New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. “By 1969, the high-water mark of protest, at least five hundred papers served communities and constituencies worldwide, with five hundred to a thousand more dissenting papers in high schools alone,” (pg xv). The sixties were an infamous decade in the United States with political and social upheaval running rampant throughout the country as citizens fought for civil rights and equality. The..... More

New York, NY: Jerome Rothenberg & Dennis Tedlock; Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1970; 1971. First Printings. Softcovers. "As the first magazine of the world's tribal poetries, ALCHERINGA will not be a scholarly "journal of ethnopoetics" so much as a place where tribal poetry can appear in English translation & can act (in the oldest & newest of poetic traditions) to change men's minds & lives. While its sources will be..... More

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Inscribed & signed by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett to Thomas Rain Crowe. "grandfather eagle/ which art in heaven/ thou soarest in heaven/ thou makest my blood/ to sing/ sing/ sing" (Eagle Song, pg. 8) A collection of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), A Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one time was a Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. “Her name was Lucile Langhanke. She was a farm girl from the Middle West, a lonely, beautiful child who became the tormented victim of her parents’ greed. At twenty she was a star, the pampered, glamorous movie queen known to the world as Mary Astor” (from front flap). Mary Astor (1906-1987) achieved a decades-long acting career despite the influences and..... More

New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2003. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Former Rolling Stones editor and columnist Greil Marcus collected the writings of Lester Bangs (1948 – 1982) into, what he calls, “the story, ultimately, of one man’s attempt to confront his loathing of the world, his love for it, and to make sense of what he found in the world and within himself” (xviii). As a music critic, Lester..... 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

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Henry Beston. "The author of The Outermost House, which...remains one of the most beautiful and popular accounts of an experience with nature, again writes of an adventure with the earth, this time with the herbs in his own garden. He lists and describes the various herbs and their culture and associates them with their ancient historical..... 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

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. “How the [Grateful] Dead…survived to speak to successive generations is the subject of this intensely provocative and personal narrative. Social critic and biographer Carol Brightman, who was active in the political struggles of the era, presents a Whitmanesque tableau of America’s colliding countercultures. Here’s the Dead—with their original fondness for folk, bluegrass, and blues; their immersion in psychedelics;..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1980 (1960). Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "To Lord Richard Buckley, his most euphoric Lordship, greetings! What a treat to hear your new shatterbusting recording delivered like a true hipster with variations...It's all so very alive and jumpin' and in the pauses one can hear the atoms exploding out there in the Milky Way where the grass comes up every once in ten billion years..... More

Cambridge, England: Henri Chopin/ Blackmoor Head Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. "I have frequently spoken of word and image as viruses or as acting as viruses, and this is not an allegorical comparison. It will be seen that the falsifications in syllabic Western languages are in point of fact the virus mechanism. If we can infer purpose from behaviour, then the purpose of a virus is TO SURVIVE..... More

San Francisco, CA: Magical Blend, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the New-Ageish fringe-cult magazine produced between 1979-2006, published & edited by Michael Peter Langevin & Jerry Snider, features "Blast On Through: A Review of The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs" written by the noted Beat scholar Michael White. This insightful & lengthy essay analyzes WSB's final volume of his late trilogy (1987, see our item No.s...... More

San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "For the first time in print, these forgotten conversations are now hereby available for your reading pleasure. From the beaches of Morocco to a penthouse in France; to London, San Francisco and Kansas- now you can vicariously relive the experiences and tribulations of five of the previous century's free thinkers and inventors of culture: W(illiam) S. Burroughs and friends." (back cover)..... More