TAYLOR OF SAN FRANCISCO Custom Leather, Body Jewelry Free Piercing, 3-Star Aroma, Leather Repairs, Hot Action Art, Toys For The Playroom [At The Brig]

Original 1978 Illustrated Advertising Poster. (I can't find information on the artist). B&W lithograph on heavy paper, 21" x 14.25". VERY GOOD CONDITION: stiff creases, some age toning to the rear, a handsome piece of San Francisco LGBTQ+ ephemera.

Way before the Folsom Street Fair, Leathermen paraded along the streets of SoMa, mostly after dark. Decked out in black or western leather chaps, vests, jackets, belts, harnesses, and codpieces, all that rigging, kink wear, BDSM restraints and body jewelry were made and sold in the fantasy leather and sex toy shops found in SoMa bars like Taylor of San Francisco at the Brig. South of Market was one of the most extensive and densely occupied Leather neighborhoods in the world.

Joe Taylor ran his leather goods shop at the back of Brig Bar in 1978 and moved to the Ramrod Bar circa 1982. He also ran a custom leather workshop and private dungeon (featured in the "Dungeons of San Francisco" issue of Drummer magazine, #17) on Clementina in SoMa from the late 70s into the mid 80s. In the style of the times, Taylor billed his business as "Taylor of San Francisco" following the gay icon "Tom of Finland." Taylor was a SoMa icon in his own right and his workshop is listed in the SoMa registry of historic places.

ASPEN MAGAZINE No. 8, Fall-Winter [1970-1971]. Edited by Dan Graham, designed by George Maciunas.

NEW YORK: Aspen Communications, 1970.

Contains all items except the Aspen Subscription Form (i.e. 13 of 14 Items).

(1) Folder. Printed with editorial note, table of contents, and brief biographies of contributing artists. Cover painting by Jo Baer. Is item one and encloses the other sections.

(2) In Place of a Lecture. Three Musics for Two Voices. Text by Eleanor Antin and David Antin.

(3) Hot / Cold Book. Book of terms describing similar and opposite physical properties, and hierarchies among them. By Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin.

(4) 1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top. A musical score by Philip Glass.

(5) Phonograph recording. Jackson LacLow / La Monte Young. Side A: Young Turtle Asymmetries by Jackson MacLow, chance-generated poems for five simultaneous readers, explained in item 10. Side B: Drift Study 31 1 69 by La Monte Young, explained in item 7.

(6) Lead Shot, a description of a sculptural project by Richard Serra. Reverse: Pendulum Music, by Steve Reich, a description of an audio study.

(7) Notes on Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations. Notes on oscillating drones, by La Monte Young. Phonograph recording at item 5.

(8) Three Distributions. "People Plan,"schematic drawings; "Lecture on moving," text; and, on the reverse side, "Selection of Slides from 'North East Passing'," photos. By Yvonne Rainer.

(9) Art & Vision: Mach Bands. Essay on physiological rules of perception, by Jo Baer.

(10) Introduction to the Young Turtle Asymmetries. Description of chance-generated poems for simultaneous performance, by Jackson MacLow, with text on five detachable cards. Phonograph recording at item 5.

(11) Ecologic Projects. Including "Cancelled Crop," by Dennis Oppenheim. Reverse: "Los Angeles Project," by Robert Morris; "Forest Project" and "Notes on Ecologic Projects" by Dennis Oppenheim. Descriptions of several large-scale environmental works.

(12) Strata a Geophotographic Fiction. Text by Robert Smithson.

(13) Parking Lot. Cover title: Detail of Surface. From Thirtyfour Parking Lots (1967) by Edward Ruscha.

(14) Aspen subscription form (lacking - not included).

ASPEN MAGAZINE #8 is commonly referred to as the Fluxus Issue because of the involvement of George Maciunas and other artists who were part of the 1960s and 1970s Fluxus art movement.

CONDITION:

The folder is in only FAIR condition, it has toning, offsetting, creases from handling, and a dark spill to the bottom corner of the rear cover that affects the fold-open middle section of the inner recto page and, to a lesser extent, the bottom front corner of the front cover and its verso; nonetheless the folder is solid, with text that is fully legible, and is doing its job.

