Los Angeles: Chris Amouroux, 1985. First Printing. Poster. One sheet. Double sided. (27.5 cm. x 42 cm.) Coated Paper. Photo reproduced images. Fold creases. Small amount of dampstaining to bottom edge not affecting image or text. Small pinhole to the top edge. Very Good. Chronicler of the Los Angeles music..... More
New York: Popular Library, 1954. Owen Kampen. Popular Library Edition. Small octavo. (16 cm. x 11 cm. ) 221 pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. Green edges. Minor creasing to front wrapper. Near Fine. In the conservative 1950s, people couldn't get enough of stories about juvenile delinquency. The "youth quake" began in..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1972. Paperback Original. Octavo. (17.5 cm. x 10.5 cm.) 280 pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. Advertisements at rear. Minor rubbing to front cover image. Verso with long crease. Mild toning to pages. Overall, bright and tight. Near Fine. Donald Goines specialized in urban, gangster revenge plots and..... More
New York: Signet, 1958. First Paperback Edition. Small Octavo. (18 cm.) 288 pps. Pictorial paper wrappers. Minor creasing and edgewear. Near Fine. The story of a prostitute falling in love with an artist has been used, ceaselessly, since the invention of the narrative form. "The World of Suzie Wong" did..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm). 255 pp. Pitch-black, half-cloth boards, gold-tooth lettering on spine. Black dust jacket with red band featuring a mugshot of the maneater, "Betty". (In actuality, a detail of the face of dancer and choreographer, Pearl Primus.) Clean, attractive book. A...... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm). 298 pp. Half-cloth, leather-brown boards with company insignia blind-stamped on front board, with white titles on black spine. Small, light stains to first free endpaper which may be from the paper stock, else a great copy. Power. This is the..... More
New York: Union Square Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo. (21cm. x 13.5cm) 125pp. ills. Red cardstock wrappers. Black titles and symbol inside thin black rectangle on front wrapper. Name of publisher on verso. Light color transfer splotches to the first few pages, not affecting text. Otherwise, clean..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1969. First Printing. Small octavo. (18 cm.) 320 pp. Paperback original. Photo-illustrated titles in black on front and spine, with photo-image of author on verso. Publisher serial number #HH-176 above title and on spine indicating First Printing. Stray pen mark on spine, not affecting type. Minor..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1971. First Printing. Small octavo. (18 cm x 10.5 cm.) 248 pp. Paperback original. Photo-illustrated titles in black on front and spine, with photo-image of author on front and verso. Publisher serial number 88-414 above title and on spine indicating First Printing. Advertisements at rear. Very..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. First Edition Softcover. Large Octavo. (30cm x 22cm) 198pp. ills. Color illustrated cardstock wrappers. Yellow spine with titles in black. Verso in orange. Fine. Now recognized as one of the most original and important American painters in the last 50 years, Alice Neel struggled..... More
New York: 1969,1970,1971. Mixed Editions. Octavos. (11 cm. x 18 cm.) Illustrated wrappers. Modest edgewear to all. Very Good. Set of three vintage 1970s era paperback books, two in first edition, on the subject of drugs and drug use. Ronald Bruce's "The Pot Report" negates the then current notion of..... More
Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship Inc., 1968. First Edition. Small Octavo. (13.5 cm.) 55 pp. Pictorial wrappers with two-color graphic on front and photograph of author on verso. Verso with what appears to be a stain is more than likely a printing enigma. Spine with some small tearing and loss of two..... More