Santa Ana [? Probably Orange], California: Purcell Art Gallery, Chapman College, February 21 - March 16, 1968. Poster. Offset lithograph in black on thin, metallic silver paper. 43 x 55.9 cm / 16.9 x 22 in. Verso blank. Folded in four. A two-man show, curated by artist Harold Gregor, then..... More
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 [printer], [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..... More
New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, First edition, 1982. 127 plates & illustrations (16 in color). 144 pp. (the first 32 on yellow paper). Wire spiral binding with fluorescent pink card stock folded and bound at the open edges. 23.2 cm square. Two small flaws on the front cover (see scan)..... 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
New York: Castelli-Sonnabend, 1974. Poster, printed in Duotone on wove paper. This transgressive and iconic photograph of a bare-chested Morris clad only in a stormtrooper's helmet, dark glasses, a spiked steel neckband, steel wristbands, and heavy steel chains elicited an even more startling response from his former collaborator, Lynda Benglis..... 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
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
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
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,1924. 500 copies. Describes 126 pieces with small, accompanying photographs. xlviii + 92 pp. Orange-tan yapped.paper covers with raised gilt title on front cover and spine. 21.5 x 31.5 cm. Overlapping covers chipped at top front and other small tears and blemishes; backstrip worn; right..... 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
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1990. 1000 copies. Frontis. portrait + 5 color plates (2 of them double-spread gatefolds). Unpaginated [24 pp. on heavy stock]. Covers browned and rubbed at extremities. Shallow bump at bottom of spine. 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
