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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **New York: The Letter Edged in Black Press, ©1968. Stiff, decorated paper covers. with pockets on each side, 27.5 x 18 cm., containing multiples loose as issued by 11 artists. The first of six issues of this spectacular artists' periodical edited by William Copley. Contents, all loose as issued : Su Braden, "Project for a bridge"; James Byars, "Black dress"; Christo, "Store front"; Walter de Maria, "Chicago projecct"; Richard Hamilton, "A postal card—for Mother"; Julien Levy, "Pharmaceuticals"; Kasper König "My counting 'tis of thee" West Germany 1968 (4 views); Sol Mednick, "Photograph—Hottentot apron"; Irving Petlin, cover, "Little book of earthquake and cotton"; Nanch Reitkopf, "Luggage labels"; La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, "Two propositions in black." Also includes the table of contents set up like a small, fancy menu, 2 copies of a descriptive flyer, and a subscription card with return envelope. The colored empty capsules that accompany Julien Levy's piece are somewhat damaged, as usual; otherwise, fine.
S.M.S. No. 1, February 1968
Copley, William N., editor
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Fischer's imaginative cover for this publication is a sealed vinyl sandwich with internal spaces in the shapes of fingers and semi-circles. The resulting, partly continuous void contains pink sand that can be shifted into different shapes by tilting and shaking the periodical. Supplementary material is laid in. Most of the issue consists of an article on 34 artists working in plastics, among them Arman, César, Dubuffet, and Saint-Phalle. Profusely illustrated in color, including one 3-panel gatefold. 36 pp. 30.7 x 23 cm. Fine.
Hygiène de l'art. In Petroleprogrès: revue trimestrielle. Printemps 1972. No. 91.
Fischer, Hervé. Esso Standard
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **London: Art for All, "First published 1976." No. 675 of 2000 copies signed by the artists in red pencil. Printed on stiff paper. [128] plates. 2 blank leaves + [viii] pp. + 128 numbered leaves + [2] leaves. Mottled red and black cloth stamped in gold. 19 x 12.2 cm. Each plate faces its accompanying text on the verso of the preceding numbered page. Chapter 3, "Broken hearts," depicts watercolors; the rest are photographs related in mysterious ways to their texts. Laid in: card announcing a reception for this book at Sonnabend Gallery, New York, April 27, 1977, signed, "With love for 1947 Antonio and Ileana and Ealan" (i.e., Antonio Homem, the Sonnabends' adopted son and present director of the gallery; Ileana Sonnabend; and Ms. Ealan Wingate, the director in 1977). Very slightly cocked; a shadow of pale, sparse foxing along the edges; neat owner's name on flyleaf. A crisp copy.
Dark shadow: Gilbert & George the sculptors 1974.
Gilbert & George
Price: $750.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[Halifax]: Technical University of Nova Scotia, [1985?]. [42] pp. 30 plates, each with several images. Decorated paper covers. in white plastic comb binding. 21.5 x 35.4 cm. (oversquare). Lists 240 artists with their addresses, including John Held, Jr., and Banana Productions. About 203 pieces are illustrated. A small edition.
International mail/copier art exhibition: Arts & Technology Festival '85
Jackson, Sarah, and Barron, Douglas E., eds.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **New York: Roaring Fork Press, 1965-1971 (numbers 8 & 10 published by Aspen Communications). 10 .5volumes. This imaginative publication includes work by and about Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Samuel Beckett, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and Gary Snyder, among many, many others. Each issue comes in a box or envelope containing many parts. There are 11 sound recordings and a reel of film in the set. It includes both the very rare 6A and its even rarer progenitor, Manipulations (NY: Judson Publications, 1967; 500 copies). Both consist of loose sheets in envelopes designed by Ralph Ortiz. Manipulations contains 12 colorful sections from the "12 Evenings of Manipulations" at the Judson Church Gallery printed on legal-size mimeograph paper folded in half (each section has a varied number of pages), and all but the Kaprow (as issued) contain an offset photographic image from the performance plus objects and other supplementary material. Participants include Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Kate Millet, and Nam June Paik. The interim issue No. 6A printed only the unillustrated program notes. Condition: all pieces present except as noted: No. 1, 1965 -- The black box; near fine, with two light creases in the cover of the box and a split on the front edge; a skinned spot (black) on the front of the box. No. 2, 1966 -- The white box; some wear to box and light soil; cover joint cracked. No. 3, December 1966 -- Pop Art issue with light cover wear and one small tear in front edge of box. No. 4, Spring 1967 -- the McLuhan issue; spine joints cracked 1 cm at top & 1 break in the usual place in the front edge of the box; a few light spots. Nos. 5+6. Fall-Winter 1967 -- Minimalism issue; complete except for Aspen renewal form; light wear to box. No. 6A, 1968/69 -- fine contents in expertly mended envelope. Manipulations, 1966 -- fine contents in expertly mended envelope. No. 7, Spring-Summer 1968/70 -- The British issue; complete in 14 parts (not 15, per table of contents); lightweight folded box deformed as usual, with repairs and tears at the ends of the cover hinge; in original mailing wrapper to Wittenborn; a few short tears and a crease at the left edge of the flap. No. 8, Fall-Winter 1970-1971 -- Art/Information/Science issue. No. 9, Winter-Spring, 1970 -- "Dream Weapon" psychedelic issue; lacks subscription form; fold rubbed and top end of fold torn. No. 10, 1971 -- the Asia issue; incomplete copy with 7 of 15 items; no case; this atypical issue devoted to classic Japanese screen paintings and other similar works has little connection with the prior issues. For a (nearly) complete list with pictures of the contents of all issues, please visit http://www.ubu.com and click on "Aspen." A marked set of these sheets accompanies each issue.
