The First Beat Novel
Item 338473Flee the Angry Strangers.
Price: $150
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1952. First edition. The First Beat Novel. Read More Item Details for Flee the Angry Strangers Add to Wish List
Item #338473
We are pleased to present a catalogue of counterculture books and prints. From the revolutionary fringes and the far-flung expanse of the inner mind, beyond the thresholds upheld by the status quo, this selection is a thrilling survey of boundary pushing psychonauts and freedom fighters. We invite you to take a walk on the wild side with our counterculture rarities, yippies and squares alike. Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.
Price: $150
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1952. First edition. The First Beat Novel. Read More Item Details for Flee the Angry Strangers Add to Wish List
Item #338473
Price: $3,500
New York: [1972]. Signed. Features Smith's poem paired with two reproductions of Mapplethorpe photographs of David Croland. Read More Item Details for Dolor Desvelado Add to Wish List
Item #329538
Price: $2,000
Toronto: McLuhan, 1954. First edition. Original Self-Published Version. The preliminary self-published edition of this text by McLuhan that was later expanded and republished commercially in 1969. Read More Item Details for Counterblast Add to Wish List
Item #325468
Price: $450
ca. 1949. This photograph of Thomas Merton with his Columbia friends Seymour Freedgood and Dan Walsh was taken in 1949 on the day of his ordination by an unidentified photographer. Read More Item Details for Photograph of Thomas Merton with Seymour Freedgood and Dan Walsh Add to Wish List
Item #333180
Price: $250
Madison, WI: 1971. This NORML rally "co-sponsored by yippies" featured speakers Paul Kuhn, Jr. of NORML and Madison Alderperson Carol Wuennenberg and “live band” Zoom took place in Madison, Wisconsin on October 2nd, 1971. It was followed by a “Nobody for President” march to Brittingham Park. Read More Item Details for Marijuana Rally with Paul Kuhn, Jr. of NORML poster Add to Wish List
Item #333199
Price: $350
ca. 1970s. ADULTS ONLY. The infamous 1936 film Reefer Madness was funded by a church group and made in earnest as anti-marijuana propaganda depicting the extreme perils of drug abuse. In the 1972 the film was rediscovered and shown as satire to throngs of stoned audiences who found all of..... Read More Item Details for Reefer Madness poster Add to Wish List
Item #333201
Price: $2,000
New York: Abkco Music, 1975. First edition. SIGNED BY MICK JAGGER. Read More Item Details for Rolling Stones Anthology Vol. 2 Add to Wish List
Item #338124
Price: $750
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1958. SIGNED by Burroughs. A classic Beat Generation era issue containing an early selection from William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. The 1958 appearance of a Naked Lunch excerpt in the Chicago Review created a scandal that ended in the resignation of the magazine’s two editors, Irving Rosenthal..... Read More Item Details for Chicago Review [Vol 12, No. 3; Autumn 1958, Featuring William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Chapter 2] Add to Wish List
Item #338548
Price: $300
Mountain View, California: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1939. First edition. An early example of anti-Marijuana propoganda in the United States. Read More Item Details for On The Trail of Marihuana: The Weed of Madness Add to Wish List
Item #329307
Price: $1,250
New York: A Fuck You Press Publication, September, 1962. Signed By Taylor Mead. Ed Sanders is an American poet, author, publisher, and activist who ran the Peace Eye Bookstore in New York's East Village in the 1960s. The Fuck You Press was a significant part of the Mimeograph Revolution and..... Read More Item Details for Poems for Marilyn Add to Wish List
Item #329363
Price: $400
Inkworks / Red Dragon Print Collective, March 1975. First edition, second printing; Red Dragon Print Collective logo on inside of back cover and WUO mission statement letter as first page identifying this as the March reprint released in celebration of International Women's Day. Original Red Dragon Print Collective Edition. The..... Read More Item Details for Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization Add to Wish List
Item #334698
Price: $150
Dennis, Massachusetts: Salt-Works Press, 1973. Soma-Haoma 1. Soma-Haoma was a small-run poetry and arts subscription compilation made and distributed by Salt-Works Press of Dennis, Massachusetts. This premier issue includeds two poetry chapbooks, The Amanita Trails and Spring Tense by Tom Bridwell, an offset illustrated print by Judith Cressy, and four..... Read More Item Details for Soma-Haoma [no. 1: Terrain] Add to Wish List
Item #333074
Price: $150
Dennis, Massachusetts: Salt-Works Press, 1973. Soma-Haoma was a small-run poetry and arts subscription compilation made and distributed by Salt-Works Press of Dennis, Massachusetts. The second issue has considerably more content than the debut that featured primary Salt-Works contributors Tom Bridwell, Judy Cressy, and Edward Harper who are all present here..... Read More Item Details for Soma-Haoma [no. 2: Riddled Interiors] Add to Wish List
Item #333083
Price: $450
[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books, [1974]. First edition. Inscribed with a provocative drawing. With a large inscription on the half-title in gold, silver, and black: "Jack / sonofabitch / Ralph Steadman / 1 . Nov . 98," the "J" in "Jack" used to make an eyes-and-nose portrait, and a swastika..... Read More Item Details for America Add to Wish List
Item #307549
Price: $300
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed. An excellent copy of this National Book Award-winner. Inspired by the Merry Pranksters, this is the story of some post-Vietnam characters who get involved in a heroin-smuggling deal that goes bad, and a clear eyed journey to the heart of..... Read More Item Details for Dog Soldiers Add to Wish List
Item #329379
Price: $2,000
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed “For Frannie Ness, with best wishes, Robert Stone”. Read More Item Details for A Hall of Mirrors Add to Wish List
Item #324624
Price: $1,500
San Francisco: X-Ray Book Company, 1996. Johnny Brewton; Karoline Schleh. First edition, No. 147 of 300 [there are an additional 26 lettered copies as well]. Thompson's eulogy to Timothy Leary, originally printed in Rolling Stone magazine. Read More Item Details for Mistah Leary He Dead Add to Wish List
Item #325343
Price: $950
1970. This flier details Timothy Leary's legal battles and fees incurred and was part of a larger effort to raise money on his behalf. It states that he was "being held without bail during appeals" surrounding a March 16th 1970 prosecution in California. It would only be a few months..... Read More Item Details for Timothy Leary's Holding Together broadside Add to Wish List
Item #332669
Price: $500
London: Putnam, 1963. First edition. Read More Item Details for Opium Fogs Add to Wish List
Item #338549
Price: $650
U.K: ca. 1974. Graham Keen (b.1937 - d.2019) was a British photographer who documented the counterculture of the 1960's in England. His subjects included major literary, art, and music figures such as William S. Burroughs, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Yoko Ono, Pink Floyd, and Sir John Hurt. Read More Item Details for Van Morrison photograph Add to Wish List
Item #333175
Price: $100
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. First edition. Read More Item Details for Voices from the Love Generation Add to Wish List
Item #334929
Price: $450
New York: May 15th, 1976. May 15th Smoke-In at Washington Square Park…, designed by Harry Wasserman with photo by Art Zollo. Read More Item Details for "Win a Free Pound of Marijuana! Guess How Many Joints in the Jar!" Youth International Party and NORML broadside [May 15th, 1976] Add to Wish List
Item #329857
Price: $450
Washington, D.C: January 20th, 1973. Read More Item Details for "You Don't Have to be Vietnamese to Smell a Rat." Youth International Party anti-inauguration rally poster [January 20, 1973 in Washington D.C.] Add to Wish List
Item #329856