Search Results: Titles starting with L from Skyline Books

4to.. Handbill, printed in black on yellow stock, for this early event from the burgeoning LA hip scene, taking place the same month LSD became illegal and preceding the famous riots on Sunset Strip. The featured performer was seven-year-old soul singer Little Gary Ferguson, and among the other performers were The Mugwumgs soon to be renamed The Mamas & the Papas. However, the most intriguing attraction was "The world-famous artist and sculptor VITO with his wife, his child and his entire entourage of dancers and freakers." Vito Paulekas was a noted bohemian and bizarre character in the LA hippie scene who was the leader of a band of "freaks" who lived a semi-communal lifestyle and engaged in "sex orgies and free-form dancing whenever they could." Their dancing at various clubs often overshadowed the main performers. He rented a rehearsal space to Arthur Lee and Love, as well as the Byrds, and he and his troupe (some of of whom became The GTO's a.k.a. Girls Together Outrageously) accompanied the… Read More

[Portland]: Nazraeli, [2012].. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 100 signed numbered copies with an original 11" x 14" signed numbered print laid in. Originally issued as part of the set Six by Six: Set Three but here offered separately. As new.

Geneva: Skira, 1985.. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with slight toning to the edges. Housed in publisher's cardstock slipcase. (French text.)

n.p.: Bailey Films, 1967.. 16mm educational color film about LSD. Running time 18 minutes. Narrated by Sal Mineo (who also sings the song that plays over the credits!). Includes an interview with Sidney Cohen and others who declare how LSD can lead to suicide or insanity, a history of how LSD was invented, and the obligatory reenactments of LSD trips with amateurish acting and visual effects. An anti-drug classic released the year after LSD was made illegal. Film plays through nicely although there is a red tint throughout. Stored in the original metal canister with printed label (torn).

No place: Nightstand, [1967].. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Reckless Desire Ruled Their Shame Cult!" Cover illustration of an artist painting a naked woman as another man lurks in the background. Fine. Rare. No copies on OCLC.

NY: Wiley-Interscience, [1972].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. An investigation of how altered states of consciousness affect personality functions, and what personality factors give rise to negative LSD reactions. One corner slightly bumped, some barely perceptible rippling to page edges, else fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with a touch of sunning to spine.

NY: Award Books, [1967].. First edition of this Paperback Original. "The astonishing benefits available through the proper use of LSD..." Preface by Humphry Osmond. Introduction by Duncan Blewett. Afterword by Stanley Krippner. Spine lettering somewhat faded, else very good or better.

Paris: Silvestre, 1892.. 4to. Softbound (no cloth issued). First edition. Photographs of a theatrical production, a pantomime, presented one time only by Mariani at Le Theatre Angelo Mariani in 1892. The photos depict scenes of a male and female mime enjoying the pleasures of Mariani's coca wine. Angelo Mariani formulated his cocaine-based beverage in 1871 while working at a drugstore in Paris. A few years later this elixir of wine and coca leaves that would cure all ills and "make the weak strong" became wildly popular especially after Mariani used his exceptional skills as a saleman and promoter to garner endorsements from Thomas Edison, President McKinley, Jules Verne, Sandra Bernhardt, Pope Leo X11, Robert Louis Stephenson, and even Queen Victoria! Mariani published several volumes of cocaine testimonials, postcards advertising his product, commissioned fashionable posters from famed Belle Epoque designer Jules Cheret, and even produced this stage show extolling it's virtues. Shortly… Read More

[Portland]: Nazraeli, [2015].. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 100 signed numbered copies with an original 11" x 14" signed numbered print laid in. Originally issued as part of the set Six by Six: Set Five but here offered separately. As new.

[Tucson]: Nazraeli, 2002.. 4to. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards with a photographic plate affixed to the front cover. First edition. One of only 50 numbered copies signed by Weifenbach. As new.

[Portland]: Nazraeli, [2008].. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 50 copies signed by Shibata with a signed, numbered, original color photograph (there were five different prints to choose from, this is photo #1). As new in publisher's clamshell box.

[Portland]: Nazraeli, [2008].. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 50 copies signed by Shibata with a signed, numbered, original color photograph (there were five different prints to choose from, this is photo #5). As new in publisher's clamshell box.

Dublin: New Island Books, [1995].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, with a small broadside limited to 150 signed copies laid in. A book of poems by the author of Resurrection Man. As new.

Honolulu: Privately Published by the photographer, ca. 1910.. Gurrey is most famous as "the grandfather of surf photography" due to his legendary 1914 "The Surf Riders of Hawaii," the first ever book on surfing that he handmade copies of between 1912 and 1914. The book featured 8 small gelatin silver prints that documented the surf scene in Waikiki, and included the first shots of Duke Kahanamoku surfing. There are only 8 copies of this book in existance and when they surface at auction they sell in the $30,000. range. However, in 1910 Gurrey published another book, "The Idyls of Hawaii," that focused on the unspoiled, tropical paradise that was Hawaii. This photo shows a large palm tree and the ocean in the foreground with the palm-lined beach going off into the distance where we see mountains whose peaks are topped by a layer of clouds. In 1909 Gurrey opened an art gallery in Honolulu that primarily featured his photographs---noteworthy because photography was beyond the purview of most… Read More

[Montana]: Montana Historical Society Press, [1988].. Thick 8vo. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Massive collection of writings about Montana, with contributions by Tom McGuane, Richard Ford, James Welch, Wallace Stegner, Ivan Doig, Dashiel Hammett, and many, many others. Minor bump to two corners of boards, else fine. A book that, because of its bulk, is difficult in nice condition.

[Montana]: Montana Historical Society Press, [1988].. Thick 8vo. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. This copy is signed by the following contributors: William Kittredge, Annick Smith (twice), Paul Zarzyski, Ivan Doig, James Crumley, William Lang, James Welch, Rick DeMarinis, Mary Clearman Blew, Peter Bowen, Greg Keeler, Ed Lahey, Richard Ford, Debra Earling, and William Bevis. Massive collection of writings about Montana, with contributions by Tom McGuane, Richard Ford, James Welch, Wallace Stegner, Ivan Doig, Dashiel Hammett, and many, many others. Fine. A book which, because of its bulk, is difficult in nice condition, especially signed by this many.

[NY]: Aperture, [1991].. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of Sturges' first book. Essay by Jayne Anne Phillips. Very fine.

NY: Knopf, 1996.. Softbound. Advance reading copy of the first American edition, signed by the author. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize. As new in publisher's slipcase and shrink-wrap.

[London]: Picador, [1992].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize. As new.

LA: Stephen Cohen Gallery, 2004.. Oblong, small 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Introduction by Glen Helfand. Laid into this copy are 4 original color prints by Snelling. (These 8" x 10" prints are samples of larger prints offered by the gallery.) Features Snelling's color photos of her scale models photographed against real-life backgrounds that they blend into seamlessly. Book very good plus, prints as new.