New York, NY: Kulchur Press, 1970. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "It all began one day when a car containing three people converged/ on a road containing one-one, and a dog. All concerned spoke ex-/ citedly. The man in the road didn't move, though. He seemed really/ unconcerned. I think the little dog was trying to tell him he'd better/ move." (first text, unpaginated) The collaborative production between the revered American..... More

Staff of Walt Disney Studio. Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. “Way out in the country there lived a little mouse named Abner. He led a very peaceful life under the old oak tree. / And then, one fine day, he received a mouse-o-gram from his cousin, Monty. “Come to the city and enjoy life,” it read.” (page 1) Based on Walt Disney’s adaptation of the ancient..... More

London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Alexander Adams. “After/Après Francis Bacon” is a 2018 publication from our friend-&-associate at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu), Alexander Adams. Adams, an award-winning artist-poet-writer (and noted recipient of the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monaco) here nests a “suite of 21 poems based on the life and art of Anglo-Irish..... More

Boston, MA: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Ansel Adams. "My devotion to photography of the natural scene has drawn me to nearly every section of the United States and to Hawaii and Alaska. The desire to apply my photography to wilderness regions beyond the Sierra Nevada was realized for the first time when I was appointed photomuralist for the..... More

London, England: The Tangerine Press, 2023. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Lettered and signed by Billy Childish. “One of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene," according to Peter Doig, author of the introduction to Neal Brown’s Billy Childish: A Short Study (2008), English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist Billy Childish (b. 1959) is best known as a major influence in the underground..... More

New York, NY: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "This unprecedented volume considers the profound and enduring impact of Spain's history, art, and culture on one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Cristobal Balenciaga. Hailed as "fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Balenciaga created a revolutionary oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Peter Engstler Verlag, 2008. First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 16&1/4" x 23&3/8") promoting the publication of a 2008 German edition of Mary Beach's Electric Banana. One of many iterations of this now-classic work influenced & with an introduction by William S. Burroughs, who collaborated with Beach (1919-2006) & her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002). WSB is briefly quoted here in German translation. Beach's daughter Pamela Beach Plymell..... More

New York, NY: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2015. Second Edition. Hardcover. "A key under-recognized artist of his generation, Wallace Berman was an enigmatic, underground figure whose collages and assemblages articulate an important strand of dark spirituality in postwar American culture. Berman's hand-printed, personally distributed literary journal, Semina, stands as an iconic document of its time, presaging a variety of cultural and esthetic developments and..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The combination of superb and thoughtfully-arranged illustrations, definitive text, and up-to-date illustration maps, all in a single volume, has already established the pocket-sized version of this guide...as the most essential reference to European bird identification. This sumptuous large-format edition with entirely redesigned text is intended to complement the field guide and permit greater appreciation of the extraordinarily beautiful artwork. The..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. "My hero is Man the Discoverer. The world we now view from the literate West- the vistas of time, the land and the seas, the heavenly bodies and our own bodies, the plants and animals, history and human societies past and present- had to be opened for us by countless Columbuses. In the deep recesses of the past..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. "For romping humor no characters could outdo Mr. Brooks's talking animals. They rollic through amazing adventures. They talk, dance, sing, joke, and work out intricate problems. In this story a clockwork double for the hero is rigged up by an old farmer. A comedy of errors follows. Many of the same animal characters which have appeared in Mr. Brooks's earlier..... More

Trinidad, CA: TESTy magaZINE, 1993. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Welcome to Issue number one of TESTy magaZINE, your premiere bedside companion, coffee table centerpiece, and bathroom mainstay. Buy one for your friends and family, send TWO to your enemies. Buy extras to leave conspicuously at your doctor’s offices or on church pews. Or just enjoy the one that's in your hands and pass it around until it gets all crinkled..... More

Atlanta, GA: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940; 1941; 1942. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. "Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful. Arranging them should be pleasant. Don't take it so seriously that you cannot enjoy doing it. Study and read about it by all means, but not for fixed rules. Read to learn fundamentals of design, to get suggestions about plants, and, above all, for inspiration. Then with your flowers as material, your..... More