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

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

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