If you're in Japan and are having trouble laying your hands on a first edition of Jack Kerouac's
On The Road
, or Allen Ginsberg's
Howl
, then consider a trip to Cow Books,
www.cowbooks.jp
. Specializing in countercultural works, the Tokyo bookshop is a repository for treasures that will make beatnik bibliophiles weep with happiness. Here's a copy of Daniel Seymour's cult 1971 photography book,
A Loud Song
; there's a surviving
Organic Design in Home Furnishings
, the exquisitely rare catalog that U.S architect Eliot F. Noyes wrote to accompany the highly influential 1941 New York exhibition of the same name....
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