HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS (A Golden Guide)
First edition of the famed ethnobotanist's handy pocket guide to ayahuasca, cannabis, true and false peyotes, belladonna, and many exciting mushrooms.
First edition of the famed ethnobotanist's handy pocket guide to ayahuasca, cannabis, true and false peyotes, belladonna, and many exciting mushrooms.
A substantial run of more than 30 issues of THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER, from the collection of poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon.
Scarce portfolio of over 20 numbered black and white plates of female nude studies of the painter Adélaïde Verneuil de Marval — the photographer's wife, photomodel, and collaborator.
Five issues (likely all published) of this late-70s/early-80s gay tabloid from William Kern (under pseudonym), gossip columnist and publisher of THE HOLLYWOOD STAR.
Inscribed first printing of Warhol's impressionistic semi-memoir, both initialed and signed in full.
First printing of Kerouac's first published novel, incorporating elements of his own life and heavily fictionalized portraits of major Beat figures, an excellent copy.
Narrative photobook of the story of boxing great Ruben "El Puas" Olivares.
An erotic chapbook livre-de-artiste pairing Reut's poem with Cousinier's art.
Flyer promoting a November 27th, 1982 Black Flag show.
Inscribed first edition of arguably the first serious scholarly study of contemporary graffiti.
Signed first edition of Ruscha and Weiner's photo-novel, starring Shelley Chamberlain, Suzanne Chandler, and Susan Haller in a captivatingly oblique visual drama.
First printing of this psychology book written with the aim of finding and removing the "cause" of homosexuality and gender-nonconformity, owned by a doctor who espoused less harmful practices.
Flyer promoting a January 11th, 1985 Black Flag show at the Stardust Ballroom — inscribed on the verso by artist Raymond Pettibon.
11 issues (of 17) of Nuttall's masterful mimeo magazine that functioned as an important platform for the cut-up work of William S. Burroughs.
First printing of this uncommon drug paperback, exploitation sleaze set among the hippies just before the Summer of Love.
Circle of fifths with relative minor chords and bar of music drawn in black marker.
Original communication from attorney De Grazia to William S. Burroughs regarding the Boston ban of NAKED LUNCH, written on the cover of the 1962 amici brief filed in the earlier TROPIC OF CANCER obscenity case, which De Grazia won.
Inscribed first printing of the "first extensive collection" by this "dazzling young poet" from Dennis Cooper's influential Little Caesar imprint — with warm inscription from Dlugos to fellow poet/editor Michael Friedman.
Scarce catalogue of this early joint exhibition by graffiti artists Crash and Daze at the Sidney Janis gallery in New York.
Original promo poster for Nirvana's canceled March 18, 1994 Hamburg concert at Sporthalle from their final In Utero tour, just one month before Kurt Cobain's tragic suicide.
Original flyer featuring one of Nirvana's earliest post-NEVERMIND gigs, at Trenton's notorious City Gardens.
First printing of the first installment of the long-running, much-beloved CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE series, by the inventor of the form.
Rare portfolio documenting Hsieh's third extended performance piece, a full year in New York City spent outside shelter of any kind (save for 15 hours inside a police station courtesy of the NYPD), issued in conjunction with an installation at Franklin Furnace.
A small archive of materials relating to John Cage's May 27, 1968 performance of his musical-chess work "REUNION" staged at New York's Electric Circus nightclub.
First state of this scarce broadside printed by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers's Zephyrus Press, which famously graced telephone poles around Berkeley.