[Berkeley]: nd [c. early 1980's?]. 4to, 8 pp [incl. covers], offset printed and saddle-stapled into wraps illustrated in color. An anonymously produced manual for incoming and returning students to U.C. Berkeley, which includes includes community resources, quotes from a variety of sources (Emma Goldman, Jack London et al) and an... More
Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin... More
[Northern Germany]: c. 1921-23. Contemporary album, 10 x 13 1/2", bound in padded faux crocodile-skin boards, with gilt-stamped device to front panel (entitled 'Notgeld Album'). With 258 examples of Notgeld, each printed in color, and each mounted loose via mobile fasteners. A remarkable and carefully assembled album of Notgeld, the... More
New York: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed on both recto and verso from holograph and drawing. A leaflet attacking TPF and Bill Graham, with reference to the end of the Henry Street Commune. The verso advertises the Free Store at 89 East 10th St... More
Frankfurt: Verband des Linken Buchhandels, 1976. 4to, 48 + 12 pp, perfect bound in photographically illustrated wraps. Text in German. A compilation of articles from the underground press, newsclippings, and other texts about attacks on leftist bookshops in Germany. A valuable reference for German bookstore history as well as a.... More
np: Christopher Gray and Ammunition Pressworks, nd. 8vo, [10] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A translation into English of Vienet's piece that was first published as the sixth chapter of his "Enrages et Situationists dans le Mouvement d'Occupations". Fine. More
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1967. 14 1/4 x 28 1/2" poster, color photolithograph. The 1967 poster for Simon Vinkenoog's 1967 book, which included essays on such various topics as the Beats, Constant's New Babylon project, Bob Dylan, the Vietnam War, etc. The striking poster was designed by Walter Steevensz and... More
Hamburg: [Quer-Verlag], 1968. First edition. Oblong 16mo. Mimeographed on white paper, with red card section dividers. Stapled into red wraps, which are tipped into aluminium boards with red tape. Illustrated title pastedown to front panel. Perhaps the first book ever to be designed as a weapon. Kampfreime is a collection... More
Apeldoorn: De Lantaarn, c. 1930. 8vo, 18 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps. Text in Dutch. Scarce early pacifist / Dutch socialist pamphlet on the perils of chemical warfare, illustrated after a striking drawing of a woman holding a child in a cloud of poison gas; the drawing and pamphlet design are... More
London: Release Publications, 1976. First edition. 4to, 16 pp, stab-stapled illustrated covers. OCLC locates only three holdings at the time of cataloguing. Old horizontal crease, and some minor foxing and toning to margins; very good. More
San Francisco: People's Press, nd [c. 1970's]. Tabloid format, offset printed in color on newsprint. This remarkable publication from the Women's Street Theater appears at first glance to be a traditional tabloid publication, similar in appearance to countless other tabloids from the underground press in the era. However, this is... More
[London]: Workers for Proletarian Autonomy and Social Revolution, nd [c. 1984]. 4to, [7] pages, printed wraps. With BM Blob rubberstamp inside front cover. Near fine. More
NY: Young Lords Party, nd. 17 3/4 x 28" poster, offset litho. The poster prints each word of the title emblazoned in white on an automatic rifle printed in purple, each bearing the word "struggle" on the magazine - a succint portrayal of the four elements of the group's platform... More
Ann Arbor: Youth Liberation, 1978. Second edition. 4to, 40 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. The second edition, issued two years after the first. Very good with some minor toning and smudging to wraps. More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 " broadside, letterpress printed with Cheltenham type. Fine. Of three paper variants, this example is on light green paper. Among the earliest ephemera from the press, dating from the Collins St. days. The simple design gives the text, a powerful manifesto... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 " broadside, letterpress printed with Cheltenham type. Fine. Of three paper variants, this example is on rose paper stock. Among the earliest ephemera from the press, dating from the Collins St. days. The simple design gives the text, a powerful manifesto... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this was directed at the Republican culture of fear, and that "one can... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Of two known variants, this is the one printed on white paper. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this... More