Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975]. Large octavo. Pictorial yellow wrappers. A trace of very minor dust smudging to wrappers, light but visible discoloration to fore-edge and margin at top corner, otherwise a very good or better copy. Advance reading copy of the first edition of Abbey's most widely admired novel. Laid into.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's most admired novel. Just a hint of sunning to spine through the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy in bright, fresh jacket with a thin strip of light offsetting (typical of being stacked in the warehouse) down.....
[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972]. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. Cloth. Spine a bit cocked, very slight tanning at edges, but a very good copy in faintly smudged dust jacket with a few small nicks and the price intact. First edition of Algren's NBA winning fourth book, the source work for the 1955 Preminger film adaptation.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. Canary yellow cloth and blue-gray boards. Hint of darkening to the spine, otherwise very good or better in very good dust jacket with a few spots and light soiling to the lower panel, and a snag at the crown of the lower joint.....
[New York]: Angel Hair Books, [1971]. Small octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 464 copies, of 500. Very faint moisture wrinkle to lower edge of rear wrapper, otherwise near fine.
[New York]: Angel Hair Books, [1971]. Small octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. One of 500 copies. Fine.
[San Francisco]: City Lights, [1974]. Large octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. White wrappers a bit tanned, with trace of sticker residue on upper wrapper, but very good. First edition (8000 copies printed). Includes a separate section of "The Surrealist Movement in the US," collectively edited by writers associated with the movement.....
San Francisco. 1982. [24]pp. Small quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Photomechanically reproduced. Very good. Editor unidentified, but several points of content link it to someone at the venerable record store. Music, art, politics, including the first of a 3 part examination of the IRA, a centerspread promo for the Internationalist Arts.....
![Item #WRCLIT78278 WORK [#3]. Artists Workshop Press, John Sinclair, ed](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT78278.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1607461812)
Detroit: The Artists Workshop Press / Society, Winter 1965/66. Whole #3 (of 5 published). Quarto. Mimeographed text on tan stock, stapled into pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good to near fine, with the uncommon prospectus for WHE'RE and this issue laid in. Edited by John Sinclair. The most substantial and longest-lived.....
New York. January-September 1968. Whole numbers 1 through 4, and 7 (of 14 published). Oblong small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. A few spots to wrappers, last wrapper a bit soiled, else very good. Edited by Ralph Ginzburg. Five issues of this eminently forgettable exercise in sixties cocktail party unconsciousness. The.....
New York: Macmillan, [1980]. Cloth and boards. First edition, with review slip and flyer laid in. Fine in very good, modestly scratched and nicked dust jacket.
San Francisco. March 1971 through November 1972. Six issues. Whole numbers 18-21, 23 and 25 (plus duplicates of 18 and 20 not included in the count). Quarto. Printed and pictorial self-wrappers. Illustrations. Very good to about fine. A small lot of some early numbers of this mirror of alternative publishing.....
Sausalito: Contact Editions, [1961]. Thick quarto. Typographically decorated cloth. Illustrated. Near fine in rubbed, cracked and mended slipcase. First edition. A multitude of contributors, with many recipes of the only barely edible sort.
[New Sharon, ME]: Stony Hills, [1981]. [1],15,[1]pp. Folio. Newsprint, self-wrappers. Half-tone photographic images. Folded through center for mailing, newsprint toned, else very good. First edition of this special number devoted to "The Beats," leading off with an article by John Clellon Holmes entitled "Rocks in Our Beds: The New England.....
![Item #WRCLIT83321 "BEATNIKS" ET JEUNES ÉCRIVAINS AMÉRICANS [wrapper title]. Beats, Maurice...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT83321.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593713048)
Paris: Les Lettres Nouvelles, June 1960. 191,[1]pp. Octavo. Printed wrappers. VIII(New Series):4. Uniform slight tanning to textblock, otherwise fine, largely unopened. A special issue, printing work by Holmes, Corso, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Olson, Rechy, Albee, Ferlinghetti, and others. Translations by various hands.
![Item #WRCLIT87855 SKY - YELL [caption title]. Carol Bergé](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT87855.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669921027)
New York: Ronald Gross, 1968. Mimeographed broadsheet (28 x 21.5 cm), printed recto and verso. Faint old folds, one corner somewhat bumped, but a very good copy. First edition, published as "Poemsheet #3." The poem was performed in November 1968 by the author and Peter Bergé at a "Tiny Event".....
New York: Totem Press, [1960]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition of the poet's second collection of original poetry, issued as Totem Blue Plate #3. Slight tanning at wrapper edges, near fine.
San Francisco: Black Rabbit Press, June 1968. Quarto. Silk screened wrappers by T.L. Kryss. Mimeographed typescript. Near fine. First edition. One of 224 copies (of 255). Contributions by Blazek, levy, Kryss, Dowden, Perkins, et al, in tribute to Steve Richmond, Gene Bloom, and r.j.s., imprisoned poets and book people.
San Francisco: Two Windows Press, [ 1969]. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in tissue jacket. First edition. One of an unspecified number of signed and numbered copies (25?) from a total edition of 650 copies. The cover is an original serigraph by T.L. Kryss.
New York: Delacorte Press, [ 1972]. Gilt cloth and paper over boards. First edition of this novel by a pioneer of psychedelia. Poet/publisher James Laughlin's copy, with his ownership signature. Top edge dust marked, else near very good in good, somewhat rubbed and dust smudged white pictorial dust jacket, with.....
![Item #WRCLIT82148 THE TEETH-MOTHER NAKED AT LAST [wrapper title]. Robert Bly](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT82148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593713001)
[Madison: American Writers Against the Vietnam War c/o Sixties Press, 1970]. 12 panel folded leporello, on pale green paper stock. Very close to fine. First edition, first printing, published on behalf of, and available at no charge from, American Writers Against the Vietnam War. This printing preceded the City Lights.....
[San Francisco]: City Lights, [1970]. Pictorial wrappers. Blue and white wrappers a bit dust-dimmed in the white areas, but a good copy. First commercial edition, the text revised, first printing, issued as Pocket Poets Series #26.
[San Francisco]: City Lights, [1971]. Pictorial wrappers. Red and white wrappers a bit dust-dimmed in the white areas, but a good copy. First commercial edition, the text revised, second printing, issued as Pocket Poets Series #26. Signed by Bly, with a drawing, inside the front wrapper.
[San Francisco]: City Lights, [1970]. Pictorial wrapper, printed in blue on white. Spine browned, but a good copy, with a typed City Lights compliments card laid in. First commercial edition, the text revised, first printing, issued as Pocket Poets Series #26.
