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

Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “You have to realize fairly soon / the illusion attracting you isn’t at all / what you though it was. After that, stick / with what you’ve got. Pretend the illusion again / from time to time. You won’t make it much / better than that. It’s as good as you’re going to do.” So reads “Fealty,” first of a pair..... More

New York, NY, USA: Stroker, 1992. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This "50th Anniversary Issue!" (front cover, first contents page) number of the literary-cultural-art journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features the poem "Where To Put It" by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) the cult-favorite Patron Saint-poet of the dive bar & the racetrack (pgs. 3-4; Debritto, B1672, pg. 392). An exhiliratingly exemplary contrarian Jeremiad, each line..... More

Paris, France: The Olympia Press, 1962. First Printing. Softcover. Maurice Girodias rebranded his father’s Obelisk Press as the Olympia Press in 1953 as a publisher of avant-garde and provocative literature that otherwise was not welcomed by the English-speaking world. The French didn’t take long to turn on the press’ explicit publications by banning and seizing them just a few years later. Olympia was the first publisher to be willing to..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 5 No. 16 (January - February 1961)- this issue features a section from Naked Lunch, the breakthrough work of William S. Burroughs & one of the cornerstones of the Beat Generation & beyond. At..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1968. First Edition. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14" x 19&7/8") announcing a series of three "Dance Concert(s)" headlined by the Youngbloods, along with Mount Rushmore & Phoenix, during February 16-18, 1968 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The American artist William Henry, of whom we could not obtain any information except the interesting fact that he was very young at the time..... More

Boston, MA: Partisan Review, Inc., 1993. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable highbrow left-leaning American literary & cultural journal edited by William Phillips features a memoir by Diana Trilling (1905-1996), the quintessential New York intellectual author, critic & academician along with her husband Lionel Trilling (1905-1975, whose students at Columbia University included Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac). Also in this issue are articles by Robert Alter, Raymond..... More