Mimeo / Underground / Avant Garde from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 60pp. Slight wear to wrappers, with corners bumped and slightly rolled, else a clean, VG copy. An early collection by the revered and colorful Detroit poet, a fixture within the Cass Corridor scene, who died in 1996 at the age of 46. Laid in to this copy… Read more about this item

Upper Dharmsala: White Light Foundation, 1972. First, Limited Edition. Number 55 of 125 signed, hand-numbered copies. 12mo (19cm); half-leather over boards; 48pp. Brief scuffs to leather at head and heel of spine, else a tight, well-preserved copy with the usual waviness to the hand-bound text. An obscure work by the poet, photographer and prominent Warhol Factory figure, rarely seen… Read more about this item

[Milwaukee: Gunrunner Press, 1968]. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 copies. 12mo (22cm). Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; 8,[3]pp. Neat ownership signature to front wrapper, a few faint spots of thumb-soil to rear, else a tight, clean, and very well-preserved copy, Near Fine. Uncommon thus. Posthumously-published Levy long poem, a somewhat unfocused polemic on the dynamics of poetic thought… Read more about this item

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1973. First Edition. First printing, regular issue. Quarto (25.5cm). Original photographic staplebound wrappers, unpaginated (22 leaves). One of 700 copies. Minimal signs of use to wrappers, internally clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. A sequel to the author's memoir, following the same format of a compilation of sentences beginning with the words, "I… Read more about this item

Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968. First Edition. Tape-backed pictorial wrappers (as issued); thick 4to. Mimeographed; illustrated with six original screenprints by T.L. Krys. One of 1000 copies. Edited by R.J.S. Tribute with texts by levy, bibliographic material, with testimonials by friends and other writers, and reproductions of press coverage of his arrest. "Proceeds, if any, from the sale of this… Read more about this item

London: The Curiously Strong, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets with printed card covers; [15]pp, printed recto-only. Mild corner-creasing; still a clean, Very Good or better copy in the original wrappers. A generic bookplate hand-signed by Ackroyd has been loosely laid-in by a previous collector. Ackroyd's somewhat uncommon first book, a poetry collection;… Read more about this item

Detroit: Lotus Press, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue sheets, mimeographed in three colors and bound with royal blue tape along spine; 44,[2]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. The native Detroit author's first book of poems. Cobb was a member of the Black Christian Nationalist Movement at the Shrine of the Black Madonna, and a former… Read more about this item

[Bolinas]: Big Sky, [1975]. First Edition. Regular issue, one of 724 copies. Octavo; pictorial wrappers; [55]pp. Wrappers unevenly faded on front cover, else fine and unmarked. There was a simultaneous issue of 26 signed, lettered copies.

New York: Entrails Magazine, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled illustrated wrappers; 111pp; illus. Moderate external wear and soil; rear cover pulled loose from upper staple, with some creasing at wrapper extremities and at bound edge; Very Good. With black tissue-paper yarmulke stapled to inside rear wrapper. Third issue (of four) of this New York underground mimeo… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: The Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First Edition. Tabloid (38cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild toning to wrapper extremities, with some light wear and a few tiny splits along spine-fold, else Near Fine, unfolded and without postal markings. Well-preserved issue of this short-lived psychedelic and neo-pagan newspaper based in L.A., inspired by the legendary Bay Area… Read more about this item

Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1968. First Edition. Edition of 500 copies. 12mo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; text mimeo-printed on newsprint; [24pp]. Mild dusting and wear; text paper slightly age-toned; Very Good. Cover illustration by Barbara O'Connelly & D.R. Wagner.

New York: John Wilcock, 1969. First Edition. Tabloid (42cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, faint horizontal fold smoothed-out at center, with a tiny scuff to front cover; Very Good+. Though never as popular or widely-circulated as its brethren like The East Village Other and The Berkeley Barb, nor as political as such… Read more about this item

New York: John Wilcock, 1969. First Edition. Tabloid (44cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Modest wear to extremities, subtle toning to wrappers, with numerous tiny tears, particularly along the spine-fold and upper edge; Very Good. Though never as popular or widely-circulated as its brethren like The East Village Other and The Berkeley Barb, nor as political as such radical-left… Read more about this item

New York: Other Scenes, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.25cm); pictorial wrappers; [32]pp; illus. Subtle toning to two edge of front wraper, else Near Fine. Though never as popular or widely-circulated as its brethren like The East Village Other and The Berkeley Barb, nor as political as such radical-left undergrounds as The Black Panther and New Left Notes, John… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Oracle, 1968. First Edition. Tabloid (44cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 32pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, some wear, handling, and faint creasing to extremities, with a few old, faint dampstains at upper and lower spine-fold; Very Good, complete copy. Final issue of this legendary Bay Area psychedelic paper, with contributions by George Leonard, Michael Murphy, Carl… Read more about this item

The Hague: Vrije Academie / Psychopolis, [1970]. First Edition. Tabloid (ca 60cm x 40cm); on newsprint, unpaged [46pp], chiefly illus. Vertical and horizontal folds (as issued?); some puckering to paper at intersection of folds; mild toning to fold-lines and extremities, but still a complete, well-preserved copy, easily Very Good. Annual "catalogue" for this experimental art academy in The Hague,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. First printing of 1000 signed copies. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 70pp. Gentle toning to text; a bit of paste offsetting to endpapers , still a tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, a shade sunned on spine panel, Near Fine. Second published collection by the poet, experimental… Read more about this item

St. Paul, MN: Women Unlimited, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.75cm); mimeographed sheets, side-stapled into printed wrappers; [36]pp. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. First (and possibly only) issue of this crudely-mimeographed feminist publication, composed by Susie Olah and Helen Victry. "This paper is a criticism of Frederick Engels' well-known work, The Origin of the Family, Private Property,… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1997. First Edition. Small quarto. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 199pp; illus. Very mild rubbing and wear to cover extremities, else Near Fine. Anthology of writing and images from the long-running Vancouver underground newspaper.

New York: Caterpillar, 1967. First Edition. One of 200 multilithed copies (from a total edition of 300, with the first 100 being mimeographed). Quarto (28cm); multilithed sheets (rectos), side-stapled into printed card wrappers; [6]pp. Light wear and some faint creasing to extremities, else Near Fine. Issued as Caterpillar III.