The 13 loose items in the folder are in VERY GOOD condition, just some toning and light signs of handling to a few items, overall they are bright, clean, clear and unmarked; lovely.

George Mciunas, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young. Enough said!

Thanks to ubu web for its presentation of all the items in Aspen Magazine #8.

BERKELEY FREE CLINIC - COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT.

POSTER, illustrated with Chinese Style Dragon, unmounted, 17x22 inches.

Published by the Berkeley Free Clinic, Berkeley, California, undated, likely early 1970s (1975?).

VERY GOOD condition: Lightly handled, overall bright and clean with NO pinholes, etc. A lovely copy.

The poster will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

About the BERKELEY FREE CLINIC (from Wikipedia):

******The Berkeley Free Clinic is a non-profit community clinic located in Berkeley, California, US. It is operated as a worker-run collective by more than 100 volunteers. It has provided free medical care since opening in 1969.[

The Berkeley Free Clinic was founded in 1969 during the People's Park riots in Berkeley. Two founders were local booksellers Moe Moskowitz of Moe's Books and Fred Cody of Cody's Books. The Berkeley Free Clinic operates as a totally free clinic that relies on donations and government funding. It is run by more than 100 volunteers.Since opening, the Berkeley Free Clinic has provided both medical and dental assistance for all who need it.******

LOVER OF ROBER GRAVES ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN 1927 SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE ANOTHER POEM

A POEM : HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. A Lovely BROADSIDE POEM by LAURA RIDING JACKSON.

SIGNED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON at the end of her poem, beneath her printed name.

Published by [Lord John Press, 1980]. Presentation Copy - Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to numbered copies, making them quite hard to find. Subsequently printed in a limited edition of only 150 numbered copies.

Broadside, printed on fine heavy stock paper, deckled top and bottom edges, 15x22 inches.

NEAR FINE condition, a bright and beautiful copy. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

From the Broadside: "Within a very few years of the publication of my Collected Poems (1938)... I renounced further trying the way of poetry... saying: I would write no more poems - and I wrote no more poems... (however) I wrote for (a close friend), in the 1978 Christmastime, a poem, marked as a poem for him only, giving it the title HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. I kept no copy of this privately written and given poem, and forgot the writing and the giving of it... I chanced, recently, to tell my friend of receiving a request for a poem to publish in broadside form from the Lord John Press, indicating my feeling some surprise that Mr. Yellin, the Press's director, should not have been aware that FOR FORTY YEARS there had been NO NEW POEMS of mine. But my friend reminded me that about a year ago there HAD been a new poem - the one I wrote for him; and he urged me to let him release it to me from its private status of being a poem for him only... I give here the poem, given him, to be out in the world..."

LAURA RIDING JACKSON, 1901-1991, was an iconoclastic American Poet. She left New England at the age of 25 to live with ROBERT GRAVES and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. The triangle did not suit her, and Laura Riding tried to commit suicide in 1927. Thereafter Robert Graves divorced his wife and lived together with Laura Riding in Majorca, France, England and Switzerland, and even went with her when she returned to the United States. They bitterly broke up in 1939. In 1941 Laura Riding Jackson renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and lived quietly with him in Wabasso, Florida, until her death in 1991. In the 60s, 70s and 80s she wrote a number of pieces explaining her reasons for renouncing poetry, but no poetry. This is apparently THE ONLY POEM written by Laura Riding Jackson since 1941.

You can read much more about LAURA RIDING on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

This Large and Lovely BROADSIDE will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

Original Clash Promotional Poster circa 1978. Halftone, printed on paper, issued rolled, 27" x 20" inches.

From a 1978 black & white photograph taken by Pennie Smith during a photo session for the promotion of the band's second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). A Russian propaganda poster was used as the photo's backdrop. GOOD CONDITION: surface creasing and scratches, egdewear, touch of waviness, overall a solid and bright vintage punk poster. Will be sent rolled in sturdy mailing tube. Uncommon.

Formed in London in 1976 The Clash was one of the most successful bands from Punks first wave in the 1970s, early Clash gigs were notoriously violent establishing them as a leading voice of Punk Rock. Clash members were vocalist Joe Strummer, guitarist Mick Jones, bass player Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon.

