Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. There was a moment in time, roughly from 1967 to 1972, where the revolutionary “free love” sexual emancipation movement enmeshed itself into the mind-melting, paisley and tie-dye encrusted recreational drug era, thus giving birth to the age of “psychedelic sex”. While the children of the “greatest generation” were melting their minds and dancing naked in the streets, porno mag publishers were..... More

Torino, Italy: Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. “An autodidact, independent thinker, and early proponent of interdisciplinary practice, Leslie possesses an aggressive streak of self-reliance that has compelled him throughout his career to challenge himself in startling ways. Offering a unique link between the New York School and postmodernism, his accomplishments provide us with an unorthodox post-war art history lesson, forcing us to reconsider some of our..... More

London, England: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2018; 2020. Limited First Editions. Stapled Wrappers. Both volumes signed by Alexander Adams. "I have accepted the view that my verse benefits from illustration and that- as an artist- I am well placed to provide that. My verse has appeared in anthologies without illustration, so it seems that the verse is strong enough to function without images. I try to write verse as if..... More

London, UK: The Bournbrook Press, 2022. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. Signed by editor, artist & contributor Alexander Adams. "Through windows of cars and trains we spot the/ mayflower, barely know the bearer's name/ -a temperate and gentle guest who does not/ insist, needs no cultivation, growing wild/ and ingenious throughout our land, untended,/ unrefined, rain invigorated, burnished by sun." (Alexander Adams, "Mayflower Season," third stanza, pg. 13) An anthology..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original, and devastating. 'Let Us Now..... More

Memphis, TN: St. Luke's Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover in Dust Jacket. Inscribed & signed by Marilou Awiakta to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Based on the actual events which happened in 1833 to a Choctaw child, RISING FAWN tells the poignant and triumphant story of a small girl taken, during the Removal, from her Choctaw home and handed over to adoptive parents in Memphis. It is not until Christmas and the..... More

Ostheim/Rhon, Germany: Verlag Peter Engstler, 2011; 1999. First German Edition; Original Artwork. Softcover; Single Sheet. Including original collage artwork signed & dated by Mary Beach. A unique pairing of two collectibles by Mary Beach (1919-2006), who along with her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002) was at the Paris-based center of cutting-edge cut-up writing & collage art. She was also the mother of Pamela Beach Plymell & therefore the mother-in-law of Legendary..... More

Fullerton, CA: California State University, Fullerton/ Grand Central Press, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. "We developed the concept for this exhibition after reading about Cafe Frankenstein in Brian Chidester's book Pop Surf Culture. This small cafe in Laguna Beach existed for only a couple of years in the late 1950s, but learning its history led us to look further into the Surf Beat Generation that started locally. It became obvious that..... More

New York, NY: George Braziller, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "Each one of us wanted to cry out, somehow to express our shock and horror at the assassination of the President. Each one of us tried to say in conversation what we felt, but essentially we were mute. Our gestures were helpless; our impulses somehow to monumentalize those days, to hold them and not let them sink into banality and acceptance-..... More

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Flames Publishing, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Steven Boone. “Art is the proper task of life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche. Steven Boone is not necessarily a household name in the art world the likes of: Dali, Picasso, Da Vinci, or Warhol, that being said, however, Boone is an artist whose work is as lovingly crafted and singular as the artists aforementioned. Boone, a graduate of The..... More

Paris, France: Chez Devambez, 1920. Limited First Edition. Softcover. A treatise on historic & contemporary waltz & tango dances by Jacques Boulenger (1879-1944), the noted French literary critic & journalist. With seven color panel prints, each protected by attached glassine sheets, by these acclaimed French & European illustrators: Guy Arnoux (1886-1951), Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), Mario de Goyon (188?-1926, frontispiece), Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), Drian (b. Adrien Desire Etienne, 1885-1961), Edouard Halouze..... More

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. Limited First Edition. Hand-Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Bonnie Frazer (Bremser) "The Gaslight was a place for bad poetry although sometimes a young person would show up and Ray would be impressed. I was learning to distinguish the legitimate from the bad. Ray was an impressive poet and a great performer too. It made me cringe to hear some of the other poets--pure sentimentality and..... More

London, England: Ambit, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage number of the British literary journal founded in 1959 & edited until 2013 by Dr. Martin Bax, still going strong as of this writing, features "Johnny 23" by William S. Burroughs accompanied with an illustration by Ron Sandford (inner back cover, unpaginated). Hypnotic, repetitive & riveting, this piece consists of eight titled sections beginning with the above title, & is..... More