New York City: 1997. Single-sided xeroxed A4 flyer. Single-sided flyer which, like the best protest material, is graphically imbued with the urgency of its demands: STOP THE DEMOLITION OF THE 5TH STREET SQUAT! The 5th Street Squat stood at 537-9 5th Street in New York City's Lower East Side, and.....
New York: Hyperion, 1993. Jacket photograph: Jerry Bauer. Jacket Design by Victor Weaver. First Edition, Stated. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. First Edition, Rodriguez's first novel tells the story of Miguel, a young Puerto Rican dealer living in the South Bronx.....
New York: Dot Books, 1972. Signature-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 35 pp. The only printing of Andrew Wylie's poetry collection issued on Richard Hell's newly-formed Dot Books following a co-editing stint on six issues of the art and poetry journal Genesis Grasp, 1968-1971. Wylie left his erotic writing in the.....
New York: Just Another Asshole, 1987. Cover photo by Ted Serios. Perfect-bound [oblong octavo] in pictorial multi-colored wraps. 142 pp. Seventh issue of seminal journal JUST ANOTHER ASSHOLE, edited by publisher Barbara Ess and musician / downtown luminary Glenn Branca. The Cool is Countless: 120 pages of photographs from Branca.....
Sacred Bones Books, 2018. Hardcover. Hardcover. This copy has clean boards and an undamaged dust jacket. Tight binding, clean text bloxk, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near fine. Signed by artist in 2022. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
New York, NY: Participant Press, 2014. Soft cover. Both books are in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight bindings, some shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Slipcase is in very good condition, slight separation at top glued down panel, but does not affect integrity of slipcase, otherwise.....
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. Second edition, third printing. 8vo, 127 pp. Illustrated wrappers.
Radio Raheem Records. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, minor soiling to paper of front and rear boards, otherwise clean and unmarked within, sharp corners, binding is square and tight. No dustjacket, as issued. A photo book on the seminal years of CBGB, focusing on the attendees in a......
[np]: Tribal Publishing, 2023. First edition limited to 2000 copies. Signature-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 4to, 586 pp. Though the NYC Health Department has no record of complaints of infections or infractions against any Tattoo artist around 1961, this void in assessment did not stop them from declaring tattoos illegal.....
London, England: Paul Breman Ltd., 1968. First edition. Softcover octavo chapbook saddle-stapled in pictorial card stock paper wrappers, 24 pp. Volume five in the Heritage series published by Paul Breman, this collection contains 21 poems and was Conrad Kent Rivers third collection of poems and published the year of his.....
New York City, NY: War Resisters League, 1967. Cover by Mark Morris; book design and production Igal Roodenko. Softcover octavo, spiral-bound with illustrated wrappers, unpaginated [128]. Calendar for the year 1968 issued by The War Resisters League with poetry selected by Denise Levertov interspersed through the months.
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1980. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 130pp. Inscribed at his p. 13 contribution (a single poem) by Donald Britton: "Love to Kenward [Elmslie], Donald 3/31/80". Donald Britton was a New York and later Los Angeles-based poet who died of AIDS complications in.....
New York: Olympia Press/The Traveller's Companion Series, 1969. First Edition. Perfect-bound in green printed wraps, 6-7/8 x 4-1/4 in. 174pp. Di Prima's erotic memoir about coming of age as a woman in the Beat years.
Fleischmanns: Purple Mountain Press, 2002. First paperback edition, second printing. Perfect-bound, [quarto], in glossy pictorial wraps, 303 pp.
New York City, NY: Something Else Press, Inc., 1966. Softcover octavo pamphlet saddle-stapled in illustrated yellow paper wrappers with black lettering and decoration, 31 pp. A Great Bear Pamphlet of Manifestos by Ay-O, Philip Corner, W.E.B. DuBois Clubs, Oyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow.....
New York City, NY: Something Else Press, Inc., 1967. Softcover octavo, staple-bound in orange wrappers with black lettering and decoration, unpaginated [12]. Part of the Great Bear Pamphlets series issued by Dick Higgins' Something Else Press in the 1960s. This pamphlet includes poems, collage, drawings, and other text from Diter.....
New York: Continuum, 1981 (n.d.). Jacket design by Tim McKeen. Hardcover octavo. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. 495 pp.
New York: Grove Press, 1955. Jacket by Roy Kuhlmann. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket [8vo], black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, xlvi, 191 pp. Dual language edition, with Spanish original texts facing Ben Belitt's English translations. New translation by Ben Belitt.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1964. Jacket design by Ben Feder. First printing. Hardcover octavo gray cloth boards with white and orange spine lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 222 pp.
New York City, NY: The Viking Press, 1968. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. Second Edition. Hardcover octavo, cherry red cloth boards with black lettering on spine in an illustrated dust jacket, 189 pp.
New York: SCOPE (Student Committe on Progressive Education), 1967. A4, single-sided black and white flyer. Single-sided flyer advertising a talk by Dr. Herbert Aptheker entitled "Freedom Struggle: The Du Bois Tradition" at The New York School for Marxist Studies. Aptheker had just run for State Congress out of Brooklyn's C.D......
Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2007. Perfect-bound 9 1/8" x 10 5/8", in glossy illustrated wraps and french flaps, 200 pp. Inscribed with original drawing to half-title.
Chicago: WhiteWalls, 2006. Softcover octavo, glossy pictorial wraps, 141 pp. Facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of the flyers and broadsides that Sun Ra churned out in his early Chicago years. Fascinated and inspired by street-corner preachers and radio evangelists, Ra developed many of his ideas of the cosmos and Black identity.....
New York City, NY: Film Culture, 1962. On the cover: François Truffaut shooting "Jules et Jim" Softcover quarto, perfect bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 93 pp. Co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City, Film Culture magazine was the print arm for the godfather of.....
San Francisco: Re/Search, 1982. First Edition, stamped "Advance Proof Copy" Softcover [octavo], in pictorial glossy wraps, 128 pp. Advance Proof Copy of Acker's first major novel, stamped as such to title page in black ink (and otherwise identical to First Edition copies), published on V. Vale's legendary Re/Search imprint --.....