“in this thicket, each smallest branch, plant, fern, root --- must now be isolated, observed, picked over, measured, raised as though a word, an accuracy were a pincer!” -Charles Olson

Little Village Detroit Summer Market

Saturday, June 21st, 11am-5pm, we’ll be selling some great books on the grounds of The Shepherd.

Join us, along with some other incredible, hand picked vendors, including Black Art Library, I. M. Weiss Gallery, Louis Buhl & Co., Progressive Art Street Studio Collective, Pewabic Pottery, Riverwards Detroit, Roses’s Fine Foods, and Signal Return, for food, produce, art, ceramics, and more.

Newly opened Father Forgive Me and Warda Patisserie will also be on the grounds for all your drinking and eating needs.

On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing, edited by Joel Weishaus On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing, edited by Joel Weishaus
On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing, edited by Joel Weishaus
$40.00

City Lights, 1971. Paperback, 128 pp., illus. Some minor wear to wraps. Near fine overall.

Awesome anthology of a great range of poets who congregated around Bolinas, California in the early 70s. Creeley, Kryger, Clark, Bergeson, and more. Except from Bill Brown's A Scenario. Killer cover photo and design from Steven Lazar. Frontispiee drawing by Arthur Okamura.

And we love paper detritus left in books, but this index card letterhead stamped REVIEW COPY is tops.

Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole and Bronwen Douglas (Reaktion Books, 2005). A glimpse into the controversial stories and cross-cultural encounters that lie beneath the blood on a sailor's bo
We're so EXCITED to be a part of this market! Join us along with an amazing roster of vendors at @theshepherddetroit on Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm Vendors include: @blackartlibrary , @imweiss_gallery , @louisbuhl , @progressiveartstudiocollect
Random art, design, music, essays, things that changed the world. Things that should change the world. #waxpoetics #musicbooks #artbooks
More books in boxes. Cookbooks: classic, new, old, UNMENTIONABLE. #cookbooks #rarecookbooks #bakingbooks #unmentionablecuisine
Getting ready for an exciting announcement this week. Packing up some favorites, new and old. #usedbooks #favoritebooks #greatreadsgreatprices
Underworld: Sites of Concealment, Peter Seidel, photographs, Manfred Sack and Klaus Klemp, texts (Hennessey + Ingalls, 1993). Super cool photo book (the only one we know of by Seidel) of places you're not allowed, or that almost no one sees. Crypts,
Bruce Onobrakpeya: Nigeria's Master Printmaker, introduction by Wendy Lawrence (Best of Africa, 1980; second printing). One of the few volumes showcasing his work (we first learned of it from the great illustrations to Chinua Achebe's No Longer At E
The Bicycle in Life Love War and Literature, Seamus McGonagle (A.S. Barnes and Company, 1969) An informative and whimsical romp through the history of the bicycle. Symbol of freedom in literature, take one to your next tryst! Taking a bicycle to war
The Other Side of the Moon: The World of Adolf Wolfli, edited by Elsa Longhauser (Philadelphia: The Goldie Paley Gallery, 1988). So much talk of Wolfli is either biographical or about the immensity of his output (those two things are hard to ignore
Making Victorian Kinetic Toys by Philip and Caroline Freeman Sayer (Taplinger Publishing Group, 1977). We definitely had Kaleidoscopes, Tops, and Zoetropes when we were young, but can’t recall a Praxinoscope (a vast improvement on the Zoetrope
The Craftsman Builder by Art Boericke & Barry Shapiro (Simon and Schuster, 1977). Wood, stone, mud, adobe, cement, scrap metal, tile. Whatever is of use can be used with learning and agility. Boericke & Shapiro's beautiful photo essay on hom
Madeline Gins, Helen Keller or Arakawa (Burning Books with East-West Cultural Studies, 1994). A monster of a work by the incredibly deft thinker/theorist Gins. Speculative fiction/art theory/sexuality/critical theory, it's all in there in ways that
Continuity and Control: The Dynamics of Sacred and Secular Art of Northeast New Guinea (J. Camp Associates, 1978). The traditional music of New Guinea has long fascinated us (the 6 volume series of LPs on Musicaphon and the 2 volume David Toop recor
Middlewest Magazine, No. 1 Spring. David Tamarkin, ed. Chicago, 2013. 10 recipes on card stock and title cardstock along with folding literary supplement in a cardboard sleeve with tie enclosure. Some minor staining to the envelope. Internals are fi
Celebration with Anais Nin, edited by Valerie Harms; Designed by Adele Aldridge (Magic Circle Press, 1973). A meeting at the _legendary_ Gotham Book Mart Gallery leads to a weekend of convergence leads to this document. Painters, sculptors, friends,
The Editors of Rodale Press, 20 Basics of Self-Sufficiency (Rodale Press, 1982). Third Printing. Got plans for Earth Day? Here are some plans--make your chimney more efficient, getting started with wind power, modular storage bins for root crops, br