Los Angeles, 1967. BOLDLY SIGNED on cover in silver ink 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 were smudged as Cage signed them and they apparently... More
Paris: Cairn, 1979-1981. The issues are well illustrated on coated paper and are between 8 and 24 pp. each. Small tabloid size; about 38.5 x 28.5cm. They feature international performance, conceptual art, video, film, etc. No. 8 is titled "Dossier Canada/Québec, espaces ‘paralleles' et centres video." "Directeur de la publication"... More
![The last plastics show. March 14 – April 15, [1972]. California Institute of the Arts](/pictures/thumb/37901.jpg?v=1545185072)
Valencia, California: California Institute of the Arts, in cooperation with Hastings Plastics Company, 1972. 18 b/w plates. 24 pp. Glossy white paper covers printed in dark blue. 17.8 cm square. The 24 artists featured are Peter Alexander, Richard Amend, Michael Balog, Greg Card, Carole Caroompas, Judy Chicago, Ron Cooper, Ronald... 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. SALE PRICE through 31 December 2019 (was $50). 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
Paris: Atelier Mourlot, 1962. Mourlot 365 ("Frontispiece") and 366 ("The candlestick"). These are two single sheets, not the complete book. Fine. Offered as a pair. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order. More
Paris: Atelier Mourlot, 1960. Original lithograph (Mourlot catalogue 281). This version of the original dust jacket of the first volume of the six-volume catalogue raisonné of Chagall's lithographs was produced as a promotional piece for the Seven Arts Book Club in New York City. Folded, it measures 30.5 x 23.9... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1967. "Trapeze artist with bird" (Mourlot 477a), original lithograph by Marc Chagall in 9 colors. 21 x 11.5 cm. This is only the cover to the catalogue, which is volume number 45 in the Collection Berggruen (see also our number 05472). A very fresh, clean copy... 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
![Très amicalement vôtre: lettres et textes inédits [Tres votre inedits]. Gaston Chaissac](/pictures/thumb/86001.jpg?v=1545185187)
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
Paris: Morel, 1864. 145 wood-engravings in text. xxxv, [1], 620 pages. Contemporary brown half-morocco & marbled boards, marbled edges. 18.9 x 12.1 cm. Minor rubbing at extremities. Handsome binding. **Covers Druidic and Roman monuments, and traces development of French architecture into the 19th-Century. SALE PRICE through 31 December 2019 (was $35). More
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1928. No. 785 of 1,100 numbered copies. No. 10 in series: Arte Moderna Italia. Color frontispiece & 26 b/w plates + 28 pp. Decorated tan paper covers. 16.7 x 12.5 cm. Even the earliest works of his scuola metafisica, from 1910 onwards, foreshadow and define the Surrealist... More
New York: Abrams, 1978. No. 972 of 2159 signed copies with a page-sized piece of the original cloth bound in. Mainly illustrations, including much color, doublespreads, gatefolds, etc. 694 pp. White cloth with silver titling on the spine. 27 x 28.8 cm (oversquare, 10-5/8 x 11-3/8 inches) In cloth and... More
Frankfurt: Typos Verlag, 1964. 17 illustrations on 12 plates + 36 pp. Paper covers.. 21 x 19.5 cm. Bottom front corner bumped. **Calligraphy, experimental writing, and concrete poetry. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order. More
[Tempe, Arizona]: Institute for Studies in the Arts, 1993. Conference publication. Video cassette and 6 volumes in paper portfolio with cloth and Velcro band. about 23 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm (outside dimensions). The booklets are bound with black thread and are between 14 and 27 pages with unpaginated, interleaved... More
San Jose Museum of Art, 1990. 14 collages by Jess. [24] p. Gray paper covers. 25 x 22.9 cm. Essay by John Yau. Fine. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Sarasota, Florida: Ringling Museum of Art, 1984. Inscribed to feminist poet Lyn Lonidier: "Happy days to you, Lyn! with love Jess." Polaroid of Jess in his studio, with a crease about half the height from the distortion of the plastic covering. About 115 plates (most in color). 157 pp. Fine... More
New York: Charles Cowles, 1972-1973. This bound volume contains all the year's exceptional issues. Some highlights: September 1972 (11:1) Rosenquist, Matisse, Lissitzky. October (11:2) Oldenburg, Smithson, Larry Bell. November (11:3) di Suvero, photography, Smithson, Pollock Hesse, Man Ray. December (11:4) Bochner, Schlemmer, performance, Man Ray. January 1973 (11:5) film issue... More
San Francisco, 1964. In 1963, when Ed Ruscha published Twentysix Gasoline Stations, his first book, he sent two copies to the U.S. Copyright Office, one to establish copyright, the other destined for the collection of the Library of Congress. Great! Recognition for the young artist. As you might imagine, LC... More
![Artforum, volume XIII [13], number 3, November 1974. LACKS the controversial Lynda Benglis...](/pictures/thumb/69052.jpg?v=1545185140)
New York: Artforum, 1974. This issue has become extremely rare, due to a much-sought-after color ad featuring the artist Lynda Benglis in a transgressive pose. The issue also contains articles that may be of interest to other people. In addition to a 6-page article on Ms Benglis, other subjects are... More
