01/23/2026
Recent & pending Bellamy acquisitions include old books on Beckett, Botany, Buddhism & Burroughs with a smattering of Basho, Beowulf & Bowles. For this post I offer 10 titles thinly threaded by their covers’ main color, Red, and perhaps their tones of menace, urgency or dread. (Alas I sold Jung’s RED BOOK recently so can no longer offer it.) Brief descriptions follow. Please inquire as to prices or further titles in the fields described.
Slide 1: Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, Cherry Valley Editions 1980, introduction Allen Ginsberg, SIGNED by Huncke. Laid in obit of Huncke NY Times 9 August, 1966.
Slide 2: Marlene Dumas: Sweet Nothings, Notes & Texts, Amsterdam, Galerie Paul Andreessen, 1988
Slide 3: Jim Morrison: The Bank of America, Zeppelin Publishing Corp, 1975
Slide 4: The San Francisco Earthquake, Vol 1 No 1, Fall Issue 1967, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Kaufman, Solomon, et al.
Slide 5: Peter Schjeldahl: New & Selected Poems, Sun 1978, Cover photo Rudy Burkhardt; Lettering Eileen Myles.
Slide 6: William S. Burroughs: The Retreat Diaries, City Moon 1976, SIGNED by Burroughs and with The Dream of Tibet by Allen Ginsberg.
Slide 7: Bettina l. Knapp: Celine - Man of Hate, Univ. of Alabama 1974 with an intro,.by Jacob K. Javits [!]
Slide 8: Boris-Karl Huysmans: La Bas - Down there, A Study in Satanism, University Books, 1958 (banana added)
Slide 9: Helmut Wilhelm: Change, 8 Lectures on the I Ching, Bollingen/Pantheon 1960
Slide 10: Thomas Dixon, The Clansmen, Grosset & Dunlap, illustrated with Scenes from The Birth of a Nation, 1905
Visit our website for a small selection of available books diamondhollowbooksdotcom
Loads of rare Burroughs & Beckett still unpacked…. #