Aspen: the magazine in a box. Numbers 1-9, including the rare 6A and the rarer Manipulations. Also contains a partial copy of number 10, the Asian issue. Edited by Phyllis Johnson
Johnson, Phyllis
Price: $12,000.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1970 (2nd printing). 11 brilliant color plates & 5 color illustrations. [36] pp. Black paper covers.. 55.5 x 35.5 cm. First published in 1957, this 2nd printing appeared in 1000 copies. A fine copy.
The lapis
Pereira, I Rice
Price: $85.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1971. 21.7 x 29.6 cm (oversquare). 39 pp. White decorated paper covers hole-punched and bound with brass fasteners. Starting with its dramatic death's-head cover, this interesting museum publication qualifies as far more than just another catalogue. Light wear. Only 7 copies in OCLC.
Nekropolis
Regild, Christen
Price: $350.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[Los Angeles? The artist? 1969?]. Artist's book, SIGNED. 23 photographs of scenes and settings around L.A. [29 leaves, including front and rear blanks.] White cover with white plastic spiral binding. 15.9 x 20.5 cm. As new.
23 pieces. SIGNED
Ruppersberg, Allen
Price: $400.00
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **[L.A.? The artist? 1970?] Artist's book, INSCRIBED. 600 copies. 24 photographs juxtapose sterile hotel rooms in Los Angeles with messier indoor and oudoor scenes, e.g., a hilltop path overhung by a tree marked X, an action painting of Heinz ketchup on a white tablecloth, a deposit of 2 or 3 dozen empty bottles amid other detritus. The statement reads: "Note: the newspaper shown in one of the 'pieces' is only a marginal statement and is not meant as any kind of blanket over-simplification for the entire book. | A Ruppersberg." At least one other known copy bears a similar holograph text, so it was important to the artist. [28 leaves.] White cover with white plastic spiral binding. 15.9 x 20.5 cm. Small stickers on the front and inside cover plus two shadows of stickers on the front cover; corners of front cover turned; ink drawing, probably by another hand, on lower right corner of rear cover; some dents and scrapes on the glossy paper. Cover title and name underlined. Spot on rear cover.
24 pieces
Ruppersberg, Allen
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Cullompton, Devon, UK: Beau Geste Press, [ca. 1974]. A very small edition in the artist's handmade mailer postmarked 22 November 1974. An early artist's book by this remarkable woman associated with the Fluxus movement. 18 pp. doubled and bound Japanese-style precede 3 small booklets at the rear, bound one above the other. In the top rank one 8-page booklet precedes a second 22-page booklet; both are 12 x about 8.5 cm. The lower rank consists of 16 small, white envelopes blind-stamped with designs; 8 x about 8.5 cm. The brown paper covers have four white labels shaped like footprints with a floral decoration printed over them in brown. Inside the covers and elsewhere are several applied bits of decorated paper and pasteboard. Drawings printed in black appear throughout the main section—domestic scenes, especially cows. The two upper booklets at the rear are drawings printed in black and brown. Housed in a card slipcase covered with dark-red rice paper illustrated with drawings that appear to be printed in batik. Book measurement 20.2 x 15.3 cm. The mailing wrapper is made of hand-colored paper with hand-cut labels of brown paper applied to front and back. Very fine.
To my friends
Saito, Takako
Price: $1,000.00
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **[Kingston, NY? the artist, 1990s?] A copy of S.D. Conte's Elementary Numerical Analysis: an Algorithmic Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill, ©1965) has been carved by the artist Robert Thé into the shape of a Luger-like semi-automatic pistol. The unaltered spine forms the top of the breech and barrel, and most of the open part of the book has been removed to form a barrel, grip, and trigger guard; the last is drilled irregularly to create the illusion of a trigger. 23.4 x 15.7 x 2 cm (maximum width). Dark red cloth with gilt titling on a grey background. A copy of the original book accompanies this artist's book. They provide an interesting surprise shelved together. In his essay "The beauty of second use" (The best American essays 2008, edited by Adam Gopnik. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), Jonathan Lethem writes about receiving as a gift "a copy of my own first novel, Gun, with occasional music [1994], expertly cut into the contours of a pistol. The object was the work of Robert The, an artist whose specialty is the reincarnation of everyday materials…. The gun-book wasn't readable, exactly, but I couldn't take offense at… this appropriated object conveyed back to me—the strange beauty of its second use…. [T]he world makes room for both my novel and Robert The's gun-book. There's no need to choose between the two." Light wear at the head and tail of the gun-book backstrip. A previous owner has written his name, Minneapolis address and telephone number, and a collection number in ink on the flyleaf of the unaltered copy.
[Altered book in the shape of a gun.]
Thé, Robert (artist, b. 1961). Conte, S.D.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Santa Monica: Surroundings, [1971-1972?]. 20 picture postcards in printed envelope show hedges and shaped shrubs in unidentified locations. The oversquare cards are 11.7 x 15.6 cm and printed in dark green. The envelope is 13.2 x 18.3 cm. This anonymous publication, a parody of certain conceptual art, was the work of Guy Williams with photographs by Marcy Goodwin.
Relational aspects of topiary structures in residential Los Angeles
[Williams, Guy; Goodwin, Marcy.]
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