Item 2092Disinformation The Manufacture of Consent
New York: The Alternative Museum, 1985. Perfect-bound, folio, pictorial wraps, 63 pp.
Tom Verlaine Collection
Item 3147Orghast at Persepolis: An International Experiment in Theatre
New York: Viking, 1972. Hardcover octavo in pictorial dust jacket. Olive green cloth with lettering stamped in purple to spine. Green endpapers and topstain. 264pp. Book-length treatise on Peter Brook and his International Centre for Theatre Research.
Item 1329Signs on the Horizon
Blanco, TX: Zahra Publications, 1981. Perfect-bound in illustrated paper wraps, 8 1/2" x 6 3/4", 72 pp.
Item 2735Yardbird Reader Volume 2
Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing, 1973. Art Direction by Doyle Foreman. First Edition. Perfect-bound [octavo] in stiff pictorial wraps, xiv, 224 pp. Second reader from Al Young and Ishmael Reed's journal Yardbird, one of the better elevated platforms for (primarily) black thought and writing of the time. This volume includes work.....
Item 2796New Observations #57
New York: New Observations, May 1988. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in photo-illustrated wraps, 23 [5 : ads] pp. Contributions from George Melrod with "Technology as Theme Park: A Nutshell History of the World's Fairs; Laura Zelaznick with "Art in America"; Tom Finkelpearl with "Amusement Resistance"; Richard Eagan with.....
Item 1390The Adventures of Maud Noakes
New York: New Directions, 1961. Jacket design by Andy Warhol. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine with red lettering and red boards in pictorial dust jacket, 159 pp. Early cover art of Andy Warhol.
Item 283821:100:100 One Hundred Sound Works by 100 Artists from the 21st Century
Melbourne / Hobart: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces / Museum on Old and New Art (MONA), 2008. First edition. Large octavo (6-1/2 x 9 inches) spiral-illustrated paper boards, no dust jacket, 368 pp. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 11 October - 15 November 2008.....
Item 1360Chinese Language Narration
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2013. Hardcover [octavo] in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 213 pp.
Item 2813Mysterium
New York: Edgewise Press, 2011. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Signature-bound 4-1/4" x 7-1/4" in illustrated wraps, 59 [5 : edgewise back catalog] pp. McCarron's collection of poems published as Edgewise Press #23. Inscribed by author on full title page, 3 July 2011.
Item 2467Yellow Flowers
New York: Dot Books, 1972. Signature-bound in glossy pictorial wraps. 35pp. The only printing of Andrew Wylie's poetry collection issued on Richard Hell's Dot Books following a co-editing stint on six issues of the art and poetry journal Genesis Grasp, 1968-1971. Hell befriended Wylie at cinemabilia in the early 1970s.....
Item 1507New I.D. in America
Los Angeles: Stealth Publications, No Date [ca 1982]. Velo-bound [quarto] in blue printed card stock wrappers. 122 pp. Comprehensive guide to establishing fake identity documentation and practice, clandestinely circulated and printed, often advertised in the back of "Soldier of Fortune" magazine.
Item 2557Walt Whitman's Blue Book Volume II : Textual Analysis
New York: New York Public Library, 1968. Hardcover octavo in blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, light blue endpapers, [i-xii] xiii-lxi [lxii] lxiii-lxv [1-410 (1-456)] 411-428. The 1860-61 Leaves of Grass containing his manuscript additions and revisions. Volume 1 of Walt Whitman's Blue Books contained the facsimile.....
Item 2250Plasma Paralleles "X"
Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1979. Hand-numbered no. 49 of 450 copies. Saddle-stapled octavo in cardstock wraps. 32pp. Published on Lyn Hejinian's Tuumba Press as Tuumba 21.
Item 2408Lucky Darryl
Brooklyn: Release Press, 1977. First printing, Limited to 1000 copies. Perfect-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 52 pp. A novel by Bill Knott and James Tate. Their second collaboration after their poetry collection Are You Ready Mary Baker Eddy. Cover by Reese Bullen.
Item 2402Aurealism : A Study
Syracuse, NY: Salt Mound Press, 1970. Saddle-stapled, pictorial wraps with gatefold cover, Bill Knott's exemplary poem about Vivien Leonne's conceptual model to manifest the golden age of mythology into daily life. Limited to 1000 copies. With drawings by William Schaaf. (Some 4 Ziegler, Greenberg, Zirlin).
Item 3620Trash Tankas for Corndog: A Mike Watt Discography in Verse
Florence, MA: Glass Eye Books, 2002. Hand-numbered, limited to 100 copies. Saddle-stapled octavo (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in purple photo-illustrated wraps, [32] pp. Short poems for every release from the prodigious bassist of the Minutemen, Mike Watt -- published on the occasion of Watt's book release for "Spiels of a......
Item 1237Handbook for China
Shanghai: Carl Crow, [1921]. Second edition, revised. Hardcover, 4 5/8" x 6 3/4", dark navy boards with gilt lettering with red and white yin yang symbol painted on rear board, 6 folding maps, additional B & W illustrations, no dust jacket, [5] [i] ii-iv [4] 243 [1] [i] [ii-viii] [xx].....
Item 1108Mexico
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First edition. Hardcover [octavo], maroon cloth boards with stamped brown lettering and framed roundel on cover board, no dust jacket, 280 pp.
Item 2653The Way We Die Now
New York: Random House, 1988. Uncorrected proof. Perfect-bound octavo in yellow paper title wraps, 245 pp. The final installment of Willeford's series animating the world of the stoic and Kool-smoking Miami police detective Hoke Mosley who first appeared in Miami Blues and would've died there had the publisher's not demanded.....
Item 2042The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
London: Karnak House, 1989. Illustration by Barbara Douglas; photo by Lance Watson. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, [viii], xix, 202 pp. An examination of the gender-defined social systems of power in Africa, their roots and occupations in pre-colonial history and how the positions changed over the course of colonization. Diop recognizes.....
Item 2643The Scene
New York: Crown Publishers, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover octavo. Gray cloth with lettering stamped in maroon to spine. 310pp. First Edition of Cooper's underground classic, his first novel written under his real name and the first of two he wrote during a two-year stint in prison for charges related to.....
Item 2656Emergency Exit
New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. First trade paperback edition. Perfect-bound octavo in pictorial wraps, i-x 1-258 pp. Signed to title page.
Item 1274The Summer Dancers
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. Jacket design by Andrew [Andy] Warhol. First printing. Hardcover beige cloth boards with mauve lettering.
Item 2104I've Served My Time in Hell
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, gray cloth boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 95 pp. Front free endpaper inscription to novelist Frank Hercules, Trinidad-born novelist who relocated to Harlem in the 1940s. I've Served My Time in Hell is Dingle's memoir of time.....
Item 2640The Forbidden Door
Pasadena, CA: David H.S. Wilcox, 1950. Staplebound octavo in printed textured blue wraps. 17pp. Inscription to verso of copyright page reads: "March 25th 1952 This is only a fragment of a fifty thousand word manuscript on the whole history of comparative religion David H.S. Wilcox"