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

Osaka: Cho-shun-kaku zohin tenran zuroku Kankoi, second printing, 1938 (the first was 1936). More than 500 items illustrated on more than 300 plates and illustrations (plate & illustration counts may vary depending on criteria used; V&A and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, describe 309 plates & illustrations, of which 33 are in color..... More

Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1970 [for Pasadena Art Museum]. The regular edition of this catalogue to the exhibition organized by Coplans at the Pasadena Art Museum has become scarce but still is relatively available. That cover is a standard black-and-white head shot of Warhol staring dully into the..... More

NY: Heiner Friedrich, ©1970. Second edition. (The original edition was 1963.) Various inserts, mounted items, etc. About 136 pp., printed on several colors of paper. Wrs. 22.8 x 20.5 cm (oversquare). A seminal work, with contributions by George Brecht, John Cage, Ray Johnson, Jackson MacLow, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik..... More

[Los Angeles: the artist], 1965 [1970]. American distributor: Wittenborn and Company (sticker inside rear cover). Second edition. 3000 copies (following 700 copies printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles). Ruscha's 3rd book. White paper covers with title in light green. 34 black-and-white illustrations on [44] pp. 17.9 x 14.1..... More

Artspace: Albuquerque, NM, 1990. Cover by Ed Ruscha, with article by Dave Hickey, "Ed Ruscha: the song of the giant egress" (pp. 28-31). Profusely illustrated. 68 pp. 27.6 x 21.4 cm. Other articles on Paul Schimmel, Linda Ridgway, Connie Hatch, Elliott Norquist, Michael McMillen, Hans Burkhardt, Constance De Jong, Judie..... More

Tokyo: Meiji-Shobo, [1941, per OCLC]. 220/300 copies, distributed for sale, signed by the author and with his red chop mark. The publisher distributed fifty more as gifts. 50 examples mounted on loose sheets of handmade, laid paper with deckle edges, as issued; plus booklet of 11 single leaves bound loosely..... More

Santa Barbara [California] Museum of Art, 1979. 10 printed photos by Denise Simon from the original performance, premiered Feb, 22, 23, 1979, at The Kitchen, NYC. 14 pp. staple-bound with stiff, purple paper covers. 30.5 x 22.9 cm. The script for the full-length ballet, also performed in Santa Barbara, Oct.6..... More

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius Books, 2009. Original, abstract drawing in black and red marker on otherwise nearly blank title page. Signed "EM's 09". The full-size pages are virtually all plates, nearly all in color. 242 pp. White cloth with titling in black on the spine. The heavy, clear jacket..... 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

New York: Louis Carré, 1949. 4 bw plates (including cover; 1 doublespread). Unpaginated [8 pp.]. 23 x 14.3 cm. Decorated paper covers. Stevens writes of Gromaire's work: "[It is] endowed with the strength that comes from participation in life's struggle, things not of the School of Paris, but of some..... More

La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery & Atticus Books, 1982. Signed by Ferlinghetti in his handsome italic writing on the title page. 46 ills. on 12 plates +103 pp. Impeccable descriptions of the first 40 numbers in this revolutionary series that changed so many lives (including, and especially, Ralph Cook's). I...... More

Los Angeles: Dwan Gallery, 1963. 11 b/w plates. [20] pp., incl. tissue at beginning and end. Black coated cover. 27.6 x 21.5 cm. Contains "Franz Kline: calligraphy and information theory," by Jules Langsner, reprinted from Art International, VII:3. March 1963. Small bump at top corner; otherwise fine. Several copies available..... More