Artist Pennie Smith (b. 1949) is one of the United Kingdoms most acclaimed rock photographers. She created one of the most iconic Punk Rock photographs ever, the cover image for London Calling by The Clash.

In the 1960s Pan American Airlines produced a series of large format promotional travel posters depicting fabulous shots of iconic destinations with bold red and blue text and airplane icon at the bottom stating "Fly Pan Am To ..."

Vintage 1965 FLY PAN AM TO SPAIN Poster. From an original photograph taken by American advertising photographer and Director of Photography at Pan American Airlines Ewing Krainin (1912-2004). The poster is marked KRAININ©PAA in the plate.

Off-set Color Lithograph, published by [Pan American Airlines], circa 1965, large format 35" x 44", printed on matte paper. VERY GOOD Condition: some edgewear, edge creases and a few tiny edge chips, some small creasing in the bottom margin, and age toning, but overall a bright, clean and uncommon 1965 Pan Am advertising poster. Will be shipped safely rolled in a sturdy tube.A striking vintage poster that would make a powerful statement framed.

Original vintage 1965 FLY PAN AM TO HAWAII Poster. From an original photograph believed to be taken by long time Pan Am staff photographer Chester "Blackie" Kronfeld who died tragically at the age of 49 while on assignment in the horrific American Airlines plane crash that killed 95 people in New York on March 1, 1962.

Off-set Color Lithograph, published by [Pan American Airlines], November, 1965 (as indicated by the printing code 11/65 in the lower right margin), large format 34.5" x 44", printed on matte paper. VERY GOOD Condition: the bottom edge has some wear/creasing and a tiny chip on the lower left corner, and a quarter size touch of light shorelining on the rear of the image that is barely visible in the sky, overall a bright, clean and uncommon 1965 Pan Am advertising poster. Will be shipped safely rolled in a sturdy tube. A striking vintage poster that would make a powerful statement framed.

In the 1960s Pan Am produced a series of large format promotional travel posters depicting fabulous shots of iconic destinations with bold red and blue text and airplane icon at the bottom stating "Fly Pan Am To ..."

Original vintage 1967 FLY PAN AM TO SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A. Poster. From an original photograph believed to be taken by long time Pan Am staff photographer Chester "Blackie" Kronfeld who died tragically at the age of 49 while on assignment in the horrific American Airlines plane crash that killed 95 people in New York on March 1, 1962.

Off-set Color Lithograph, published by [Pan American Airlines], May, 1967 (as indicated by the printing code 5/67 in the lower right margin), large format 34.5" x 44", printed on matte paper. VERY GOOD CONDITION: light age toning, light edgewear, a quarter size old water droplet to the blank backside of the poster that is barely visible in the sky above the Bridge, no rips, tears, holes or chips, overall a bright, clean and uncommon 1967 Pan Am advertising poster. Will be shipped safely rolled in a sturdy tube. A striking vintage poster that would make a powerful statement framed.

In the 1960s Pan Am produced a series of large format promotional travel posters depicting fabulous shots of iconic destinations with bold red and blue text and airplane icon at the bottom stating "Fly Pan Am To ..."

PUBLIC OUTCRY - Broadside Poem by JOYCE CAROL OATES. SIGNED beneath her printed name.

An unusual broadside poem by Oates published in 1976 the year of America's Bicentennial. The work focuses on the triviality of what the press defines as "Outrageous" and the trivial ways in which the press advises its followers to take action. The poem is surrounded by images of newspaper articles, including one that notes the Bicentennial "Color Your Yard Red, White and Blue".

Published by the SLOW LORIS PRESS, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1976. Printed in an edition of only 65 signed and numbered copies, this being copy 60.

The broadside poem is 11x17 inches (28x42.5 cm), and is professionally dry mounted on a 16x22 inch (40x55.5 cm) stiff mounting board. It is thus ready for framing.

VERY GOOD condition, a bit of edgewear to the mounting board, overall solid and nice.

Something about this poem shakes me, it is so relevant to today's world. Please keep at it Joyce.

SHAMROCK OVER IRELAND! from the "Shamrock Song" by Katharine Tynan.

"Made for ALBERT M. BENDER by ANSEL ADAMS / Saint Patrick's Day - March seventeenth nineteen thirty-nine".

