Burning Deck, Issues 1-4, Complete Run de Edited by James Camp, D. C. Hope, and Bernard Waldrop - 1962

London: Edward Moxon, 1839 only 2 volumes of 4, original blind embossed cloth with gilt titled spines, light bumping to edges, vol 4 has splitting to the upper joint, both volumes have a tidy and faint name stamp to the title pages, "Walter Mantell" in an oval, (probably Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell), vol 3 small area discoloured to front hinge, as issued with pale yellow endpapers, untrimmed top edge, head of spines are slightly chipped with minimal loss, vol3; viii 314+2pp vol4; viii 361+3pp, First Collected Edition, and the first with Mary Shelley's notes. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

D. Appleton and Company, NY, 1878; First Edition; 8vo, 501 pages; green cloth; illustrated. Complete collection of Bryant’s poetical works, beautifully illustrated throughout with 100 engravings from drawings by Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, Alfred Fredericks, et. al. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait plate of the author, with guard tissue. Richly bound in beveled boards with lime green cloth illustrated with a delicate botanical theme in gold and maroon. Decorative end papers, page edges gilt. Lengthy foreword by R.H. Stoddard containing a detailed Bryant biography. Very Good Plus. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, edge gilding bright. A beautiful book, published the last year of Bryant’s life.

Boy Scouts Of America, New Brunswick, NJ, 1959; First Edition; Quarto. Full twelve month run of Boys’ Life Magazine for 1959, bound together in BSA publisher’s binding of blue cloth boards with silver titles and bearing the official Boy Scout emblem on the front. All original covers bound in. Includes the February Norman Rockwell cover and August Mickey Mantle. Hundreds of feature and how-to articles of interest to growing boys to aid them in becoming honorable, responsible, mature, self-reliant, and patriotic men, of the kind so threatening to the cynical nihilist crowd of the present day. An added feature of each issue are such serial comic strips as "Pee Wee Harris," "America’s Heritage," "Tracy Twins," "Scouts In Action," etc. Loads of illustrated ads for products and services of interest to boys: Daisy BB guns, Revell and Aurora scale models, Wilson, MacGregor and Spalding sporting equipment, Schwinn bikes, fishing and hunting equipment, etc., plus… Leer más

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..

San Francisco: Shirt Pocket Editions, 2006. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 32mo, 25 leaves (printed one-side on card stock), comb binding. INSCRIBED to the painter Jack Freeman by the author on the first interior page. One of an unknown but presumably microscopic number of copies of the self-published first edition of this pocket-sized poetic collection by a key figure in San Francisco's North Beach from the Beat era until his death a few years after this was issued. Just about as new (minor marks on cover appear to be printing artifact).

Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce issue of this little magazine from 1961 Cambridge, with work by J.H. Prynne and others. Subscription slip bound in. Unmarked copy, outer stain to one corner, light outer soil.

San German, Puerto Rico: Inter American University, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 192pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as well as Beat notables including Burroughs (Schottlaender C13), Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. Unmarked copy with significant bumps and some general wear.

Berkeley: Tree, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, [iv]+204pp, printed wrappers. Beautiful as-new copy of the fourth issue of this groundbreaking literary and Kabbalistic magazine edited by David Meltzer. Includes Image of the Wall by Wallace Berman, a lengthy 1964 letter from Lenny Bruce to a judge, a number of Kabbalistic pieces from traditional authorities, and other material from writers associated with the Semina scene. Unmarked copy, as new.

Los Angeles: Notes from Underground, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 828pp, printed wrappers. Rare second issue of this important little magazine from underground press editor John Bryan. A fascinating juncture between the Beat Generation and the nascent hippie movement. Includes Beat writers, proto-psychedelicists (including a Psychedelic Cookbook section), and Charles Bukowski. Original fabric tape to spine. Unmarked copy, a bit of outer rubbing and toning, faint storage smell.