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.
First printing of this late verse collection from the founder of the Living Theater.
Cover art by Lynn Kotula. Published by Harris Schiff in an edition of 300.
First printing of this verse collection by Beck, from Maureen Owen's Telephone imprint.
First printing of this collection of English translations by various authors, the first book by the exiled Chinese poet associated with the Misty School.
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.
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.
Guest-edited issue of this respected literary magazine from Alfred de Palchi and Sonia Raiziss.
Pulp sleaze introducing a number of "Wild, Wicked Women..
Original "white paper" by Bennett discussing a "two-week whirlwind bookselling tour thru Washington and Oregon, replete with wild liteary parties..." One of at least three entries in the "Vagabond White Paper Series."
Original "white paper" by Bennett collecting essays on various topics. Cover subtitle reads "Eleven essays ranging in subject matter from the Literary Mafia to the new computerized game craze." One of at least three entries in the "Vagabond White Paper Series."
A handsome copy of this California poetry magazine, founded by John Bennett in 1966, with five poems by Bukowski ("A Man's Woman," "The Snake in the Watermelon," "The hawk smiled daylight and nighttime," "Work-Fuck Problems," and "I listen to an opera on the radio."), and poems from numerous other contributors.
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.
A collection of prose poems from Benveniste, who helped operate the Paris-based Zero Press in the 1940s, as well as the London-based Trigram Press in the 1960s.
Inscribed first trade edition and publisher's proof of Stephen Berg's meditations on the work of Russian poet Anna Akhnatova, with Stanley Plumley's notes to rear.
Twelfth issue of the influential lit mag, including work by Victor Perera, James Gallant, Elizabth Moore, Erica Jong, GEne Frumkin, and others.
First printing of this early collection of poems by Berge.
From an edition of 200 copies.
A collection of erotic poems by Berge herself and Pat Jackson, Andrea Price, Vera Cochran, Andrew Gebert among several others.
First edition of this bilingual collection of Berger's poems, with English originals and German translations on facing pages.
Berkson's Bolinas literary magazine, with contributions from Ted Greenwald, Dick Gallup, James Schuyler, Kenward Elmslie, Anne Waldman and many others.