Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 175b, third noted variation, in the LBB(1) wrappers. An essay on history by the English historian and polemicist, originally given in 1864 as a lecture to the Royal Institution. Near fine. More

London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1953. Folding card [folded size 5 5/8 x x 6 1/4"], printed in dark blue on light blue paper, reproduced from holograph. An ingeniou prospectus from the Gaberbocchus Press, framed as a letter addressed to a Lady Celia, and addressing criticisms aimed towards the press while outlining..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled wraps. Gibbs 98a, third noted variation. A long essay on love and sex by the controversial British journalist, birdwatcher, eugenicist, and author of The Poison of Prudery. A scarcer title in the series - in 1924 this title was graveyarded and assigned instead to..... More

New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1983. First edition. Tabloid format, 36 pp. including covers. Special issue of the longrunning artists' periodical devoted to avant-garde music, which was associated with, and later published above, the famous Ear Inn on Spring Street, entirely devoted to Gamelan music and Indonesian arts in America..... More

Strasbourg: 1967. 4to, folder containing a [12] pp. booklet bound in, along with five loose booklets and leaflets. Rare publication issued by the so-called Garnaultins critiquing the International Situationniste, and protesting the expulsion of the four from the group. The folder includes a reproduction of the Situationist tract that expelled..... More

New York: nd [c. early 1980's]. 4 3/4 x 5 3/8" postcard. Recto illustrated with a drawing and photomontage by Carl George. The invitation to this series of performances at ABC No Rio, including Samoa (co-founder of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black), Donald Miller (of Borbetomagus), Brian Doherty (of..... More

New York: Gordon & Breach, 1973. First edition. 4to, 64 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. One of the scarcest issues of Radical Software, devoted to television and video art in San Francisco. With contributions from Liam O'Gallagher, Allen Ginsberg, Harriet Ainsworth, Mills Tape Center, Francis Coelho, L. Sears, Bill Harris, Mary Canary..... More

Italy: Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga in collaborazione col Centro Programmazione Spetacoli dell'ARCI, 1979. 25 x 37" poster, offset lithograph in two colors. Original, rare poster for this 1979 poetry conference in Italy, which included Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Fabrizio Rinaldi. The event was organized..... More

Seaside / Salinas, CA: Intersystems Communications, 1987. First edition. 8vo, xiv, 347pp, perfect bound in wraps designed by Heinz Von Foerster. Important work by the radical constructivist, collecting texts by the author divided here into four parts - Language and Semantics, Constructivist Epistemology, and Concepts of Number. Some minor wear..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. Gibbs 1096. The first state of the text, in the LBB(2) binding with variant typeface. A fine, supple example, and scarce thus. More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in wraps. Gibbs 1239, first noted variation, in the 11th wrapper variation. A beguiling book of parlor games for the modern hostess, published just before the Great Depression, in the desirable illustrated cover. The games include some for the bibliophiliac, including a...... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in wraps. Gibbs 521, first noted variant. An impassioned biography of John Brown by Michael Gold, published six years before he wrote the bestselling novel Jews Without Money. Gold also authored a play about Brown, Battle Hymn. One of the scarcer books..... More

Placitas, NM: Duende, 1964. First edition. 4to, mimeographed, side-stapled in covers. The first issue of the important western little mag, this issue entirely devoted to the Oregon-born poet Ronald Bayes and his "History of the Turtle Book One" dedicated to Robert Creeley and Gena Ford. The final leaf, printed on..... More