The queen of Crow Castle: a ballad for Jess Collins
[San Francisco]: White Rabbit Press, 1958. Covers & six drawings by Jess. [16] pp. Sewn paper covers. 21.6 x 16.4 cm. Covers darkened at spine; near fine. More
[San Francisco]: White Rabbit Press, 1958. Covers & six drawings by Jess. [16] pp. Sewn paper covers. 21.6 x 16.4 cm. Covers darkened at spine; near fine. More
Paris: Eds. de la Chronique es lettres françaises, 1973. Reprint of periodical, nos. 1-53/54, Jan 1916-Dec 1919, complete. Illustrated. xiii + 505 pp. Green cloth with gilt titling on spine and front cover. 27 x 21.5 cm. An important early modernist magazine with contributors such as Giillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon..... More
Segura, Spain: Casa de Cultura, 1992. Almost entirely illustrations of entries to this global Mail Art exhibition. 36 pp. Decorated paper covers. 21.5 x 15.9 cm. The final three pages contain the names and addresses of 97 artists from 18 countries. Not located in OCLC. **Free domestic shipping with direct..... More
Bruxelles, 1957. Original lithograph covers in black and red by Karel Appel. The first of 3 issues published between 1957 and 1960. 35 Cobra and other artists and writers, including Alechinsky, Baj, Corneille, Messagier, Scanavino, two D'Haeses, two Pomodoros, Dylan Thomas, and Dotremont. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 24..... More
New York: Artforum, 1971. This issue of Artforum, with its five startling photographs and chilling cover by Diane Arbus, established her as a force to be reckoned with. "… [H]er singular, often shocking portraits emerged among the most iconic and modern images of the 1960s." She "famously wrote in 1971..... More
Paris: Galerie Rive Gauche, 1959. 9 plates & illustrations (4 in color, 1 of these a double-spread of wallpaper with a die-cut black-and-white composition inserted inside it). [20] pp. Color wallpaper covers. 21.4 x 17.5 cm. A delightful exhibition catalogue in fine condition. Only 2 copies located in OCLC (The..... More
Milano: Edizioni Toselli, 1972. 1500 copies. 9 color plates. [24] pp. White paper covers.. 29.6 x 20.9 cm. Light wear and a nearly invisible skinned area near the bottom front corner. Some faint foxing on the front cover. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order. More
New York, NY: Finch College Museum / Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1973. Many ills. in text (5 color). 78 pp. Stiff card covers decorated in b/w. Dark red plastic comb binding. 27.8 x 21 cm. From Futurism to Concrete Poetry and beyond, this must have been a wonderful show. From..... More
[Los Angeles?]: the artist, 1972. Autobiography as artist's book. Profusely illustrated (including credited photos by Jerry McMillen, Ed Ruscha, Ken Murakami, and others). 121 pp. Pale-gray paper covers. 21.6 x 15.6 cm. Spine slightly tanned; otherwise fine. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Los Angeles: Margo Leavin, 1971. Serigraph in yellow and orange blending into violet. Dazzling. 28 x 21 in. / 71. x 53.5 cm. Never folded, but some soft lateral creases. Near fine. More
Larkspur, California: the artist,1959. 350 handmade copies. Printed folder 18.8 x 12.3 cm closed, with a printed pocket inside the rear cover containing 18 (i.e., 21) printed poems and visual works, ranging in size from 9.9 x 9 cm to 16.3 x 9.3 cm and 12 x 12.5 cm. There..... More
Paris: La Belle Edition, 1909. Deluxe edition on Arches paper with deckle edges untrimmed. Illustrations in text by Bonnard, Iribe, Segonzac, Whistler, and others. XLVI + [2] pp. Decorated wrappers. 21 x 21.4 cm. Black ribbon to mark pages attached to head of spine. Texts by the editors, Sacha Guitry..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1971. This is a multiple printed by photo-offset in gray on stiff, white, die-cut drawing stock. 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..... More
Roma: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, Anno XX [1942]. Orange paper covers. with red printing and a mounted illustration on the front cover; a list of Poesia publications on the back cover in black. 16 illustrations. 43 pp. Texts by Marinetti, Albano, and Franca Corneli, plus quotations from the world press..... More
San Francisco: Dramatic Review Publishing Company. Covers West Coast theatre and music. 39.5 x 29 cm. **1) Christmas 1900: 56 pp. Edythe Chapman on cover. Features on Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson, Lola Montez, and many others. Rich advertising. **2) Midsummer 1904: 36 pp. Art Nouveau cover by Prentice in purple..... 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
New York: World View Publishers, 1965. Proof. Flat, unfolded & untrimmed in a single sheet of red-orange paper comprising 4 pp. 43.2 x 86.4 cm / 17 x 34 in. Illustrations, plans, projections. Contents, Appendices1-5: 1, Soviet prefabricated building system; 2, Maciunas' prefabricated building system; 3, Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome;..... 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
Printed in England at the Curwen press from the original design by Claud Lovat Fraser. [1920s.]. Two lithographs in eight colors. 30 x 18.8 in. / 76.3 x 47.7 cm. Two posters of matching design, one with a woman, one with a man. Adam & Eve after the Fall? Probably..... More
Genève: Ecart, 1976 (reprint). No. 54 of 100 copies (presumably the reprint). Five stamped and two blank cards in a paper band bearing the title and publication information. 10 x 6 cm. The five cards are stamped with the title and/or a double box with or without an X. Copy..... More
New York: Kent, 1992. 237 photo-montages in black and tints + 12 text illustrations. 523 pp. Bright-red cloth in dustjacket. 28 x 20.2 cm. A complete collection of all of Heartfield's savage visual attacks on Naziism and its fore-runners. Fine, in dustjacket housed in archival Brodart sleeve. ISBN 1-878607-28-6. **Free..... More
United States Food Administration. No. 17. [1918?]. Lithograph in many colors. 29 x 21.1 in. / 73.6 x 53.6 cm. Professionally backed with Japanese tissue. The text appears in a frame surrounded by various kinds of foods. Another version exists with a similar but different text. **Free domestic shipping with..... 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
[New York?]. No ills. White on black cover + 12 leaves printed one side. Bound loosely with one staple at the top edge. Letter size, 28 x 21.7 cm. This ephemeral publication begins with a series of critical questions posed by Ann Stubbs to the critic Donald B. Kuspit, and..... More
Paris: Robert et Lydie Dutrou, 2000. Original cover by Alechinsky (silkscreen?) + 6 plates (2 in color). [31] pp. Stiff paper covers. 35.4 x 27.5 cm. eight 4-page signatures loose in paper covers, as issued. Poems face the plates. Top edge of front cover slightly rough on open end; otherwise..... More