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

New York, NY, USA: The Saturday Evening Post Company, 1969. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This early 1969 number of the venerable, quintessentially American "middlebrow" magazine then-chiefly edited by William A. Emerson Jr. (1923-2009) features a cover article by Martin Mayer (1928-2019), the once-popular & prolific non-fiction author. Entitled "How to Publish 'Dirty' Books for Fun and Profit," this is a profile of Barney Rosset (1922-2012), the Great American Publisher whose..... 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

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977; 1978; 1979. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Four vintage, contiguous numbers of the literary review journal subtitled "A Small Press Review Magazine" co-published & with contributions by Legendary Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell, & chiefly edited by his wife & co-publisher Pamela Beach Plymell, productions of their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 2 No. 8 & 9 (1977)- this issue features a lengthy..... More