NILE MOTHER: The Story of Lillian Trasher
Brief profile of Trasher that originally appeared in a 1939 issue of The American Magazine.
Brief profile of Trasher that originally appeared in a 1939 issue of The American Magazine.
Second printing of this argument for the persistent cultural influence of Quebec on Jack Kerouac.
Late verse collection from the founder of the Living Theater.
Cover art by Lynn Kotula. Published by Harris Schiff in an edition of 300.
Verse collection by Beck, from Maureen Owen's Telephone imprint.
English translations by various authors.
First issue of this Canadian literary and political magazine, featuring a verse play by Jim Salt and poems by Salter Bauer, Fred Cogswell, Marya Fiamengo, Joseph Haley, Jack Herbert, K.V. Hertz, Arden Keay, Eli Mandel, Robin Mathews, Sylvia Osterbind, Jacques Poinard, John W. Smith, and Ian Sowton.
Cruise ship erotica: "Beautiful, girl-hungry women take a cruise to practice their own brand of pleasure" aboard "the good ship Lollipop", run by stern yachtsmistress Flavia.
The second book from one of the most popular American medical writers of his day ("Baths and Mineral Waters" [Philadelphia, 1831]; "Regimen and Longevity" [1842]; "Baths and the Water Regimen" [1849]; and "Mineral and Thermal Springs of the United States and Canada" [1855]).
Comparative selection of 1930s photographic work from the USSR and the U.S., presented to contrast differences in focus, purpose, and aesthetic.
First edition of this fascinating sociological study featuring photographs from L. Moholy-Nagy, in a rare (though partial) example of the dust jacket.
Collection of cat-themed drawings, paintings, and cartoons, by various artists united only by a sense of menacing kitsch. Images range from the unsettling to the extremely unsettling.
Inscribed first edition collection of prose poems by this Minnesotan author.
Pulp sleaze introducing a number of "Wild, Wicked Women..
Inscribed first edition, with five pictures in color by W. D. Goldbeck.
One of 300 copies.
One of 300 copies.
A handsome copy of this California poetry magazine, which was founded by John Bennett in 1966.
Sleaze paperback promising to tell all about the "perversion of every sort" to be found in the College Scene: "Scott sought violence and found it in a Volkswagen"!
Limited edition of 500 copies. An early work from the Language poet, inscribed to the DC poet Terence Winch.
From an edition of 300 copies. A book of verse by this Michigan-born poet.
From Ray DiPalma's Doones Press.
From an edition of 500 copies. Early collection of poems by Berge.
Published by Ishmael Reed's publishing company, SECRETS caused something of a literary scandal at the time as this academic novel (in the tradition of Randall Jarrell's NOTES FROM AN INSTITUTION) was only vaguely disguised as fiction.
Full run of this important mimeo distinguished by its emphasis on prose, rather than poetry; CENTER also drew from a wider range of avant-garde art than was typical of its peers (theatre, dance, and music, particularly from the Cage/Fluxus/Mac Low axis).