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
La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 2015. 120 numbered copies published 21 January 2015. 11 color plates. 16 pp. Decorated paper covers. 28 x 21 cm. A priced catalogue describing in detail nine original letter pieces by James Lee Byars and five printed pieces, with transcriptions by Ashley Loga of Byars'..... 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
![Flying colors [brochure]. Alexander Calder](/pictures/thumb/04651.jpg?v=1616538304)
[No place]: Braniff Airlines, 1973. A single sheet of coated paper printed in black and colors and folded into 4 pages 28 x 21.6 cm. In 1972, Braniff Airlines commissioned Alexander Calder to create a design for a Douglas DC-8 airliner 147 feet long. They provided Calder with a 6-foot..... More
!["La unidad es la vida; sin ella, no hay vida" [original silkscreen poster]. designers, printers,...](/pictures/thumb/100791.jpg?v=1618443603)
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: 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
Los Angeles, California: Zeitlin & VerBrugge, 1981. 32 ills. [12] pp. Decorated paper covers. 28 x 21.7 cm. 47 detailed catalogue entries. Text by Peter Morse. Catalogue by Claire Williams. Designed and printed by Lynton Kistler. Fine. 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. More
![Chihuly over Venice: Nuutajärvi, Finland: part I, June 1995 [cover title]. Dale. With unique...](/pictures/thumb/05801.jpg?v=1625366883)
Seattle: Portland Press, 1995. Cover signed dramatically by the artist in brilliant red, yellow, and black artists' pigments. First printing. 28 large leaves printed one side on stiff Simpson Coronado White comprise 26 color plates that reproduce photographs of Chihuly's work in wooded and watery settings in Finland, plus 1..... More
Köln: Taschen, 1996. Number HC260/700 of 700 "hors de commerce copies for the use of the artists, the photographer and the publisher" (from the colophon page, on heavier, uncoated paper, tipped in before the half-title). Thousands of plates and illustrations (largely in color), plus documents, plans, and diagrams. 1 colophon..... More
Köln, Los Angeles: Taschen, 2005. Number HC433/800 of 800 "hors de commerce copies for the use of the artists, the photographer and the publisher" (from the colophon page, on heavier, uncoated paper, tipped in before the half-title). Thousands of plates and illustrations (largely in color), plus documents, plans, and diagrams..... More
New York: Abrams, 1990. Inscribed separately by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Thousands of plates and illustrations (largely in color), plus documents, plans, and diagrams. 588 pp. Page siza: 27.2 x 29.3 cm. Gray cloth with gilt titling in dramatically decorated slipcase to match. Slipcase: 28.2 x 30.1 x 5.9 cm. A...... More
New York: George Wittenborn, 1967. 64 pp. of plates (1 in sepia), including 7 gatefolds & 18 double- or triple-spreads + 2 tissue overlays and 24 small illustrations. Unpaginated [148 pp.]. Rough tan cloth covers with lavishly decorated dustjacket in Simplex transparent sleeve. 31.5 x 21.8 cm. Text in parallel..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1971. This is a multiple printed by photo-offset in gray on white, die-cut drawing board. It includes: a mounting board 49.7 x 42.1 cm / 19 x 16-1/2 inches; a highly abstracted version of Mickey Mouse’s head with ears 15.2 cm / 6 inches in diameter..... 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 shipping with direct order. More
Luminy, France: Imprimerie Municipale, Ecole D'Art Et D'Architecture, Luminy, 1972. 20 plates. Unpaginated: [40] pp. Paper covers with b/w illustration. 22.5 x 13 cm. Texts by Gaston Deferre, Jean Goudareau, and Jean-Marie Magnan. The number 251 is stamped neatly inside the front cover, perhaps indicating a small edition. Inscribed: "To..... More
New York: Brooke Alexander Gallery, 1974. Lithographed cover in black on Rives paper, with collaged reproduction of a fragment of a Gauloise cigarette package and seal. 36 illustrations, plus portrait of the great Abstract Expressionist artist on inside back flap. 25.4 x 30.8 cm. The composition on the cover spread..... 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
