Search Results: Titles starting with J from Philip Smith, Bookseller

San Francisco: Jack Spicer, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Poor/No Jacket (as issued). Incomplete copy (missing front wrapper and first 5 interior leaves). 4to, 13 leaves, corner-stapled. The rarely seen first issue of Jack Spicer's seminal and groundbreaking mimeo mag. The missing portion of this copy comprises James Alexander's The Jack Rabbit Poem; remainder of issue, with work by Spicer, Richard Brautigan, Kay Johnson, Robin Blaser, Robert Duncan, et al., is present. Has been restapled. Missing content supplied in photocopy. A rare opportunity to obtain a totemic piece of countercultural history.

San Francisco: Printed by The Arion Press for The Book Club of California, 1990. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, single sheet folded to form 4 pages, letterpress. One of 1,000 copies of this elegant memorial keepsake designed and printed by Arion Press for The Book Club of California. Contains a memorial text by Oscar Lewis. Solid copy with minor outer soil.

Prague: Central Europe Gallery and Publishing House, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers with French flaps. An uncommon overview of the film and graphic work of Jan Svankmajer. Text in Czech and English. Unmarked copy, a little soil and wear.

Los Angeles: Jazz Press, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers. This 1980 Los Angeles "Magazine of Literature + Visual Arts" includes 10 pages of work by and tributes to Wallace Berman (by Jerome Rothenberg and Clayton Eshleman). Clean, unmarked copy.

San Francisco: The Strange Faeces Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 8pp, stapled wrappers. Recently SIGNED and rubber-stamped by the author on the first interior page. 1 of 150 stated copies. Uncirculated copy, a bit of staple rust.

Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in VG+ jacket. 8vo, xvi+270pp, green boards with spine lettering stamped in silver. First edition, first printing of this memoir of the seventies Christian rock scene. Book appears unread, jacket has minor wear.

Berkeley and Oakland, CA: The House of "K, 1985. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [ii]+98pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of the third issue of this scarce and central 1980s underground magazine of experimental writing. Includes Duncan's 1944 essay The Homosexual in Society (this appearance not in Bertholf) and an account by Lewis Ellingham of a tarot contention between Olson and Spicer. This is the blue-ink cover variant (a black-ink one also exists). Unmarked copy, light toning and minor wear.

Providence, RI: Joglars, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 44pp, printed wrappers. First issue of this 1960s poetry review edited by Clark Coolidge. Includes a page of "Classified Advertisements" by Bruce Conner. Unmarked copy, covers have light toning and soil.

New York: The Bookmailer Inc, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, ~128pp, laminated fabric covers. The rare trade paper edition of this pseudonymous 1959 novel (usually encountered in a smaller format), which has been plausibly attributed to far-right scholar Revilo P. Oliver (who was an important figure in the John Birch Society when this was published). It was definitely the epistolary model on which The Turner Diaries by William Pierce was based, and thus provides an important link between the Eisenhower-era Right and its more militant successors (Oliver split from the Birch Society in 1966 and went on to be closely associated with the National Alliance). This was a publication of far-right publisher Lyle H. Munson. Owner name to front free endpaper (no other markings); else unmarked with some cover soil/toning, spine tilt, reading wear and a few minor interior stains.

San Francisco: Department of Pharmacology, University of California Medical Center, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 60 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. The rare first issue of this important journal devoted to psychedelics. Includes a symposium transcript that includes Richard Alpert. Unmarked copy some general reading wear and soil.

San Francisco: Journal 31, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 48pp, printed wrappers. Rare little magazine from 1972, includes 4 pages of thoughts on Bukowski's work (and a reading) by Dan Propper and Ken Dobel. Original price to inside front cover (else unmarked), light wear.

San Francisco: City Lights Books / The CoEvolution Quarterly, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 144pp, printed wrappers. This issue, co-published with The CoEvolution Quarterly (of which this is issue 19), contains a range of writing by Beats and other luminaries (including a letter from Gershon Legman). This is the state with the CoEvolution Quarterly cover. Unmarked copy, origional mailing label (to a Friends of the Earth newletter), a little edgewear, toning to paper stock.

Stanford, CA: Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon first issue of this pioneering Sixties journal. Unmarked copy, surface abrasion wear and soil/stains to wrappers.

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes a Malcolm Lowry cover and a lead essay by Richard Hauer Costa on the genesis of Under the Volcano. Also an essay on documentary narrative in Truman Capote and William Manchester. Unmarked copy, light outer wear.

Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 80pp, stapled wrappers. Errata slip laid in. Nice copy of a rare early production of the Artists' Workshop Press, edited by Robin Eichele and featuring the work of a number of authors associated with the Press. Unmarked copy, a bit of reading wear to front cover and early leaves, minor edge spots.

San Francisco: City Lights Books / The CoEvolution Quarterly, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 144pp, printed wrappers. This issue, co-published with The CoEvolution Quarterly (of which this is issue 19), contains a range of writing by Beats and other luminaries (including a letter from Gershon Legman). This is the state with the Journal for the Protection of All Beings cover. Unmarked copy, light toning.

Buffalo, NY: Creative Education Foundation, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 140pp, printed wrappers. Scarce humanities journal from 1967, includes a choice poetry section edited by David Posner, with Charles Olson, John Wieners ("Billie"), Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, translations by Celia and Louis Zukofsky, et al. Unmarked copy, light general wear, spine lightly sunned.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 72pp, stapled wrappers. This issue is devoted to writing and documents relating to the establishment of People's Park in Berkeley in 1969. Unmarked copy, a bit of spotting and soil to covers.

Bowling Green, OH: Ray B. Browne, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 80pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce first issue of this important academic journal. Issue leads with Heroes and Hero-Worship in Nigerian Chapbooks by Bernth Lindfors (22pp, includes bibliography). English Department stamp to front cover (no other markings), light wear.

New York: A.M.D.G. Publishing Co., Inc, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 56pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce Catholic literary magazine executive-edited by Robert Lax, includes the first appearance of Mary Ann by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1961.9; preceding its publication as the introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann in the same year). This rare appearance shows the work in its original context, with illustrations. No markings, a bit of general wear.