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![3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed "Collaborations" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp. 20. 8 x 15 cm. Yellow paper covers.. 1000 copies. 2) Abhasa, image-bearing light: Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd; a collaboration. Held at Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 35 illustrations (4 in color). 24 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 21.6 x 21.2 cm. 3) Dark Star [by] Harold Budd. Music from Abhasa: light-bearing image. An installation by Lita Albuquerque [et al.]. (a single-sided 7-inch vinyl LP record; Basheva Music, 1983). All of these are in a clear vinyl envelope about 23 x 22.5 cm (plus flap). "Collaborations" is printed diagonally in red on the front. As new.](/mcgilvery/images/items/120x500/47201.jpg "3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed \"Collaborations\" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp. 20. 8 x 15 cm. Yellow paper covers.. 1000 copies. 2) Abhasa, image-bearing light: Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd; a collaboration. Held at Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 35 illustrations (4 in color). 24 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 21.6 x 21.2 cm. 3) Dark Star [by] Harold Budd. Music from Abhasa: light-bearing image. An installation by Lita Albuquerque [et al.]. (a single-sided 7-inch vinyl LP record; Basheva Music, 1983). All of these are in a clear vinyl envelope about 23 x 22.5 cm (plus flap). \"Collaborations\" is printed diagonally in red on the front. As new.")
Collaborations. Art & Language. PLUS Abhasa: image-bearing light. PLUS Music from Abhasa (LP record)
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd
3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed "Collaborations" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp... more
Price: $150.00
![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.](/mcgilvery/images/items/120x500/31351.jpg "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.
FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **[Kingston, NY? the artist, 1990s?] A copy of S.D. Conte's Elementary Numerical.. more
Price: $500.00
![FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **London: W. & J. Innys, 1718.12 folding engraved plates. Blank & 4 leaves ("Corrigenda" on the final one), pp. 1-382, and one leaf of ads. The name William Hindmon is written on the initial blank. The leaves measure 19.1 x 11.5 cm. Plate I has a professional repair where a trapezoidal piece roughly 3 x 3 cm had been torn off the upper corner with loss of the bracketed text: "Book I. Part I. Pl[ate I]" and "Fig [2]." Plate IV is trimmed too closely at the top, with the loss of the upper part of the title; Plate V is trimmed closely, but with no loss of text. Book I, Part II, Plate III is similar. Book III, Plate I follows p. 82. It had been misfolded, so that the paper was creased along the front edge. A professonial repair has been made to a diagonal tear 3.7 cm long at the top end of the fold, plus a tear of 2 cm along the bottom of the fold with a very small loss of paper, now filled in. On p. 301 there is a very small burned hole, as though someone had decided to test the theory of the burning glass; a couple of other similar marks did not go through the paper. Occasional age toning, plus intermittent foxing and a few small stains. The contemporary calf was rebound some long time ago. Before that, it looks as though an owner used tape to keep the loose spine in place. On the rear cover there are only dark patches; on the front cover the tape lifted a few small pieces of surface; the backstrip shows considerable old skinning. The covers are blind-tooled. From the library of Jacob Bronowski. Altogether, a nicer copy than this description suggests.](/mcgilvery/images/items/120x500/92251.jpg "FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **London: W. & J. Innys, 1718.12 folding engraved plates. Blank & 4 leaves (\"Corrigenda\" on the final one), pp. 1-382, and one leaf of ads. The name William Hindmon is written on the initial blank. The leaves measure 19.1 x 11.5 cm. Plate I has a professional repair where a trapezoidal piece roughly 3 x 3 cm had been torn off the upper corner with loss of the bracketed text: \"Book I. Part I. Pl[ate I]\" and \"Fig [2].\" Plate IV is trimmed too closely at the top, with the loss of the upper part of the title; Plate V is trimmed closely, but with no loss of text. Book I, Part II, Plate III is similar. Book III, Plate I follows p. 82. It had been misfolded, so that the paper was creased along the front edge. A professonial repair has been made to a diagonal tear 3.7 cm long at the top end of the fold, plus a tear of 2 cm along the bottom of the fold with a very small loss of paper, now filled in. On p. 301 there is a very small burned hole, as though someone had decided to test the theory of the burning glass; a couple of other similar marks did not go through the paper. Occasional age toning, plus intermittent foxing and a few small stains. The contemporary calf was rebound some long time ago. Before that, it looks as though an owner used tape to keep the loose spine in place. On the rear cover there are only dark patches; on the front cover the tape lifted a few small pieces of surface; the backstrip shows considerable old skinning. The covers are blind-tooled. From the library of Jacob Bronowski. Altogether, a nicer copy than this description suggests.")
Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections, and colours of light. The second edition, with additions.
Newton, Isaac
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **London: W. & J. Innys, 1718.12 folding engraved plates. Blank & 4 leaves ("Corrigenda".. more
Price: $3,250.00
Claes Oldenburg: the soft screw. Essay by Melinda Wortz, with added comments by the artist
Oldenburg, Claes
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1976. A combined prospectus and catalogue of a.. more
Price: $175.00
