New York: Illustrated American Publishing Company, 1894. Profusely illustrated. About 48 pages per part. Decorated paper covers.. 31.4 x 23.4 cm. Covers mostly in color, six by Archie Gunn and one by H.S. Loury. Features on Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Edwin Booth, Helena Modjeska, Lillian Russell, Nellie Melba, and dozens..... 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

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

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

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. 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

La Louvière, Belgium: Daily-Bul, n.d. [2nd edition, 1982?]. 2 plates & 7 pp. of illustrations of mss. [93] pp. on papers of at least 7 different tints—pink, light orange, olive, white, tan, and two shades of light green. Paper covers. made from wallpaper and printed in black. This particular cover..... More