NY: Museum of the Surreal and Fantastique, 1982. Contains "An Appreciation," August 1982, and "The Pop Corn Kid," both by William S. Burroughs. 12 pp, 9 full-page b/w plates & 2 illustrations. B/w paper covers. 11 x 8-1/2. Some wear and shallow creasing on cover. Inscribed on cover in bronze... More
San Francisco: John Irwin; Los Angeles & New York: Charles Cowles, 1964-1980. Artforum's most influential period complete in 14 bound volumes and 2 volumes in original covers. 159 issues, some 12,500 pages or so. Fully collated with all covers present and all in fine condition. Vols. 3 & 4 are... More
[New York, NY]: Mother Lode Editions, [1972. Place & date per OCLC, from Printed Matter. Inscribed by the artist to the noted performance artist Barbara Smith. No. 50/300. 45 black-and-white photos printed on rectos only of 48 leaves, including covers. White paper covers. 17.9 x 14.2 cm. A second- or... More
[United States, per OCLC]: the artist, 1978. An original xerox book by the noted performance artist. Copy no. 17 of 25 published. MoMA owns no. 25/25. Signed inside the rear cover: "25/17 | Rachel Rosenthal | 1976-1978." The book consists of covers, a title page, and eight plates, all hole-punched... More
Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1996. Inscribed on the half title by the remarkable performance artist Rachel Rosenthal to her fellow artist, Barbara Smith: "To Barbara, a sister from way back. In love & apprecation. Rachel, 1997." Many illustrations by the author (part color). Decorated boards. 22.9 x 17.7... More
Garden City, NY: Dial Press / Doubleday, 1985. Beautifully inscribed on flyleaf with drawing to the artist Barbara Smith. 2nd printing. [xvi] + 78 pp. Tan boards and dark-red cloth spine, with unclipped dustjacket. A few minor marks on boards; dustjacket (in Brodart sleeve) pulled at top of spine. Near... More
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984. Postcard, unmailed. Card stock, coated one side, with illustration. 14.6 x 10.2 cm. Produced as part of the exhibition "Automobile and Culture," July 21–January 6, 1985, at theTemporary/Contemporary site of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gerald Silk wrote a catalogue to... More
New York, 1927. Profusely illustrated, with color accents. 32 pp., including covers in embossed, tinted, black leatherette. 38.8 x 22.7 cm. Paper cover reads "Production pledges 100% during 1927–28." Includes: photos of executives and staff; tables of "Paramount's 1926 Honor Roll" and the same for 1927, with credits for Clara... More
New York: Charles Cowles, 1972-1973. This bound volume contains all the year's exceptional issues. Some highlights: September 1972 (11:1) Rosenquist, Matisse, Lissitzky. October (11:2) Oldenburg, Smithson, Larry Bell. November (11:3) di Suvero, photography, Smithson, Pollock Hesse, Man Ray. December (11:4) Bochner, Schlemmer, performance, Man Ray. January 1973 (11:5) film issue... More
San Francisco & Los Angeles: Charles Cowles, 1965-1966. With volume 4 Artforum came fully of age. This bound volume contains all the year's exceptional issues. September 1965 (4:1) begins with a bang: a whole issue on The New York School, Pollock, Matta, The Club, the Forties, the Fifties, Motherwell, Rothko... More
NY: Something Else, 1965. FIrst edition. [96] pp. on stiff paper. Dark-blue boards with magenta dustjacket. 12.8 x 17.3 cm (oversquare). A sequence of Dadaist questions, from should you live like a snake?" to "what about the girl?" Library and withdrawn stamps on front endpapers. Legitimate library withdrawal. Otherwise, in... More
NY: Gordon & Breach, 1973. Profusely illustrated in black & white. 64 pp. White paper covers. 30.5 x 23 cm. Topics cover the gamut, everything from the President (Nixon) to games shows and situation comedies, to wrestling and women on TV, to commercials and religion. Some darkening toward margins. Near... More