Fold-open broadside, folded measures 9.5x12.5 inches oblong, folds open to show two inner panels, the entire sheet can fold open to show all 4 front facing panels, the backside is blank. Folded open the sheet measures 19 x 25 inches.

The broadside was made by ANSEL ADAMS for his friend and patron, ALBERT M. BENDER. Printed by Johnck & Seeger, Printers, San Francisco, as stated on the bottom corner of the rear panel of the folded broadside.

FAIR PLUS condition: there is creasing around the center fold, corners and edges; the rear panel (when folded) has a 1 inch closed tear to the bottom edge where the printer's information is printed; there is light soiling here and there; still a solid and bright copy. The folded broadside came in a plain heavy stock envelope, which remains in good condition.

Rare ANSEL ADAMS / ALBERT M. BENDER item. OCLC notes only six copies held worldwide, including ones at Trinity College Dublin, the National Library of Ireland, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and the Huntington Library.

About ALBERT M. BENDER (from Wikipedia):

******Albert Maurice Bender (born Dublin 1866 died San Francisco 1941) was a German-Irish-American art collector who was one of the leading patrons of the arts in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s. HE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE EARLY CAREER OF ANSEL ADAMS and was one of Diego Rivera's first American patrons. By providing financial assistance to artists, writers, and institutions, he had a significant impact on the cultural development of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

A lover of literature from an early age, Bender began collecting rare books and helped create the Book Club of California in 1912. Inspired by his cousin Anne Bremer, a professional artist, Bender began collecting art,

Bender enjoyed giving things away even more than he liked acquiring them, and he became a prolific donor to Bay Area museums and libraries. Beginning in 1932 he donated 260 pieces of art to the National Museum of Ireland in memory of his mother. He gave important collections of rare books and fine printing to Mills College, Stanford University, the University of California, and the San Francisco Public Library. Stanford University has a Bender Room in its library.

Bender helped launch the career of many artists and photographers, including Ansel Adams. He financed the publication of Adams's first portfolio (Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, 1927) and his first book (Taos Pueblo, with author Mary Hunter Austin, 1930).******

SUPERMARKET Words and Music By LEW WELCH and CHRIS ROBERTS

BROADSIDE, self published 1965, 13" x 9.75", reproduced holograph manuscript music score and chord chart for spoken word, voice and orchestra, printed on thin brown paper.

NEAR FINE CONDITION. This copy is from the personal collection of Donald Allen. Scarce, only one copy held in institutional hands located in the Lew Welch Papers at Special Collections & Archives UC San Diego, which was originally acquired from Donald Allen.

LEW WELCH (1926-1971) prominent Beat and cult figure, one of a handful of poets including Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, who emerged from the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s. Welch was a misfit even among the Beats. He wrote for the hipsters, Beats and beatniks who gathered nightly in San Francisco to listen to jazz, drink cappuccinos and sip red wine. In 1971 he wrote a suicide note that read, "I never could make anything work out right and now I'm betraying my friends." Then, with gun in hand he wandered into the forest surrounding Gary Snyder's home in the Sierra Nevadas, his body has never been found.

DONALD ALLEN (1912-2004) Lew Welch's literary executor, Grove Press editor, publisher, and author of The New American Poetry 1945-1960, the landmark literary anthology that has come to define the canon of early Beat poetry.

EXHIBITION POSTER featuring a RISQUE ROARING 20s PHOTOGRAPH by ALBERT ARTHUR ALLEN. The photograph shows a line of NUDE WOMEN in a stylized pose. The photograph was likely taken in the midst of the Roaring Twenties when Albert Arthur Allen was most active (and at his most scandalous).

Poster, 20x24 inches, mounted onto stiff card backing. Will be mailed flat. Ready to be framed.

Published in 1978. The bottom right corner of the poster states "Copyright 1978 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Titelman". It is presumed this was a poster announcing an upcoming exhibition of Allen's photographs that took place in 1979.

VERY GOOD condition, there is a very light 1x2 inch water stain at the bottom margin, otherwise bright, clean and clear.

This poster is much more uncommon than the "Chorus Line" poster that appears for sale from time to time.

