San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14" x 20") announcing performances headlined by the Great Society & also featuring Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Grass Roots & Quicksilver Messenger Service (referred here in its early form as "Quick Silver Messenger Service") during February 26, 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco under the title of "King Kong..... 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

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

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931; 1938. First Edition, Second Printing; First Edition. Hardcovers. One of two volumes signed by author Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. "Twenty long years have passed since my father was laid in the ground, yet had these years been only days the memory of that tragic event could not be more vivid. In the lovely month of April- month of soft green..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/4" x 20&1/2") announcing "An Air Conditioned Dance-Concert/ Euphoria" with performances headlined by the Daily Flash & the Rising Son, along with Big Brother & the Holding Company & the Charlatans during May 6-7, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics..... More

Thorofare, NJ; Wichita, KS: Xlibris; Rowfant Press, 2002; 2010. First Softcover Edition, Later Printing; First Edition. Softcovers. NYC Transit[s] inscribed & signed by Robert Dumont to Charles Plymell; Wichita Jazz and Vice with handwritten annotations by Charles Plymell. A fascinating & collectible bundle of two books, both of literary merit in themselves & also linked with that Legendary Literary Outlaw, poet-printer-publisher Charles Plymell: (1) NYC Transit[s], a volume of short..... More

Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "There are perfectly good explanations/ for the simultaneous risks we juggle./ There are shipyards of baubles/ and harbors that have dried up/ and martinis made up by Episcopalians/ that burnish them for the plagiarisms/ of the Holy Spirit. It's only right/ that the room is furnished/ with importance and low light./ Gotta flaunt the groove, with flourishes/ and gentle force, I...... More

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1966. First Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 13 & 7/8" x 19 & 7/8") announcing performances by Jefferson Airplane, Great Society & the Heavenly Blues Band during June 10-11, 1966 at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) is credited with the graphics & illustration that are reproduced here according to the Talmudic scholarship we have studied..... More

New York, NY; Lansing, MI: G. Schirmer, Inc.; Henry R. Pattengill, 1912; 1899. First Editions Thus. Softcovers. Two vintage musical volumes: (1) George Frideric Handel, "The Messiah" Oratorio vocal score, edited by T. Tertius Noble, revised according to Handel's original score by Max Spicker. Large softcover in sewn binding published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, copyrighted 1912. As noted with an arrow on front cover, this is one of..... More

San Francisco, CA: Family Dog Productions, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Single Sheet. A poster (appx. 14&1/8" x 20&1/2") announcing performances headlined by Jefferson Airplane along with Big Brother & The Holding Company during February 19, 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. The acclaimed American artist Wes Wilson (1937-2020) created the artwork & graphics reproduced here, & his facsimile signature can be found just below the lower-left rounded..... More

Canterbury, NH: Wind in the Timothy Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "The dancers arrive, spilling into the hall like a tipped over basket of many colored balls of heavy yarn, waving college pennants. They start to unravel, spinning around like parenthesis. Some go down the center like slinkies- some turn like a brace & bit, others like a dime on edge." (from "A Dudley Dance," pg. 3) A collection of..... More

New York, NY: Corinth Books, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Softcover. "Greenwich Village is the liveliest and most colorful local community within New York City. An exciting complex of interesting people, fascinating places and dynamic ideas, the Village has the vitality of a metropolis, the intimacy of a neighborhood, and a personality all its own." (from "Greenwich Village, Past and Present: Old Green Village," pg. 16) A vintage, now-classic book of..... More

Bay Saint Louis, MS: Proteus Publications; Ken Murphy Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by photographer Ken Murphy. "Ken (Murphy)'s photography books document our state in the present with their beautiful images, and the music photographs from Mississippi were my personal favorites...Ken and I started talking about a blues photo project with the goal of capturing the current Mississippi blues scene. As his third volume of work evolved I watched..... More