Various Places: nd [c. 1900's-40's]. A substantial archive of materials relating to the early 20th century comedy team Clark and McCullough, documenting their remarkable trajectory across several popular 20th century theatrical forms- from Circus, to Vaudeville to Burlesque to popular film. The two had been high school friends n Springfield..... More
San Francisco: Alternatives. The Modern Utopian, 1971. First edition. 8vo, 7 + [3] pp, mimoeographed from typescript and laid into a mimeographed card folder. Addressed and postmarked in the year of publication. A short pamphlet presenting three short texts which seems aimed largely at urban and suburban folk wishing to..... More
[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, c. 1950's. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes issued by the Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950's, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Some faint..... More
[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, c. 1950's. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes issued by the Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950's, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Some faint..... More
[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, c. 1950's. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes issued by the Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950's, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Some faint..... More
Np: [1044], [1970]. 8vo., [8] pp. [including covers], offset printed in bw; unbound, folded sheets. Folded once, with some creasing and toning; very good. Copies of this pamphlet, attributed to Herbert Marcuse, began to surface in the wake of the Watts riots. Marcuse vehemently denied authorship, and the pamphlet was..... More
np: Gilbert & George, 1974. 4 1/2 x 7" postcard, offset printed in red card stock. The verso is blank. More
London: Institute for Contemporary Arts, 1968. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Single issue of the longrunning periodical ably edited by the great Jasia Reichardt. This issue includes a cover reproducing a photomontage by John Heartfield, 'From Munduculum" by Diter Rot, a visual poem by Emmett Williams to back cover, poems by Adrian..... More
Chicago: De Laurence Company, 1948. 4to, xlviii, 268 pp, bound in red boards with Sator Square embossed to front panel. Illustrated throughout with diagrams and drawings in the text. Third of the De Laurence editions. Provenance: from the library of the NASA scientist Ralph Donaldson, with his signature to ffep..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1891. First edition. 8vo, viii, 296 pp, bound in the publisher's brown waxed cloth titled in gilt at the spine, and ruled and decorated in red at the front panel. The rare first edition of this landmark work, published shortly after Waite became..... More
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978. First edition. 12mo, 109 [3] pp, wraps. Lacking the printed band announcing the Robert Walser prize, as usually found. The Austrian writer's first book, the size of which does little to foreshadow the length and textual intricacies of her latter, mammoth works, though the..... More
San Francisco: Ahab Press of Jackson Square West, 1963. First edition. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated, mimeographed from typescript and side-stapled into printed wrappers, with a leaf of handmade paper with a hole burned into it so the title can be read through, as issued. "Since this work will express the notion..... More
Zurich: Jean-Christophe Verlag, 1937. First edition. 8vo, 223 pp, bound in dove grey cloth printed in blue; illustrated dust jacket. The first German translation of a work which had originally appeared in Dutch two years prior. The poet and socialist Roland-Holst was a close friend of Luxemburg. Following the ascent..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1949. First edition. Small 8vo, 112 pp, bound in grey cloth with rounded corners. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. First and only edition of Anna Kavan's rarest book, written with her psychiatrist and close friend K.T. Bluth, printed in Lübeck in a fugitive edition shortly after..... More
New York: Jack Green, 1964-65. New York: Jack Green, c. 1964. Foolscap, each issue mimeographed from typescript on cheap paper and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. With 2 unnumbered supplements on Wilhelm Reich. Nos. 1-5 with smaller contents sheet at upper staple. Unpaginated with the exception of..... More
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Amsterdam: Parel van de Jordaan, 1966. First edition. Oblong 4to, offset printed; stab-stapled and covered in cloth tape at spine, as issued. With the rare poster for the related exhibition Politieoptreden, which opened on the 19th of March. A photobook issued by the Provo to document the protests and ensuing..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled cream wraps. Gibbs 1362, noted variation 1, in the LBB2 binding in cream. A survey of American law and its relationship to women, including much content on marriage and finances, the right to retain one's own name, parental rights, etc. "To understand the..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue-green wraps. Gibbs 1288, the only noted printing. The bulk of the book is taken up with the titular essay, first delivered by Haldeman-Julius as a lecture given to the Chicago City Social Club. Appended are two shorter essays, The Soul of Man..... More
[Amsterdam]: [1968]. 12 x 17" poster, printed on red on recto only. The legend translates roughly as "Johnson is a war criminal according to the jurisdiction of Nuremberg and Tokyo". The poster became one of the most iconic protest posters of the anti-war movement and were banned immediately because of..... More
Eugene: Toad Press, 1967. First edition. 8vo., 10 pp., saddle-stapled wraps. Warsh's first book, dedicated to Liam O'Gallagher and published by Bill Thomas at the Toad Press in Eugene Oregon. Old ink price to front and back cover in a neat hand, a couple light creases, else very good. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. Gibbs 1413, noted variation, in the LBB(2) binding. An excellent installment in the series, detailing the New York prison stay by the author after having a poem in the Daily Worker deemed obscene. Very good with toning and slight rubbing to..... More
Wuppertal: Verlag der Kalender, 1961. First edition. Large 4to, [60] pp, double leaves bound in unprinted card wraps, and housed in a printed dust jacket. Text in French and German. Designed by Wolf Vostell. In the year prior to the publication of the first issue of Decollage, Vostell designed and..... More
London: Macmillan, 1894. 8vo, 321, [2] + 5 pp, bound in green cloth titled in gilt. No dust jacket. A reprint, in Macmillan's Colonial Library Series. Ex Libris Roger Casement, with his signature to fep: 'Roger Casement Cape Town June 30 1900'. Beneath this, the book is inscribed by Casement..... More
London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1825. First edition. 8vo, x, [ii], 356 pp, lacking the half title. Bound in half red morocco, gilt and blind-tooled spine by Philip Dusel. First edition of this anonymously published collection of Gothic tales written by a gender non-conforming author who was aided by Mary..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1927. First edition. 32mo, 64 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1260, in the first noted binding, LBB(2), with date still present on copyright page. Illustrated with a single photograph. First edition of one of the rarest titles in the Little Blue Book series, an account of the lynching..... More