Search Results: Bohemia from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Minneapolis: Bascom Hill Publishing Group, 2010. Promotional materials only. Ten leaves, most double-sided, each enclosed in a clear sleeve, in plastic binder featuring a repro of the cover illustration; fine copies, accompanied by (laid in) the author's bread-&-butter cover letter signed in holograph. Teen longs to escape his racist, phobic Chicago surroundings; tangential anarchist notions, and content-less gay material; the protagonist gradually decides he "may" be gay, this a sub-plot.

n.p.: Self-published by the author, 2000. Paperback. 48p., numerous unskilled sketch illustrations, poetry that is quite skillful, softbound first edition in 9x6 inch color-pictorial wraps. Author portrait, back cover, is a surreal painting: Niambi has four eyes (no, not spectacles). Front cover serves as title page, copyright page the first printed leaf. As new, nearly: sound, clean and unmarked.

Brooklyn: Verso, 2014. Paperback. xii, 228 pages, very good paperback. History of the counterculture told in comix format.

Santa Fe NM: Kapala Press [www.dpress.net], 2013. Paperback. 124, xxvi, 175p., softbound facsimile of an amateur artist's sketchbook, b&w with some reproductions in colors, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch color wraps. A little crudely bound: wrapper is fractionally too small for textblock, a color section protrudes but seems not at risk (i.e., it is not a "started" signature), there are small signs of handling (a positive omen), a good to very good copy. One finds sketches of Tibetan deities, living Tibetan Buddhists (some from life, some from postcards &c, figures from European Renaissance art, friends and self in religious garb, hippie stuff, a profusion of beginner's work. There is a section of captions and credits to which one can refer. The dedication page thanks his daughter for turning him on to Betty Edwards' Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain. An institutional notice laid in states the item was a donation provided by Richard Denner, poet and publisher (his usual dba is 'dPress'), and implies… Read More

Zagreb: The Bridge, 1997. 132p., an elegant little paperbound in glossy 7.5x4 inch decorated wraps; mass-market size but trade-paper production qualities. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good to fine copy. The Bridge Collection, classical and contemporary Croatian Writers 3/1997. "Most/The Bridge, A Journal of Croatian Literature ..is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and by the municipal funds of the City of Zagreb

Paris: Poulain-Le Fur, 2001. Paperback. 86p., 558 listings, scattered b&w illustrations; softbound in 11.5x8 inch decorated wraps. This copy is perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Books and related items somewhat spiced with avant garde associations; item 8 belonged to Erik Satie.

Paris: Poulain-Le Fur, 2001. Paperback. 86p., 558 listings, scattered b&w illustrations; softbound in 11.5x8 inch decorated wraps. This copy is clean and unmarked but externally a bit worn from handling, with a large deep corner crease to front cover. Books and related items somewhat spiced with avant garde associations; item 8 belonged to Erik Satie.

no city, USA: An HSS Publication" [sic], 2012. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, typical zine production (standard leaves copyshopped and folded into 8.5x5.5 inch stapled untrimmed. A very good exemplar with a wraparound punk-ish photo for cover. Guaranteed to be scarce, as the "distro [distribution] on this zine is like...fifty". Misery and joy in the youth undergrounds of a number of cities (San Diego! Santa Fe [because author couldn't spell Albuquerque] ! San Frisco! NYC! Brooklyn!). A terminal note (hard-to-read reproduction from holograph), suggests item was written in NYC, because he's leaving it, but can "always be reached" in Leucadia CA, w/ street address.

Zagreb: Most/The Bridge & Forest Books, 1991. Paperback. 244p., illustrated with numerous scattered period photos/images in b&w, an elegant little trade-paperbound in glossy 7.5x5 inch decorated wraps. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Most/The Bridge / Forest Books, Croatian Literature Series vol. 4.

Prague: Jan Stenc, 1924. Three pages of text followed by fifty black and white photo plates showing pottery and necklaces unearthed in Bohemia, including one in situ with a human skeleton. Hardcover, lightly rubbed boards, rubberstamp on flyleaf indicating previous ownership by Harvard's George Grant MacCurdy, additional author's presentation rubberstamp on title page.

Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson, 1996. Paperback. 82p., 5.5x8 inch paperback wraps with dust jacket present, dust jacket slightly shelfworn, publisher's insert inlaid, else in very good condition. Reprint of the 1901 7th edition of the work, with added material, edited by Stray. Printed in Reading, UK.

Sainte-Amand (Cher): DTV Compact Livre (Le Dernier Terrain Vague), 1989. Paperback. 101p., small book (6x4 inches) printed large font, a slightly disorienting feature, softbound in glowing scarlet cardstock titled white, and enclosed in a nice little dust jacket that bears the sole and only illustration. Card covers are mildly edgeworn and jacket is somewhat abraded along all fold-lines ... sound in every other respect, and within is entirely clean and unmarked. Note on a dust jacket flap lists authors besides Prudon that DTV has published, these include, to wit, Kathy Acker and Charles Bukowski.

Albuquerque: Kumquat Press, 1985. Paperback. xii, 124p., main text reproduced from typescript, illustrated with a few snapshots (portrait and site), softbound in 8x5.5 inch wraps, nice copy inscribed and signed by Bowen with, laid in, a facsimile letter repro'd from holograph by Bowen (as "Fran"), two sides, recto a message to friends re Norman's very recent death, verso, two of Norm's last compositions (his typed versions).

[New York]: Floyd Dell, 1926. Broadside, 17x11 inches, decorated with a nicely-done expresionist street-scene measuring 5.5x3 inches (uncredited); neatly creased horizontally and vertically folding to 5.5x8.5 inches else very good condition; signed in the plate with a reproduction of Dell's signature. Poem about life & loves while living on Christopher Street. Ballad number one.