Based in the Washington D.C. area, Brian Cassidy Bookseller deals broadly in 20th century popular culture and avant garde print materials: books, posters, manuscripts, ephemera, and the like. Specialties include artists' books, literature and poetry, little magazine and the mimeo revolution, punk, outsider and vernacular books, photography, and archival materials. We actively buy books, from single titles to entire libraries.

highlights from catalogue 14:

[Original Typescript of] WRITINGS THROUGH HOWL / FOR A.G. [Allen Ginsberg] ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
[GINSBERG, Allen]. CAGE, John
"through Asia and home to New : January-April 1984.. 4to. Original top-copy typescript. Title page, plus 24pp. SIGNED by Cage on the title sheet. With: autograph note signed (ALS).. more
Price: $15,000.00

[DAVID BOWIE PHOTO ARCHIVE]
[London, etc.]: [ca. 1963-1991]. 52 original black and white photographs, of which six are 8'' x 6'' and the rest 8'' by 10''. Agency.. more
Price: $7,500.00

[Original Flyer for Talking Heads Show at The Ocean Club in Lower Manhattan]
[Talking Heads]
[New York]: np, [1976]. Oblong broadside, 8.5" x 11". Offset printed. One corner chipped. Faintly folded in half. Mild wear. Very good or better... more
Price: $1,000.00

BEATITUDE #8 (August 15, 1959)
[Beat Literature]: [Mimeo Revolution]
San Francisco: Bread and Wine Mission, 1959. 4to. Side-stapled pictorial wraps. Mimeographed rectos only. Very good. Minor wear. Terminal leaf loose from top staple. Else sound and.. more
Price: $750.00

[Original Mourning Card ("Carte de deuil") from Mallarme's Funeral]
[MALLARM…, StÈphane]
[Paris]: [September, 1898]. 4" x 5" approx. card, letterpress printed on recto, with black borders on both recto and verso, the latter otherwise.. more
Price: $2,000.00

FEUERFUNKCHEN: Zeichnungen und Verse von Roland [Cover Title - Original Manuscript Children's Book with Original Illustrations]
"ROLAND" (Writer, Illustrator)
np [Germany]: [1921]. Large 4to. Charcoal grey paper-covered boards, illustrated with vivid orange fire-demon; grey endpapers stenciled with orange flame-silhouettes. Includes twelve pages.. more
Price: $4,000.00

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