About ALBERT ARTHUR ALLEN (from Wikipedia):

******Albert Arthur Allen, b.1886 d.1962, was an American figure photographer and film director known for nude portraiture.

Allen was born to a wealthy New England family in 1886, and was educated in Boston. At the age of twenty-one, he moved to California and spent years traveling and studying art. In 1916, he opened the Allen Art Studios in Oakland, California. The studio later became known as the Allen Institute of Fine and Applied Art, before it was destroyed by a fire in 1925. The following year, Allen rebuilt the studio and called it the Classic Motion Picture Corporation, a venture that lasted two years before declaring bankruptcy.

A motorcycle accident in 1923 left Allen permanently disabled, but he continued to work. His nude photographs were considered scandalous by American standards during the Roaring Twenties. He was indicted for sending obscene materials through interstate mail, and spent years in litigation.

Little is known about Allen's later life. His first commercial exhibition did not take place until 1979, seventeen years after his death. Allen died in Hayward, California, at the age of 75.******

Original 1982 Exhibition Poster by Beat Collage Artist JESS [Collins].

Published by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, 1983. Featuring the Paste-up titled QUONDAM QUIDDITIES. First edition (edition size unknown) unsigned, un-numbered, color off-set lithograph on paper, 24.5" x 18", machine folded twice for mailing (one vertical and one horizontal fold), JESS Paste-ups 1954 to 1982, Opening May 11 through June 11, 1983 and Gallery Paule Anglim return address printed on the verso. VERY GOOD CONDITION: original large folded sheet, pinhole at center fold, some light creasing from handling, otherwise clean and vibrant, a lovely example of this scarce vintage exhibition poster, it would look great framed.

Painter and Collagist Jess (1923-2004) was a leading light of the San Francisco art scene from the 1950s until his death. One of the most original artists of the second half of the 20th century, his collages evoke comparisons to Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, and Joseph Cornell. He was married to San Francisco Renaissance Poet Robert Duncan for four decades. Jess's work is held many museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the National Gallery of Art.

Will be mailed folded.

JOINT SHOW. Large and Psychedelically Amazing Poster by WES WILSON created for the Joint Show, exhibition that took place at the Moore Gallery, San Francisco, in 1967. The artists in the show were five of the major psychedelic artists of the time, Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, and Rick Griffin.

Brilliantly colored, ink looks and feels fresh and vibrant, large 25x37.5 inches. Published by [NEON ROSE, San Francisco, 1967], later printing with no statement printed along the bottom edge.

NEAR FINE condition, a touch of edge wear, bright and lovely.

The poster has been stored in a rolled state (note the books in the photos holding down the poster's edges to keep it flat). It will be sent in its rolled state in a very sturdy mailing tube.

Nothing says 1967 quite like this poster! Would look great mounted and framed.

POETRY BROADSIDE "32 BEAMS OF LIGHT..." by DAVID MELTZER, with a tipped-on WOODCUT by JAMES HIBBARD.

Published by the Yes! Press in an edition of only 100 copies in 1970, as stated in the colophon at the bottom of the sheet.

The BROADSIDE is SIGNED by DAVID MELTZER above his printed name. The WOODCUT is SIGNED by JIM HIBBARD below the printed image, and hand dated 12/6/70.

The BROADSIDE SHEET, including the tipped-on woodcut, is 9x13 inches. The woodcut is 5.25x5.75 inches and is tipped-on to the upper part of the broadside.

GOOD condition, some creasing to the margins and corners, otherwise solid and bright.

About DAVID MELTZER, Poet (from Wikipedia):

******David Meltzer, b.1937 d.2016, was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer was also a jazz guitarist, Kabbalist scholar, and the author of books of poetry and prose. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as one of the great post WWII San Francisco poets.******

About JAMES HIBBARD, Artist (from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art / Willamette University Museum website):

******Jim Hibbard, b.1936 d.2022, was an important Northwest artist who, after a 30-year career of exhibiting and teaching in Portland, established a new home and studio in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he continued to work productively almost until his death in 2022. The HFMA will have an retrospective of his artworks from Mexico and his earlier Portland years titled: Jim Hibbard: Back in View. The exhibition will run from May 6 - August 12, 2023.******