Dividing Line Books is a New York rare book firm buying and selling materials across a variety of genres. Themes of experimentation, transgression, and radicalism connect our inventory, and we are drawn to works that disrupt prevailing conventions, be they literary, social, or aesthetic. Developing specialities include 20th-century counterculture, artists' books, photography, and poetries of the avant-garde. 

We're always interested in acquiring new material in these and other fields, and welcome inquiries of any nature. Though we don't keep open hours at our Ridgewood offices, we'll gladly arrange pickups for local customers. If you haven't already, please consider signing up for our email list, which along with our Instagram account is the best way to see new material and get news about in-person events.

  • Peace and Freedom Party

    A small archive of 18 early memos and official communiqués from the left-wing Peace and Freedom Party of California, most having been issued in 1968 by the Contra Costa County branch.

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  • Punk Globe, June 1982

    Early Issue of this seminal San Francisco punk fanzine, founded and published by Ginger Coyote.

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  • Lightworks Magazine #22

    Lightworks' final issue, dedicated to the life and work of American collage and correspondence artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995).

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  • Dark Hunter

    An obscure and fitting edition of one of the 20th century's greatest literary hoaxes: Boris Vian's pulpy pseudonymous novel of interracial vengeance, I Shall Spit on Your Graves.

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