Collection: New Arrivals

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. 25pp. 8vo; saddle-stapled in printed wraps. Irregular toning to wraps; vertical creasing to rear cover; former owner's name stamp on front. Good to very good. An essay by the English writing and religious philosopher Alan W. Watts... More

San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1975. First edition. [9], 39, [16]pp.; illus. Very good, with moderate edge and hinge-wear. Internally clean and bright. A practical guidebook to electrophotography, a technique for making images of the electrical discharges that surround an object or person. With discussion also... More

 San Diego: Comic-Con, 1978. 2 vols., each with two unbound gatherings, [8]pp. Both very good, with light wear and soiling, staple holes and mailing labels. A pair of pamphlets updating recipients on plans for the upcoming 1978 San Diego Comic-Con, with information on registration, programming,... More

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1970. First edition. 181pp. 8vo; two-tone black and green cloth boards; white spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear; mild dust soiling to textblock top; former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with moderate wear and light soiling,... More

NY: Harmony Books, 1989. First edition. Xiii, 335pp; 8 leaves of plates at center. Black textured-paper boards; metallic red spine titles. A touch of spotting to textblock top. Else near fine in a like jacket, unclipped, with toning to flaps. Signed by González-Wippler opposite the... More

Beverly, NJ: Albert Coe/The Book Fund, 1969. First edition. Xviii, 112pp; illus. 8vo; plain blue cloth. Softened spine ends; a few spots of light foxing to fore-edge. Very good in like jacket, with chipping to spine ends, light soiling/toning, and some foxing to fore-edge of... More

Grosse Ile, MI: Baird Wallace, 1972. Revised second edition (stated; issued in same year as first). [64]pp (articles individually paginated). 4to; illustrated wraps with black plastic comb binding. Toning & wear to wraps; very good. A self-published work containing nine articles on various aspects of... More

Merrick, MY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1993. First edition, wrappered issue. 48pp. 8vo; signature-bound in matte illustrated wraps. Very good or better, with light creasing/curling to top corners.  A selection of poems by Swedish-Russian poet Edith Södergran (1892-1923), as translated by Daisy Aldan and Leif Sjöberg, with... More

[Austin, TX]: Chinese Martial Arts Inc. Books, 1983. 58 leaves, printed rectos only; illus. 4to; velobound yapped illustrated wrappers. Very good (+), with toning and crumpling to edges of wraps. Contents fine. Martial arts guidebook written by a one-time student of Bruce Lee and founder... More

Noblesville, IN: Soulcraft Chapels, 1950. Second edition (stated). 246pp. Red textured paper boards; gilt spine titles; all edges stained red; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued. Light wear to spine ends; two spots of scuffing/soiling to rear endpapers. Near fine. A UFO-themed work of religious... More

NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1965. 38pp; plates (9 color, 11 b&w). 4to. Blue papered boards stamped in white to front and spine. Near fine, with light sunning to spine. Auction catalog for a sale held October 13, 1965, featuring items primarily from the collection of Mr.... More

NY: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. 276pp; index. 8vo; black boards backed with red cloth; silver and black spine titles. Former owner's name penned on front pastedown. Else fine in fine dust jacket, price-clipped. A sharp copy of this first-person account of the Black... More

Minot, ND: Minot Women's Collective, 1971. [120]pp; illus. 8vo; printed purple wraps bound with black plastic comb. Light crease to bottom front cover, else fine. Weekly planner produced by this second-wave feminist collective, publisher of the North Dakota Women's Liberation Newsletter. Calendar pages are faced... More

NY: Anthology Film Archives, 1997. 72pp.; index. 4to; saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Very good or better, with bump to top corner. An authoritative guide to the cinema of visual artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990). Includes a filmography, interviews, a dozen essays (including... More

Glenn Dale, MD: Mars Research, 1988. Fourth edition. 135pp.; b&w and color illus. Quarto; saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Soiling to rear cover; some splitting at spine ends; very good. Signed & inscribed ("God Bless") to title-page by co-author Brandenburg. With illustrations and artwork by Grace... More

NY: Amerling Hollander, 1966. [16]pp; b&w illus. 4to; side-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Light crease along spine; mild toning to wraps. Very good. Apparently the third and fourth installments of this self-published periodical primarily devoted to transcribing the lyrics and music of various songs of... More

Austin, TX: Doug Hanners and Deron Bissett, 1975. 32pp.; illus. 4to; saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Very good, with moderate wear to wraps, diagonal crease to back lower corner. First issue of this irregularly published music magazine of music from Texas; this issue devoted to 1960s... More

[Tokyo]: Shogakukan, 2015. [110]pp.; illus. Perfect-bound in black printed wraps, 5-7/8 x 8-1/4 in.; photo-illustrated dust jacket; obi. Fine.  Black-and-white photographs of the titular Tokyo neighborhood in the early 1970s, as taken by Alao Yokogi, Goro Some, Taishi Hirokawa, Mike Nogami, Jyoji Ide, Herbie Yamaguchi,... More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First Edition. 498pp. Octavo; orange boards backed with blue cloth; bronze spine titles; dust jacket. Light shelfwear; toning to textblock edges. Very good or better in a very good jacket, unclipped ("$7.95"), with wear and smalls chips to ends... More

Marlboro, VT: Marlboro Press, 1992. First edition. 309pp. 8vo; teal cloth; gilt spine titles. Light spotting to board cloth, mainly along top edge. Else near fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. First American edition of this youthful Europe-to-Asia travelog, originally self-published in French in 1963... More

Philadelphia: Charles C. Sellers, 1930. First edition. No. 114 of 300 copies signed by Sellers to the copyright page. 67pp; illus; four plates, including frontispiece. 8vo; marbled paper boards with cream cloth backstrip and tips; black spine titles; printed paper title-card mounted to front board.... More

San Francisco: Frank Reynolds / Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, 1968. 4to; 12 color broadsides (10-1/4 x 7-7/8 in.) printed rectos only & housed in an illustrated card portfolio. Corner wear & light soiling along spine of portfolio; altogether near fine. A portfolio of illustrated, hand-lettered... More

San Francisco: Valhalla Music, 1967. [4]pp.; illus. Single sheet folded to form four 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 in panels. Silk-screened, in color to front and rear; front cover featuring a graphic of a marijuana plant growing out of an army helmet. Very good or better, with... More

NY: The Macaulay Company, 1936. Presumed reprint.* 156pp. Octavo; tan textured-paper boards; brown spine titles; dust jacket. Mild shelfwear, some light soiling to textblock edges. Near fine in a good to very good jacket, unclipped ("$2.00") with a number of small chips and two larger... More

Hong Kong: Christian Conference of Asia, 1989. First English-language edition. Xiv, 174pp.; illus. 4to; sewn-binding; photo-illustrated card wraps. Moderate bumping to spine ends; shallow dent to textblock fore-edge. Very good. Signed, dated, and inscribed by translator Rickard to half-title. A Japanese photobook documenting the decades-long... More