Search Results: Authors starting with L from Skyline Books

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, [1972].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Rabid anti-hippie tract discussing "new hippie goals: incest and child molesting," "American hippies---drug-crazed Mansons or gentle flower children?," "the hippie church where where couples copulate on a giant cross," and more. Very fine, crisp copy.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [1978].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip. Errata slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of minute rubbed spots to front panel.

LA: Ultima Books, 1969.. First edition of this trade Paperback Original. A "case study of a girl's climax-to-climax search in a freaked-out nightmare of drugs and perversion!" Unlike most titles in the genre, this erotic hippie exploitation "study" has the distinction of having 5 full-page, b&w psychedelic photos of naked hippies frolicking and engaging in sexual activities. Photos of naked hippies are also featured on the front and back covers. Includes a glossary of drug and counterculture terms. Slight lean to spine that has a couple of faint creases (but binding tight), minor wear, very good plus. A rare book that we have not seen before in 35 years of specializing in this kind of material, and the first time we've seen a book of this type illustrated with creative, atmospheric photographs. Not included in the excellent guidebook "Sin-A-Rama: Sleeze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties" and OCLC only turns up three copies.

[Portland]: Nazraeli Press, [2009].. 16mo. Hardbound, issued without dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies with an original print signed by Lake tipped-in. As new.

SF: City Lights Books, [1986].. Softbound. First edition. As new.

NY: Basic Pamphlets, 1964.. Pamphlet. First edition. Small stain to back cover, else near fine.

NY: Basic Pamphlets, 1964.. Pamphlet. First edition. Basic Pamphlet No. 17. Near fine.

n.p.: Kepler's, 1994.. Broadside printing the first appearance of this essay. Issued by Kepler's Books as a 1994 New Year's Greeting. Fine.

n.p.: n.p., 1994.. Small broadside printing an excerpt from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. First edition. Issued as a keepsake by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. Printed at Okeanos Press. Fine.

New Haven: Yale School of Drama, 1974.. A periodical from the Yale drama department. Prints six short plays by Polish avant-garde playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz, and more. Fine.

NY: Simon and Schuster, [1971].. First paperback edition. The "most up-to-date, comprehensive guide available to the language of a whole new American subculture." Landy was a clinical psychologist who controversially treated Beach Boy, Brian Wilson and started to inappropriately take control of Brian's music business affairs until he was ultimately fired and the state of California revoked his license. Fine.

[Paris: Indifferences, 1983].. Printed folder with loose sheets laid in printing texts by Laporte. Also laid in are seven lovely original prints by Rene Bonargent. First edition. One of 127 numbered copies published as part of the "indifferences" series. Some foxing to white folder, contents fine. (French text.)

Denver: Band Box Records, no date [ca. 1960].. 45rpm record in picture sleeve. Absolutely terrific, ridiculous, and really well executed use of full-on beatnik lingo to tell a couple of humorous tall tales---over jazz background by the Saints. Probably the best beatnik lingo spiel ever recorded. Near mint record in very good plus sleeve with a bit of rubbing. Scarce.

France: Galerie Manu Timoneda, 1997.. Pamphlet with fold-out covers. First edition. Exhibition catalog illustrated with photographs. French text. Fine.

n.p.:n.p., [1938].. Shows the intertwined bodies of two fish-like mermaid creatures in white against a brown background. Issued in the French art magazine XXe Siecle No. 4, Christmas 1938, but here offered separately. Fine in its original state with the edges untrimmed and the publisher's staple holes to left edge (12.5" x 9.75").

Canada: Harcourt House Arts Centre, 2005.. Square 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Illustrated with Le Blanc's sports-themed photographs. Published to coincide with an exhibition. Very fine.

Berkeley: Psychological Consultation Services, ca. 1956.. 4to. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. First edition. A form created by Leary for use in interpersonal diagnosis of personality. Reproduces one large Interpersonal Diagnostic Circle that Leary devised for measuring characteristics of personality (also prints eight smaller circles). One of Leary's early contributions to personality studies that led to his appointment at Harvard. When he was incarcerated many years later Leary was required to take tests based on ones that he originally created. Fine.

NY: Psychedelicatessen, ca. 1967.. Seven advertisements neatly excised from various underground newspapers in NYC in the late '60s. The Psychedelicatessen was one of the very first head shops in the United States, following closely on the heels of The Psychedelic Shop in the Haight-Ashbury. Located in the East Village not far from Ed Sander's Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fillmore East, and Tompkins Square Park, they were perfectly located to be the preeminent purveyor of drug acourtements for NYC's hippies. They were the subject of constant police harassment due to their suspected involvement with the LSD trade. The Psychedelicatessen flourished for about two years from 1966-1968 until eventually the police busted them for selling huge quantities of LSD. A batch of evanescent material no longer possible to assemble---how many people preciently and meticulously cut each ad for the Psychedelicatessen that they saw? Some of the ads mention the availability of their now much-sought-after silk-screened… Read More

NY: Psychedelicatessen, ca. 1967.. 4to. Folder featuring a silk-screened, psychedelic, Day-Glo cover design. Inside the folder are 7 sheets of paper printed on both sides in various colors featuring psychedelic art advertising their products, along with an order form with an elaborate ornamental border. The Psychedelicatessen was the first headshop in NYC, and one of the first in the country following closely on the heels of The Psychedelic Shop in the Haight-Ashbury. Located in the East Village not far from Ed Sander's Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fillmore East, and Tompkins Square Park, they were perfectly located to be the preeminent purveyor of drug accoutrements and hip publications, and a hang-out for the NYC counterculture. From the beginning their presence reverberated through the undergroud community with a photo-illustrated spread in OZ magazine, and they even made it into the mainstream media when they were written up in Time magazine. Also at the outset, they were the subject of… Read More

[NY: Riverhead Books, 1999].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Lee. Fine.