San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Fourth Printing/Variation. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 13&7/8" x 20") announcing a concert with performances headlined by the 13th Floor Elevators, along with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, during September 30- October 1, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. An oblong poster (appx. 23&3/4" x 10&1/8") announcing a series of concerts with performances headlined by Big Brother & the Holding Company, along with Oxford Circle, Bo Diddley & Sons of Adam, during August 5-6, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&1/2") announcing "The Laugh Cure Dance and Concert" with performances headlined by the Blues Project, along with the Quicksilver Messenger Service & the Sons of Adam, during May 13-14, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, &..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Third Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/8" x 20&1/4") announcing a concert with performances headlined by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, along with the Charlatans, during August 26-27, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with the noted..... More

Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. "Genius is not a generous thing/ In return it charges more interest than any amount/ of royalties can cover/ And it resents fame/ With bitter vengeance" (Fragment 1, first stanza) A broadside (appx. 11" x 22") with the title poem by Jim Carroll (1949-2009), the legendary poet, diarist & punk musician who was influenced by William S...... More

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: L'oie de Cravan, 2011. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Byron Coley to Charles Plymell. A bi-lingual compilation of early letters & musical review writings by Byron Coley, the pioneering American critic featured in Forced Exposure, New York Rocker & other independent magazines that chronicled cutting-edge rock in its heyday. The letters are to his friend Angela Jaeger, & are like diary entries of his..... More

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Edition. Softcover. "The intent of the present exhibition is to draw together a multitude of artistic manifestations of a given moment in order to demonstrate the transformational primal ground which they hold in common, and within this moment to distinguish one particularly important current." (from introductory essay, "Poets of the Cities: Levelling of Meaning" by Neil A. Chassman) Published in..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/8" x 19&3/4") announcing a concert with performances headlined by Bo Diddley, along with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, during July 28-30, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Stanley Mouse (b. Stanley George Miller, 1940) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, in collaboration with the iconic American poster..... More

Asheville, NC: Native Ground Music, 1995. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Folded Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Doug Elliot to Thomas Rain Crowe. "This book is like a bridge in many ways- a bridge between the arts and the sciences; between the disciplines of folklore, music, history, biology, and ecology; and between the past and the present. Now it might not look like the steel suspension spans you're used to. In..... 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

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1967. First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 13&7/8" x 21&3/4") announcing performances by The Doors, The Grateful Dead & Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band during January 13-15, 1967 at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the graphics & illustrations that are reproduced on this quintessential & exemplary psychedelic poster that led up to the legendary..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/2" x 20&1/2") announcing the "Wonderland" concert with performances headlined by the Grass Roots, along with the Daily Flash & Sopwith Camel, during July 1-3, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, & "Wes Wilson '66" in facsimile hand-lettering/numbering..... More