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
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
[San Francisco: Cranium Press]: Maya Quarto Eight, 1970. One of 250 copies (300 total). Inscribed with elaborate mandala-type drawing to Lynne Lonidier and Pauline Oliveros: "for Lynne and Pauline mit luv in San Diego at the Leucadia house May 1970 Robert." [12] pp. on Tovil paper. Brown paper covers with..... More
Published by Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bibliography series number two. ©1986. 207 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 27.7 x 21.5 cm. 2300 entries, many of them with detailed descriptions. "Indexes" (pp. 187-207) cover interviews, books, films, names, and periodicals. Very..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [1963]. 300 copies boldly signed by Ginsberg and La Vigne. Ginsberg's lovely poem about blackberries, apricots, plumbing, watering the flowers, and "an angel thoughtful of my stomach, and my dry and lovelorn tongue." Beautifully printed in letterpress on laid Hamilton Andorra paper 50.8 x 33 cm..... More
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1963. Inscribed: "XII '63 Dick- Obviously this room has a better view. Bob". The writing certainly is Indiana's, and the text probably reflects a little in-joke about their respective galleries. 16 illustrations. 16 pp. Mottled blue paper covers. 27.9 x 21.6 cm. **Free domestic shipping with..... More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art [LAICA], 1983. 3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed "Collaborations" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp. 20. 8 x 15 cm. Yellow paper covers.. 1000 copies. 2) Abhasa, image-bearing light: Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd; a collaboration..... More
California State University, Long Beach, 1981. Profusely illustrated with drawings in black or black and red by Robert Motherwell and photographs by Renate Ponsold, both accompanying quotations from Robinson Jeffers. Includes Jeffers' essay "Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years." 1500 copies. Beautifully produced large, oversquare book in grey paper covers..... More
No place: Far Eastern Ceramic Group/Ann Arbor, Michigan: Braun-Brumfield (printers), 1955. 300 copies. 95 illustrations on 41 plates with descriptive texts on the facing versos + v + 16 pp. Tan buckram with gold titling and illustration of a bird on a twig. 27.9 x 21.3 cm. The last 13..... More
Calgary: Alberta College of Art Library, 1976. 11 plates. [24] pp. Brown paper covers printed in black with a red label applied. 20.3 cm square. Describes 41 works exhibited. Lists of exhibitions. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Paris: Galerie Sonnabend, 1972. Poster. Offset lithograph printed in process blue on white paper. 23.9 x 20 inches / 60.6 x 50.7 cm. Folded in four. Blank verso. Printed address and postage on verso. The image appears to be a collage of corrugated cardboard with an airletter pinned to it..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1968. 6 color plates & price list loose in folder as issued; those contained within a second folder with flaps. The two folders also have 4 photographs of Rauschenberg working at Gemini. Front cover decorated. 16.7 x 24.5 cm. Upper right corner stained throughout. **Free domestic..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1967. 8 separate plates of lithographs (4 in color) + text folder of 4 pp. Decorated portfolio. 23.6 x 17.1 cm. Price list/order form laid in. "Booster" is about 6 x 3 feet and includes a life-size portrait of the artist in the form of a...... More
New York: Robert Lax, 1960. Pax was issued intermittently in 18 issues between 1956 and 1962, with three later ones in 1985. This one is a wonderful satire by Ad Reinhardt, who is paired up with other artists and reconfigures or comments on their statements on art. Samples: Gottlieb and..... More
Los Angeles & New York: Artforum, 1966–1973. 8 issues with articles by Robert Smithson, as follows: **Volume IV [4], number 10, June 1966. "Entropy and the new monuments." **Volume V [5] Number 10, Summer 1967. "Towards the development of an air terminal site." **Volume VI [6], number 2, October 1967..... More
Bedford Village and Mount Kisco, New York: Tyler Graphics, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1997. Each of these prints is a spectacular piece of work reproducing the much larger originals in small size. The four Albers pieces are not reproductions in the dictionary sense of "copies," normally in another medium. They are..... More
New York: 589 Washington Street, April 8–May 18, 1976 (postmark). Sponsored by Dia Art Foundation. Poster. Color offset lithograph printed on two sides of lightly coated paper. 31 x 24 inches / 78.5 x 60.9 cm. Folded in eight. The images on the color front are a sliced-open orange above..... More
