Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1950. 8vo, saddle-stapled red wraps titled in black. Numbered as 887 in the series, and published as a Big Blue Book, though not noted as such here. Very good with the usual toning. More
Kent, OH: [Zephyrus Image], [1974]. First edition. 7 x 11 3/4" broadside, letterpress printed on Curtis Gallo Utopian laid paper. Decorative linocut borders in green by Michael Myers. A broadside issued by the Zephyrus Image for the Kent State Arts Festival. Also issued as part of a portfolio, but some... More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. First edition. 8vo, letterpress printed and bound in french card wraps illustrated after a drawing by Duncan. Decoratively blindstamped title page. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. One of a limited edition of 500 copies, 28 of which were specially bound and signed. First edition of this... More
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1964. First edition. 8vo, hardcover in dust jacket. The scarcer hardcover issue of the book, the bulk issued in wraps. Near fine, with some dustiness to the top edge, in a bright, very good or better jacket lightly toned with some faint rubbing to extremities. More
![Roots and Branches [Inscribed with Drawing]. Robert Duncan.](/pictures/thumb/20429.jpg?v=1465001695)
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1964. First edition. 8vo, wraps. 176 pp. Title page inscribed "Robert Duncan/ at Lawrence/ May 1965" with full-page drawing by the poet. Some light creasing to front wrap and at spine. Minor tidemarking to back cover. Faint droplet stain ghosts to foreedge. Crease to last... More
![Untitled Drawing [Gestalt]. Robert Duncan.](/pictures/thumb/21735.jpg?v=1471301071)
np: nd. 8 1/2 x 8”, ink on paper. Undated. Signed by Duncan within the image. Provenance: from the collection of the artist Ernesto Edwards, a longtime friend of Jess and Robert Duncan, who has a section devoted to his work in An Opening of the Field (pp. 188-193). A.... More
Berkeley: White Rabbit Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 20 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A text by Duncan which arose out of a "controversy" at a 1958 reading organized by Joe Dunn, prefaced by poems by Dull and Kyger. Very good with toning and some faint soiling to wraps, and the usual... More
Strasbourg, France: Association Intra Musiques, 1985. 8vo, offset printed, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. This issue of the periodical devoted to avant-garde music is a great one, and features interviews with Roland Petit / Art Zoyd, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Shub Niggurath, et al. Very good. More
New York: Sing Out! 1968. First edition. 4to, 80 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated in color. An important issue of the longrunning periodical devoted to folk music, featuring an exclusive interview with Bob Dylan (done by John Cohen and Harry Traum). The front cover is illustrated with a cover reproduction... More
New York: Wallspace Gallery, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 8vo stapled in wraps, 28 pp. Artist's Book limited to 500 copies. The photographer's first book features full page black and white reproductions of photographs of signs placed in vacant landscapes, taken from 2002 - 2006. Fine. More
San Fernando Valley: [1982]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, original xerox on yellow paper. Flyer designed by "Little Red Boom Boom & His Orchestra." Flyer for this 1982 show at Godzilla's, a bowling alley at which the BYO organized a series of shows at in late 1981/early 1982. This show... More
Detroit: [1982]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset litho on white paper. Original flyer for this July 17, 1982 gig by the Effigies with Flesheaters at Clutch Cargo's, the important hardcore venue in Detroit that hosted a number of midwest hardcore shows in the early 1980's. Two old fold lines... More
Hamburg: Quer-Verlag, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. Side-stapled in cardboard covers, with photographic pastedown to front panel. Illustrated with two black and white photographs. The first and only edition of the only book on Eiffe, who is widely considered to be the first modern graffiti artist in Germany. His... More
Los Angeles: Desolation Center, 1984. 2 1/2 x 3" perforated ticket, lettepress printed in two colors on chipboard. Rubberstamped "sample" at verso. Very good with a small pinhole to one tip and minor wear. More
![Do You Lose Your Temper? [Little Blue Book No. 1668]. George Eliot.](/pictures/thumb/26815.jpg?v=1541166042)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled peach wraps printed in black. Near fine, and scarce thus. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. More
San Francisco: M, [1962]. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and stab-stapled. First issue of the little magazine published from Gino & Carlo's Bar, where, submissions could be dropped off. Only two were published. The magazine bears some similarities with Open Space and J, and share many of the same... More
Paris: Editions Polyglottes, 1956. First edition. 8vo, [4] pp, single sheet printed in two colors and folded once. Illustrated with a reproduction of portrait of Trotsky by Annenkoff. Surrealist broadside issued to denounce the Stalinist betrayal of Trotsky and the French communists. The recto is beautifully designed with a text... More
![[Funeral announcement for Paul Eluard, addressed and mailed to Lucien Scheler]. Paul Eluard, Le Comité National des Ecrivains.](/pictures/thumb/26497.jpg?v=1532387705)
Paris: Le Comité National des Ecrivains, 1952. Bifolium, 10 5/8 x 16 6/16", printed on rectos only with a black funeral border, and folded once (inner panels blank). Folded once, as mailed, and housed in the original mailing envelope, bordered in black, and addressed to Lucien Scheler, with stamp and... More
![Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Famous Essays on Compensation and Friendship [Little Blue Book No. 60]. Ralph Waldo Emerson.](/pictures/thumb/25912.jpg?v=1511831018)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in green wraps with the author's name in larger type. A scarcer title in the series. Near fine with toning to extremities, rear wrap lightly feathered where it extends slightly past the fore edge, and small snag at crown. More
np: Emiliano Zapata Unit, 1975. 8 1/2 x 12", printed in black on recto only. folded twice, with some minor staining to margins; very good. More
np. Two promotional posters, 8 1/2 x 11" and 9 x 12", and ten photographs, vintage silver gelatin prints of various dimension, five of which are matted. Ansel & Dorian were an early 20th century head and hand balancing acrobatic Vaudeville act, whose claim to fame was the strength of... More
np: Erich Dobhardt-Komitee, [1973]. 4to, 20 pp. [incl. covers], offset printed and saddle-stapled. Pamphlet collecting press clippings and documents relating to the killing of 17 year old Erich Dobhardt by police, which at the time caused a great amount of controversy in Germany. He is the namesake of the Erich... More
London: Ghost Story Press, 1995. 8vo, xiii, 257 pp., bound in black cloth titled in white. Illustrated dust jacket. Second, expanded edition, one of 350 numbered copies. With a foreward by Richard Dalby. A reprint of the rarely seen first edition published by Philip Allan in 1920, expanded with an... More
![Contemporary Xerox of Notes for Fac 101: Tony Wilson's Lofts [Unrealized Concept]. Factory Records.](/pictures/thumb/26170.jpg?v=1520971174)
Manchester: c. 1985. Two 8 1/4 x 11 3/4" sheets, photocopy on rectos only from hand-corrected typescript, holograph and architectural drawing. Provenance will be made known to buyer. In 1985 Tony Wilson and Factory Records embarked on of their most audacious plans since the construction of the Haçienda Club (FAC... More
![Postcard Announcement for SHORTS [Factory 137]. Factory Records.](/pictures/thumb/25939.jpg?v=1514656875)
New York: Factory New York Limited, 1985. 3 1/2 x 5" postcard, offset printed in color. Addressed and mailed to an employee at Rough Trade. Postcard probably designed by Malcolm Whitehead after the original Trevor Johnson. The postcard announcement for Factory 137, a VHS of short films, and the same... More