London, England, UK: Klinker Zoundz/New River Music, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Aberration is a 1988 vinyl LP by Birdyak, the free-improvisation group built around British concrete, visual & sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) & British guitarist Hugh Metcalfe, released on Metcalfe's own Klinker Zoundz label, a "free jazz/poetry/performance art/etc club." It comprises twelve tracks compiled from live recordings made in 1986–87 at Apples & Snakes, Torriano Meeting House, the..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Records, 1966. Third Edition. "This album is the first in Fantasy's proposed Social Study Series in which it is hoped to present in-person documented interviews and all-too-revealing vignettes with a series of representative in-group figures to give a cross-section sampling of the intricate and complicated cultural patterns of our times. In order to arrange the proper conditions under which this album could be made with maximum..... More

London, England, UK: Industrial Records Ltd., 1981. First U.K. Edition. Vinyl LP Record in Sleeve. "About These Recordings: The recordings on this album have been selected from a large number of reel to reel and cassette tapes stored in the William S. Burroughs Communications Archive in Kansas. Most of the tapes were made on domestic recorders and on some there was large-scale physical deterioration. Hi-Fi quality was impossible and the..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Romeo Records, 1957. Limited Edition. Vinyl LP. Posthumously released in late 1957, "James Dean on Conga Drums in an Ad-Lib Jam Session" was a limited-edition 45 rpm recording of actor James Dean (1931-1955) with two sides: the A-side is "Dean's Lament" and the B-side is "Jungle Rhythm," both featuring Dean on conga drums with L.A. musician Bob Romeo on flute & actor Duke Mitchell (1926-1981) also appearing..... More

New York, NY, USA: Atlantic Recording Corporation, 1966. First Edition. LP Record in Gatefold Sleeve. "I've read this huge poem aloud only three times in front of an audience-- I used to read the Proem (sic) & last sections in the early '60s, and a recording of that time is on Fantasy record 7006: the Big Table Chicago reading. The first reading of the complete text was for the Catholic..... More

New York, NY: ESP-Disk, 1966. First Edition Thus. LP in Sleeve. The 1966 reissue of The Fugs First Album, the debut effort by legendary avant-garde Folk band, The Fugs, which were famously founded & fronted by noted Mimeograph Revolutionaries, Ed Sanders (b. 1939) and Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010). Anecdotes regarding the recording of this record can be found in Sanders’ classic Beat memoir, Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace..... More

New York, NY, USA: The New Yorker, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. “Ever since the rise of digital technology and the Internet, more and more readers of The New Yorker have written to us complaining that the only access they have to a complete set of past issues of the magazine—more than four thousand since the first, in February 1925—is on microfilm or in bound volumes at an unusually well-stocked library.”..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: Bentley Historical Library, 2004. First Edition. Staplebound. “The period of the sixties has become an era in American History of almost legendary proportions. So much on the political and cultural landscape of the country changed at that time. As the memories of those of us who lived through those turbulent times, the archival record becomes of critical importance. The Bentley Historical Library is privileged to house one..... More

Santa Monica, CA: Geffen Records, 2000. First Edition. Both Signed by Sonic Youth Guitarist Thurston Moore. NYC Ghosts & Flowers, a 2000 album by Sonic Youth, is mainly a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999, in which Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen. It is also the first Sonic Youth album to extensively use prepared guitar since 1985's Bad Moon Rising..... More

Oak Park, MI: The Book Beat Gallery/ The End is Here, 2002. First Editions. Stapled Wrappers; CD in Case. "Under peyote I realized the most profound truths of my life and I know that these realizations will stay with me and influence the course of my life- they already have made a very discernible mark on my outlook, on my conception of myself, of other people, of my ultimate goal..... More