Leiden, The Neitherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Jonathan Gross. “Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”--Hunter S. Thompson. Jonathan Gross, professor, author, writer, and our friend presents for us his book Words of The Prophets, an exploration of graffiti as not just art, but as distinctly political, revolutionary, protest art. Gross examines graffiti landscapes from Italy, Poland, Greece and..... More

New York, NY: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. "The timeless beauty of Greece, its inexplicable magic, and its magnetic charm are effectively captured in the drawings by Anne Poor- and in the evocative prose of Henry Miller. "Since writing The Colossus of Maroussi, on my return from Greece in 1940," Says Henry Miller, "I have never written another line about Greece and probably would not now had I not..... 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

Atascadero, CA: The Illustrated Review, 1918. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Publisher & editor, Edward Gardner (E.G.) Lewis (1869-1950) was a renaissance man of the early twentieth century, establishing companies and towns (including Atascadero, CA) across the country as he pursued a utopian vision of gender equality. An early example of feminist writing, this edition of The Illustrated Review focuses on women supporting the war effort, and the slow progress of..... More

Germany: Moloko Print / Sea Urchin Editions, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. “The Ex-Terr saucer folk / Thought they’d have fun / By floating a balloon Yolk / Painted with Goo-Goo Eyes / From one of their ships / To Startle the masses from the Skies / Ah, how it worked, alas! / How it freaked out the Mass! / Who flooded Social Media / And pages on Wikipedia,” (“The Ex-Terr..... 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

n/p (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeffrey R. Parsons, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "When I was growing up in the northern Virginia suburbs, many "old-timers" I met- residents of longstanding in the region, and especially country people- would typically refer to nearby Washington, D.C. as "Washington City." This contrasted to the simpler terms- usually "D.C." or "Washington" or "the district"- that younger people and more recent arrivals used. It has now been..... More

New York, NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2009; 2010. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers; Stapled Sheets. "The Bardo Thodrol- literally "Liberation upon Hearing in the Transitionary States"- describes the process that begins at the moment of death and continues through a postmortem state characterized by hallucinations generated by the deceased's karma, finally leading to a further rebirth in samsara, the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. However, the deceased have the..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost Living American Artists “The honor of putting the new tendency in motion—which amounts to the founding of a distinctly American school—belongs to a small group of original artists who, bravely and steadfastly for many years, in defiance of great opposition, have produced a body of work leading to our..... More

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. "One of the frequent causes for misunderstanding contemporary forms of art, for the gap which all too often divides the artist from the non-artist, is lack of clarity in understanding the position of the artist in society today. It is not possible to judge either the artist or the work of art of our own times by the standards which prevailed..... More

London, England: Picador, 1994. First UK Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead..... More

Auckland, New Zealand: PQ Blackwell, 2010. Limited Edition. Padded Rubber. Signed by Albert Watson. Scottish-born Albert Watson (b.1942) managed to develop a unique eye for photography despite being born blind in one eye. He emigrated to the United States in 1970 and began a very successful career in fashion and commercial photography, shooting some of the most iconic photographs in American zeitgeist such as the 1973 photo of Alfred Hitchcock..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Anthology Editions, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. “Julio wanted the best—first editions on china paper inscribed by the author—but he also wanted everything, one copy of every edition of every book that had ever been published on the subject, and he wanted the sort of things other experts wouldn’t consider touching.” (17) A strong case could be made that Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. (1958-2009) was the most interesting..... More