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SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF NONVIOLENCE IN THE MONTGOMERY RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
Brookville, OH: Reprinted from Balanced Living, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. Single folded sheet. SIGNED by Stewart at front. Minor toning with crease through center. Very good. 4pp. Offprint from BALANCED LIVING (Dec. 1961) of a speech delivered at Quaker House in Chicago on March 15, 1956, concerning the Montgomery bus...
BEATITUDE #17 (Oct-Nov 1960)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled photographic cover wraps. Offset duplicated rectos only. Very good plus. Minor wear. Else sound and clean. [22]pp. plus cover. The brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly, BEATITUDE was originally conceived as a weekly newsletter for the...
BEATITUDE #8 (August 15, 1959)
San Francisco: Bread and Wine Mission, 1959. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled pictorial wraps. Mimeographed rectos only. Very good. Minor wear. Terminal leaf loose from top staple. Else sound and clean. [23]pp. plus cover. The brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly, BEATITUDE was originally conceived as a....
![COME INTO OUR GAME ROOM! [Poster]. Robert BRANAMAN](/images/noimage.png)
COME INTO OUR GAME ROOM! [Poster]
n.p. 1966. Poster. Offset lithograph, dark red ink on stiff orange paper. Mild creasing, minor wear to corners. Very good plus. Poster by Beat-adjacent artist, poet, filmmaker, and Wichita native Bob Branaman. The same design, printed on a grey-blue ground, also appeared as the centerfold to Charles Plymell's underground newspaper...
IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS: Gypsy Lou Series No. 1
(New Orleans): Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets in cork-covered card wraps, with titles and skeleton decoration stamped to front cover, with wrap-around pictorial jacket (exhibtiing photo of the poet) - all as issued. An ornate production. SIGNED by Bukowski at first page in silver...
![Original Abstract Color Pastel Drawing]. Charles BUKOWSKI, Artist](/pictures/thumb/19863.jpeg?v=1561472541)
[Original Abstract Color Pastel Drawing]
(1965). Original pastel drawing on 11" x 8.5" paper. Image size approx. 9.5" x 7". Signed "Buk 65" at bottom. Mild wear, faint creasing here and there. A few tiny edge-tears. Easily very good or better. Striking early Bukowski drawing, executed in earthtones of orange, brown, and yellow. While smaller...
![Original Abstract Color Pastel Drawing]. Charles BUKOWSKI, Artist](/pictures/thumb/19865.jpeg?v=1561472542)
[Original Abstract Color Pastel Drawing]
(1965). Original pastel drawing on 11" x 8.5" paper. Image size approx. 10" x 7.7". Signed "Buk 65" at bottom. Mild wear, faint creasing here and there. Near fine. Striking early Bukowski drawing, executed in vibrant purple, grey, and black. Larger than most Bukowski pieces typically encountered. Exhibiting a strong...
THE COLDSPRING NEWS
[Flint]: [Fenian Head Centre Press], [1965]. First Edition. 7.25" x 12.5" approx. Printed recto only in three columns. Heavily toned. Very small chip at top left corner. Very good. Burroughs' newspaper-style cut-up, including "On The Back Portch Of His Farm," "Waiting The Survey Line Quite Some Years," and "Sad Servant...
THE DEAD STAR
San Francisco: The Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Single sheet, measuring 26.5" x 7.75" approx., folded and saddle-stapled in card wraps printed in purple. Minor wear and light foxing to wraps. Very good plus. Originally printed in England, here published for the first time in the...
EARLY ROUTINES
Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 8vo. Printed pictorial wraps. Stamped number 047 of 349 to rear limitation page. Spine lightly toned. Otherwise about fine. 54pp. Precedes 1982 trade edition.
THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ
London: Cape Goliard, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in glassine jacket. SIGNED and numbered by Burroughs at title page. Very minor edgewear to glassine, else fine. 81pp. Burroughs' closet screenplay based on the gangster Dutch Schultz, who issued a string of nonsensical last words upon being shot in...
THE ADDING MACHINE: Selected Essays
New York: Seaver Books. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth over boards. Near fine in like jacket. Mild wear at extremities. Else clean and sound. REVIEW COPY with promo slip laid in.
CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Salmon cloth spine over beige boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to jacket edges; mild scuffing to corners and spine ends. Boards sunned along top edges; corners and spine ends bumped. Foxing to top edge of page block...
CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT: A Boy's Book
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1981]. First Edition. Wraps. Tall 8vo. Uncorrected proof. Perfect bound in original pink wraps. Photocopy of jacket copy laid in. Title written in pen at spine. Spine sunned and edges lightly worn with creasing at corners. Marginalia throughout. Very good. Uncorrected proof copy belonging...
NAKED LUNCH
New York: Grove Press, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in a very good jacket. First US edition / printing (both book and jacket) of the Beat masterpiece, which - copyright date aside - was not actually published in this edition until 1962. A landmark novel, it led to...
NOVA EXPRESS
New York: Grove Press, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering to spine, in original illustrated dust jacket. About very good plus in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Burroughs under his printed name on title page. Jacket a bit edgeworn with moderate toning, small chips at...
THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
New York: Grove Press, (1967). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. About near fine in a very good DJ. INSCRIBED and dated by Burroughs to title page: "For Peter Bollen / with all best / wishes / William S....
THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
New York: Grove Press, (1967). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus, in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Burroughs under his name on title page. Jacket soiled to most of front panel, with an inchlong tear...
TORNADO ALLEY
(Cherry Valley, NY): Cherry Valley Editions, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, with a small drawing, to title page: "To / Maelstrom- / S. Clay Wilson / Twist and Shout / 1990." Mild handling wear. Overall clean, sound. Very good-plus. 53pp.
![WILLIAM BURROUGHS / NAKED LUNCH / PUB. DATE: NOV. 20, 1962 [etc.] [Cover Title, Grove Press Promo...](/pictures/thumb/21713.jpeg?v=1561472936)
WILLIAM BURROUGHS / NAKED LUNCH / PUB. DATE: NOV. 20, 1962 [etc.] [Cover Title, Grove Press Promo Pamphlet for First American Edition of Naked Lunch]
New York: Grove Press, 1962. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled photographic wraps. Near fine. Just a bit of toning to wraps. Pages sharp and clean. [14] pp., plus covers. One or approximately 100 copies of this promotional pamphlet issued in preperation for the 1962 first US edition of NAKED LUNCH from Grove...
SIDETRIPPING
New York: Strawberry Hill Publishing, (1975). First Edition. Wraps. Square small 4to. Pictorial wraps. Very good. Mild rubbing, soil. wear. Overall sound and bright. SIGNED to title page by both Gatewood and Burroughs, who also adds the date (1987). Gatewood's photographs, accompanied by Burroughs' text. Uncommon when signed by both.
THE THIRD MIND
New York: The Viking Press, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over black boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. SIGNED by both Burroughs and Gysin to half title. Moderate yellowing to jacket, particularly to flaps. Clean and sharp throughout. 192pp. Landmark publication by Gysin...
SO WHO OWNS THE DEATH TV?
n.p. Beach Books, 1967. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original stapled printed white wraps. Faint toning, rubbing. One corner with shallow bumping. Very good plus overall. [16]pp. Correct first edition of this pamphlet published by Mary Beach. Includes Burroughs' "A boy as quoted in The Desparate Years." Pelieu's "Objective Galactic Time...
SO WHO OWNS THE DEATH TV?
n.p. Beach Books, 1967. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original stapled printed black wraps. Near fine. [16]pp. Correct first edition of this pamphlet published by Mary Beach, the decidedly rarer "black paper issue," estimated to be 200 copies. Includes Burroughs' "A boy as quoted in The Desparate Years." Pelieu's "Objective Galactic...
![INTREPID #14/15 [Special Burroughs Issue] - Fall/Winter 1969/1970. William BURROUGHS, Allen De Loach](/pictures/thumb/19235.jpeg?v=1561472403)
INTREPID #14/15 [Special Burroughs Issue] - Fall/Winter 1969/1970
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Illustrated stiff wraps. Near fine. Trace soil to front cover. Internally fine. Bright, clean. Good and sound. 103pp. Special issue of De Loach's lit mag. Features contributions from Burroughs, Eric Mottram, Claude Pelieu, Carl Solomon, Carl Weissner, Barry Miles, and others.