[Port Townsend, WA]: Feral House, 2012. Design by Sean Tejaratchi. Lo-res Advance Reader's Proof. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8 1/2" x 11", 337 pp. Advance reader's copy of the Feral House visual guide to the secret societies in American history.
New York: Dover Publications, 1961. Signature-bound, [octavos], in illustrated paper wraps, vol. 1 362 pp.; vols. 2 & 3 bound together, 380 pp. & 336 pp.; vols. 4 & 5 bound together, 353 pp. 351 pp.; vols. 6 & 7 bound together, 317 pp. & 328 pp.;.
Blanco, TX: Zahra Publications, 1981. Perfect-bound in illustrated paper wraps, 8 1/2" x 6 3/4", 72 pp.
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.....
New York: Blank Forms Editions, 2021. Design Alec Mapes-Frances. First edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], with pictorial wraps and french flaps, 591 pp.
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.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2013. Hardcover [octavo] in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 213 pp.
New York/London: Routledge, 1990. Hardcover [octavo], brown cloth boards with black lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 190 pp.
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.....
Boston: Rising Sun Christianity, 1964. Fifth Printing. Hardcover [12mo] in pictorial dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to front board, black lettering to spine. 448. Opening with a daring contradiction of prologue structure the author received personally from Hemingway himself, Why Suffer? takes the reader on a comprehensive.....
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.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Jacket Design by Bob Korn. First Printing. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Yellow board with red lettering to spine. 105 pp. First printing, stated, of Artaud's writings reflecting on his experiences with peyote rituals amongst the Tarahumara of Northern Mexico.
London: Neville Spearman, 1973. Jacket design by Karen Heywood. Hardcover, 5 5/8" x 8 3/4", purple boards with gilt lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 221 pp.
Paris: Collection Merlin, 1954. First edition, limited to 1053 copies. Signature-bound [octavo], plain paper wraps in pictorial paper jacket, 217 pp. [9].
New York: Lancer Books, 1967. Signature-bound mass market in pictorial wraps, 8vo, 159 pp. Born Lee Brown in Newark, New Jersey, Babs assumed multiple pseudonyms throughout his life to avoid racial segregation. First, with the accoutrements of an Indian National and a Turban, Babs passed as Ram Singh privately chauffeuring.....
Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1983. Saddle-stapled [octavo] in glossy pictorial wrappers, yellow free endpapers, unpaginated [32 pp]. Scarce second collection of poems from performance artist Bob Flanagan, who, in close collaboration with his partner Sheree Rose, worked largely in body modification, BDSM, and leather culture. His work was featured in.....
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1987. Jacket design by Susan Newman; jacket photography by Harvey Wang. First Overlook Press edition. Hardcover, 5 3/4" x 8 1/4", black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine and stamped roundel to cover in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 320 pp. Beat comrade and outsider.....
Paradise Valley, AZ: Pro West, 1980. First edition. Hardcover, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", green boards with black lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 271 pp. The last Edsel known to be built came off the assembly line of a Louisville, KY Ford Motors Plant November 19, 1959. Warnock spent.....
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].....
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.
California: Coyote Press, 1966. Saddle-stapled [quarto] in pictorial wrappers, 59 pp with bound-in errata slip.
New York: Fawcett Publications, 1966. Perfect-bound, 4 1/8" x 7", in pictorial paper wraps, unpaginated.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. Jacket design by Andrew [Andy] Warhol. First printing. Hardcover beige cloth boards with mauve lettering.
New York / London: Serpent's Tail, 1997. Softcover [octavo], in glossy pictorial wraps, xiii, 294 pp. Scarce posthumous collection of cult darling Cookie Mueller's writing, issued by underground queer-centric press Serpent's Tail. With an introduction by John Waters.
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1988. Signature-bound in pictorial gilt-lettered dust wrapper, red cardstock wrappers, 80 pp. Fifteenth title (of 50 total) from the legendary Hanuman series, which used a Hindu prayer-book printer in Madras, India, to print obscure works from transgressive authors between 1986 and 1993. This title.....