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, 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
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. 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
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
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 vertical crease about half the height of the image. About 115 plates (most in color). 157 pp. Fine in cloth and..... 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
![Artforum, volume XIII [13], number 3, November 1974. Complete with controversial Lynda...](/pictures/thumb/69051.jpg?v=1548035355)
New York: Artforum, 1974. This extremely rare, much-sought-after issue features on its second leaf a transgressive color photograph of the artist Lynda Benglis wearing sunglasses with white frames, a modest earring, a challenging expression, a nice coating of body oil, and a very convincing dildo at least a foot long..... More
New York: Artforum, 1974. This is NOT THE WHOLE ISSUE. IT IS ONLY the much-sought-after color ad featuring the artist Lynda Benglis in a transgressive pose. It is in near-fine condition and will frame well. The all-black left margin has been trimmed about 1.5 cm (3/8-inch), and the piece measures..... More
![Artforum, volume XIII [13], number 3, November 1974. Lynda Benglis issue. Complete, but...](/pictures/thumb/69053.jpg?v=1545185141)
New York: Artforum, 1974. This issue has become vanishingly 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
San Francisco: Artforum, 1963. Cover in red of a ceramic piece by Ken Price. Profusely illustrated (no other color this early). 59 + [8] pp. 27 x 26.6 cm. This very scarce, early issue of Artforum includes features on Peter Voulkos, Ed Kienholz, and Cornelia Runyon, plus an overview of..... More
San Francisco: Artforum, 1964. Color cover of "The Birthday," by Edward Kienholz. Profusely illustrated (including 8 color plates). 91 + [4] pp. 26.9 x 26.6 cm. One of the rarest of all issues of Artforum, in part because of its fragile cover printed on text-weight paper and two even more..... More
New York, 1973. Richly illustrated (part color). 95 pp. 27 x 26.5 cm. The entire issue is devoted to advanced cinema, with articles by Annette Michelson, Sergei Eisenstein(on Mayakovsky), Paul Arthur, Roland Barthes, Phoebe Cohen, Noel Carroll, Rosalind Krauss, Fred Camper, Hollis Frampton, and a Brakhage filmography by Joyce Rheuban..... More
Genève: Ecart, 1974. 500 copies. Tan paper covers printed in black, blue, green, orange, yellow, and red; 6 leaves printed in various colors; bound with one staple near the top of the spine; card paperclipped to inside rear cover. 29.7 x 21 cm. OCLC locates 3 copies. **Free domestic..... More
México, D.F.: Galerias Ramis F. Barquet, 1992. 10 color plates on heavy, coated stock + [16] pp. of text on heavy, gray paper & 2 leaves of drafting vellum, all printed only on rectos. Black covers with titling in metallic silver. 28.3 x 23.4 cm. Text by Robert Knafo. Parallel..... More
Roma: Collezione dell'Obeliscok Carlo Bestetti, Edizioni de;Arte, 1948. 8 splendid mounted color halftone plates and 8 monochrome drawings by Salvador Dali; 6 other monochrome illustrations and decorations; 6 monochrome advertisements by Dali, Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, and others for luxury goods. 36 unnumbered pages. Paper covers decorated with a typically..... More
![Journal. [Alternate title: LAICA Journal.] Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Numbers...](/pictures/thumb/74852.jpg?v=1545185166)
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1974-1987. Complete run, mostly in fine condition, of one of the liveliest and most interesting art periodicals of the 1970s and 1980s. “The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art is a new concept designed to be a catalyst for the support and recognition of..... More
[Los Angeles: the authors, 1974]. A challenge for the cataloguer (and vastly more for the conservator). A drawing of the Hollywood Sign and the above title arranged in a design are printed on a 9 x 12-inch manila envelope. The envelope bears an 8¢ Tom Sawyer stamp but no address..... More
Paris: Charivari, June 12, 1844. Where is Daumier when we need him? In the pages of Le Charivari and other newspapers Daumier portrayed with wit and precision and an unmistakeable style of drawing the foibles and follies of his fellow citizens in lithographs like this one, about 3900 of them..... More
