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[ART: Jean Michel Basquiat] Poster announcing Basquiat's 1988 show at the Vrej Baghoomian Gallery in N.Y.C. Poster for Basquiat's final exhibition featuring a close-up, b&w photo of Basquiat holding a copy of Kerouac's The Subterraneans. Signed by Basquiat who has inscribed it "For Ed." Fine (29" x 20.5"). SKB-13515
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[ART] BEARD, Peter. Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed to writer Lois Wyse with a fabulous double-page ink drawing across both endpapers: "to Lois with the rest of the picture coming soon! the best beach this side of Jamaica Inn! Warmest regs PB." Beard has drawn an elaborate and humorous Hog Ranch scene complete with wild boars and a swimmer evading alligators in the swamp as the sun sets against a distant mountain range. Some foxing to top edge, else near fine (back panel of dj slightly toned). A nice association as Wyse was an accomplished author of more than 60 books---and a lovely presentation, the most substantive drawing we've seen Beard do in a book. $3500. SKB-13930
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Established in 1988, Skyline Books specializes in modern literature, art, and photography, with an emphasis on the Beat Generation, sixties counterculture, Pop Art, student activism, Fluxus, rock music, photography, signed books, Happenings, psychoactive drugs, Pop Culture, Avant-garde art, and more.
You will find a fine selection of rare books and manuscripts by Cormac McCarthy, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Patchen, Hunter S. Thompson, Bruce Weber, William S. Burroughs, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Kenna, Gary Snyder, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, Haruki Murakami, Timothy Leary, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Peter Beard, Dave Eggers, Toni Morrison, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sherman Alexie, Gordon Wasson, Wallace Berman, Joe Brainard, Jim Carroll, Edward Gorey, Bruce Conner, Don DeLillo, Yoko Ono, Robert Frank, Raymond Carver, Keith Haring, Ian Rankin, and Brion Gysin, among many others.
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[ACID TESTS: Ken Kesey] Handbill announcing: ''Can You Pass the Acid Test?'' This handbill was created by the Pranksters when the UCLA Acid Test was cancelled by the university and the venue was changed at the last minute to Carthay Studios in Los Angeles where there was going to be "on location filming of The Acid Test." The Grateful Dead, Rock 'n' Roll Phantom Cabaret Exotica, Hugh Romney, Del Close, Tiny Tim, and The Merry Band of Pranksters and their Psychedelic Symphonette are listed as participants, and people are reminded to "bring your own Toys---Light, Sound, Whatever---and make them work." Some years ago Ken Kesey discovered a small handful (about 5) of these handbills in his barn where they had been hiding for many years. They all had a 3-inch circular dampmark at the top edge, and writing on the back, having been used as scrap paper by Kesey and Mountain Girl (this one has some barely legible writing by Kesey involving space ships and LSD). |
| This hastily created handbill reproduces someone's hand-lettered text so the design is more rudimentary (and perhaps more charming) than some of the more elaborately psychedelic ones, but it's probably the scarcest of all the original Acid Test handbills. Very good. SKB-14041
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THOMPSON, Hunter S. Mistah Leary He Dead. [SF: X-Ray Book Co, 1997]. 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies (of a total edition of 326). Thompson's eulogy for Timothy Leary that was read at Leary's memorial service---published here for the first time. A single, folded sheet sewn into handsome covers handprinted in New Orleans, with a sheet of blotter acid featuring Leary's face affixed to the inside back cover. As new. SKB-4497
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[ART: Andy Warhol & Jean Michel Basquiat] Interview, September 1985. This issue features a full-page b&w photo of Warhol and Basquiat wearing boxing gloves advertising their famous show at the Bruno Bischofberger gallery (a different photo than the one used for the posters). The page is signed by both Warhol and Basquiat in black marker. Fine. Items signed by both artists are exceedingly scarce. SKB-13660
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[ART] WARHOL, Andy. Poster reproducing Warhol's silk-screen image of Greta Garbo. This poster was created for a 1981 show in Hannover, Germany at the Kestner-Gesellschaft gallery. Warhol's image of Garbo's face is from a famous close-up photograph of her wearing elaborate earrings and a headdress. Signed by Warhol beneath the image. Very fine. SKB-14175
