San Francisco: The City Llghts Books Pocket Bookshop, 1955. The Pocket Poets Series No. 1. It all began here. True first edition of five hundred unnumbered copies printed letterpress by David Ruff on cream laid paper. 27 poems on 44 unnumbered pp. Stiff, black card covers printed in yellow, with..... More
New York: Kootz Gallery, 1950. A single sheet 45 x 30.3 cm printed one side and folded twice to make a 4-page folder 23.5 x 15.3 cm. Cover decoration by the artist + 2 ills. The catalogue lists 14 paintings. 1 light spot at the upper edge and a shallow..... More
New York: Art & Language, 1975-76. Volume 1, number 1 through number 3, 1975-76 (all published). Some illustrations. Stiff wrappers. 28 x 21.5 cm (standard US letter size). **This early periodical on conceptual art includes contributions by the editors, Andrew Menard, Adrian Piper, Mel Ramsden, Jasna Tivardovic, Lizzie Borden, Ian..... More
New York: Second Half Publishing Co., Autumn 1958. 2 hors-texte color plates + 24 b/w plates & 24 b/w ills. 60 pp. Original paper cover by Franz Kline. 29 x 22.9 cm. The second issue of one of the most important of any of the relatively few publications with direct..... More
New York: Second Half Publishing Co., Autumn 1958. 2 hors-texte color plates + 24 b/w plates & 24 b/w ills. 60 pp. Original paper cover by Franz Kline. 29 x 22.9 cm. The second issue of one of the most important of any of the relatively few publications with direct..... More
![It is: a magazine for abstract art [title varies]. Complete set: nos. 1-6. Sebastian. Pavia...](/pictures/thumb/74793.jpg?v=1632031745)
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
![Mackoon's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth [program]. Tom Stoppard](/pictures/thumb/95691.jpg?v=1631508373)
San Diego State University Press, 1981. Pamphlet, printed in brown on white vellum and cream cover stock. [8] pp. Decorated covers. 21.5 x 13 cm. Performed November 6-7, 10-14, 1981. Includes lists of the cast and musicians and Mack Owens' "Director's note." Stoppard's 2-page "Author's note" provides his own fascinatng..... More
London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1925. Original signed etching, "Artist and model," no. 223 in catalogue; one of 500 proofs for this edition; very fine condition; 22.4 x 15 cm. 219 plates with full catalogue descriptions, plus xxiii pp. text & [8] pp. index. Copy 248 of 500 signed by..... 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
Topanga, California: 1981. Special issue: Los Angeles art in the 60’s & 70’s. Interview: George Herms [by Claudia Chapline]. Cover: “Lurching toward chaos,” 1980, by George Herms. Many b/w ills. 23 pp. Decorated card covers. 27.6 x 21.5 cm. Also, articles by Carol Quint, Elenore Welles, Arlo Kraunfus, and Joan..... More
Topanga, California: 1981. Cover: “Torn sky woods,” by Ken Ruth. Interview of Rachel Rosenthal, by Claudia Chapline. Many b/w ills. 26 pp. Decorated card covers. 27.6 x 21.5 cm. Also articles by Joan Burleigh, Myra Taylor, Elenore Welles, and Dan Giesler. Covers browned. Thc scan of the cover is brighter..... 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
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
[Pasadena, California: the artist: 1977]. Signed by the artist. 20 plates printed on both sides of 10 leaves of stiff, coated paper, and divided horizontally into 4 proportioned segments that can be combined in the manner of a split-page children's book (created since the 18th century, when they were known..... More
Los Angeles Project: Goddess Project, [1988?]. 33 x about 142 cm / 13 x about 56 in. (oversquare). Folded in fourths, accordion-style. Striking silhouettes in white on black of wild female figures. "We are the nine muses, the source of inspiration for all the arts and sciences. May we bestow..... More
Solana Beach, California: the artist, 1971. An original, unmailed card from Eleanor Antin's series of 51 postcards mailed between March 15, 1971, and July 9, 1973. This one, the 32nd in the narrative, was taken on Route 101 in California, on February 9, 1971. Photography by Phel Steinmetz. 11.5 x...... 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 & Mexico City, 1973. On April 30, 1973, Raymond A. Marlowe wrote a 1-page letter to Rufino Tamayo concerning copy XIX of XXV sets of "Mujeres," a suite of color lithographs. Marlowe was the manager of the bookshop at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for many..... More
Los Angeles: Artforum 1966. Color cover of "Piece," 1965, by Wallace Berman, with a related article: "Wallace Berman's Verifax collages." Other articles include: John Jacobus: "Architecture, 1965"; Barbara Rose interviewing Jack Youngerman; "Claes Oldenburg: Extracts from the Studio Notes"; Linda Nochlin on Munch; and Nancy Marmer on David Smith. A...... More
Paris: Atelier Mourlot, 1961. Pablo Picasso created this joyful bouquet of flowers in 1961 to celebrate his "bonne fête"—his 80th birthday. This original lithograph in 7 colors was commissioned by the UCLA Arts Council to accompany the exhibit of the same name at the UCLA Art Galleries in Los Angeles..... More
![Ceramics by Picasso [catalogue raisonné; 2 volumes in slipcase]. Pablo. McCully Picasso, Eric,...](/pictures/thumb/26276.jpg?v=1626842402)
Paris: Editions Images Modernes, 1999. An essential work. Volume I: Unique works. Primarily full-page plates, mostly in color. Unpaginated, but 597 pp. per OCLC. Text includes "The painter of forms," by Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, and "Ceramics and the Côte d'Azur," by Marilyn McCully. The images are divided by subject: characters, Mediterranean..... More
Köln, Los Angeles: Taschen, 2005. Number HC433/800 of 800 "hors de commerce copies for the use of the artists, the photographer and the publisher" (from the colophon page, on heavier, uncoated paper, tipped in before the half-title). Thousands of plates and illustrations (largely in color), plus documents, plans, and diagrams..... More
Köln: Taschen, 1996. Number HC260/700 of 700 "hors de commerce copies for the use of the artists, the photographer and the publisher" (from the colophon page, on heavier, uncoated paper, tipped in before the half-title). Thousands of plates and illustrations (largely in color), plus documents, plans, and diagrams. 1 colophon..... More
New York: Abrams, 1990. Inscribed separately by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Thousands of plates and illustrations (largely in color), plus documents, plans, and diagrams. 588 pp. Page siza: 27.2 x 29.3 cm. Gray cloth with gilt titling in dramatically decorated slipcase to match. Slipcase: 28.2 x 30.1 x 5.9 cm. A...... More
Bedford Village and Mount Kisco, New York: Tyler Graphics, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1997. Each of these prints is a spectacular piece of work reproducing the much larger originals in small size. The four Albers pieces are not reproductions in the dictionary sense of "copies," normally in another medium. They are..... More
