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Yellow Springs, OH: Oyo Press, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 340 pp. Fine. Softcover in burgundy illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with woodblock prints and sketches by Harlan Hubbard and photos from the collection of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Includes Hubbard bibliography. Slight curl to tips of bottom wrap, else Fine.

New York: Grove Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Softcover. Sextodecimo. 7 x 4.25 inches. 123 pp. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market paperback in original stiff pictorial wrappers. Contains complete text of the improvised dialogue from the film and over 100 b&w photographs, some quite explicit. Light edgewear to wrappers, else Fine. Text block square and tight. Previous owner's signature inked on title page, else free of markings. Scarce in this condition.

The erotic film Blue Movie (originally titled Fuck), written and directed by Andy Warhol, and starring starred Warhol regulars Viva and Louis Walden, depicted explicit sex and helped usher in the "Golden Age of Porn." It was unscripted and improvised. Warhol's intended title for the film was Fuck, consistent with his use of single word titles. However, when, at the first screening, it was found that the second reel had a blue cast due to the use of incorrect film stock, Warhol decided to call the film Blue Movie, a… Read More

Athens, OH: Ohio University, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by authors. Hardcover. Quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. xxvii, 294 pp. Indexed. Fine / Near Fine. Flat signed and dated by authors on bookplate affixed to title page. Brown cloth over board. Gilt stamping to spine. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Back panel of dust jacket has one quarter-inch closed tear to top edge near spine, else Fine. Over 2700 entries of steamboats which shoved river barges transporting bulk commodities from the headwaters of the Ohio River to the jetties of the Mississippi. Dust jacket now in removeable archival cover.

Athens, OH: Ohio University, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. xviii, 620 pp. Indexed. Fine / Near Fine. Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America. Alphabetically listed. Steel blue cloth over board. Gilt stamping to spine. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Front panel of dust jacket has half-inch deep chip to top edge near spine and several small closed tears and creasing along bottom edge. Over 5900 entries, including all types of passenger carriers propelled by steam which plied the waters of the Mississippi System. Dust jacket now in removeable archival cover.