THE ACID TEST [Original Acid Test Banner]
Large original painted canvas banner likely utilized in one of Ken Kesey's final Acid Test events and based on Kesey's infamous limited edition ACID TEST album.
The first print catalogue from the TPM counterculture department. Over 100 items on drugs, sex and sexuality, music, poetry, surfing, graffiti and more.
Download PDF of BCB @ TPM Print Catalogue OneLarge original painted canvas banner likely utilized in one of Ken Kesey's final Acid Test events and based on Kesey's infamous limited edition ACID TEST album.
Rare original poster by the German electronic Krautrock project started by Dieter Moebius, Conrad Schnitzler, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
"IT'S NOT OVER! 'Cruising' will be filmed tonight at 14th and 9th Ave., just below our NYC MCC! DEMONSTRATE 7:30 p.m., Sheridan Sq."
Signed first printing of this story of the early days of the marijuana reform fight, inscribed to the late Larry King.
Affectionate photo album memorializing the mostly harmless exploits of an Army coterie of proto-Beatniks, stationed in peacetime Europe and making the most of it.
Signed limited edition of this Bishop poem, originally published in the NEW YORKER.
First printing of Blake's second book, a photo-essay of the sport published just as the surfing boom hit the mainland.
First printing of the surfing guide and memoir of Duke Kahanamoku, published the year of the Duke's death.
Beautifully rebound, signed, and almost universally misdescribed first hardcover edition (and second edition overall) of Clark's classic photobook.
Scarce and cryptic self-published newspaper ("a labyrinth without a center") by the French-born, California-based conceptual and performance artist.
First edition of this oddly scarce study of the role of marijuana use in the lives of working men in three Jamaican communities.
Souvenir real photo postcard of surfing pioneer Duke Kahanamoku, with contemporary annotation.
First edition of Forché's first poetry collection, inscribed to fellow poet Denise Levertov.
1955 edition of this rare classic on surfing in Great Britain, and one of the earliest printed books exclusively on surfing, first published in the now unobtainable 1934 edition as THE ART OF SURF-RIDING (and with a different cover design).
First edition signed by Gilbert of his third collection of poetry, "imbued with austere clarity" (Knapp).
Signed first edition, a review copy, of this collection of poetry that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
First edition of Gilbert's debut, the uncommon hardcover issue.
Complete run (12 issues) of this beautifully-designed, minimalist journal.
First edition of this frenzied, anthropologically-minded contemporary account of disco: the music, the clubs, the way of life. Rare this condition.
First edition of Kenneth Goldsmith's epic conceptual poem DAY, inscribed in year of publication to Anne Tardos and Jackson MacLow.
Studio photographs of a single male model, by renowned physique photographer Lon of New York.
First printing of the tragedy of a Texan 'stud-for-hire' brought low by New York City's impersonal cruelty.
Gorgeous 26-year unbroken run beginning with the debut issue of this elaborately-produced surfing magazine for the discerning enthusiast.
Signed limited edition artist's book, appropriating a first edition of Kenneth Goldsmith's epic conceptual poem DAY.
First edition of a colorfully illustrated how-to guide by one of the pioneers of skateboarding in the UK.