Bruxelles: L'Association pour la Diffusion Artistique et Culturelle (A.D.A.C.), 1956-1966. 20 issues (all published). 16 issues in 5 volumes with covers bound in; nos. 11, 12, 13 & 18 in original stiff card covers. Profusely illustrated (part color). 20.4 x 26 cm. Dark-blue library buckram & card covers. One of..... More

Fischer's imaginative cover for this corporate publication is a multiple consisting of a sealed vinyl sandwich with internal spaces in the shapes of fingers and semi-circles. The resulting, partly continuous void contains pink sand that shifts into different shapes when the periodical is tilted or shaken. Supplementary material is laid..... More

Lavishly illustrated with glorious fin-de-siècle covers in color. Identified cover artists are W. Granville Smith (1893), William Martin Johnson (1894), M. de Lipman (1895), H.S. Loury (1897), F. Richard Anderson (1898), Ernest Haskell (1899 & 1900), Sewell Collins (1901 & 1904), H.L.V. Parkhurst (1902), Hamilton King (1903), John Cecil Clay..... More

[Wiesbaden, Germany? Manufacturer unknown, circa 1990?]. A stamped aluminum license plate 11.4 x 47.2 cm (oversquare). Jerome and Diane Rothenberg bought this in Wiesbaden, Germany, around 1990, thinking it a multiple, but I have found no trace of another like it. Wiesbaden, where George Maciunas was living in the early..... More

[Milano?]: Alice Editions, 1974. No. 327 of 1750 copies. Original lithograph frontispiece by Max Ernst + 24 color plates. [68] pp. Dustjacket over stiff, black card covers. 28 x 35 cm (oversquare). OCLC states the place of publication variously as Milan, Paris, New York, and Woodbury, NY. The book was..... More

New York, October 1942. Series 2, no. 3, October 1942: Vertigo issue. Orange covers with red drawing by Hanani Meller. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 32 pp. Paper covers. 26.3 x 18.4 cm. Drawings by Kurt Seligmann, Pavel Tchelitchew, and André Masson. Texts by Roger Caillois, Parker Tyler, Nicolas..... More

Paris: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1905. 7 hors-texte plates (3 in fine gravure on stiff paper) + 82 pp. (including 30 illustrations. Brown library buckram (but not ex-library). 29.8 x 21.4 cm. In series: Les artistes de tous les temps. serie B. — moyen age et renaissance. "Catalogue..... More

La Jolla, CA: A Carrefour Book published by Laurence McGilvery, 1987. A small edition. 391 pp. (the ms. is paginated 1-365, with some irregularities). Black library buckram. 27.8 x 21 cm (letter size). Index. ISBN 0-910938-91-1. In as-new condition. Fraenkel spent much of the latter 1920s and the 1930s in..... More

Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. One of 150 copies SIGNED by Sam Francis and Michael Taylor (total edition 1150 copies). Original lithograph cover by Sam Francis over boards. [141] pp. 24 x 12.5 cm. Mylar dustjacket printed in red with title on spine and copy on flaps. Calligraphy by Walasse..... More

New York: Weyhe Gallery, 1951. Poster. 40.6 x 22.8 cm, folded in 4 to 10.2 x 22.8 cm (oversquare). The verso is an original woodcut printed to the full size of the paper that shows a woman gathering nuts or berries in her skirt. The lower third of the image..... More

Artist's book. Profusely illustrated. Approximately 100 pp. 23.4 x 30.4 cm. (oversquare). Bound at the short edge with staples and capped with a sliding black plastic spine. This inventive and alarming catalogue opens with a sheet of heavy, very flexible clear plastic. A clear, sealed polyvinyl envelope follows. It contains..... More

New York: Second Half Publishing Co., Spring 1958–Spring 1960 & Autumn 1965. Profusely illustrated (part color). Original paper covers. Approximately 29 x 24 cm. One of the relatively few publications of any kind with direct contributions from Abstract Expressionist and New York School artists, including Guston, both de Koonings, Reinhardt..... More

Genève: Ecart, [197-?]. Copy 030 of 278. This evocative "publication" consists of one leaf (pp.109-110) from a pocket French dictionary with a heart die-cut from its center. The entries encompass "cambronne" through "canné." A heart-shaped center from the same book is attached above the opening with a straight pin, but..... More