THE HOME OF DICK & HANK DWYER [Photo Album of the Construction of a House]
Original and unusually unified photograph album detailing the birth and early life of a midcentury house outside Binghamton, New York.
Original and unusually unified photograph album detailing the birth and early life of a midcentury house outside Binghamton, New York.
Scarce exhibition catalogue from the groundbreaking first show of Darger's previously unknown works.
Technical work on interpersonal behavior and personality evaluation by a pre-psychedelia Timothy Leary, written during his tenure as Director of Psychology Research at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland.
Colorful and apparently unique artist's book, intricately scupted out of hand-dyed and painted paper.
Original placard for the multi-day, multimedia presentation of MacLise's "Rites of the Dreamweapon," staged during the first week of Jonas Mekas's New Cinema Festival (Expanded Cinema Festival).
Collection of photographs documenting several summers at Girl Scout Camp Cardinal and Camp Tall Trees in the late 1920s.
Sumptuous artist's book pairing erotic, quasi-fetishistic poems by de Serpa and Robertson with color plates by D.R. Wagner, each an approximately life-size reproduction of a miniature tapestry.
Near-complete original typescript for Aram Saroyan's self-titled collection of minimal and concrete verse.
Collection of original photographs, the majority dated, showing a portion of a Yonkers sugar refinery under construction in great detail.
A fierce (likely unpublished) diatribe against Judge Julius Hoffman, or as the "Panthers called him 'Adolph Hitler Hoffman,'" who presided over the "Chicago 8" trial of Yippies Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale — who were charged with various federal offenses in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella, neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink.
Reproductions of seven portfolios of photographs made from 1936 to 1976, originally issued as limited editions.
Original poster for an Afro Rock event at Hull University, featuring one of the most important bands of the movement, Assagai.
Collection of five different versions of Acker's first critically acclaimed work — including a pre-publication copy of her own corrected typescript.
First City Lights issue of the San Francisco literary mag, the brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly.
Scarce May 1966 issue of "C," guest edited by Padgett and featuring work by Dick Gallup, William Saroyan, Harry Mathews, Kenward Elmslie, Berrigan's translations of Mallarmé, Gautier, and Apollinaire, and more.
Arguably the most important document to emerge from the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement, Andrews and Bernstein's journal published some 16 issues (13 issues proper, plus various supplements, as well as a final volume issued as OPEN LETTER, Fifth Series No, 1) from 1978 through 1982.
First printing of Kerouac's collected writings on travel: on foot, by railway, aboard ship, and on the road.
Photographs of student printers and instructors, nearly all from the New York School of Printing, most dated from the mid-1950s through the late 1960s.
A set of five elaborate annual birthday presentations to Florence Gunn (1857-1928) for each of her final five birthdays, written by her children and other family members as a lengthy biographical retrospective in humorous verse, illustrated with lively and skillful pen-and-pencil drawings.
Collection of five explicit gay-themed Stonewall-era cartoons presented as mock holiday cards and posters, all signed "Chic."
Signed first edition of the book that concludes THE DREAM SONGS, HIS TOY, HIS DREAM, HIS REST won Berryman both the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize.
Signed first edition of the final book published within Berryman's lifetime, it is difficult to find signed in its trade edition. Scarce thus.
First edition, review copy, of this New Directions novel famous for its jacket design by Andy Warhol, who modeled the lettering of the title after his mother's.
Soft-focus, mostly evocative nudes, accompanied by "photo poems."