Greenbrae and Santa Cruz, California: [The artists]; Clatworthy Colorvues, 1977. Artist's book. 59 plates. 71 pp. Black cloth; no dustjacket, as issued. 22.8 x 24.8 cm. "The photographs in this book have been selected from among the following government agencies, educational institutions and corporations that permitted us access to their... More
Zürich [later Lugano, Switzerland]: James Fitzsimmons, 1956-1984. An unbroken run of 72 very early issues (80 numbers + 3 duplicates) of this superb periodical, partially bound somewhat irregularly in three half-leather and red cloth volumes plus separate copies in the original covers, See below for details. Approx. 35 x 25... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. Copy number 9 of 100 copies signed and numbered by the poet and bound in cloth. [Also 26 cloth copies lettered A-Z and a trade edition.] 7 photographs. [21] pp. Brick-colored cloth titled in gilt with a color plate by Emil White mounted on... More
La Jolla: California: Laurence McGilvery, 2015. Digital poster of a photograph taken circa 1989 in Manhattan's East Thirties. Published in an edition of 50 numbered copies +14 proofs, all signed by Linda Montano. Fine, stiff Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Image: 28.7 x 43.2 cm (17 x 10.5 inches}; paper: 30.3... More
New York: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1975. 26 leaves printed one side only, with images, text, drawings, a mounted card, etc. Paper covers, stapled through left edge. 28 x 21.6 cm (standard US letter size). The participating artists are: Kirsten Bates, Bil Beirne, Anthony McCall, Michael McClard, Jim... 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. **Free domestic or international shipping with direct order. More
[San Francisco: the editors? 1982]. [4] pp. of artists exhibited in the show + [19] pp. of plates illustrating works. [28] pp., including paper covers in red and black. 28 x 21.5 cm (standard US letter size). "Men in Black" appears on the rear cover of this catalogue and may... More
New York: Odyssia Gallery, 1980. 14 plates (3 in color). [31] pp. Decorated paper covers. 19 x 25.5 cm (oversquare). The brief texts are by Heraclitus, Ursula LeGuin, Thomas Hardy, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, William Blake, Baudelaire, Robert Duncan, Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce and others. Lucky the people... More
New York, October 1942. Series 2, no. 3, October 1942: Vertigo issue. Orange covers with red drawing by Hanani Meller. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 32 pp. Paper covers. 26.3 x 18.4 cm. Drawings by Kurt Seligmann, Pavel Tchelitchew, and André Masson. Texts by Roger Caillois, Parker Tyler, Nicolas... More
New York: Second Half Publishing Co., Spring 1958–Spring 1960 & Autumn 1965. Profusely illustrated (part color). Original paper covers. Approximately 29 x 24 cm. One of the relatively few publications of any kind with direct contributions from Abstract Expressionist and New York School artists, including Guston, both de Koonings, Reinhardt... More
[New York]: Papyrus Press, 1972. The author's exceptionally rare first book, inscribed on the flyleaf to her close friend, lesbian poet Lynn Lonidier (1958-1993), "Dear Lynn, With all love and thanks, Kathy." Title and author in black on heavy black card stock, stapled through the edge and finished off with... More
Sarasota, Florida: Ringling Museum of Art, 1984. Inscribed to feminist poet Lyn Lonidier: "Happy days to you, Lyn! with love Jess." Polaroid of Jess in his studio, with a crease about half the height from the distortion of the plastic covering. About 115 plates (most in color). 157 pp. Fine... More
Paris: Berggruen, 1953. 600 copies. 19 plates. [24] pp. Decorated stiff paper covers. 22 x 11.6 cm. No. 6 in series. The geometric compositions are made entirely of variously spaced horizontal lines with the pictorial elements consisting of shaped gaps in the pattern (i.e., "drawings in lacunae by horizontal lines")... More
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