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| [ART] WARHOL, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B & Back Again). [NY]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. Hardbound in dust jacket. Later printing. Presentation copy inscribed by Warhol in the year of publication to columnist Sheila Graham with a full-page drawing of a Campbell's Soup can: "To Shiela [sic] Graham / with affection / Andy Warhol / Palm Beach 1975." Graham was one of the leading Hollywood gossip columnists of her day and she gave plenty of ink to Warhol over the years. She was also the exact kind of celebrity monger and Hollywood insider that one easily imagines Warhol must have felt an affinity for. Her notorious affair with F. Scott Fitzgerald was documented in her autobiographical Beloved Infidel that was made into a film of the same name. A particularly nice, entirely full-page drawing with the can labeled "Campbell's Soup" and "Chicken Soup." Some faint dampmarking to the spine cloth, couple of words in ink to margin of one page, else very good plus to near fine. A superb association copy linking two prominent people who, despite their own notoriety, were fascinated with the rich and famous. SKB-14230
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[ROCK] HARRISON, George. I, Me Mine. [Guildford, Surrey]: Genesis, 1980. 4to. Bound in half-leather with guitar illustration gilt-stamped to boards, edges gilt. First edition. Reproduces in facsimile the lyrics of 83 of Harrison's compositions together with his explanation of the story behind each song. Illustrated with photographs. Limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by George Harrison. A handsome production sumptuously printed in 28 colors. Fine in publisher's buckram-covered slipcase. SKB-12369
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[ ART: Jean Michel Basquiat] Large card announcing a 1986 show at the Akira Ikeda Gallery in Tokyo. Prints a color reproduction of an untitled painting by Basquiat. Boldy signed by Basquiat who has inscribed it "For Anders 86." Tastefully matted and framed under glass. Fine (10" x 7" framed to 12.5" x 9.5"). SKB-13517
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[ART: Andy Warhol] Mammoth, double-sided b&w poster announcing Warhol's 1982 photography exhibition at the Moderna Museet. One side features Warhol's photo of Bianca Jagger shaving her arm pit, the other a shot of Halston posing with fake nipples and lips. Signed by Warhol (on the preferred Bianca side). Fine (39.5" x 27.5"). We have seen only a couple of signed copies of this poster. SKB-13514
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[ART] GYSIN, Brion. Original untitled painting. Oil on canvas-covered board, ca. 1957. A desert landscape of brown sand and rock outcroppings with a bright blue sky and two Bedouins walking in the right foreground. Signed "Brion" in the corner. One of Gysin's series of desert paintings that he did early in his visit to Morocco. Gysin's desert paintings appear in the first section of Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age accompanied by Gregory Corso's essay "On Gysin's Desert Paintings" where he states that: "Gysin's desert paintings are pure magic." This painting has significant provenance having been a gift from Gysin to John Starr Cooke and his wife Mary. The Cookes befriended Gysin during their travels to Morocco where they invested in his famous 1001 Nights restaurant. They invited him to join them at their home in Algeria where Gysin spent 1955-56---a period during which he attended the birth of their son from whom we obtained this painting.
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Interestingly, John Starr Cooke went on to be a central figure in the sixties counterculture where he headed the Psychedlic Rangers, participated in early LSD experiments with Leary and others, and dispatched Michael Bowen to San Francisco to organize the Human Be-In (see Acid Dreams by Martin Lee). The painting measures 9" x 6" framed to 13" x 16" (few small chips to the original frame). Gysin works of this vintage are scarce. SKB 12899
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[ART] LaVIGNE, Robert. Original oil painting titled "Painting.'' A colorful fantasy scene utilizing shades of orange, blue, brown and red. LaVigne was one of the original Beats in the Bay Area where he exhibited at the Batman Gallery and attended the Six Gallery reading. He was Peter Orlovsky's lover before Ginsberg saw Peter for the first time in LaVigne's full-length nude portrait of him. For the last 30 years Robert has been a Seattle artist who exhibits regularly and whose works are part of major institutional collections including the Smithsonian and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. He's illustrated books and broadsides by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and many others, and was also the recipient of several prestigious awards for set design. A very pleasing example of LaVigne's work---titled, signed in full, and dated 1978/1979 on the verso. Fine (approx. 18" x 16"). Shipping at cost. SKB-12589
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