Vancouver, B.C.: Talonbooks, December 1972. About 94 plates. Approx. 200 pp. Stiff, white paper covers with titling in light blue. 18.5 x 13 cm. Contains requests from artists for images related to specific subjects, with the artists' addresses. Arakawa wants calendars; Joseph Beuys requests "Everything you ever received from Ken..... More

Berlin: Malik-Verlag, 1923. A single sheet printed one side in black and folded once. 35 x 25 cm. Describes the various original editions of this much-reprinted work: Ausgabe A, B I, B II, C, and D. Light soil and foxing; some wrinkling along the left edge, and a piece about..... More

Hagen: Das Museum, 1949. 48 b/w plates. 68 pp. Paper covers with letterpress monogram in black and orange. 17.7 x 13.5 cm (page size). The first such exhibition was in late 1947. 213 works exhibited by 90 artists, including: Marga Groove, Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, Otto Pankok, Käthe Schmitz-Imhoff, Georg Meistermann, Elisabeth..... More

New York: Artforum 1971. Profusely illustrated (some color). 94 pp. Decorated paper covers. 27 x 26.6 cm. Includes articles on Joyce Wieland, Paul Sharits, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, George Landow, and Warhol by Hollis Frampton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Richard Serra, Joan Jonas, Barbara Rose, Max Kozloff, Stephen Koch, and others..... 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: Collége de Pataphysique, 1957. I never would have imagined our old friend Legman as a likely disciple of Pataphysics, but here is the evidence, with provenance from an unimpeachable source: his widow, Judith Evans Legman, the daughter of Henry and Patricia Evans, two other old friends of even longer..... More

The American Federation of Arts, Barr Building, Washington, D. C., 1947. 22 plates & illustrations. 32 pages. White paper covers with color illustration. 27.3 x 19.8 cm. The jurors were Marcel Duchamp (“Jurors are always apt to be wrong”); Alfred J. Barr, Jr, director of the Museum of Modern Art;..... More

Russia: the artist, 1939. One of a group of 26 Soviet-era etchings and lithographs (plus some duplicates). Off-white paper with dark sepia ink. Image: 23 x 35 cm; paper: 37.7 x 48.5 cm. Very light mark in upper margin. The collection includes work by Vladimir Bogatkin, V. Chernitsyn, Yevgeniya Evenbakh..... More

[Moscow?]: the artist, no date. Mikhail Tarkhanov invented a medium of his own using colored starch to create vivid abstract compositions. He studied at Vkhutemas, the "Russian Bauhaus" that thrived in Moscow between 1920 and 1930. 43 x 31 cm on lightweight paper. This is one of six varied works..... More

Budapest, Hungary: the artist, 1933. An album of 42 brilliant caricatures on stiff white papers, rectos only; interleaved with textured glassine protective sheets. SIGNED by the artist on the final leaf. Bound in a black cloth folder with faded green satin cord, with tassels and beads. 29.5 x 21.2 cm..... 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

Santa Monica, California: Astro Artz, 1990. Profusely illustrated in black & white. 88 pp. Decorated paper cover by Adrian Piper (in color). 28 x 21.7 cm. Contents: "Black and blue: toward an African aesthetic," by E. Ethelbert Miller; "A second heart: racism, identity and the blues aesthetic," by Wanda Coleman;..... More

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