New York: City Lights, 1963. First edition. 8vo, printed wraps. Signed by Allen Ginsberg in NYC and dated in 1964, the year following publication. Scarce with an early signature. Some light smudging and rubbing to wraps, else fine. More about The Yage Letters
Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 63 pp, printed wraps illustrated at back cover with drawings by Brion Gysin. One of 1000 copies printed. Burroughs' third book, and the first standalone publication to employ the cut-up technique as Gysin & co. envisioned it. Maynard & Miles A3a. Margins... More about Minutes to Go
New York: Grove Press, 1960. 8vo, [16] pp [incl. covers], saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated with a photograph of Burroughs. An advance excerpt of the text, here preceded by texts by Southern and Seldon on the work. The advance salvo of the shock to come. Some faint toning to margins, else fine. More about Advance Excerpt from Naked Lunch
London: Atlas Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo. 63 pp. Wraps. One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies. The Printed Head Vol.III, No. 6. Near fine with a sticker ghost to rear panel. More about Paintings of the Fortuitous School in Public Collections
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. First edition. 4to, 167 pp, bound in full black cloth. Printed dust jacket. Near fine, with some minor toning to the top edge of the text block, in a very good dust jacket with some overall rubbing and some small, innocuous abrasions to rear panel. More about A Year From Monday
New York: [1954. 4 x 8 1/4", offset printed on recto; cream card stock. The original handbill for two performances by David Tudor in 1954 at Carnegie Hall. The first night notes that there will be performances of pieces by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and John Cage. Though not mentioned... More about Handbill for Two Recitals by David Tudor, Including the First New York Performance of 4'33
New York: [1954. 4 x 8 1/4", offset printed on recto; green card stock. The original handbill for two performances by David Tudor in 1954 at Carnegie Hall. The first night notes that there will be performances of pieces by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and John Cage. Though not mentioned... More about Handbill for Two Recitals by David Tudor, Including the First New York Performance of 4'33
Bronxville, NY: The Laughing Buddha Press, 1984. First edition thus. Narrow 8vo, ii, 49 pp, saddle-stitched in illustrated card wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. Translation of the author's terrific essay on the mystery novel, done into American by A. W. Sadler and Roberto Yahni. A.... More about The Mystery Novel
Santa Monica: Cameron Parsons Foundation, 2015. First edition. 4to, 80 pp, bound in blue cloth with titles embossed in white and gray, and illustrated pastedown to front panel. No dust jacket as issued. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Fine. More about Songs for the Witch Woman
London: Fulgur Esoterica, 2014. First edition. 4to, 173 pp, bound in deep blue cloth pictorially stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. One of 1390 copies issued in cloth, out of a total edition of 1560. A beautifully designed book featuring poems, drawings, and diary entries, reproduced in facsimile from the... More about Songs for the Witch Woman
Oxford: Mandrake, 2011. Fine in wraps. More about Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron
London: Richards Press, 1951. First edition. 8vo, 230 pp, red boards titled in gilt. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. Very good, with a slight cock to the spine and some dustiness to top edge of text block, in a very good jacket that is darkened at spine and rather chipped at... More about Aleister Crowley: The Man, The Mage, The Poet
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Light toning, else fine. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for a particular title. More about An Exposure of Mediums' Tricks and Rackets [Little Blue Book No. 1746
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige blue wraps printed in black. Toned at extremities with a couple light creases to wraps, but very good. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for... More about How to Read Fingerprints [Little Blue Book No. 1754
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Light toning, else fine. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for a particular title. More about True Prison Escapes [Little Blue Book No. 1746
Yorke Beach: Teitan Press, 2015. First edition. Small 4to, viii, 280 pp, bound in black cloth ruled in blind, and titled and decoratively stamped in gilt. Standard edition, one of 720 numbered copies. Though not called for, signed by the author at the title page. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. More about Of the Arte Goetia
London: Independent Project Records, 1985. 4 x 6" postcard, letterpress in four colors on thick chipboard stock. Addressed at verso by hand, but not postmarked. A postcard made for this very early show by Camper Van Beethoven, here still called Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol, along with Box... More about Letterpress Postcard for a 1985 Show at Anticlub
Chicago: Redoubt Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo, perfect bound in wraps. The first edition, not to be confused with the revised edition later published by 2.13.61. Very good with light overall rubbing to the wraps. More about Rock and the Pop Narcotic
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black. No date on copyright page. Light toning else a clean, near fine example. More about On the Choice of Books [Little Blue Book No. 75
London: Carribean Situationist, 1973. First edition. Poster. Poster, 18 x 23", offset printed in b&w on recto only. Illustrated with photographs. Prints a text by Mustapha Khayati from issue no. 11 of the Internationale Situationniste, here translated anonymously in English. Illustrated with three photographs of riots in Hungary, Trinidad and... More about Contributions Serving to Rectify the Opinion of the Public Concering the Revolution in...
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-yellow wraps printed in black. Fine, and scarce thus. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for a particular title. More about Gambler's Crooked Tricks [Little Blue Book No. 1285
University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1974. First edition. 8vo, 294 pp, hardcover. No dust jacket. The first English language edition of the important study, first published in 1950 in French. Includes a substantial section examining the relationship of Surrealism and esotericism & the occult. Fine. More about Andre Breton and the Basic Concepts of Surrealism
New York: Redtape, 1982. First edition. 4to, offset printed in black and white with two color cover, saddle-stapled. The debut issue of one of the most essential magazines to come out of the Downtown Writing scene, the "the manual to the darker side of the era." (Stosuy p. 458). This... More about Redtape #1
Lisboa: Livraria Guimaraes, 1903. First edition. 8vo, 270 pp, rebound at a contemporary or early date in marbled boards backed in red leatherette titled and banded in gilt. Original wraps not present. Illustrated with 13 photographs and drawings. Text in Portuguese. Previous owner's early and tasteful typographic bookplate to fep... More about Historia do Fado
Paris: Avant-Quart, 1970. First edition. Small 4to, illustrated wraps. Printed by offset lithography in color, on various sorts of paper stock. A special issue of the artist periodical, this issue intended for children, and including incredible work by an astonishing array of visual artists from the avant-garde and Surrealist realms... More about Pour Les Enfants 1 / Avant-Quart No. 9