San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1967. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. This postcard announces a six-concert series produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991) during June 27- July 2, 1967 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco with performances headlined by Chuck Berry, along with Eric Burden & the Animals & the Steve Miller Blues Band. The brilliant American poster, underground comix & animation artist Greg Irons (b. Gregory Rodman..... More

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "For modernists, such as Henry Miller, the self is potential, inconstant and inconsistent. It is not fixed. This is as much true for the lived self as for the self which produces and is a product of the narrative. These interviews record what Henry Miller says about his life and his works, not necessarily a description of either. They..... More

San Francisco, CA: Colt Press, 1941. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "This magnificent book about Greece is written by one of the finest and most astonishing writers of our time. Henry Miller, author of The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn, is a New Yorker who has long lived in Paris. Today this great figure, following in the truly American tradition of (Walt) Whitman and (Thomas) Wolfe, is recognized..... More

New York, NY: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. "This space is invariably reserved for a brief discussion of a book's contents, with the aim in mind to inveigle and lure you, the hesitating purchaser, into buying it. The composition is generally referred to by people in the book business by the unattractive name of the "blurb." It is supposed to say a few interesting things about the..... More

Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Self-described social philosopher and Renaissance man Richard Miller (1925-2006) brought readers a broad analysis of the bohemian culture in the United States and its’ dispersal over decades of cultural evolution. The term “protoculture” in anthropology refers to the generational adoption of new behaviors among non-human primates, but Miller applies it to the human cultural behaviors that were injected and dispersed by the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Smoking Mirror Press, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Wayne Miller to Thomas Rain Crowe, the co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. "Wayne stayed in San Francisco many years before moving to his current residence in southern California. Wayne’s book came out during the decade of the 70s to much applause and really put him “on the map,” as it were. Wayne’s Native..... More

London, England, UK: The Opus Press, 1943. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I write about Henry Miller, I am, obviously, telling you about him as he appears to me. What I say may or may not be true. It will be supported by quotations from his work, but then his work is voluminous, and what he says in one place may be different from what he says in another. Miller..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sam Silver, 1976. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. “The original core group of those who came up with the idea and began to act on it were [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), [Neeli] Cherkovski (1945-2024), Peter LeBlanc (b. 1930) and myself. Over time others became part of the organizing dynamic in one way or another…Neeli was the bullhorn, the provocateur, for the event—talking up the idea and later doing PR..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. "This play is not "about" something; hopefully, it is something. And primarily it is a way of looking at man and his human nature as the only source of violence which has come closer and closer to destroying the race. It is a view which does not look toward social or political ideas as the creators of violence, but into the..... More

Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter, 1945. Limited Second Edition. Hardcover. "Henry Miller is still more or less unknown to the general publics of England and America. It is not entirely his fault in spite of the fact that the proportion of so-called "unprintable" words employed in the construction of his three great books (Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn) is fairly high. It is, in fact, due entirely to..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1981. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features three letters by Mohammed Mrabet, the legendary Moroccan storyteller (translated, as ever, from the Moghrebi language into English by the great Paul Bowles), one written to Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an influence &..... More

Birmingham, England, UK: B.M.C. Press, 1969. First Printing. String-bound Single Sheets. This enormously intriguing small press assemblage, edited by Richard Miller and Alvin Stinton, features poetry, artworks, and incendiary prose by the great English King of the Mimeograph Revolution, Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004) & several others. While we don’t know all that much about this issue of Blackcountry Meat, we do know it is one of the rarest publications of the..... More

Washington DC: Paycock Press, 1981. First Edition. Large-Format Softcover. “The first decent history I ever read on the local literary scene was Jack Foley’s “A Bank of Violets,” published in Aleph no. 1 in 1975. The piece was good at putting the 60s explosion of local magazines and literary presses into perspective, but hardly touched on what had gone before, save to trot out Walt Whitman, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound..... More