Collection: New Arrivals

First edition of the Czech psychiatrist's third book on LSD, an attempt to "explain the various phenomena encountered in psychedelic experience." Pomona, CA: Hunter House, 1980. 352pp., with index and color plates. 8vo. Blue vinyl stamped in silver on front board and spine; dust jacket.... More

First British edition of the Czech psychiatrist's magnum opus, detailing eighteen years of research on the psychological and therapeutic effects of LSD; "probably the most important and certainly the most intellectually original single book on psychedelic experience" (Grinspoon & Bakalar, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, p. 349).... More

First American edition of the seventh and final volume of Proust's long novel, originally published in France in 1927, and here translated by Frederick A. Blossom. NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1932. 402pp. Black boards stamped in brown and backed with brown cloth; black and... More

The correct first state first edition of Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, as translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970. First edition, first state (no number line on final leaf), in a first state jacket (exclamation point at the... More

First American edition of this experimental novel—a single long paragraph of Faulknerian density—by the Spanish writer Juan Benet (1927-1993). NY: Persea Books, 1982. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. 366pp. 8vo. Black boards backed with oatmeal cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. One spot minor adhesive soiling... More

First appearance in book form of this essay on the relationship between power and violence, by German-born philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975); a revised and enlarged version of a text that first appeared under the title "Reflections on Violence" a 1969 issue of the Journal of... More

NY: Michael Kensend Publishing, 1989. First edition thus. x, 169pp. 8vo. Blue cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Bumped/softened spine ends. Else very near fine in a near fine jacket, unclipped, showing minor toning. Dust jacket design by Jackie Schuman. Presumed first hardcover edition of... More

Corte Madera, CA: The Oracle, [1968, per  "©1968 Rich Charter" on cover image]. Unbound newsprint tabloid, 15 x 11-1/4 in. 15, [1]pp., illus., many in one or more colors. Horizontal fold; rubbing to covers; moderate toning. Very good or better. Scarce hippie-era tabloid featuring striking... More

NY: Dell Publishing Company, [1951]. Saddle-stapled in pictorial wraps, 6-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. [64]pp. Horizontal creasing up the spine; light edge wear; textblock moderately toned. Very good or better.First stand-alone edition of a pseudonymous story by Cornell Woolrich, originally appearing in Detective Fiction Weekly in... More

 NY: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1969. First edition. Square 8vo; glossy photo-illustrated boards, lacking a jacket as issued. 128pp. Black-and-white offset photo reproductions throughout. Light bumping to bottom corners; some rubbing/soiling to upper joints. Internally fine; altogether very good or better.Uncommon hardcover issue of this coast-to-coast... More

[San Francisco]: Dave Hodges, 1967. Single sheet, 11 x 8-1/2 in., printed in yellow, red, and blue. With the commonly encountered red offsetting/smudging along left edge, else a fine copy.Handbill produced to announce The Invisible Circus, a legendary San Francisco Summer of Love party sponsored... More

"Wasn't it remarkable when good, honest, white Americans discovered that oftimes the police are brutal?"San Francisco: The Haight Publishing Company, [1968]. Unbound newsprint, tabloid, 15 x 11-1/2 in. 15, [1]pp., illus., with covers and centerfold in color. Horizontal fold crease; light foxing and rubbing to... More

United States of America [stated]: BarNel Enterprises, 1967. Leaves gathered and side-stapled in yellow wraps, 4-1/8 x 5-3/8 in., printed front and rear in blue. 71pp. Light soiling and toning to covers; textblock mildly toned. Very good or better; a tidy copy of a publication... More

Exemplary copy of the first American edition of Ballard's 1969 experimental novel, published in the UK as "The Atrocity Exhibition." Doubleday originally produced a copy under that title in 1970, only to scrap it over concerns regarding the portrayal of certain celebrities. This edition with... More

As-new copy of this engaging prose work by the Romanian-born artist, a catalog of eighty items on the table of his Paris hotel room. Translated into English by Emmett Williams, to whose annotations Spoerri has added secondary annotations of his own. With illustrations throughout by... More

Nice copy of this novel by the French writer and jazz aficionado, as translated by John Sturrock. NY: Grove Press, 1968. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/8 x 5-5/8 in. Gray cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. 191pp. Light sunning to edges of cloth. Else fine in... More

Scarce hardcover issue of this collection of four short novels by the celebrated French writer. Introduction by Germaine Brée. Translated by Sonia Pitt-Rivers and Irina Morduch; Richard Seaver, Anne Borchardt; and Anne Borchardt, respectively. NY: Grove Press, 1965. First edition. Duodecimo, 7-3/8 x 4-5/8 in.... More

Nice copy of this collection of science fiction short stories by one of the masters of the form. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First edition. Octavo, 8 x 5-1/4 in. Blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. 205pp. Fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. More

Review copy of Burroughs' screen treatment of the Alan E. Nourse science fiction novel, The Bladerunner (1974), which was never produced but instead lent its name to the 1982 Ridley Scott film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Berkeley, CA:... More

First English-language edition of the debut novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), originally published in 1906. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. NY: Pantheon Books, 1955. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Gray cloth; yellow spine titles; dust jacket.... More

First American edition of the 1910 novel by the sui generis French writer, who exerted a strong influence on both the surrealists and the later OULIPO movement. Translated by Lindy Foord and Rayner Heppenstall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First American edition. Octavo, 8-1/4... More

First edition of the debut book by American writer Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019), a collection of short fiction blending formal experimentation with science-fiction and feminist themes. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First edition (stated). Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. Tan textured-paper boards backed with olive... More

First edition of the second gay novel written by Clarence Lewis Miller (1911-2001) under his Jay Little pseudonym, about the world of American drag performers ("female impersonators," in the book's somewhat dated parlance). Miller himself toured the South as part of a group of drag... More

Uncommon pamphlet collecting various statements advising against the use of hallucinogens by the Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba (1894-1969), an important figure in the 1960s counterculture. Baba warns that LSD and related drugs cannot provide a shortcut to true spiritual awakening, and indeed may only... More

Bloomfield Hills, MI: Lightworks, 2000. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 11 x 8-1/2 in. 96pp. Heavily illustrated throughout in black-and-white. With audio CD in plastic sleeve mounted to p. 69. Light wear at heel of spine. Short closed snag to fore-edge of rear cover. Else as... More