New York: Ace Books, 1953. First edition. 12mo, wraps. Bound dos à dos with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. The first edition of Burroughs' first novel. Poet, publisher and musician Dan Lauffer's copy, who helped the book's distribution and so many other publications of the underground in NYC by stocking at..... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo, 48 pp, saddle-stapled card wraps. The first edition of this remarkable anthology, radical in both the scope and quality of the work included, but also by the design - a slender volume designed to act as a supplement to other published anthologies which..... More

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1961. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w photographs. With the original printed wraparound band flattened and laid in. The scarce first edition of this artists' book printed from maquettes designed by Marker himself, which combines the spoken portion of several of his early films, matched..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies for presentation, specially bound in full chapskin, with illustrated title label pasted down onto the front board, and signed by Dorn on the colophon. This is copy A, this is the first gunman...a glorious copy. Fine, in..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. Lettered issue, one of 26 copies signed by Dorn, and specially handbound in Buckskin with printed title label to front panel. Laid into this copy is a sheet titled by hand in red ink "Proof Sample of 12 pt. Caslon for "Gunslinger"..... More

Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, here all of unmade beds An early installment in the series of deadpan artists' books sometimes referred to as his 'Bilderhefte" series, in which..... 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

New Haven & New York: New Haven Panther Defense Committee / New York Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970. Tabloid, [8] pp. [including covers], offset printed on newsprint in two colors, with centerfold poster. A one shot publication issued by the two committees which prints a centerfold poster with..... 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

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

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910.The third, expanded, and first public edition. 8vo, vii, 234 pp. Bound in violet paper covered boards with titles stamped in white. Foreward by Ernst Mach. With the ownership signature of Wely v. Döring to title page, and on the fepa...... More

New York: James A. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 72pp, printed on watermarked paper and bound in leatherette stamped in gilt at the spine; yellow silk bookmark sewn in. In the original unprinted glassine wrapper. One of 12 presentation copies, with a holograph poem bound in..... More