Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987 (October, no. 42). Many illustrations. 210 pp. The scarce hardbound edition in publisher's black cloth. 22.7 x 17.5 cm. No dustjacket, as issued. Fine. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press (dist.), 1995. Profusely illustrated in color. 111 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.5 x 21 cm. Tiny bump bottom corner; otherwise fine. ISBN 0-295-97504-0. More
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art / New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Warmly inscribed on the half-title by Baldessari, to his longtime friend and fellow artist, Richard Allen Morris: "For Richard — a large fan! John." He meant these compliments, and Richard fully deserved them. Profusely illustrated (part color). 256 pp..... More
Tochigi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, 1982. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated, but [176] pp. according to OCLC (the World Catalogue). Black paper covers. 29.8 x 20.9 cm. An extensive study of a calligrapher on a heroic scale. Only 3 copies in OCLC. Top corner bumped. **Free domestic shipping with direct..... More
Roma: [the artist?], ca. 1960. The covers are an original, signed color aquatint approx. 13 x 19 inches, This is copy no. 4 of what appear to be 200 copies. Warmly inscribed 9.60 to Joshua Taylor. 4 abstract compositions reproduced in black and white. [12] interior pp. Duchamp's poem is..... More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art [LAICA], 1978; also San Francisco Institute of Art, 1978. 10 plates. [24] pp. White paper covers. 18 x 17.5 cm. "Each of these artists is well-known in his/her country of origin, but outside a small circle of "in the know" American artists, their work..... More
Tokyo Ishibashi Foundation, 1996. 2 volumes in slipcase: one-quarter grey leather & dark brown cloth with gold stamping and textured white dustjackets. 28 x 24.9 cm. Vol. 1: 187 plates (156 in color and printed on rectos only, one of these a doublespread gatefold). [Approx. 377] pp. Vol. 2: 714..... More
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Edited and published by Linda Frye Burnham [later Steven Durland]. Los Angeles [nos. 1-44] and Santa Monica [nos. 45-76], 1978-Summer 1997. All issues original, most as new; some extremely rare. **Summer 1992, "The violence and the verdict," is an out-of-series issue. Number 23 is an album of 2 LP records..... More
Los Angeles: High Performance, 1979. The very rare, fifth issue of the leading periodical on performance art. Profusely illustrated. 62 pp., including a gatefold. Decorated paper covers. 27.7 x 21.5 cm. The covers feature Chris Burden's "Studio Tour" and "Bed Piece." Pages 2-15 are devoted to articles by and on..... More
Los Angeles: High Performance, 1978. The very rare, initial issue of the leading periodical on performance art. Profusely illustrated. 48 pp. Decorated paper covers (part color). 27.7 x 21.5 cm. The cover features Suzanne Lacy, "Cinderella in a dragster," at California State College in Dominguez Hills en route from Los..... More
Los Angeles: High Performance, 1978. Profusely illustrated. 68 pp. Paul McCarthy on top of the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, is on the cover. Features on La Mamelle; Darryl Sapien, by Moira Roth; and Paul McCarthy. Two pages each on Rachel Rosenthal, Richard Newton, Gina Pane, Leslie Lobowitz, Martha Rosler, Cheri..... More
Los Angeles: High Performance, 1978. Profusely illustrated. 52 pp. Hermann Nitsch's "Orgies Mysteries Theatre" on cover. Features: "Kipper Kids," by Jim Moisan; "Hermann Nitsch," bv Nancy Buchanan. Artists' Chronicle: Judith Barry, Tom Jenkins,Barbara T. Smith / Suzanne Lacy, Jose Maria Bustos, Richard Newton, Stephen Seemayer, Feminist Art Workers, Gerharad Theewen,Jerry..... More
Oceanside, California, circa 1935. Frank Butler, his wife Helen, and their family must have been generous and thoughtful hosts. He was an actor, director, and writer of more than sixty screenplays. When they moved to the house at 33 St. Malo Beach, an exclusive enclave of Oceanside, California, their home..... More
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. First edition. xii + 275 pp. Black cloth printed in white and metallic bronze, with dustjacket in archival sleeve. 23.4 cm square. The musical and other writings of a 20th-century master. Endpapers somewhat stained by jacket and by a later price sticker. Jacket damaged..... More
Los Angeles, 1967. BOLDLY SIGNED on cover in silver paint by John Cage. "Cage's thoughts on performance," compiled by Richard Kostelanetz, pp. 20-9. A limited number of copies available. May be slight shelf wear. The signatures on the few remaining copies are smudged;apparently, they were stacked up wet as Cage..... More
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Los Angeles: Aztlan Multiples [print workshop] for United Farm Workers, 1984. One of two dazzling silkscreen posters produced for the exhibition "Australia: nine contemporary artists" at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA). The other was "Organizar." The show was part of the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival. The only..... More
[Boston]: New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown, ©1986. 119 superb duotone plates, plus illustrations and figures in the text. Unpaginated. Light-colored cloth. 27 x 29.8 cm. SIGNED in black ink (not ballpoint) on half-title. Lacks dustjacket. Depicts ancient stone monuments, including cairns, tumuli, circles,and dolmens in the British Isles and Brittany;..... More
Firenze: Electa, 1946. 234 illustrations + [vi] + 110 pp. 30.7 x 24.3 cm. Boards. 8 gatefold pp. contain the indices to the plates and are meant to be folded out for reference while examining the images; two more leaves contain the general index and the colophon. Small stain on..... More
Genève: Droz/Lille: Giard, 1955. Booklet of 58 pp. + 32 loose plates, all in paper folder torn at one edge.About 28 x 19.5 cm. Scholarly treatment. More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Van Riel, 1992. 1100 copies. 71 well-printed and often fantastic plates and illustrations from woodcuts. 217 pp. Dustjacket over stiff card covers. 26 x 18.5 cm. Both the poet and the illustrator are Argentine. The illustrations range from fabricated documents altered with interlinear wriring to magic realism..... More
New York: Bignou Gallery, November 1935. 3 plates. [20] pp. White paper covers.. 28 x 21.6 cm (standard US letter size). This copy "especially printed for Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Barr Jr." Barr was the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art. Top corner and bottom spine of..... More
Paris: Felix Juven, [19--?]. Peintres d'aujourd'hui no. 11. Paper covers. 21 plates (3 doublespread) + [14] pp. (including 14 illustrations). 28 x 22.4 cm. Mark on dark front cover, a couple of tears in cover edges, and some pp. roughly opened. More
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, April 1968. Color cover and IV color plates lithographed by Fernand Mourlot after gouaches + 24 monochrome plates. 44 pp. with descriptions of 28 works. 28.9 x 23 cm. Small nick at top of spine; otherwise, a clean copy with 5 bright lithographs. A shadow..... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1967. "Trapeze artist with bird" (Mourlot 477a), original lithograph cover by Marc Chagall in 9 colors (also see our number 05471). 2 mounted color plates & 2 full-page plates in red or blue + 250 small catalogue illustrations of etchings and lithographs. [68] pp. 21 x...... More
New York: Chalette, 1958. 31 plates & illustrations [33] pp. Dustjacket over card covers. 17.4 x 17.5 cm. **Several copies available. Near fine condition. More
