Scarce photobook by American photographer Crawford Barton. Featuring over 50 black-and-white photographs documenting queer joy on the streets of San Francisco in the 1970s, an epicenter of the queer age of innocence. Both participant and voyeur, Barton captures monumental moments, both public (parades and protests), and intimate (lovers embracing and nudes) together providing a snapshot of the city and its queer community entering a new age of celebration.

Condition: Very Good+, light edgewear; light rubbing to covers.
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Printed in an edition of only 2,000 copies, this small monograph presents a collection of work by American graffiti artist Neck Face, known for his humorous and naïve style. Published by KAWS, the American designer celebrated for bridging fine art and pop culture, Neck Face’s work similarly straddles the worlds of fine art and the street, appearing both in galleries and public spaces. Bringing together photographs of works from streets around the world, captured both in progress and in their final form, as well as full-color reproductions of drawings.....
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The Oracle of Southern California, a newspaper based in Los Angeles and a member of the Underground Press Syndicate, was part of a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines from the 1960s. Inspired by the San Francisco Oracle, The Oracle of So. Calif. frequently featured psychedelic art and neo-pagan ideologies, capturing the spirit of the hippie and psychedelic counterculture. Published for only one year (1967–1968), its ninth issue, released in January 1968, covered topics such as Indigenous and Native American ideologies and knowledge, psychedelics, sex, religion, and music. It.....
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A collection of 14 souvenir items from the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, most in full-color, including: • The large (13" x 10") string-bound booklet Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in Natural Colors, with 30 tipped-in plates plus a fold-out "aeroplane view" of the exhibit palaces, and featuring the saturated colors printed from the hand-tinted photographic images of the period. • Colortypes of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (Staplebound, 9" x 6.25", approx. 32 pages) • Panama-Pacific International Exposition: The Beautiful (Staplebound, 8" x 5.75", approx. 32 pages) •.....
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An issue of David Moe's "Love Lights Erotic Art Newspaper" which featured poetry and illustrations against a background of neon printing. Including poems by Jack Hirschman and others, and with an ad on the cover for the "First Annual San Francisco Poetry Festival" in November of 1976.

Condition: Very Good, toning to news print.
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An offprint (an excerpt of a larger publication that has been printed and bound separately usually for promotional purposes) of Jess collages from Vol. 6, No. 4 of Northwest Review, under the title "The Dios Kuroi." Each page bears a black and white collage and one word of the phrase "Once Upon A Time There Were Twin Brothers." A scarce Jess item.

Condition: Fine.
Item #228

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