Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 348a, first noted state of the interior, second wrapper state. Wraps faded and rubbed at extremities, but very good. More

Münster [actually Berlin]: Aurin Verlang, 1987. 16mo, 78 [2] pp, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Text in German. Prints the title work by Benjamin as well as his essay on Lebel, and Werner Fuld’s essay Die Aura. This little book concludes by reprinting item no. 4 item with a reset..... More

London: The Galley Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 204 pp, bound in yellow cloth titled in gilt. Housed in the original dust jacket illustrated by the author. The scarce first edition of this roman a clef describing postwar life in the St. Ives artist commune after the war, a period..... More

np: nd. A small archive, incluing typescripts, relating to the occultists Jacob Bonggren and Laura McCormick. Jacob (or Jakob) Bonggren was a Swedish-American poet, Theosophist and occultist, who moved from Sweden to the Chicago area in 1882. In the Chicago area he became an editor for Svenska Amerikanaren and an..... More

London: Gaberbocchus, 1959. First edition. 12mo, 124 pp, bound in green boards titled in gilt at the spine; photographically illustrated dust jacket. Buchanan's memoir of his Ulster childhood, dedicated to Forrest Reid, 'who read an early draft'. Another beautiful book from Stefan and Francizka Themerson's Gaberbocchus Press. A touch of..... More

New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 24mo, [12] pp, mimeographed from typescript and drawing. Covers illustrated with impeccable provocation and grace by Allen Ginsberg. The first separate edition of this section of the Yage Letters, which the "paranoid printers" of the City Lights edition in England refused to..... More

New York: The Sunwise Turn, 1923. First edition. New York: The Sun-wise Turn, 1923. First edition. 8vo, 42 pp, bound in marbled paper over boards backed in blue cloth titled in gilt. One of the 100 copies numbered and signed by the author, out of a total stated edition of..... More

New York: Hillman Books, 1961. First edition. 16mo, 160 pp, paperback. First and only edition of this novel of bisexual life in Greenwich Village, which was written under pseudonym by the New York School writer Joseph LeSueuer, written while he was living with Frank O’Hara. The actually ends up in..... 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

Montpelier: Fata Morgana, 1968. First edition. 4to, each issue consisting of loose leaves of paper printed by a heliographic process, laid into paper-covered boards with tie enclosures and title pastedowns. Each volume also bears its own title, respectively "Tourmente," "Sorbonne." and "Le seul mot de liberté est tout ce qui..... More

London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1967. First edition. First edition, wrappered issue. 8vo, unpaginated, bound in white card wraps printed in red. With publisher's prospectus laid in. An unusual work, consisting of 100 numbered fragments of text followed by 100 numbered, terse poems, all inspired by the work of Christopher Marlowe. "In..... More

np: Compass Line, 1967. First edition. 12mo, 160 pp, illustrated wraps. Beat exploitation novel set in New York City, the protagonist a college student who wanders the streets and a series of clubs, including a gay club named "The Harlequin" and a club called "The Inverted Donkey." "Free Lust...They lived..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 678, first recorded printing, in the first wrapper state. A biography of the founder of the Haldeman-Julius project, illustrated with a few photographs. Wraps rather toned at extremities, with some minor rubbing. Very good. More