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 are located in downtown Silver Spring MD and welcome visitors by appointment. We actively buy books, from single titles to entire libraries.

highlights from catalogue 14:

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

[Complete Collection of Powell's Books INDIESPENSIBLE Series]
[Contemporary Literature]: [Bookselling]
[Portland and Various]: (2008-2018, and counting. The collection is in generally fine condition. Complete with all inserts, booklets, ephemera, etc. Lacking only perishables (which were eaten.. more
Price: $9,750.00

ART CASH [Complete Set]
RAUSCHENBERG, Robert; Andy Warhol; Tom Gormley, Red Grooms; Marisol; Robert Whitman
New York: Experiments in Art and Technology, 1971. Complete set of six artist-designed bills, approximately 6'' by 2.75''. Bills in irregular denominations of $1, $3, $12, $24, $51,.. more
Price: $1,250.00

[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

[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

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