 1209In Quest of Panacea
New Delhi: Evelyn Publishers, 1987. Cover design by Arun Krumar and Anatoly Gussev. First edition. Hardcover 6" x 8 5/8", blue vinyl boards in pictorial dust jacket, 309 pp. The story of Indian biochemist and pharmaceuticals technician who pioneered treatment of cancer in the 1930s and discovered the organic compounds.....
Item 1484Jack Goldstein
Koln: Walter Konig. Hardcover, [quarto], navy cloth boards with black lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 203 pp. Published as an exhibition catalog for the show at MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, 3 October 2009 to 10 January 2010.
Item 1125The Meaning of Man
Norfolk, England: Diwan Press, 1977. Hardcover 6 1/2" x 9 7/8", black cloth boards with silver lettering with black end papers in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 455 pp. From Diwan Press, 'Translated from a unique 18th-century manuscript, this work examines the interaction of the opposites inherent in existence. It is.....
Item 1205Hands Collected
Columbus, OH: Pavement Saw Press, 2003. Second edition. Perfect-bound, 5 1/4" x 8 1/4", in glossy pictorial wraps, 594 pp. Edited by David Baratier.
Item 1429Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957. First UK Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth with paneled title block to spine, gilt lettering. 208 pp.
Item 1302The Need for Roots
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. First American Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth with red printed lettering. xv, 302 pp. First American Edition of Weil's major work, written in and towards the liberation resistance movement in France in 1943. With a preface by T.S. Eliot.
Item 1158I....Sleeping
Staten Island, NY: Island Cinema Resources, 1988. First Edition. Softcover [octavo] in pictorial printed wraps, 41 pp.
Item 1145Troughful of Pearls / Behold the Protong!!!
Sylmar, CA: Glenn Bray, 1980. First Edition of 1200, 100 of which were signed, numbered hardcovers (this is one of 1100 in softcover). Softcover [oblong quarto - 11 in x 12-1/4 in], yellow illustrated glossy wraps, bound tete-beche. Unpaginated [176 pp]. Laid in material includes a flexi record of Szukalski.....
Item 1214The Maker of Gods
New York: Voyages Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover, 5 3/4" x 8 3/4", cream cloth boards with gilt lettering, brown end papers, in pictorial paper dust jacket, 131 pp.
Item 1487Musical Aesthetics and Multiculturalism in Los Angeles
Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 1994. Perfect-bound [quarto] in illustrated wrappers. iii, 235 pp. Hefty compilation of writings on the music of Los Angeles in relation to its vibrant plurality of cultures -- from gangsta rap to Mexicano East L.A. to Chinese communities and more. Scarce.
Item 1330Novel on Yellow Paper
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1937. First American Edition. Hardcover [12mo]. Blue cloth with pasted-on yellow title panel to spine. Light yellow endpapers. 255 pp. First American Edition of the debut novel from innovative modernist writer Stevie Smith. Constructed as the scattered musings and recollections of a secretary, the.....
Item 1134Autobiography in Words
New York: CUZ Edition, 1998. Limited to 537 copies. Side-stapled with black paper wraps in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 40 pp. Published by Richard Hell at CUZ Editions.
Item 1402On Amphetamine and in Europe
New York: Boss Books, 1968. Cover photography by John Chamberlain. Signature-bound, [octavo], in glossy pictorial B & W wraps, 250 pp.
Item 1486In the Early Morning Rain
New York: Cape Goliard Press, in association with Grossman, 1970. Cover and Drawings by George Schneeman. First Edition, stated. Perfect-bound [octavo] in illustrated wrappers. Unpaginated. Important "mid-career" collection from Berrigan, a fine example of his ever-exploring voice in its many pitches and forms. Scattered about are illustrations by friend and.....
Item 1306Double Trouble
Paris: Revue Noire, 1992. Signature-bound [octavo] in blue and white wrappers. 119 pp. Joint collection between the two African-American ex-patriate poets living in Paris. With supplemental biographical and bibliographical material as well as reproductions of their flyers and artwork. Signed by Ted Joans to title page in red ink.
Item 1449Wanna Go Out?
New York: Dot Books, 1973. Author photos by Charlotte Deutsch. First edition. Perfect-bound in pictorial paper wrappers, 4 1/8" x 6 7/8", 32 pp. Theresa Stern was the visionary child of Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell, born out of late night conversation and urgent invention attributable to what Hell describes.....
Item 1266The White Man's Future in Black Africa
New York: Macfadden, 1962. First edition. Hardcover in white boards and black lettering, 4 1/2" x 7 3/8", no dust jacket, 208 pp.