Rochester, NY: Kodak Company, c. 1950's-60's. Kodak’s Verifax machine was a duplicating machine that used a wet colloidal diffusion transfer technique to make reproduction. The machine utilized special chemical paper, and was marketed to offices, being a cheaper technology than the photostat. However, the multiple step process, the expense of... More

New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition. 8vo, 83 pp, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. With mimeographed errata slip taped down onto verso of last leaf. Association copy, inscribed boldly by Rexroth at the first blank to Charles and Janet Richards. The poet's first book, an... More

np: The Pick Pocket Series, 1976. First edition. 12mo, wraps. Illustrated with drawings by Jean Cocteau. Association copy, inscribed and signed (with an "S") by Rodefer at first blank to fellow poet Gene (Frumkin). The second book in the Pick Pocket Poet series which appropriated the design of the Pocket... More

San Francisco: Free Print Shop, 1981. First edition. 16mo, 32 pp, printed wraps. First edition of this acerbic prose polemic on poetry, publishing and careerism in late capitalism, with particular reference to many of the poets of the Beat Generation. "Poets in America and other overdeveloped countries generally start off... More

New York: Fuck You Press, 1962. First edition. 4to, thirteen leaves mimeographed on rectos only from typescript and drawing [with the exception of the final leaf, which is mimeographed on verso]. The first and rarest issue of the periodical, which ran to 13 issues. This debut is dedicated in part... More

Waldport, Oregon: The Illiterati, 1945. First edition. Small 4to. Offset printed in several colors and saddle-stapled wraps. The fourth installment of The Illiterati, one of the greatest little magazines of the twentieth century, published from the conscientous objector's camp at Waldport, Oregon. The magazine would have an incalculable and still... More

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo, letterpress printed and perfect bound in wraps. First edition, one of 1500 copies. A collection of poems submitted to magazines, here organized according to which magazine rejected them. The most brilliant aspect of the book design is that each of these... More

np: Oyez : White Rabbit, 1981. 8vo, [32] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. The facsimile edition, and first trade edition, the original having being published as a single copy given to Spicer's close friend Josephine Miles in 1946. Near fine. More

San Francisco: Arif Press, 1973. Second edition. Square 12mo, letterpress, saddle-stapled wraps. The second edition, one of 1000 copies. An early, and beautiful book from Wesley Tanner's Arif Press. Near fine with some minor toning to wraps. More

[San Francisco]: Hermes Free Press, [c. 1972]. First edition. 5 3/4 x 15" poster, linocut print on white uncoated paper. A rebus calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon, which was also produced as a bumper sticker. One of the most striking examples of several items the press produced during... More

[Portland, OR]: The Circulating Library, [2016]. 12 x 18 1/4" poster, text silkscreened in gray ink, with holograph addition (the word "city" handwritten as the penultimate word). Published as the Circulating Library No. 2. The Circulating Library is an anonymous art group which publishes public works. According to the group... More

San Francisco: Vesuvio Cafe, [1964]. 4 5/8 x 5 3/4" photographic print in black and white. One of a series of holiday cards which Vesuvio issued in the 1950's and 1960's. The card is illustrated with a photograph of a man at a bar alongside a row of mannequins, and... More

Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, nd. 4to. Mimeographed and stab-stapled into printed covers. All issues published. The second issue features a small book by Jim Stewart entitled “Need a Dozen Tow Boys?” housed in a brown paper bag with a corned beef sticker. Scarce complete and with the bag still attached. With... More