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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, surfing, 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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[HIPPIES] YABLONSKY, Lewis. The Hippie Trip. NY: Pegasus, [1968]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. "A firsthand account of the beliefs and behaviors of hippies in America." Prints a glossary of hippie terms and "The Psychedelic Creed." Fine in about fine dust jacket with a touch of fading to spine lettering. SKB-10829
$45
[PHOTOGRAPHY] YAMAMOTO, Masao. Omizuao (Pillow Book). [Tucson]: Nazraeli Press, [2003]. Long accordion-folded sheet printing photos by Yamamoto hand-bound between lacquered wood boards. First edition. Housed in a handsome wooden box. Very fine. JB-12967
$295
YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. Flowers & Bullets. [SF]: City Lights, [1970]. Pamphlet. First edition. Very near fine. JB-9668
$20
YOUNG, Al. Conjugal Visits and Other Poems in Verse and Prose. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1996. Pamphlet. First edition. Signed by the author with a correction to one poem. As new. JB-8899
$35
YOUNG, Al. Straight No Chaser. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1994. Pamphlet. First edition of these poems about jazz. As new. JB-8898
$25
[ROCK] YOUNG, Neil & MAZZEO, James. Greendale. [London]: Sanctuary, [2004]. Square 8vo. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by both Neil Young and Mazzeo. The lyrics to Young's Greendale CD with additional material, including b&w illustrations by James Mazzeo whose color paintings are reproduced in a section at the back. A charming and nicely produced book. As new. SKB-11886
$275
ZABOR, Rafi. The Bear Comes Home. NY: W. W. Norton, [1997]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of the author's excellent first novel. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award. As new. JB-5978
$50
ZINSSER, William (ed.). Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Toni Morrison, Russell Baker, and Annie Dillard are among the contributors. Owner's name, else fine in dust jacket with a touch of soiling. SKB-12372
$7.5
ZIPPIES. Zippie Joy, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1972. n.p.:n.p., [1972]. Tabloid format. The final issue of this publication from the Zippies---a post-Yippie activist group. Prints "The Bomb Hanoi Conspiracy" by Sherman Skrillneck, an ad for a Spring marijuana "smoke-out," an expose on J. Edgar Hoover, plus other counterculture material. TOGETHER WITH a color poster announcing "May Day is Jay Day" for the ninth annual Central Park Smoke-In and Parade, 1976. Very good plus to near fine (poster somewhat worn but thoroughly presentable). SKB-13359
$60
ZUKOFSKY, Louis. "A" 1-12. [Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1959. Hardbound, lacking the glassine dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Zukofsky to fellow poet, Gilbert Sorrentino: "To Gilbert Sorrentino / all he wishes / Louis Zukofsky / April 26/60." Near fine with errata slip tipped in back. A superb association copy of the first hardbound printing of the "A" sequence. SKB-8519
$550
ZUKOFSKY, Louis. "A" 1-12. [Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1959. Hardbound, lacking the glassine dust jacket. First edition. This copy bears the ownership signature of poet Cid Corman, the publisher of this book. Errata slip laid in. Some foxing to endpapers, pages toned as usual, few small smudges to back board, else near fine. A nice association. SKB-12586
$300
[GREENWICH VILLAGE] ZWEIBACK, A. Martin. ''Me, Natalie.'' NY: Popular Library, [1969]. First paperback edition. Coming-of-age story about an 18-year old woman who moves to Greenwich Village. Faint, tiny ink stamp front cover, else near fine. SKB-1189
$10
[ART] ZWEITE, Armin. The Blue Rider in the Lenbachhaus Munich. [Munich]: Prestel, [1989]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated with works by Klee, Kandinsky, Macke, et al. Very fine. SKB-12706
$65

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