Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von George Westermann, 1865. 2557 numbered illustrations on 336 pp. + prelims & subject indexes on first 16 pp. About 33.5 x 25.5 cm. Original paper covers badly worn; spine perished; volume shaken and partly disbound. A green half-sheet mounted on the half-title outlines the forms...
Edewecht, Germany: Edition des Dada Research Centers, 1984. 29 pp., all facsmile of original score; no other text. Tan paper. Blue paper covers. 29.7 x 20.8 cm. ISBN 3-922595-02-2. Only 6 copies in OCLC, none in the US. Slightly bent corners and shallow crosswise creases at spine. Slight fadint at...
Irvine: University of California, Schoolof Fine Arts, 1968. 1000 copies. 8 plates (2 color). 26 pp. Paper covers in purple & orange. 23.6 cm square. Introduction by Clayton Garrison. Texts by Fidel A. Danieli (Vija Celmins, Tony DeLap), John Coplans (Robert Irwin); Jane Livingston (Craig Kauffman), and Barbara Rose (Richard...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1989. No. 170 of 175 copies produced to accompany the exhibition Volumes. 8 plates (including one mounted color plate and one attached plastic bag with contents. [23] pp. 21.6 x about 18 cm. Each artist has two doublespreads with a printed signature on the left and...
Bergamo [later Milano]: Ponteur, [circa 1960?]. All illustrations, except first four leaves. [64] pp. Decorated card covers bound inside fold with brass brads. 21.2 x 24.4 cm (covers, oversquare). The noted Danish designer Poul Cadovius created his ingenious "system abstracta" for shelving and displays. Its flexibility derived from a connector...
Lugano, Switzerland: Art International, 1964. To publicize Andy Warhol's second and last show at the Stable Gallery in New York, April 21 to May 9, 1964, the owner, Eleanor Ward, took out a full-page advertisement on the inside back cover of the April 1964 issue of Art International. A bland...
Ambert d'Auvergne, France: Richard de Bas Moulin de Papier, 1979. Broadside 32.4 x about 25.2 cm. Printed on handmade paper that incorporates small leaves, blossoms, and seeds. Left edge deckle. Only one record in OCLC, at Western Michigan University, which describes a box of 18 items, all samples from the...
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...
[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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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.
[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...
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...
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