np: 1968. Silkscreen on paper (dress), still sealed in the original plastic bag with printed paper header. One of the scarcest and perhaps the most beautiful paper dress of the 1960's, featuring Ginsberg's poem "Uptown, NY" imposed over a photograph of a hand with the thumb and ring finger meeting... More
New York: Tibor de Nagy, 1965. First edition. Square 8vo, bound in decorated wraps designed by Fred R. Siegel. One of only 20 signed and numbered copies of the special edition, this copy also housed in an unprinted glassine wrapper, which we've not previously encountered. The first edition of the... More
New York: Tibor de Nagy, 1965. First edition. Square 8vo, bound in decorated wraps designed by Fred R. Siegel. The first edition, regular issue, one of a limited edition of 500 copies. The first edition of the poet's last book to be published in his lifetime, a collection of love... More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 244 pp, bound in beige boards backed in brown cloth, gilt titles. One of 26 specially bound and signed copies of the first edition, signed by Kerouac on a limitation page tipped in after the title page. No dust jacket. The rare... More
Den Haag: Luctor et Emergo, 1918. First edition. 8vo, 246 pp, bound in violet cloth illustrated in dark purple after a drawing by Willem Arondeus. A landmark gay publication, being the first novel in the Dutch language to feature a positive portrayal of homosexuality. In addition, the striking and early... More
np: 1984. 74 color polaroids, 3 1/2 x 4 1/4", housed in a comemrcial plastic sleeve album. A remarkable series, consisting mostly of portraits of attendees to the convention in Dallas, Texas. The anonymous photographer had a keen eye for detail, and a good handful of the snapshots are small... More
Amsterdam: 1943. Amsterdam: dated 1941 [actually, 1943]. ALS on lined prison stationary, marked 'S.G.S. 8105-1942’. 29 lines, written in pencil. Addressed to “Eep” [Marius Roland Holst], and signed “Tiky.” One line blacked out, likely by a censor. With an accompanying letter by Willem Sandberg to Roland Holst about the damage... More
Np: nd [c. 1930's-1960's]. Three portfolios, two of them folding, each bearing mounted and stapled photographic prints with hand-lettered captions and texts, the largest of which is rubberstamped with a "received" mark of the Supreme Court, and into which is stapled a 12 pp. typewritten Legal Brief by the photographer... More
np: nd [c. 1940's]. Four commercial bound volumes, two of which are diaries, one a daily planner, and one marked "notes". With additional ephemera, including two photographs. Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, an artist, writer, Socialist and adventurer, was one of the most unusual popular artists of the early 20th century. In... More
np: 1993. Five 8 x 10" photographs, with Adelman's rubberstamp and date to verso. To which is added 30 additional prints, either unattributed or by different photographers. A collection of 5 scarce vintage prints of fetish scenes by the legendary Civil Rights photographer, best known for his photographs of Martin... More
Paris: Chez Sallior, Successor de Didot Jne., et Pernier..., An V de l'ère française, 1797. Folio, 270 x 210 mm, loose, uncut bifolio sheets, laid into a custom morocco chemise and cloth slipcase. Portrait of Rabelais and 60 engravings, each appearing on a bifolium sheet, with the facing page blank... More
Oblong 4to, string bound photograph album bearing approximately 200 photographs of varying dimensions pasted in, along with 12 calling cards, three 8 x 10 promotional photographs, an additional photograph in a folding souvenir mount from the Palm Club in Manhatta, and several miscellanouse items, mostly pasted down. A remarkable album... More
Np: nd. 169 4 x 6" black and white photographic commercial prints on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper, each with a number handwritten at verso, housed in a photo album with the sentence "Gun Report Show" written in ink inside front cover. A collection of portraits of gun and weapon dealers... More
London: Crafts Council Gallery, 1986. 4to, 64 pp., saddle-stapled in thick card wraps with a photographic pastedown to front panel. Includes a bibliography. Some creasing to wraps resulting in a light vertical bend to first few pages, and a few spots of foxing to covers only, else very good. More
np: nd [c. mid-1980's]. 4to, photocopied from typescript and collage, stab-stapled. Cover by Neil Campbell. Single issue of the strikingly designed industrial / avant / post-punk fanzine, with contributions from Neil Campbell, great interview with The Cravats / Very Things, a page of releases form Omming for Woks, etx. Single... More
London: Cherry Red REcords, 1981. 4to, 16 pp, offset printed and saddle-stapled in glossy wraps. Nicely designed fanzine from Cherry Red, featuring an interview with Fred Frith, article about psychedelia including Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, a text by Kevin Coyne, and an article on speed use in... More
np: Something in Bed, 1986. 4to, 10 pp, xeroxed on rectos only and stab-stapled. Mysterious 1980's Australian fanzine featuring some great photography and interviews with Chris Bailey of The Saints, a very inventive interview with Hunters & Collectors, partially drawn as a comic strip, etc. Fine. More
Amsterdam: Kunstverein, 2011. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 58 pp. Offset printed and perfect bound in French wraps. One tip bumped, still a very good copy. At long last there is a full-length study about Ray Johnson's A Book About Death - one of the greatest bookworks of the 20th century... More
Richmond, VA: Donut Central, [1984]. 4to, 22 pp. [incl. covers], original xerox from drawings and typescript. Single issue of this rare and outlandishly weird underground comics artzine out of Richmond, VA by one Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Ungerus of Gwar. The only example of this issue we've ever handled or... More
Brighton, UK: Unicorn Books, 1971. First edition. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated. Bound in full brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt to the front panel. One of a limited edition of 99 copies, each of which is numbered and signed by Burroughs. The book was printed by Richard Moseley at the Graphic... More
San Francisco: Beach Books Texts & Documents, 1968. First American edition. 8vo, printed wraps. The first trade edition, one of 1000 copies printed, after the limited edtion published in 1960. Illustrated with a collage by publisher Claude Pelieu. Association copy, from the library of Julian Beck and Judith Malina with... More
Gottingen: Expanded Media Editions, 1973. First edition thus. 8vo, unpaginated. Offset printed on brown paper and bound into photographically illustrated wraps. Text in both English and German. Some faint toning to spine else fine. More
Köln: Divers Press, 1968. First edition. Oblong 4to, 21 leaves of thick plastic, silkscreened in black and white, and bound at left margin with four thick plastic screws. One of a limited edition of 30 numbered and signed examples, this example denoted as an artists' proof and signed by Iannone... More
np: Campbell's Soup Company, nd [c. 1966-67]. Paper dress [80% celluloid and 20% wool], printed in three colors. Made at the height of the paper dress craze of the 1960's, this dress was manufactured by the company itself, certainly as a response to the popularity of Warhol's Campbell's soup can... More
Düsseldorf: Organisation für Direkte Demokratie, c. 1971. A substantial collection of eleven pamphlets and six posters and leaflets issued by the group. One of the pamphlets is signed on the cover. Text largely in German, with some English. 1. "Satzung und Politisches Programm." 8vo, 14 pp, offset printed in blue... More